Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Finnick Versus The Babadook

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I've been mainly agnostic with regards to Sam Claflin -- as an object I've seen the appeal since before even seeing him in anything (catch this Gratuitous post from 2011 for that) but he's underwhelmed me time and again when he's actually been called on to, you know, move and talk and all that stuff that goes into acting. He's not necessarily bad (although I thought he was woefully miscast as Finnick in the Hunger Games films), he's just... there.

So here comes his biggest test. He's just been cast in (opposite Irish actress named Aisling Franciosi, who played the young girl that Jamie Dornan got inappropriate with on The Fall)...

... in Nightingale, director Jennifer Kent's anxiously awaited (and I do mean anxiously) follow-up to her stone-cold masterpiece The Babadook. Although given the plot description his role is probably more of a supporting one...

"NIGHTINGALE is a film set in Tasmania during the year 1825, and follows a 21-year-old Irish convict who bears witness to the horrific murder of her husband and baby by her soldier master. Distraught beyond rational thought, the woman then takes justice into her own hands, by hiring an Aboriginal male tracker to enter the wilderness with her and exact revenge on the people who ruined her life."

Sounds like Aisling's got the heavy-lifting to do while he'll be playing something like a sneering villain, which is really the wheelhouse I have always thought he'd fit in best, honestly. He's got a face made for hate-fucking, you know? Believe me, that's not an insult coming from me - that is maybe the highest compliment I am possible of giving. On that note hit the jump for a few random shots of Sam I've had sitting here gathering dust waiting for news to share...










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