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This week on I Know That Face, Stephen and Andrew venture into uncharted territory as they discuss the only character actor in the MCU: Don Cheadle. Beginning with the 'Nam war film Hamburger Hill, Cheadle made his mark in Hollywood early and often. With films like Devil in a Blue Dress, Boogie Nights, Out of Sight, the Ocean's Trilogy and The Guard, the actor has stayed in the public eye for over 30 years. He was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for Hotel Rwanda and in 2010 replaced Terrence Howard as War Machine in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In recent years, Cheadle has appeared in Steven Soderbergh's No Sudden Move and in Space Jam: A New Legacy. Sign up to HeadStuff+ at headstuffpodcasts.com for the small price of €5 a month to unlock exclusive bonus episodes of I Know That Face. Andrew Twitter: @Andrew_Carroll0 Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface / Facebook: @iknowthatfacepod Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Featured Image Credit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

And we're back! For our first episode of 2022, we're taking a look at the career of Hollywood's most reliable Frenchman Vincent Cassel. First rising to prominence in Mathieu Kassovitz's La Haine as macho French youth Vinz, the actor went on to establish himself as a leading heavyweight in France. Starring in films like L'Apartment, Dobermann and Brotherhood of the Wolf, Cassel was much sought after by the time his first English language role as Robin Hood in Shrek came around. From there, he made waves as the Night Fox in the latter two films of Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Trilogy, as a closeted Russian gangster in David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises and as a seductive ballet director opposite Natalie Portman in Black Swan. Cassel has acted mostly in European cinema in the last decade with some highlights including Jason Bourne, The World is Yours and Underwater. Sign up to HeadStuff+ at headstuffpodcasts.com for the small price of €5 a month to unlock exclusive bonus episodes of I Know That Face. Andrew Twitter: @Andrew_Carroll0 Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface / Facebook: @iknowthatfacepod Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Featured Image Credit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is it that time of the year already? Before the I Know That Face crew takes a short break in the new year, we're sharing our annual discussion of the best films of the past 12 months with you. 2021, like its predecessor, was a strange year for movies. Superhero cinema came back in a big way and along with low-budget horror reasserted its claim to the box office throne. Many delayed films such as The Last Duel, The French Dispatch and Last Night in Soho finally came out and none of them ended up on our respective lists. Andrew sings the praises of nihilistic horror fare like David Prior's The Empty Man and Shudder's The Medium while also spotlighting Kristen Stewart's powerhouse performance in Pablo Larrain's Spencer. Both Andrew and Stephen loved Malignant and two similar but very different Mads Mikkelsen movies. Stephen also takes a rewarding dive into the surreal M. Night Shyamalan's Old and the Nicolas Cage vengeance vehicle Pig, before chatting at the end of the episode to Valdimar Jóhannsson, the co-writer and director of the Noomi Rapace starring Lamb. Thanks for listening and see you in 2022. Sign up to HeadStuff+ at headstuffpodcasts.com for the small price of €5 a month to unlock exclusive bonus episodes of I Know That Face. Andrew Twitter: @Andrew_Carroll0 Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface / Facebook: @iknowthatfacepod Andrew's Top 5: 5. The Empty Man / 4. The Medium / 3. Riders of Justice / 2. Malignant / 1. Spencer Stephen's Top 5: 5. Another Round / 4. Old / 3. Malignant / 2. Petite Maman / 1. Pig Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For the final character actor episode of 2021, Stephen and Andrew look at the career of Swedish actress Noomi Rapace. Best known as Lisbeth Salander in the Swedish adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and its sequels, Rapace has made a career of playing determined yet vulnerable female characters. Though her first English language role was Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, it was Ridley Scott's Prometheus that would define her Hollywood career. From there Rapace spent most of the 2010s making lean, mean thrillers like The Drop, Child 44, What Happened to Monday, Close and The Trip. Her next film Lamb releases later this year. Sign up to HeadStuff+ at headstuffpodcasts.com for the small price of €5 a month to unlock exclusive bonus episodes of I Know That Face. Andrew Twitter: @Andrew_Carroll0 Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface / Facebook: @iknowthatfacepod Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Featured Image Credit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With the new millennium, John Malkovich only became more prolific and hence better known. His first role in the 2000s was as a psychotic version of the German Expressionist director F. W. Murnau opposite Willem Dafoe's Max Shreck in Shadow of the Vampire. Another iconic albeit fictional character followed with his take on Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley in Ripley's Game. In 2008, he was part of an ensemble of idiots in the Coen Brothers' Burn After Reading. In the same year, he collaborated with Clint Eastwood for a second time in Changeling. In the 2010s, Malkovich took a wide variety of supporting turns in films such as Warm Bodies, Deepwater Horizon, Mile 22 and Velvet Buzzsaw. He shows no signs of slowing down with roughly 10 projects due for release. Sign up to HeadStuff+ at headstuffpodcasts.com for the small price of €5 a month to unlock exclusive bonus episodes of I Know That Face. Andrew Twitter: @Andrew_Carroll0 Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface / Facebook: @iknowthatfacepod Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Featured Image Credit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Another anniversary, another two-parter. This year, we’re covering John Malkovich. A man of many hairpieces, the legend has been acting in film since his Oscar-nominated debut Places in the Heart. He followed that on with Steven Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun and Stephen Frears’ Dangerous Liaisons. In the 90s, Malkovich continued working in high brow fare like The Sheltering Sky and The Portrait of a Lady, as well as in popcorn blockbusters such as In the Line of Fire and Con Air. He also notably played himself in fantasy-comedy Being John Malkovich. Sign up to HeadStuff+ at headstuffpodcasts.com for the small price of €5 a month to unlock exclusive bonus episodes of I Know That Face. Andrew Twitter: @Andrew_Carroll0 Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface / Facebook: @iknowthatfacepod Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Featured Image Credit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re coming to get you Barbara! Crampton that is! We’re joined by returning guest Katie McGrath to discuss the career of one of horror’s brightest stars. Beginning her career in the genre with Stuart Gordon’s Re-Animator, Crampton played a variety of roles in 80s and 90s B pictures such as Castle Freak, Chopping Mall and From Beyond. A career break in the 2000s presaged a huge comeback in the last decade with the likes of You’re Next, We Are Still Here, Sacrifice and Jakob’s Wife. With four decades in the business, Crampton is only picking up speed. Sign up to HeadStuff+ at headstuffpodcasts.com for the small price of €5 a month to unlock exclusive bonus episodes of I Know That Face. Andrew Twitter: @Andrew_Carroll0 Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Katie McGrath Instagram: @filmfiend__ / Blog Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface / Facebook: @iknowthatfacepod Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Featured Image Credit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For over 30 years, Tony Todd has been thrilling all kinds of audiences in a variety of roles and as part of our special October horror series, we're covering the career of the Candyman himself. Beginning in Oliver Stone's Platoon, the classically trained Todd soon landed two of the most iconic roles in horror cinema. In the 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead, he played the role of Ben in a spin on George A. Romero's classic. Just two years later, he then appeared as the titular character in Bernard Rose's Candyman - a role he would reprise across all its sequels. Though perhaps best known in some quarters for his roles in several Star Trek TV shows, Todd also played mortician William Bludworth in the Final Destination series, Rev. Zombie in the Hatchet franchise and Augustus D. Cole in The X-Files episode Sleepless. Sign up to HeadStuff+ at headstuffpodcasts.com for the small price of €5 a month to unlock exclusive bonus episodes of I Know That Face. Andrew Twitter: @Andrew_Carroll0 Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Andrew's Candyman article Editor: Charline Fernandez and Laura Saracino Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface / Facebook: @iknowthatfacepod Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Featured Image Credit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lili Taylor has been a mainstay of American indie and mainstream cinema since 1988. This week we turn our focus to her performances in a wide variety of films. Much sought after for both her timeless appeal and ability to dig deep into very complex