Fassbender is wild - eyed as the slave owner emasculated by his shrewish, controlling wife (Sarah Paulson), Cumberbatch is warm and paternal as the slightly - more - compassionate Ford, and Pauls Dano and Giamatti have a particular flair for
playing despicable characters that they display here.
Not exact matches
Robbie, Stan, Allison Janney (deliciously
despicable as Harding's embittered mom, LaVona), and Julianne Nicholson (as coach Diane Rawlinson)
play their
characters in the past, and in the present day, where they talk to the camera and give differing accounts of what happened.
It's scary how good Jonah Hill is at
playing despicable, horrifying
characters, delivering each offensive line with such commitment.
It would be easy to write Giacometti off as a
despicable character and to become as exasperated with him as Lord was during the sittings, but Rush does a stellar job of humanising him and
playing up the charismatic aspects of this chaotic grump's personality.
Meryl Streep
plays Violet, the matriarch of the family, who despite the empathy involved in understanding her
character's prognosis and despair, is
despicable to endure for an audience.