Before appearing as a retired hood in Sexy Beast, he was the go - to guy for
abusive louts in British kitchen - sink melodramas, appearing as a wife - beating alcoholic in Nil By Mouth and an incestuous patriarch in The War Zone.
Like Park's version, «Oldboy» tells of a drunken,
abusive lout named Joe Doucette (Josh Brolin) who's imprisoned for a long time by a mysterious jailer.
Sara Bareilles currently stars in her own sweet and tart musical about a lady who's a whiz at making pies, but messing up everything else; pregnant from
her abusive lout of a husband, she's now falling for her gynecologist.