Oscar winner Christoph Waltz on new series ‘The Consultant’ streaming now in UAE

Oscar winner Christoph Waltz on new series ‘The Consultant’ streaming now in UAE

The satirical workplace thriller tells the story of a video game studio after the sudden death of its young founder

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By Elisabeth Vincentelli Published: Tue 28 Feb 2023, 12:48 PM Last updated: Tue 28 Feb 2023, 1:05 PM

Christoph Waltz knows a few things about acting, and he has the Academy Awards to prove it. Yet in a recent conversation, he made light of the skills required.

“I don’t believe in good actor, bad actor,” he said. “If you’re playing an interesting part in a worthwhile story and you’re cast properly, you’d have to be a complete idiot to not be good.”

It is difficult to tell how serious Waltz is when he makes this type of deliciously arch grand statement, just as it is difficult to pinpoint what drives his latest screen creation — the title character of the satirical new Amazon workplace thriller The Consultant.

Adapted by Servant creator Tony Basgallop from the 2015 novel by Bentley Little, the eight-episode series streaming now on Prime Video, tells the story of a video game studio after the sudden, violent death of its young founder, which sends the company into a tailspin. Out of nowhere, an off-putting stranger named Regus