Around her roves a carnival of nice actors doing nasty things: McAvoy snorts and screams; Eddie Marsan dopes up and heads for the disco; Jamie Bell tunnels into a cocaine Mont Blanc.
For this monologue about war and the nasty things civilians do, the actor, Alex Draper, wears a tux and brandishes a highball glass.
Don't say: British plays for British actors Reviews reviewed: A nasty racist play or a brave analysis of race in Britain?
After all, the 38-year-old Illinois-born actor has tackled difficult, even nasty, characters in Jarhead, Rendition and Boys Don't Cry.
And in his nastiest prank, he picks up a vain bisexual soap-opera actor, goes home with him and pretends to be a violent sociopath.
Playing the middleweight boxer Jake LaMotta from 1941 to 1964, Mr. De Niro, who won the best actor Oscar, evolves from a boyish, fit young man with a nasty disposition into a sloppy, fat has-been with a nasty disposition.
Still, Reynolds's directing is imaginative, and the actors are as believable as gods as they are as nasty men.
Olivia Willams and Matthew Fox (from Lost) are both seriously good actors, playing out the American writer-director Neil LaBute's predictably nasty sibling reunion.
But Fukunaga says he is still struggling to find the right actor to play Pennywise, the main manifestation of the shape-shifting supernatural nasty.
Deen is convincingly nasty and manipulative as Christian but has little of the screen presence of the actors Schrader has worked with in the past.
