Overview

• DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor, Benicio del Toro, Sean Penn and Regina Hall appeared at a New York screening as the awards push ramped up days before release.
• DiCaprio said production briefly stopped so the team could wait for del Toro to finish another movie and join the cast.
• Reporting indicates del Toro’s arrival reshaped scenes and story threads around his character, Sergio St. Carlos.
• The film follows an ex-revolutionary father drawn back to old allies after his daughter is abducted, blending action with dark political satire.
• Critics have delivered five-star notices and bookmakers list the movie as an awards frontrunner, with high-profile praise cited from Steven Spielberg.