characters, Taylor has acted consistently in both TV and film for over 30 years. Starting off in rom-coms like Mystic Pizza, she quickly graduated to holding her own opposite River Phoenix in Dogfight, Faye Dunaway in Arizona Dream and leading Abel Ferrara's philosophical vampire film The Addiction. In the 2000s, she appeared in the Bukowski adaptation Factotum, Michael Mann's Public Enemies and in one of the foundational films of modern horror (and blockbuster) cinema The Conjuring. After our Taylor talk, stay tuned for the show's interview with Eoin O'Donnell, a young Irish journalist who attended the Venice Film Festival this month and got to see some of the most highly anticipated movies to premiere at the event. Sign up to HeadStuff+ at headstuffpodcasts.com for the small price of €5 a month to unlock exclusive bonus episodes of I Know That Face. Andrew Twitter: @Andrew_Carroll0 Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Eoin O'Donnell Venice writings Editor: Charline Fernandez and Laura Saracino Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface / Facebook: @iknowthatfacepod Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Featured Image Credit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brad Dourif has almost as many serial killer roles in his resume as the United States has actual serial killers. This week, Andrew and Stephen break down the career of one of the hardest working character actors ever. Over a nearly 50 year career, Dourif has acted in prestigious Oscar-winning dramas like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, surreal sci-fi epics such as David Lynch's Dune and given voice to an evil doll in the Chucky franchise. Others will know him as the Gemini Killer in The Exorcist III, Luther Lee Boggs in The X-Files episode 'Beyond the Sea' and as Grima Wormtongue in The Lord of the Rings. A regular collaborator of Werner Herzog as well, Dourif has always sought out challenging work throughout his career. Sign up to HeadStuff+ at headstuffpodcasts.com for the small price of €5 a month to unlock exclusive bonus episodes of I Know That Face. Andrew Twitter: @Andrew_Carroll0 Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Editor: Laura Saracino Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface / Facebook: @iknowthatfacepod Andrew's Exorcist III article Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Featured Image Credit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's a tale as old as cinema itself: the star beloved in their home country heads to Hollywood to make it in the big time only to find themself playing middling villain roles. So it went and is still going with Mads Mikkelsen's career. Seen as the face of a resurgent Danish cinema in his home country, he is mostly cast as the bad guy in western pictures. Joined by returning guest Sean Moriarty, this week Andrew and Stephen take the biggest plunge they've ever taken into a character actor's career. From humble beginnings in Nicolas Winding Refn's Pusher Trilogy and Valhalla Rising to international Infamy in Casino Royale and from American network TV with Hannibal to awards recognition with The Hunt and Another Round, Mads Mikkelsen's career is one of the most interesting we've covered. Sign up to HeadStuff+ at headstuffpodcasts.com for the small price of €5 a month to unlock exclusive bonus episodes of I Know That Face. Andrew Twitter: @Andrew_Carroll0 Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Sean Blog: Cold Coffee Press Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Featured Image Credit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The best (and only) character actor podcast in the world returns! For their first episode back Andrew and Stephen head north to talk the career of Michael Smiley. A Northern Irishman, Smiley got his start as the rave-obsessed bike courier Tyres O'Flaherty in Edgar Wright's sitcom Spaced. His first major supporting film role came in 2008's Outpost. From there he began a series of collaborations with Ben Wheatley including Down Terrace, Kill List, A Field in England and Free Fire. Well known for his musical accent, cutting line deliveries and glowering menace, Smiley has put all three to use in the thrillers Black Sea and Come to Daddy, the Irish folk horror The Hallow and the RTÉ TV comedy Dead Still. He is set to appear in Censor and Gunpowder Milkshake later this year. Sign up to HeadStuff+ at headstuffpodcasts.com for the small price of €5 a month to unlock exclusive bonus episodes of I Know That Face. Andrew Twitter: @Andrew_Carroll0 Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface / Facebook: @iknowthatfacepod Stephen's Down Terrace article Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Featured Image Credit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this very special bonus episode of I Know That Face, Stephen Porzio chats with actor Stephen Dorff. Having