He believes that he does not need anyone to tell him what the dialogues are since his facial expressions will work with anything he says.
Benicio del Toro earned massive praise when he impersonated the hitman character for the 2015 film “Sicario” also starring Avengers antagonist Josh Brolin and Edge of Tomorrow actress Emily Blunt.
Toro’s intense acting skills moved the story forward in its final sequences; the suspenseful music and Toro’s breathtaking scowls remained a talking point of the film after the credits had rolled.He played the character named Alejandro, a man who desires to avenge the death of his family.
He had very few words to say during the entire film, and that perhaps is one of the reasons he thought that memorizing dialogues is redundant.
His name attached as a cinematographer convinced Dano that he is indeed signing for something great.It was when they started talking about Benicio del Toro then Deakins revealed that there were times on the sets of Sicario when the actor would simply walk up to Denis Villeneuve and tell him that he doesn’t need any dialogues and that whatever Denis wants of him he can do it with his face.
Although Deakins was surprised because it was the first time, he was seeing a lead actor talk like that, but he was ultimately impressed by how much acting Del Toro could deliver with his body.Roger Deakins also expounded that the whole structure of the film Sicario was a lot different than many films because the story relied heavily on the camera movements, sequences and the suspense than on any character depth.