Mike Colter discusses what he can about his secret role in Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry’s new action comedy “The Union.”
There are many secrets that Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry’s characters don’t want to get out in their new Netflix action comedy The Union and in some ways, Mike Colter’s role in the movie is a reflection of that in real life.
After all, Colter’s character catches us off-guard when he abruptly disappears in the film’s opening scene, only to later pop up in the film later on in a way you wouldn’t expect.
Since Colter’s role involves a big plot twist in The Union—which won’t be spoiled here—he’s content with his work flying under the radar until viewers get a chance to see the movie.
“It’s fun to keep your mouth shut because it’s a spoiler but I’m fine with that,” Colter told me in a recent Zoom conversation. “[This sounds] anti-Hollywood, but I’m not a person who needs all of the attention. I think if I have a good time and it serves the film, I’m fine with that. I think it was fun to be the plot twist or the spoiler.”
Mike soon finds out that Roxanne is a spy with an off-the-books government organization called The Union. Led by Tom Brennan (J.K. Simmons), The Union is a group of working-class agents desperately trying to recover a hard drive that identifies every single law enforcer in the Western Hemisphere—from police officers and military personnel to FBI and CIA agents.
Since every member of The Union is identified in the stolen data, too, the spy organization needs to find a virtual nobody to recover a case containing the hard drive of info before it goes up for bids on the black market.
