Even by lone wolf standards, William Tell stands apart.
Or so he tells himself.
Out of prison and playing poker for money, Tell breaks his self-imposed isolation when he’s approached by La Linda, a sultry and mysterious backer of gamblers.“I’m always looking for a good thoroughbred,” La Linda says with a sly smile, before dipping her head to sip a drink.
It’s a key moment in Paul Schrader’s “The Card Counter,” a scene between Oscar Isaac and Tiffany Haddish that catalyzes their relationship, one of the film’s two major storylines.But the dialogue was not in the script.
“I pitched that line about seventeen times,” Haddish says with a gleeful laugh.
“Paul would say no, but I kept dropping it in.”Sure, Schrader had cast the comedian seeking the alchemy you get “when you take a natural performer outside their comfort zone,” but he
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