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Nov 16, 2022 · Betsy Koch and Mark Mylod talk about their new thriller The Menu, starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Fiennes, and a host of A-list actors. They discuss the challenges of making a movie that keeps audiences guessing, the marketing strategy, and their personal experiences with the script.
Nov 4, 2014 · Betsy Koch, 34 Image Credit: Tommy Garcia It was while Koch was working at the corporate headquarters of Williams Sonoma that she realized she wanted to start her career over in Hollywood.
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Betsy Koch is known as an Producer, Executive Producer, and Actor. Some of their work includes The Menu, Sarah Silverman: We Are Miracles, T.J. Miller: Meticulously Ridiculous, Jerrod Carmichael: Love at the Store, When Harry Met Sally 2 with Billy Crystal and Helen Mirren, Clint Howard Reboots Pippi Longstocking with Milla Jovovich and Fred ...
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A couple, Margot (Anya Taylor-Joy) and Tyler (Nicholas Hoult) travel to a coastal island in the Pacific Northwest to eat at an exclusive restaurant, Hawthorn, where the reclusive, globally celebrated Chef Julian Slowik (Ralph Fiennes) has prepared a lavish tasting menu for select special guests. Joining the couple are three young, already inebriate...
Betsy Koch: Shout out to the writers, Will Tracy and Seth Reiss. They sent it. Will went to a restaurant with his wife. He got on the boat. He got to an exclusive island and watched the boat leave, and he’s like, wow. It dawned on him that they have no way off this island and they’re held captive here for four hours through this lavish tasting menu...
Mark Mylod: How hard it was to get the tone, I think. That it was terrifying and I made a pact with myself a few years ago to only do stuff that terrified me and it did terrify me but partly because it was just brilliant. I didn’t want to mess up a great script. And partly because it was very clear that it had a unique tone, a unique balance betwee...
Ralph Fiennes did just such a wonderful job. It was literally frightening. It’s a great balance of like the guy that he once was and the person who believes in honesty, and what he’s become. Mark Mylod: That self-loathing is absolutely key to Ralph Fiennes and I both saw the character when we first spoke. When we first met, that’s what drew us toge...
His performance has got a lot of depth to it, because you can see all of the working parts of it, and that’s the thing. It seems like examinations of the back of the house and cooks and chefs in restaurants are really kind of having a time right now. There was Pig, which I loved and kind of hit on some similar things. I haven’t seen “The Bear.” But...
I think that’s really something that’s really important because a lot of people don’t know how it functions. I think the accuracy and the detail that you’ve put into the film, especially the emotional complexity of what’s going on. I don’t want to go into spoilers, but the female sous chef, the fact that there’s this deep loyalty among the cooks an...
Betsy Koch is known for The Losers (2010), The Menu (2022) and Predators (2010).
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Jun 7, 2021 · Adam McKay will produce through his Hyperobject Industries banner along with Betsy Koch. The film is a darkly comedic psychological thriller set in the world of eccentric culinary culture,...
Sep 12, 2022 · Director Mark Mylod and producer Betsy Koch joined TheWrap and Shutterstock’s Interview and Portrait Studio at the Toronto International Film Festival to discuss their new film “The...
