In ‘COUP!’ find a sharp ‘comedy of menace,’ with Peter Sarsgaard and Billy Magnussen

It’s the early days of the 1918 pandemic when a mysterious new chef descends on a wealthy family’s estate in the new film “COUP!'

It’s the early days of the 1918 pandemic when a mysterious new chef descends on a wealthy family’s estate in the new film “COUP!”, is a worldly and questioning sort with a mischievous streak who torments his employer, Billy Magnussen , a self-styled progressive journalist looking out for the plight of the worker from his gilded fortress. As the world shuts down around them and the grounds become ever more isolated, tensions continue to rise with both comedic and tragic outcomes.

“It was kind of unlike anything I’m usually offered,” Sarsgaard said. “I thought of him as really a man of the world. A guy who knew more than this rich fella sitting pretty in his castle. He doesn’t have the intellectual 30,000-foot understanding of what’s going on. But he certainly has the on-the-ground understanding, and something more interesting than street smarts.”

Sarsgaard is also having a bit of a moment with his riveting small screen turn as prosecutor Tommy Molto on the AppleTV+ series “,” and not just because of the bolo tie . Though both Tommy and his “COUP!” character are a little mysterious and odd, Sarsgaard insists he isn’t consciously toying with audience expectations in either case.

“It’s challenging when everyone’s like ‘the market doesn’t do this,’” Magnussen said. “You’re like what market? It’s art. Let’s remember that. And audiences are capable of elevated material and ideas.”

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