He has a reputation as an intense actor.
Mr. Sisto, the quietly intense actor known for his work on "Six Feet Under" and "Law & Order," gives an understated but compelling performance as a man who finds his life unraveling as his spirit closes in on itself.
Ben Gazzara, an intense actor whose long career included playing Brick in the original "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" on Broadway, roles in influential films by John Cassavetes and work with several generations of top Hollywood directors, died on Friday in Manhattan.
His arms tied, and wheezing from asthma, the perennially intense actor John Ortiz brings this Che down to earth, stripping him of the pretty-boy charm that made past portrayals by Antonio Banderas and Gael García Bernal so seductive and idealized.
"I can't totally put it into words, but I feel like I've begun to prepare in strange ways in the past three or four movies, starting with 'End of Watch,'" said the soft-spoken but intense actor.
Cianfrance has cast two intense young actors, Dane DeHaan and Emory Cohen, as the boys, who are both into Ecstasy and Oxycontin, and he sustains a nasty friction between them, sandpaper rubbing sandpaper.
Mr. Phoenix started as a child actor, and since his breakthrough role, at 21, in Gus Van Sant's "To Die For," he has emerged from the shadow of his late brother River, cultivating a reputation as one of Hollywood's most intense young actors.
There are more intense, affected actors who would curl up and die hearing that.
An intense, beautiful actor whose maddening Method had that "magical combination of intuition and craft".
