His work is unified and characterised by its calm intelligence and a kind of
extraordinary ordinariness that helps us see its subject, the world around us, in a new way.
It's hard to imagine a more fitting choice to play the modest and mild - mannered pilot, and although he doesn't get a lot to work with from a character standpoint (Sully is
extraordinary only in his
ordinariness), the actor makes the most of even the smallest moments.