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Nightmarish and brilliant, accustomed to characters on the edge between the disturbing and the comic, the actor revealed in “Breaking Bad” shines again in “Kinds of Kindness” by Yórgos Lánthimos.
A moment ago, the character caused two particularly trashy deaths before our eyes, cruel, devious, manipulative, and wrapped in an infamous tergal undershirt to boot. A few hundred meters further on the sidewalk opposite, there is the man, quietly seated in a Cannes palace, polite but nothing more, the air of nothing in particular, unrecognizable at all levels down to the very form of his face, the sound and rhythm of his voice, the way he walks. Red dot in perpetual motion on an axis Matt Damon-Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jesse Plemons metamorphoses within the very heart of Kinds of Kindnessa great fable of perversities in three acts where the American actor revealed to the general public through his role as a worm-killing psycho in the series breaking Bad is in turn Robert, Daniel and Andrew, respectively doll who says yes, paranoid cop and cult follower. Three disturbing and disturbed characters that Yórgos Lánthimos wanted to be different from each other… but not too much. “He didn’t want to push it to the level of a Peter Sellers, with a radically new character in each part. It was more a story of small physical variations.” With, above all, a very unusual freedom given to the actor in the composition of each of his roles. “What makes working with Yórgos particularly fun is that no matter how many questions you ask him, he doesn’t necessarily answer them, in any case never says anything.
