He's too awkward about his own identity to successfully play icons of white, handsome masculinity, and his apparent desire to prove there's more to him than what we see has informed his best performances which have come in smaller, more character-driven movies.
"I felt that it was going to be difficult to cast - you need to have an icon playing an icon," says Hancock, who directed 2009's The Blind Side, for which Sandra Bullock won a best actress Oscar.
And she admits to being aware that she "disappointed" Katharine Hepburn fans playing the icon in "The Aviator," but said, basically, what are you gonna do? "She died.
Most recently, Jared Leto won an Oscar for his portrayal of a trans character in 2013's "Dallas Buyers Club" and Eddie Redmayne received an Oscar nomination in 2015 for playing trans icon Lili Elbe in "The Danish Girl".
Lucy Lawless is a New Zealand institution, known both for playing feminist icon Xena: Warrior Princess, and for being one in her own right see, for proof, that time that she scaled an Arctic-bound oil-drilling ship.
Clicking on a role-playing icon, I record Carol's line, which sounds to me like "yew paw dee-ah".
Swipe these columns up and down to select the time interval you want, then start the countdown by tapping on the play icon in the icon bar.
There's a small "X" in the space to the left of a "play" icon; above that is an "up" arrow.
Among the main menu items, there's the usual link to the Android Market where all the new games reside, but there's also an Xperia Play icon.
Clicking the play icon, watching the line move across the bottom of the clip, seeing the minutes being counted off - I find that more satisfying than watching better-realised TV programmes or films.
