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target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">G20, an action thriller<\/a> in which <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/viola-davis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Viola Davis<\/a> plays the fictional American president, who must save her family, fellow world leaders and the globe when <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/g20\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the summit<\/a> is hijacked by terrorists, was directed by Patricia Riggen and produced by the Oscar-winning Davis.<\/p>\n<p>And for British actor Douglas Hodge, who takes on the role of the UK prime minister, he could absolutely notice the difference \u2013 and for the better.<\/p>\n<p>The actor told <strong>Metro<\/strong> that having two women in charge \u2018100%\u2019 affected the vibe while making the film and how things were done, in his opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Smiling over his self-professed \u2018late in life\u2019 transformation into an action star having also just shot <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2022\/12\/01\/tom-clancys-jack-ryan-series-3-trailer-sees-john-krasinski-on-the-run-17862636\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Prime Video Jack Ryan film<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/john-krasinski\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">John Krasinski<\/a> and Sienna Miller \u2013 his second-ever role in the genre after G20 \u2013 he mused: \u2018I think there\u2019s a sort of machismo; there\u2019s a sort of heightening of adrenaline.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The scene [in G20] where we\u2019re all taken hostage and the windows blow in, the tables blow up, grenades go off, people are shot, the squibs fire \u2013 even though it\u2019s not real, there\u2019s things smashing, there\u2019s people screaming, you can almost never hear when they shout cut because everyone\u2019s like, \u201cAaargh!\u201d and all the guys who are the stunt men are like, this is their moment.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img width=\"646\" height=\"431\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-22873902 lazyload\" alt=\"Viola Davis as President Danielle Sutton angrily confronts Antony Starr as Rutledge, leaning over a conference table, face to face, in G20\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.scubadiscounters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SEI_246795394-90eb.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>Viola Davis stars as a female president of the US, trying to save the world when a summit with world leaders is hijacked in G20 (Picture: Ilze Kitshoff\/Prime)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u2018Everyone\u2019s sort of upped the ante a little bit, so I think if you do have just a little bit more of a nurturing, caring, sort of tender environment, it\u2019s a little bit safer,\u2019 he suggested.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from that experience from Hodge\u2019s perspective, filmmaker Riggen also felt that her and Viola\u2019s stamp could be seen as women in the genre because they cared about the story too.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I find that sometimes action movies have a lot of action, but I don\u2019t really care about them. In fact, you use the fight or the chase to go and get some food in the in the kitchen instead, and then it\u2019s like, \u201cCall me when it\u2019s over so I can follow the story again\u201d,\u2019 she revealed separately to <strong>Metro<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018In this case, I feel both Viola and I really wanted to still have a powerful story with really strong characters and moments, so that the female audience would also be engaged in the movie. And I think we accomplished it.\u2019<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img width=\"646\" height=\"431\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-22873926 lazyload\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.scubadiscounters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SEI_246795211-f8a7.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>Douglas Hodge plays the UK prime minister, and has reflected on how having a female director and producer in charge of the action flick \u2018100%\u2019 changed the approach (Picture: Ilze Kitshoff\/Prime)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0In G20, Hodge\u2019s PM Oliver Everett \u2018starts the film hating Americans, certainly, and probably unconsciously hating women\u2019 before being forced to support Davis\u2019s President Danielle Sutton as they fight for everyone\u2019s safety while trapped in a Cape Town hotel with the rest of the G20 member state\u2019s leaders.<\/p>\n<section class=\"metro-comment-cta\">\n<div class=\"metro-comment-cta__inner\"><span class=\"metro-comment-cta__text-wrap\"><title>Comment now<\/title><span class=\"metro-comment-cta__text\">What did you think of G20? What did you think?<\/span><\/span><a class=\"metro-comment-cta__button\" href=\"#metro-comments-container\">Comment Now<\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>\u2018He probably starts out as some of the more foolish prime ministers and then veers towards some of the better ones by the end, hopefully,\u2019 the 65-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2025\/01\/01\/live-time-made-weep-couldnt-cry-tears-22274429\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">We Live in Time<\/a> actor shares of his character arc.<\/p>\n<p>The action \u2013 including shoot-outs, hand-to-hand combat and a massive fight in a hotel kitchen \u2013 means action is front and centre in G20, even if Hodge jokes that he \u2018just plays a screaming physical coward who hides behind Viola Davis for the entire film\u2019.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img width=\"646\" height=\"431\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-22873911 lazyload\" alt=\"Viola Davis as President Danielle Sutton in a red satin evening gown with Douglas Hodge behind her holding a gun as Prime Minister Oliver Everett in G20\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.scubadiscounters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SEI_246795296-c46f.