This is fresh air. I'm Tanya Mosley, and my guest today, Benicio del Toro, has made a career out of playing

complex, morally ambiguous characters. In traffic, for example, he portrayed a Mexican police

officer, forced to decide whether to uphold justice or compromise his ethics in a corrupt system.

In Sicario, he played a former prosecutor-turned

assassin. Del Toro's latest collaboration is with director Wes Anderson in the new film The Phoenician

Scheme. He stars as Zhaja Corda, a charismatic but morally compromised tycoon of the 1950s,

who after surviving an assassination attempt,

tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter, a novice nun, played by Mia Threpleton,

in the hopes that she will one day take over his empire.

I've appointed you sole heir to my estate, which you may come into sooner rather than later,

and provisionally

manager of my affairs after the event of my actual demise on a trial basis.

Why?

Why what?

Why sooner rather than later, since you survived again?

And why am I sole to your estate?

You have eight sons at last count.

Nine sons.

Nine sons. What about them? They're not my heirs.

Why not?

I have my reasons.

Which are what?

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