David Thewlis's charming shadow [Mizumaru Kawahara's CINEMONOLOGUE Vol.17]

A shadowy role, sometimes an earthworm

Needless to say, Thewlis has appeared in a wide variety of works, but I've only just begun to recognize his face and name, so I haven't seen many of his works. The first time I saw him outside of Harry Potter was in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas .

During World War II, the main character, Bruno, moved to the countryside due to his father's work, and was living a boring life, but he became interested in the people working around his house wearing pajamas, and decided to move to the countryside. Find a "camp-like facility" where they live. There, Bruno meets a boy of the same age wearing pajamas, and they form a friendship through the barbed wire... Thewlis plays Bruno's father, a Nazi German officer and concentration camp commander. Audience members who know the history can understand the situation from the father's pajamas, camping, and military uniform, but the story unfolds through the eyes of a boy who knows nothing. Therefore, his father is just a working father to him. I wonder if this image of the front and back is similar to Lupin, who has a secret.

Her role in `` Wonder Woman '' is also fresh in my memory. As Lord Morgan, a British politician fighting against Imperial Germany during World War I, he supports a team led by Wonder Woman, aka Wonder Woman. Since this is a recent work, I won't go into details, but this character was also a soft-spoken gentleman, but he also had a dark side.

The latest film is `` On the Winds of the Cape of Good Hope, '' a biographical film about Donald Crowhurst, who competed in a solo round-the-world yacht race. Thewlis plays real-life journalist Rodney Hallworth, who takes on the role of publicist for Colin Firth's character Crowhurst. Big black-rimmed glasses look good on you. When he receives reports on his current location and situation via radio from Crowhurst, he announces them to the media, but he often uses his words, which can be a burden to Crowhurst.

For something a little more unusual, he played the role of a worm in Henry Selick and Tim Burton's stop-motion animated film Giant Peach . The original story is a children's book by Roald Dahl, about a boy and insects riding on a giant peach to New York. I've been watching it a lot since I was a kid, but I never knew Thewlis played the role of Earthworm. The cowardly earthworm has a fun expression wearing sunglasses.

The most powerful character so far has been V.M. Varga, the villain he played in Season 3 of Fargo .

The creepy villain of the TV drama “Fargo”