The Continental director Albert Hughes discusses The Adjudicator, establishing Winston and Charon's friendship, and badass women in the series.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Set decades before John Wick, The Continental follows Winston Scott in the 1970s. The series shows his origins as both a street-wise criminal and the eventual manager of the New York branch of The Continental Hotel. The series expands upon the world of John Wick, including Winston's friendship with Charon, while also incorporating elements of the real 1970s.
Wow. That's crazy. I was actually going to ask you about that because the action scenes are so interwoven together while still keeping it a character-driven story. How did you balance that? Albert Hughes: Yeah. Yes and yes. He spoke with me before I got started and he was very sweet and very generous and like, "Do your thing, what you're into. Here's my influences. I'm into Hong Kong cinema, Bob Fosse movies, dance/musical movies, all kinds of stuff." He was rattling up with, "What are you into?" So I had to go have a think.
Albert Hughes: Yeah. I think that Colin Woodell and Ayo Adegun, who played Winston and Charon, the younger versions, they were very smart about watching a movie and coming to me.
Albert Hughes: Well, I was obsessed with that character, as I was obsessed with the mail room attendant. I was obsessed with The Adjudicator's henchman. So I start collecting details, not knowing yet Katie McGrath, who would do a fantastic job with the role. I didn't know who was cast yet. The mask was originally written as a Hungarian smile mask and a Hungarian smile mask is just a normal mask with a smile painted on it, and it's for psychological mental health reasons.
Yeah, I would say both of those characters, whether it's them or a different iteration of them at a different time, I'm fascinated by just because they're so mysterious, there's a lot of mysterious characters in the John Wick universe, but none so, to me, as mysterious as them. How did they come to be? How did they get trained? All that stuff.
Yeah, definitely. And that actually leads into my next question very well. Cormac's really establishes a different kind of manager for The Continental than we ever saw at Winston. Can you talk about really differentiating him and his style? Albert Hughes: Well, what's funny about that character is we knew that he was going to be shot by Winston, be shot at, and he would keep coming forward. So I'm like, "Hey, this guy, we have to explain this away because we shot the introduction of him snorting you know what," and I go, "He has to be doing blow because you can't explain this one away."
And by the end, and here's the thing that most people overlook that's in the third episode, it's women who take care of the business. It's Dominican, Puerto Rican, KD, it's Black women, Jess Allain, who plays Lou, it's Kate, who plays Yen, a Vietnamese woman. They're the ones that take care of all the business. Okay? And you have this Dominican-Puerto Rican woman, Mishel Prada, who takes care of the ultimate business, and that's the arc of her story.
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