Jean Reno
Léon
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Natalie Portman ... Mathilda: Danny Aiello ... Tony: Peter Appel ... Malky: Willi One Blood ... 1st Stansfield Man (as Willie One Blood) Don Creech ... 2nd Stansfield Man: Keith A. Glascoe ... 3rd Stansfield Man: Randolph Scott ... 4th Stansfield Man
With Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, Natalie Portman, Danny Aiello. 12-year-old Mathilda is reluctantly taken in by Léon, a professional assassin, after her family is murdered. An unusual relationship forms as she becomes his protégée and learns the assassin's trade.
- Luc Besson
- 2 min
Natalie Portman as Mathilda Lando; Gary Oldman as Norman Stansfield; Danny Aiello as Tony; Michael Badalucco as Mathilda's father; Ellen Greene as Margie Lando, Mathilda's stepmother; Peter Appel as Malky; Adam Busch as Manolo; Joseph Malerba as Stairway Swat; Maïwenn as The Blond Babe; George Martin as The Hotel Clerk; Jean-Hugues Anglade as ...
- Natalie Portman’s Parents Were Completely Against Her Playing Mathilda.
- Portman’s Parents Are The Reason Why Mathilda Quits Smoking in The Film.
- Portman’s Marilyn Monroe Impression in The Film Was Inspired by Mike Myers.
- Besson Got The Idea For Léon While Working on La Femme Nikita.
- The City of New York Inspired The Film.
- Besson Has Shut Down Rumors That A Sequel Is in The Works.
It was an extremely complicated role for an 11-year-old: Not only would she have to deal with a broken home and violence, but she’d also have to deal with the unwanted sexualization of a young girl. In Starting Young, a documentary about Portman that’s included on the 10th anniversary DVD edition of Léon, the actress admits that after she read the ...
As per the agreement Portman’s parents outlined with Besson, the actress was allowedfive fake cigarettes in her hand during the entire film shoot, and she was never allowed to inhale a single one of them. If you pay close attention to her character, you'll see that she only puts the cigarette to her lips, but never blows smoke out. Additionally, he...
During her audition, Besson asked Portman if she could do any celebrity impressions; what you see in the film is the entire arsenal that she presented to the director. While she was obsessed with Gene Kelly and Madonna as a kid, her Marilyn Monroe impression was done without having seen any of the legendary bombshell’s work. “I had never seen the o...
In the 1990 film La Femme Nikita, Reno plays Victor the Cleaner, an operative sent in to salvage Nikita’s botched mission. According to the DVD commentary, Besson was so inspired to explore Reno’s character further that he developed a story around him, which became Léon. Fortunately (in retrospect) for the director, when filming of The Fifth Elemen...
While the film was shot in both Paris and New York City, Besson has noted that Léon is first and foremost a New York movie. “When it comes to Léon I feel comfortable in New York because for me, in New York, you can be invisible. You can see someone lying on the street and no one will stop,” Besson told Stumped Magazine. “If you have no phone and no...
So stop asking. During his press tour for Lucy, Besson told The Guardian, "You can't imagine how many people ask me for aLéon sequel. Everywhere I go they ask me. If I was motivated by money, I would have done it a long time ago. But I don't feel it." In an earlier interview with Cinema Blend, Besson elaborated on the topic, saying, “Natalie is old...
- Tara Aquino
- 13 sec
Natalie Portman. Gary Oldman. Danny Aiello. Peter Appel. Michael Badalucco. Ellen Greene. Elizabeth Regen. Carl J. Matusovich. Eric Challier. Willi One Blood. Don Creech. Keith A. Glascoe. Jernard Burks. Matt De Matt. Frank Senger. Stuart Rudin. Lucius Wyatt Cherokee. Maïwenn. Luc Bernard. Joseph Malerba. Adam Busch. Jessie Keosian. George Martin.
— J. S. Golden. Leon (played by Jean Reno) lives in New York and is a professional hit man. One of his neighbors, Mathilda (Natalie Portman), is a 12-year old girl with family problems, one of which is that her father is a petty criminal. One day, a drug kingpin, Stansfield (Gary Oldman), kills her entire family due to something her father did.
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Director: Luc Besson. Cast: Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, Danny Aiello… France Release Date: September 14, 1994. US Release Date: November 18, 1994. Filmed: from June 1st until July 23rd in New York and from July 28th to October 7th of 1993 in Paris. Natalie’s Character: Mathilda Lando.
