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Dec 23, 2022 · Babylon: Directed by Damien Chazelle. With J.C. Currais, Diego Calva, Jimmy Ortega, Marcos A. Ferraez. A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.
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- Comedy, Drama, History
- Damien Chazelle
- 2022-12-23
From Damien Chazelle, BABYLON is an original epic set in 1920s Los Angeles led by Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie and Diego Calva, with an ensemble cast including Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li and Jean Smart.
- Diego Calva as Manny Torres
- Brad Pitt as Jack Conrad
- Margot Robbie as Nellie Laroy
- Jean Smart as Elinor St. John
- Tobey Maguire as James Mckay
- Li Jun li as Lady Fay Zhu
- Jovan Adepo as Sidney Palmer
- Max Minghella as Irving Thalberg
- Other Characters in Babylon
Manny is an aspiring Mexican-American actor who starts out as a film assistant but gradually moves up the rank to an executive. He takes a job at this mansion which hosts massive parties. Manny also has a crush on the it-girl Nellie LaRoy. He is the third major character of the film. In a way, this is Manny’s story, as he also experiences and witne...
Jack Conrad is a famous actor in 1920s Hollywood and the highest-paid in the industry at the time. Conrad is infamous for his party-hard image, multiple marriages, affairs, and divorces. He also seems to be struggling with the newfangled format of talkies, becoming insecure and worried that his career is on the decline and will soon be forgotten. P...
Nellie is the it-girl of Hollywood and is an overnight star. She is a high-spirited woman who lives life to the fullest and wishes that life should be an ever-lasting party. Her cocaine-driven life also comes with a ton of insecurity about her background and is conscious of how people see her. Nellie’s sexuality also makes for an important aspect o...
Elinor is a sensational journalist and also somewhat serves as a mentor to Manny, Jack, and Nellie. She is known for her blunt and upfront attitude. Five-times Emmy winner film, television, and theater actor, Jean Smart plays the role of Elinor St. John. She is best known for her performance in CBS’s Designing Women, followed by other television sh...
James McKay is a drug-addled gangster, who only dreams of fame. But his success depends on how he navigates the dangerous town and its people. He is also known to be quite unpredictable. Former Spider-Man actor Tobey Maguire stars as the gangster James McKay. Maguire is best known for Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy, for which he won multiple awards...
Lady Fay Zhu is an actress in the big, wide, chaotic world of Hollywood. She is also a performer and sings and dances at various Hollywood parties. There’s some indication of a romantic angle between Fay Zhu and Nellie, but there’s no way to tell where that is headed or how intense it is. Playing the role of Fay Zhu is a television star, Li Jun Li....
Sidney Palmer is the fourth main character in this story of Nellie, Jack, and Manny. He is a trumpet player who gets the opportunity to start a career in films. Emmy-nominated British-American actor Jovan Adepo plays the role of Sidney Palmer. He had a supporting role in Fences which was nominated for several awards, followed by Overlord and The Vi...
Irving Thalberg is one of the few characters of Babylon based on/inspired by real people. Thalberg was an Academy Award-winning film producer who was most recognized in the early days of Hollywood. He was fondly called The Boy Wonder by his colleagues and contemporaries for his production talent. He made popular films like The Hunchback of Notre Da...
For a massive, star-studded project like Babylon, the story can’t be limited to the four/five main characters but moves across various others. These other characters might appear for a brief moment or in a blink-and-you-miss-it role, but each of them is significant to the story in some way or the other. Babylon’s exhaustive cast includes Lukas Haas...
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Dec 23, 2022 · Damien Chazelle has assembled a large, well-known cast for Babylon, his ode to the silent film era. We break down the cast and who they portray.
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Babylon is a 2022 American epic historical black comedy drama film written and directed by Damien Chazelle. It features an ensemble cast that includes Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva, Jean Smart, Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li, P. J. Byrne, Lukas Haas, Olivia Hamilton, Max Minghella, Rory Scovel, Katherine Waterston, and Tobey Maguire.
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A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films to sound films in the late 1920s.
