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And that's more important than an actor's skill".
The problem is that, with Hunter putting on multiple hats and voices and assuming different gaits, we focus more on the actor's skill than on the madness of power.
This actor's skill at suggesting a coiled psychopath in hiding is what made his breakthrough performance in "Primal Fear" so memorably creepy, and it contributed to the disturbing ambiguity of his turns in "American History X," "Fight Club" and "25th Hour".
But an actor's skill can perhaps best be measured by how well they take on multiple roles.
Combining his jazz sensibility with a stage actor's skill, the lyric did not offer much hope as it acknowledged a defeat - that although understood intellectually, could not be accepted emotionally.
Bosley Crowther of The New York Times thought that Terry-Thomas provided "some of the fieriest conniptions to be seen on the contemporary screen", going on to say that the actor's "skill is exercised in demonstrating how magnificently and completely a mad-cap comedian can completely blow his top.
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The true proof of a screen actor's skills comes when the dialogue and the camera stop and we have to be shown what the character is thinking.
This actor's skills -- for precision and understatement, and for unexpectedly allowing a gleeful, almost crazed energy to burst out in otherwise somber circumstances -- are impressively evident, but the movie is so small and emotionally constricted that it gives him too little room to explore his range.
Each film showcased different aspects of the actor's skills, from his role as a German intelligence agent in "Wanted" to a part as a morose mobster who gets in over his head in "Pocket".
Both those movies are scheduled for release this year — by Lionsgate and IFC respectively — and they showed different aspects of the actor's skills, from his role as a German intelligence agent in "Wanted" to a part as a morose mobster who gets in over his head in "Pocket".
To say that difference in stature is merely a function of an actor's practiced skill at performance is both to understate the character of Ronald Reagan and to impugn the art of acting.
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