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Consistently ranked as one of the best games of all time, the colourful, delightfully frustrating Tetris is instantly recognisable around theThe reason why Tetris has become such a globally-renowned game is because of the actions of one man, Henk Rogers, a Dutch-born, American-raised entrepreneur who, upon discovery of the addictive computer game, made it his quest to obtain the rights and to distribute it to the global masses – knowing it would make him a rich man in the process.
Far from being his first rodeo in biopic performance, having played Eddie the Eagle in the 2016 eponymous biopic and Elton John in 2019’s Rocketman, 33-year-old Egerton says he approached playing Rogers – who himself worked as a producer on the– the same way he’s always approached portraying a real person: by largely trying to forget that they’re real at all.
“I also feel that you have to try and maintain some objectivity and impartiality about the character … to do the job properly, you have to maintain a character’s fallibility,” Egerton adds. “I always try and involve as many of the real people as possible, and in this one, obviously, Henk, Alexey are executive producers; Maya, Henk’s daughter, is exec producer. So they were involved a lot. And that really helped as well, that helped guide us through that.
“I think video games are sometimes marginalised into a category of being more disposable than other forms of storytelling,” he says.
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