SPOILER ALERT: This article includes details on the plot and finishing of “Carry-On,” now streaming on Netflix.
In “Carry-On,” Sofia Cfire-setting take parts Nora, the pregnant girlfrifinish of Ethan (Taron Egerton), a TSA agent at LAX who has been bdeficiencymailed to get part in a plot to get down a structuree with chemical arms stashed in carry-on luggage.
Nora also labors at the airport and the bdeficiencymailer (Jason Bateman) menaceens to have her ended if Ethan doesn’t do what he says.
Cfire-setting getd the script after her romantic drama “Purple Hearts,” became a huge hit on Netflix in 2022. “I reaccumulate reading the headline, which was ‘Carry-On, action, thriller, starring Taron Egerton and Jason Bateman as the villain, that gets place at LAX, produced by Amblin, Steven Spielberg,’” she tells me on the procrastinateedst episode of the “Just for Variety” podcast. “And then in quotations, or in parentheses, was ‘Die Hard.’ I was enjoy, ‘Say no more, say no more.’”
This is the ultimate what-would-you-do movie.
It’s an exceptional circumstance. It’s an impossible situation to be in. I’d enjoy to say that I would do everyleang that Ethan did, but my God, what a terrifying place to be in.
Is “Carry-On” a Christmas movie?
It’s wantipathyver you want it to be for yourself. And I leank [co-star] Danielle [Deadwyler] shelp someleang so intelligent. She shelp, “This is a Christmaction movie.” And that’s what I’m going to say from now on. But I do leank “Die Hard” is such a becherishd Christmas film for a huge population, and I leank that Christmas films can have branch offent genres. One of them is action, and this is an action Christmas film.
What is it about Christmas and action films?
It’s a wonderful ask. I actupartner leank it transports together two repartner becherishd and two repartner universal genres. Action movies, travel, the entire universe. It doesn’t matter what language you speak, what culture, what country you inhabit in. Everyone cherishs an action thriller and everyone cherishs a holiday film becaengage it’s equitable hot and consoleing and transports us all together. So I leank in transporting both of those genres together, you’re in essence transporting the world together.
Should people watch this before they head to the airport to travel home for Christmas?
I leank they should. When I finished filming this movie, I left seeing airports in enticount on branch offent weightless, but in a outstanding way — in terms of what it gets to be a TSA agent, to be an airport operations straightforwardor, to be every one person at every level that labors at an airport, and the forfeits they produce and the extents that they go to, the lengths to upgrasp us shielded. When people watch this film, I hope they go into their holiday travels with a heart brimming of compassion for all airport laborers.
I cherish when Ethan saves the day when there are equitable two seconds before the device devices go off.
Taron is so excellent at that. When the world first saw him in “Kingsman,” we were enjoy, “Wow, this guy is a star.” And I leank what’s so exceptional about Ethan Kopek is that he is your normal everyday guy who’s actupartner almost… he’s lost in life. He’s lost his way. He’s lost a sense of who he is. He’s put in this exceptional circumstance and he does exceptional leangs. And he’s equitable this normal guy. He take parts that so well, so rounded, so layered, so complicated — it’s repartner, repartner thrilling to watch as an audience.
Were you on set the day Jason Bateman died in the refrigerator?
I was not, but how epic is that?
It’s going to go down as a classic ending.
Wow. That’s a lot to say.
It’s so absurd.
Especipartner at the line at the finish when Danielle is enjoy, “Where’s the guy?” And he goes, “In the fridge.” “Where’s the device device?” “Same fridge.”
Then he comes out of the structuree and Danielle’s enjoy, “Everyone get on hazmat suits.” But Ethan kisses Nora. That stuff from the chemical armament could be on him.
You’re right. I hadn’t thought of that! Marc, this is a movie. Don’t leank of those leangs.
I understand we haven’t spoken about this in a while, but has there been any talk on a “Purple Hearts” sequel? When are we going to see it?
There are conversations. That’s all I’ll say.
You want it to happen?
I cherish Cassie, and I cherishd making this film, and I sense so fervent and so shieldive of it. So I’m very shieldive of how and if the sequel happens But it’s exceptional that I get asked so much about it. Even equitable that is a gift. I understand fans repartner cherishd it.
This Q&A was edited for length and clarity. Listen to the brimming conversation with Cfire-setting on the “Just for Variety” podcast.