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>Star and producer Davis is \u2018a force of nature\u2019, according to Hodge (Picture: Ilze Kitshoff\/Prime)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u2018Diving through hoops of fire, being shot at, all that I thought was going to be hilarious, but in fact it\u2019s just simply terrifying, so there\u2019s no acting required,\u2019 he recalled. \u2018But working with Viola \u2013 she\u2019s a force of nature, and so I knew that was going to be interesting in the way it always is when you do these big films.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Observing his co-star on set, Hodge , who has also appeared in the likes of Joker, Sir Ridley Scott\u2019s Robin Hood and TV\u2019s Catastrophe, confirms that she is just as impressive as her envious biceps \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2023\/01\/31\/viola-davis-being-robbed-of-oscars-nomination-is-peak-white-privilege-18197973\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">and EGOT status<\/a> \u2013 would suggest.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The scene in the lift where she fights these two massive guys and I\u2019m cowering on the top of the lift, looking through my fingers, screaming like a baby \u2013it was exhausting for me!<\/p>\n<p>\u2018But what you don\u2019t see is that she did it 20 times. 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\/>\n\t\t\t});<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img width=\"594\" height=\"396\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-22888624 lazyload\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.scubadiscounters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2208003466.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>Hodge with director Patricia Riggen, Davis and her husband and producing partner Julius Tennon promoting G20 in London\u2019s Trafalgar Square (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He\u2019s also equally admiring of Riggen\u2019s \u2018incredible job\u2019 \u2013 \u2018I think there\u2019s something about having a woman director\u2019 \u2013 and how she balanced an \u2018edge of your seat\u2019 action movie with a story at the centre of it \u2018about this little beautiful family\u2019, with Sutton\u2019s husband (Anthony Anderson) and two kids (Marsai Martin, Christopher Farrar) along for the ride too.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I think the fact that she manipulated that and took care over that, and that each of the characters have some concern and grow and learn a bit, that\u2019s an added plus for the film.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Hodge is also here for the one-liners and self-aware humour of the film.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I\u2019m sort of old school. I think the great action movies, like the Bond movies, Raiders of the Lost Ark, they all have a sort of wit. They know that you can\u2019t take yourself too seriously if you\u2019re saying, \u201cI\u2019m going out to save the world\u201d.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Much will be made of the fact that Davis is portraying a competent American leader on the world stage in G20, as a Black woman, when the US is yet to have a female president yet \u2013 although many thought they would ahead of November\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img width=\"646\" height=\"431\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-22873892 lazyload\" alt=\"President Danielle Sutton (Viola Davis) in G20\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.scubadiscounters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SEI_246795318-1ab3.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>G20 promises an \u2018edge of your seat\u2019 action film as well as a family story at the heart of it (Picture: Ilze Kitshoff\/Prime)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While Riggen has been clear there was no deliberate statement made with the film \u2013 which Davis and her co-producer husband Julius Tennon had in development with others years before Donald Trump took office again \u2013 Hodge agrees that who\u2019s in the White House now does give G20 a new relevance.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Everything has a political aspect to it, and hopefully everything has a relevance. So the fact that there\u2019s a female president [in the film], it certainly should be being talked about all the time as a possibility, no doubt about it, whoever\u2019s the president now, and whatever isn\u2019t the case. So if it makes you think about that, that\u2019s great.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>G20 is streaming exclusively on Amazon Prime Video from today.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Got a story?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">If you\u2019ve got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\">Metro.co.uk<\/a> entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@metro.co.uk, calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/submit-stuff\/\">Submit Stuff<\/a> page \u2013 we\u2019d love to hear from you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{“@context”:”https:\/\/schema.org”,”@type”:”VideoObject”,”name”:”Metro.co.uk”,”duration”:”T10M12S”,”thumbnailUrl”:”https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/04\/10\/18\/97144457-0-image-m-109_1744305038308.jpg”,”uploadDate”:”2025-04-10T18:07:51+0100″,”description”:”Our very own Douglas Hodge plays the UK Prime Minister and has reflected on how having a female director and producer in charge of the action flick ‘100% changed the approach’.”,”contentUrl”:”https:\/\/videos.metro.co.uk\/video\/met\/2025\/04\/10\/7236661680630643006\/480x270_MP4_7236661680630643006.mp4″,”height”:270,”width”:480} To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Up Next Previous Page Next Page […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scubadiscounters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scubadiscounters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scubadiscounters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scubadiscounters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scubadiscounters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.scubadiscounters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"http:\/\/www.scubadiscounters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scubadiscounters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scubadiscounters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scubadiscounters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scubadiscounters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}