Not exact matches
With his typical off kilter style of jokes and improbable situations, there's plenty of laugh out loud moments to be had, particularly with Watiti favourite Rhys Darby, who manages to leave a solid impression and delivers the lines
despite his very limited
screentime, and late appearance.
Cathleen Nesbitt, who plays Nickie's grandmother, brings a lot to the table too, giving a memorable performance
despite her relatively limited
screentime.
Myrna Loy portrays Ziegfeld's wife / widow Burke and,
despite modest
screentime, she claims second billing, the result of playing Powell's wife in the popular Thin Man (and later, its five sequels).
Her American accent is fine, but
despite a wealth of
screentime here, she doesn't do anything too memorable with her part.
Too,
despite a nicely underplayed turn by Kinnear that triangulates the character's intelligence, sadness, and overall creepiness, Caliban's overly familiar existential predicament (loneliness, basically, plus the pain of rejection) takes up plenty of
screentime while failing to generate the pathos Logan seems to expect.