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Anson Mount in The Virtuoso (2021), dir. Nick Stagliano

"I knew [Anson Mount] was talented, because I'm always interested in the best actor - especially theater trained actors, because you know that they're always going to take care of themselves. Which is very comforting, especially in low budget filmmaking when the insanity of the production gets to you.

But I always marked him down as a guy that I thought was underrated. It's not his fault that he's so handsome, too. We always joke about that. And he's got all of his hair still. So, he's got all those elements. And I said, "I need a leading man. And this movie's it." Luckily, when he read it, he called right away. He was shooting this series, Hell on Wheels - it's a Western, and he was shooting last season. Fred Fuchs, my executive producer, and I flew out to Calgary to meet him. We bonded over the weekend, we shook hands, and that was our deal.

That lasted for two and a half years until I got the movie set up. He stood up and honored that, and I told him he was John Wayne in Stagecoach - that's who I was looking for. The minute you see him, you go, "Wow, who's that guy?" Most people will go, "He looks familiar to me." A lot of your your fans will know him now from Star Trek, but Westerners will know him from Hell on Wheels. To me, that was the perfectly right guy."

- Director Nick Stagliano, ScreenRant interview, April 30 2021

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Anson Mount in The Virtuoso (2021)

Coming April 30 2021!

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Anson Mount in the trailer for The Virtuoso (2020), dir. Nick Stagliano

A lonesome stranger must track down and kill a rogue Hitman to satisfy an outstanding debt. But the only information he's been given is a time and location where to find his quarry - 5pm at a rustic diner in the dying town.

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Upcoming Anson Mount projects: The Virtuoso 

Anson Mount was filming scenes for the movie The Virtuoso in Downtown Scranton in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, USA, on April 1 2019.

The crews has been in Scranton for several days to work on the film. Having already filmed in the Poconos and Ledgedale, the production moved to Scranton to shoot a collision and subsequent explosion between a red Mercedes Benz and RV, on the corner of Wyoming Avenue and Spruce Street.

A gaggle of onlookers and hopeful extras came to the sidewalk to watch the filming. Another scene had Anson Mount putting up lost dog posters on the sidewalk, with the red Mercedes speeding past him. 

The Virtuoso, starring Anthony Hopkins, Anson Mount and Abbie Cornish, is about a professional assassin, hired by the Organization, who must track down and kill a rogue Hitman. But the only information he's been given is a time and location where to find his quarry - 5:00p at a rustic diner on the border of a dying town.

The Times-Tribune and Citizens Voice reported the movie will feature other sights familiar to Scranton locals. On March 29 - 30 2019 the crew shot the scene with the Hitman aiming at a victim in the Hotel Germyn. From a sniper’s nest in the former Dime Bank building at 400 Spruce St., he gets his kill and escapes.

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Anson Mount, Anthony Hopkins and director Nick Stagliano filming The Virtuoso (2021)

Anson Mount: "When I saw the new poster for "The Virtuoso" this morning, I experienced a long moment of cognitive dissonance. I can remember quite clearly the day (during my senior year) if high school when I took my then girlfriend to see "Silence of the Lambs" and then bumped into a friend who was ushering after the lights came up. We all stood there talking about how brilliant Anthony Hopkins is. Now, I'm looking at a poster in which I'm starting in a film with "Tony", a film which I also produced. Amazing. Dreams can come true, y'all. Of course, Instagram seems to have cut my name off the top just to keep my ego in check."

Source: lionsgatepublicity.com