Breaking out in 2015 with memorable performances in “300: Rise of an Empire” and “Unbroken,” Jack O'Connell now stars in Columbia Pictures new thriller, “Money Monster.” He takes on the role of Kyle Budwell, the ordinary man who turned to desperate measures following a big-bank fiasco that costs him his entire life savings.
Kyle is a good, decent, hard-working young man who cracks under the pressure of financial ruin. “He's is a working class guy who believed that if he did the right thing and worked hard, that somehow he’d be able to have something in his life,” explains director Jodie Foster. “He inherits some money, and tries to invest it as intelligently as possible, but ends up losing it all at the hands of something out of his control. The only thing he has in the world suddenly disappears into thin air, and he doesn’t know how it happened. Kyle can’t accept that. He can’t accept that he did everything right, and yet, he’s supposed to just walk away. Kyle refuses to accept failure and move on – instead, he chooses to fight back.”
