From starring roles in such John Sayles» classics as LIMBO and PASSION FISH to
solid supporting work in big budget Hollywood flicks like L.A. CONFIDENTIAL, he's demonstrated over and over that he is one of the best actors working today.
The eternally under - appreciated Timothy Olyphant and Radha Mitchell, unerringly realistic as husband and wife, carry most of the grisly weight, aided
by solid support work from folks who are not afraid to be full - on nuts.
What can be pointed out is the excellent ensemble cast — Ray Liotta and Kerry Washington both
do solid supporting work as married friends of the couple, and Dennis Haysbert, nearly unrecognizable from his days on «24», also does good work as a friend of Jeff's.
The remaining cast members are all good (perhaps not stand - out but
solid supporting work), but their roles and action within the film really should remain hidden because of how they're revealed.
Even so, «The Walk» succeeds with a fine lead and
solid supporting work from Sir Ben Kingsley as Papa Rudy, a veteran trapeze artist who mentors Petit, and Charlotte Le Bon (who shined opposite Helen Mirren in «The Hundred - Foot Journey») as Petit's girlfriend Annie.
Following
some solid supporting work in Drive, and surviving the unfathomable catastrophe that is Zack Snyder «s Sucker Punch, in 2011, 2013 brought him into the spotlight with his emotionally wrecked, exquisitely melancholic performance as the titular folk singer in the Coen brothers» Inside Llewyn Davis, followed by an excellent turn in J.C. Chandor «s A Most Violent Year, a better - than - average Sidney Lumet riff from 2014.
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