appeared in such projects as Beatles-centred drama Backbeat, superhero movie Blade, Sofia Coppola's masterpiece Somewhere and hit series True Detective, Dorff stars in the excellent new sports drama Embattled - now available on digital download. In the movie, he plays a brash, maniacal MMA Champion pitted against his estranged 18-year-old son (Darren Mann) in the ring. Dorff chatted to I Know That Face about the movie and how he got into character both physically and mentally. He also talked about the state of the movie industry currently and reflected on his career as a whole. EMBATTLED IS NOW AVAILABLE ON DIGITAL DOWNLOAD. Sign up to HeadStuff+ at headstuffpodcasts.com for the small price of €5 a month to unlock exclusive bonus episodes of I Know That Face. Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface / Facebook: @iknowthatfacepod Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Stephen and Andrew take a look at Holly Hunter's long and varied career. Hunter got her big break in 1987 in the Coen Brothers' Raising Arizona and received her first Best Actress nod at the Oscars for Broadcast News the same year. Hunter channeled this success into an eventual Best Actress win for The Piano as well as a Best Supporting Actress nomination for The Firm. Known for her distinctive Southern accent and for being one of the best criers in the business, Hunter has worked consistently in TV and film racking up knockout performances in the likes of David Cronenberg's Crash, another turn with the Coens in O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Brad Bird's The Incredibles and its 2018 sequel. On TV she is best known for the series Saving Grace, a six-episode guest spot on Succession and NBC comedy Mr Mayor. Sign up to HeadStuff+ at headstuffpodcasts.com for the small price of €5 a month to unlock exclusive bonus episodes of I Know That Face. Andrew Twitter: @Andrew_Carroll0 Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface / Facebook: @iknowthatfacepod Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Featured Image Credit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are few character actors out there that look capable of both long division and of delivering a vicious head-butt. This week's subject, James Badge Dale, is one of those character actors. Best known for playing a varied assortment of cops, sheriffs, state troopers, security specialists, soldiers and CIA contractors, Dale imbues all his characters with a physicality, intelligence and vulnerability rarely seen these days. Whether it's a military scientist in Spectral, a beleaguered police chief in Hold the Dark, an undercover cop turned militiaman in The Standoff at Sparrow Creek or a traumatised cipher in The Empty Man, Dale always delivers a remarkably layered performance no matter the project. Sign up to HeadStuff+ at headstuffpodcasts.com for the small price of €5 a month to unlock exclusive bonus episodes of I Know That Face. Andrew Twitter: @Andrew_Carroll0 Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface / Facebook: @iknowthatfacepod Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Featured Image Credit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At long last, cinema is back! To mark the occasion, I Know That Face is releasing this special bonus episode. Co-host Stephen Porzio had the chance to speak with actor Orion Lee about First Cow, the new movie from podcast favourite Kelly Reichardt. Screening at the Irish Film Institute (IFI) now, before hitting streaming service Mubi on July 9, the drama centres on a quiet American chef and a Chinese immigrant who become friends during a perilous journey to find a new life for themselves. Upon arriving at a newly formed town, the pair wind up going into business together. Lee spoke to Stephen about working with Reichardt and what he brought to his character. He also reminisced about his time in Dublin with the Abbey Theatre. Sign up to HeadStuff+ at headstuffpodcasts.com for the small price of €5 a month to unlock exclusive bonus episodes of I Know That Face. Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Edited by Stephen Porzio Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface / Facebook: @iknowthatfacepod Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we're going from Scotland to Texas to Atlantic City as we take on the career of Kelly Macdonald. Starting off as the underage seductress Diane in Trainspotting, Macdonald channeled this success into securing strong roles in Robert Altman's Gosford Park and the 2003 Irish thriller Intermission. The mid-2000s saw her support in childrens' films like Nanny McPhee and Lassie and in more adult fare like the Coen Brothers mega-successful neo-Western No Country for Old Men. TV has been the best place to catch Macdonald's work in the last decade which saw her star in HBO's Boardwalk Empire, the BBC series Giri/Haji and the latest season of Line of