![]() ![]() Margot Robbie as Wife and Actress in Asteroid City It’s a survey of the finely tuned acting performances that stand on their own.ĥ0. 1 on that list would be The Royal Tenenbaums, and I won’t explain here) nor a ranking of the characters themselves (or else Lucas Hedges’s real bastard of a Khaki Scout from Moonrise Kingdom would have made the list somewhere). ![]() An actor can appear more than once on this list (and several do Willem Dafoe shows up three times, and he’s not the most recurrent of the bunch) as long as their characters are sufficiently differentiated (in the end, Jeff Goldblum’s various characters did not make the cut, as he tends to exude similar bursts of quirkiness across Andersonian worlds).Įach Anderson film is represented on the list at least once, though note: This is neither a ranking of Anderson films (No. The following 50 performances represent the best of the Andersonian Cinematic Universe ( now who’s pretentious?), including voice performances and narrators but excluding Mordecai the falcon. Whether they’re portraying a protagonist or a villain, these actors see just hard enough, stare just long enough, and deliver just arid enough jokes to blur the lines between reprehensible and relatable. They have a facility with the absurd, but they leave space for earnest love, fear, gratitude, and regret to break through their heavy artifice. They manage to find their own ideal register of understatement in the cadence of their voice, and mix it with an amount of pretension necessary for characters already preoccupied with the business of performing themselves. The best actors to take on a Wes Anderson role, many of whom have appeared again and again throughout the course of the filmmaker’s 11 features, seem comfortable stretching out in this narrow window of temperament. Bottle Rocket’s Dignan and Asteroid City’s Augie Steenbeck exist in the same implausibly centered, pastel universe, but they’re not the same people. Yet each performance feels angled at a slightly different degree, one distinct acting turn making all the difference between a charming scoundrel, a depressed artist, a loyal sidekick, an aloof intellectual, or a precocious kid. His characters tend to possess a similar demeanor - they’re deadpan and staccato, capable of dexterously delivering mouthfuls of elaborate verbiage. Wes Anderson creates remarkably intricate worlds and populates them with just as peculiar people. Photo: Buena Vista Pictures/Everett Collection ![]()
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