The Killer Inside Me
Thursday, June 17, 2010
The Onion's geeky offspring, the AV Club, is running a great interview with Casey Affleck today. Affleck stars as Lou Ford, the murderous sheriff in Jim Thompson's brilliant The Killer Inside Me, in Michael Winterbottom's remake.
Affleck has matured into a really impressive actor. His turn in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is absolutely the best thing about an otherwise long, slow film. I have high hopes for Killer, despite the fact that it rounds out its cast with the uninspired Jessica Alba and Kate Hudson - after all, the source material is extraordinary.
Fingers crossed.
(The moral of the story is, if you've never read The Killer Inside Me, it's time.)