But it's finally the casting of 500 - pound gorilla Roberts that kills this
thing, throwing its centre of gravity so off - balance that August: Osage County feels not much different from a tailor - made
ego trip like Something to
Talk About, even before that contentious epilogue.
It wasn't necessarily easy to go back that far; as Downey put it: «That's the dumb
thing about history, if you're
talking about something that has its origins more than 12 minutes ago, you're already coloring it with your
ego and your story.»