The Spy Who Dumped Me
The Spy Who underprice Meactor Sam Heughan discusses the action comedy and work with Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon . Heughan is perhaps most well recognize for his role as Jamie Fraser in the Starz dramaOutlander , in which he co - stars with Caitriona Balfe . base on the novels by Diana Gabaldon , Outlanderfollows the sprawling love storey between Jamie and Claire ( Balfe ) , which make it time travel , warfare and other tests . Now , though , Heughan stars in a mod day undercover agent comedy , The Spy Who Dumped Me .
Directed and co - write by Susanna Fogel , The Spy Who Dumped Mefollows Audrey ( Kunis ) , a 30 - something fair sex dumped by her boyfriend Drew ( Justin Theroux ) , only for her to discover he was really a spy . Along with her best friend Morgan ( McKinnon ) , Audrey must go to Europe and fill out a mission - all without being kill by those who desire her dead . To make matter more difficult , Audrey is approached by another spy , Sebastian ( Heughan ) , and it ’s undecipherable whether he or his familiar , Duffer ( Hasan Minaj ) , can be trusted .
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Now , Screen Rant sat down with Heughan to babble out aboutThe Spy Who dump Meand the thespian talk about his character , working with Kunis and McKinnon , and whether he enjoys work more on modern fare or menses part .
Screen claptrap : Fans make out you mostly fromOutlander , of line , as Jamie Fraser . So I ’m very odd , how would you say that your quality in this movie differ from Jamie ?
Sam Heughan : He never wears a kilt , he ’s British - he ’s English , and he ’s not a gingerroot . Yeah , patently Jamie Fraser is in the 1700s , it ’s very much a period piece of music , kind of straight dramatic play , though he has a humorous side . But this is a very different undertaking for me . It was fun to do something contemporary and play a spy .
Screen Rant : So is that what drew you to the undertaking , doing something unlike ?
Sam Heughan : Of of course , but actually the book was the matter that really drew me to it . I translate it and was laughing out aloud within the first few page . It ’s a big playscript , very funny . Susanna [ Fogel ] and David [ Iserson ] co - wrote this . That , plus the chance to work with Mila [ Kunis ] and Kate [ McKinnon ] was far , far too good to pass up .
Screen Rant : How was it working with Mila and Kate ?
Sam Heughan : Awful . Yep , it was reasonably unfit … They are just amazing . They ’re at the top of their game . They ’re so funny . The first solar day on set was pretty intimidating , to be sitting opposite Mila , who ’s just , like , so at ease on Seth and acknowledge precisely what she ’s doing and advert - libbing all over the office . And Kate , obviously as well , just take a shit stuff up . I get from this play world where it ’s very tight and we ’re very written so it really was a learning experience , but groovy playfulness .
Screen Rant : And you get to do some action in the picture , did you get to do any of your own stunts , and if so , what was your favorite ?
Sam Heughan : Yeah we have a dandy stunt squad : Gary Powell , who was the stunt coordinator on all the Bond films and Bourne films . you may really see it in our motion picture . We have a great , great stunt team in Budapest who worked really firmly . Yeah we were rehearsing the stunts every day . I get to do all of the battle sequences , apparently there are sure things I just could n’t do , like the parkour stuff , which was just mad . But they did such a great job and I enjoyed every second of it .
Screen Rant : And which was your favourite ?
Sam Heughan : Oh , and my favorite , I mean I loved the middle school sequence , but actually Café Sacher was what we first started pip and it was quite a few days of shot but I enjoy it . Sebastian really basically takes on about 15 people and it ’s just topsy-turvydom , and by the end of it he ’s all destroyed the place .
Screen Rant : And what was it like working with director Susanna Fogel ?
Sam Heughan : Susanna was so fun to exercise with , she really nurtured and wish for everyone . She make for a great variety of composure and humor to every day and really gave the place for everyone to try out and try newfangled things . And I think she come after in the movie .
Screen Rant : I heard a rumor that you ’ve been ramble in Vin Diesel’sBloodshotmovie .
Sam Heughan : Yeah , it ’s no rumor .
Screen Rant : OK , can you tease me anything about your character .
Sam Heughan : I can tell you that it ’s based on the Valiant Comics , which are the Bloodshot series . It ’s within that humankind , my fiber - I ca n’t give away too much , but I ’m really excited . We ’re off to South Africa to start shooting next month . It ’s get a bully cast of characters and the director , Dave Wilson , is superb .
Screen Rant : You ’ve done a couple different genres now , so what is your favorite genre to film in ?
Sam Heughan : That ’s a unspoiled question , actually , y’know I really love period stuff in the 1700s - obviously ride horse and brand and all of that stuff . But it was skillful to be in present day where you just get to put on a T - shirt and get in and out of car , it was kind of sport . But for me , I guess , I care the period stuff and nonsense .
