Hit Man Interview: Austin Amelio Talks Scene-Stealing Role as Jasper By ComingSoon Editor-in-Chief Tyler Treese spoke to Hit Man star Austin Amelio about starring opposite Glen Powell in the Richard Linklater movie. discussed his character, Jasper, and reuniting with Powell in another film. It is now streaming on Netflix.
“Oscar-nominated director Richard Linklater’s sunlit neo-noir stars as straight-laced professor Gary Johnson, who moonlights as a fake hit man for the New Orleans Police Department,” says the synopsis for . “Preternaturally gifted at inhabiting different guises and personalities to catch hapless people hoping to bump off their enemies, Gary descends into morally dubious territory when he finds himself attracted to one of those potential criminals, a beautiful young woman named Madison (Adria Arjona). As Madison falls for one of Gary’s hit man personas — the mysteriously sexy Ron — their steamy affair sets off a chain reaction of play acting, deception, and escalating stakes.
” : Yeah, I mean, the feedback’s been good, man. Everyone seems to enjoy the ride, and that’s really all we were hoping for. It’s a super fun film, and, here in Austin, it was pretty much sold out everywhere in theaters, and so that’s a good sign, you know? I mean, the main thing for me is that he just had a really clear objective.
The guy gets fired and replaced, and he wants his job back. So that was sort of what I honed in on. That you would do anything at all c.