Playing the bad guy works in Supporting as we've seen with Christoph Waltz in «Inglourious Basterds» and Javier Bardem in «No Country for Old Men» but those had charismatic elements to them. (awardscircuit.com)
Southwestern mini-paradise comes complete with compact slums, extremely short menial laborers (most of them Spanish - speaking), and a market in thimble - size counterfeit luxury goods, the latter of which are supplied by Christoph Waltz with his best grinning, cynical, Eurotrash flair. (thenation.com)
(Rahim beat the Cannes jury's Best Actor choice Christoph Waltz into third place, while second was early Best Actress favorite Giovanna Mezzogiorno.) (incontention.com)