The British actor plays a food inspector in Atom Egoyan's new Guest of Honour, the latest in a line of unsavoury characters
In Atom Egoyan’s new film, David Thewlis plays Jim, a punctilious food inspector keeping restaurateurs honest while trying to figure out why his daughter is doing jail time for a sexual assault. The inspector is another in a long series of unsavoury characters the British actor has played, starting with the seductive transient Johnny in, a performance that launched Thewlis to stardom with a best actor win at Cannes in 1993.
Playing guitar, cooking and carving wood. It’s something I have wanted to do since I was a little kid. So I finally got some knives and some good wood and some videos on how to do it. I’m just mucking around.I also just finished writing a novel before lockdown, a black comedy set in the film world about an aging film director and a young actress. So I had been self-isolating for some time, not expecting what’s happened to happen.
I’m intrigued that you see him as different from others you’ve played because he does follow in a long line of creepy characters, fromAnything I haven’t done before. If it’s something I recognize, it doesn’t interest me. And if it’s boring for me, it’s boring for the audience. I am always looking for something new and usually, yes, creepy … I’m not sure,We’re never sure if he’s a good guy or a bad guy. He’s an unsettling character.
Yes, I tend to play someone with some darkness in them. This, on the surface, seemed like not such a complicated man, the complications were happening around him, and he’s just trying to get through. But obviously, he’s proactive in pushing the story along, in trying to understand the motivations of his daughter and how it reflects back on him and his failure to communicate. That’s key to this story, the tragic way we cannot be honest with each other, even within families.
Yeah. It doesn’t just have to be bad guys; I’ve played many good people. It’s curious. I look at my career, and I’ve played these really, awful, terrible ghastly people and the antithesis. The good people I’ve played tend to be very good, like
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