Iago's back and he's still the worst person you can't stop watching.
Shakespeare’s Othello is revisited exactly as it was written, brought into the present through the power of dialect alone. Iago, Othello, and Desdemona are regrettably still among us, in contemporary events told through a great classic. Set in the early 2000s, it is a timeless story where good and evil intertwine in a maelstrom of deceit, betrayal and mad jealousy.
Acting
Leo's Iago is chilling—charming, reptilian, impossibly watchable.
Writing
The dialect translation proves Shakespeare needs no modernizing, just respect.
Director
Edoardo Leo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Edoardo Leo cast himself as Iago after struggling to find an actor cruel enough without becoming cartoonish.
The film sparked debate in Italy about casting a non-Black actor as Othello—mirroring the very othering the text examines.
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