Gary Oldman did a stupendous role, playing Winston Churchill in "Darkest Hour", and this could actually get him awarded!
But well, this came with a price, to him and to the production team. We are talking about 30000$ in Cuban Cigars, the very best of them.
Gary Oldman was smoking around 12 of them each day during filming, and it even gave him nicotine intoxication.
Can you imagine the amount of smoke he inhaled?
The movie looks very promising, I'll leave the Story Line and the Trailer right below. See for yourself!
Story Line:
Within days of becoming Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill (Gary Oldman) must face one of his most turbulent and defining trials: exploring a negotiated peace treaty with Nazi Germany, or standing firm to fight for the ideals, liberty and freedom of a nation. As the unstoppable Nazi forces roll across Western Europe and the threat of invasion is imminent, and with an unprepared public, a skeptical King, and his own party plotting against him, Churchill must withstand his darkest hour, rally a nation, and attempt to change the course of world history.
Whether it be his accountant, wife, movie studio, or whoever; Someone should be very upset about 30k being spent on fucking cigars.
"Should I change some orphan's lives? Nah, I'm gonna literally burn thirty thousand dollars."
In Hollywood, spending 30k$ is just a niche! There is lot of money being burned down in movie productions, why? Because they will get their revenue multiplied by X times more. But I do understand your point of view, there are a million better ways where they could spend that money.
He could have spent $30 on some cheap bullshit and the camera wouldn't know the difference. Besides, all the good cigar makers in Cuba moved to Honduras after the U.S. put that embargo on Cuba in the 60's.