Cary Fukunaga and Tom McCarthy Shake Venice with 'Beasts of No Nation' and 'Spotlight'

“Beasts of No Nation” director Cary Fukunaga sweetly took the stage with young Ghanaian Abraham Attah, who was selected from some 600 kids to play the role of an innocent boy transformed into a child soldier, in the searing drama. When asked how he got the role, Attah, looking remarkably calm given that Venice must be a massive culture shock for him, said, “I was playing football. A white man came up and said, ‘We are looking for boys for a movie. Do you want to audition at the TV station?’” Fukunaga chipped in. “What he’s not telling you is that he was playing hooky from school.” When asked about the deal with Netflix, which releases the film October 16, the director...

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