HITMAN: REDEMPTION (2019)

In this thoughtful, contemplative thriller — known in the US as the less clunky and misleading Asher — Perlman’s hitman, Asher, has a heart to heart over dinner with the woman he’s falling in love with (Famke Janssen). One problem: he just killed a guy in the toilet…

“When he says, ‘I just killed a guy in the bathroom,’ the audience knows he did, but to her he’ll say anything to get laid. There’s a kind of a wit in the writing that I don’t see much of anymore these days. It made me say, ‘I have to be in this movie.’ And in that little exchange, it pretty much encapsulates everything you need to know about both these characters and why they find each other. It’s so deliciously poetic and witty and theatrical and understated, un-didactic.”