The movie takes place in and out of the diamond district, as Sandler’s shady jeweler character intersects with real people in the worlds of basketball and hip-hop, with no small amount of scamming and increasingly high stakes.
So he was all in when the Safdies asked him to play himself… in 2012, when “Uncut Gems” is set. Like, one of his favorite filmmakers is (David) Cronenberg, and that makes sense, because he’s from Toronto.
(“Uncut Gems” is also showing at the Toronto International Film Festival this week, well in advance of its December wide release.) “ Real cinephile. “He’s a friend of ours, and he’s a real cinephile, Abel,” said Josh Safdie, speaking with Variety after the film’s premiere in Telluride. Suffice it to say that the two icons conclude their short screen time together caught up in a dancefloor-dispersing brawl. That’s riot not quite so much in the sense of “laugh riot” (although his scene is undeniably funny) as much as in the quality of tension and chaos, a condition that follows the movie’s anxious antihero, Adam Sandler, everywhere he goes, including a nightclub where the Weeknd is performing. But even as a cameo, his quickie acting debut is, like the rest of the movie, kind of a riot. He’s only on screen for a few minutes out of a 130-minute movie, so it’s hardly the ultimate test of his screen presence, should he have bigger cinematic plans in mind - which, apparently, he does. As it’s turned out now that the crime drama is premiering - and triumphing - on the festival circuit, “Gems” has Tesfaye playing the Weeknd … that is, himself.
Much was made of the fact that Abel Tesfaye’s name showed up in the cast list for “ Uncut Gems,” the latest film from the brother director team Josh and Benny Safdie.
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