Duty. Not only is she a face you know, she's one you never forget. Sign up to HeadStuff+ at headstuffpodcasts.com for the small price of €5 a month to unlock exclusive bonus episodes of I Know That Face. Andrew Twitter: @Andrew_Carroll0 Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface / Facebook: @iknowthatfacepod Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Featured Image Credit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's golden-oldies week on I Know That Face. Take a step back in time to the Golden Age of Hollywood with Andrew and Stephen to revisit the career of Edward G. Robinson, see? Known for his tough-guy gangsters in films like Little Caesar and Key Largo, Robinson starred in 101 movies over the course of 50 years from gambling dramas like The Cincinnati Kid to sci-fi thrillers such as Soylent Green. Across hundreds of roles on stage and the big and small screens, Robinson is best-loved by Stephen and Andrew for his role as motor-mouth claims adjuster Barton Keyes in Billy Wilder's pitch-perfect noir Double Indemnity. Sign up to HeadStuff+ at headstuffpodcasts.com for the small price of €5 a month to unlock exclusive bonus episodes of I Know That Face. Andrew Twitter: @Andrew_Carroll0 Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface / Facebook: @iknowthatfacepod Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Featured Image Credit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hard to believe we've been doing this over a year and this is our first big disagreement. This week on I Know That Face Andrew and Stephen break down the career of Christopher Abbott from his Broadway beginnings to his consistent indie output. Stephen's a big fan. Andrew is not. Whether it's dramas like James White and Tyrel or thrillers such as It Comes At Night and Sweet Virginia or horrors like Piercing and Possessor, Stephen has been consistently impressed by Abbott. Andrew has not. So, in the words of former I Know That Face subject Ken Watanabe: "Let them fight!" Sign up to HeadStuff+ at headstuffpodcasts.com for the small price of €5 a month to unlock exclusive bonus episodes of I Know That Face. Andrew Twitter: @Andrew_Carroll0 Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz Co-editor: Stephen Porzio I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface / Facebook: @iknowthatfacepod Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Featured Image Credit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joined by returning guest Mia Sherry, the I Know That Face crew dive deep into the career of Meth Damon himself, Jesse Plemons! Beginning his career as a child actor Plemons came to attention as Landry in Friday Night Lights. He quickly followed that show's end in 2011 with a heel turn into one of Breaking Bad's most venomous villains, Todd Alquist. It's been quite a decade for Plemons with roles in Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, Martin Scorsese's The Irishman, and Charlie Kaufman's I'm Thinking of Ending Things. His best-supporting work has come in the likes of Hostiles, Black Mass, Game Night, and Vice. Though his only lead role was in 2016's Other People he will re-team with Scorsese to play the main character in his epic western Killers of the Flower Moon which began shooting just a few days ago. Sign up to HeadStuff+ at headstuffpodcasts.com for the small price of €5 a month to unlock exclusive bonus episodes of I Know That Face. Andrew Twitter: @Andrew_Carroll0 Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Mia Sherry: Twitter: @miaevve Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz Co-editor: Stephen Porzio I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface / Facebook: @iknowthatfacepod Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Featured Image Credit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this special I Know That Face episode, Stephen Porzio chats with writer-director Corinna Faith about her brilliant debut feature The Power, streaming on Shudder now. A 70s-set horror, it centres on a young nurse forced to work the night shift during a blackout. Already scared of the dark due to a traumatic event in her past, she soon realises an angry spirit is haunting the hospital. Here, the filmmaker discusses where the idea for the movie came from, her relationship with horror, her influences and, how she shot one of the movie’s many bravura set-pieces. Sign up to HeadStuff+ at headstuffpodcasts.com for the small price of €5 a month to unlock exclusive bonus episodes of I Know That Face. Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface / Facebook: @iknowthatfacepod Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Stephen and Andrew are joined by screenwriter, producer and filmmaker Niall Cassin to talk about the evergreen career of Bruce Greenwood. Capable of switching from cool authority figures like JFK in Thirteen Days to monstrous husbands in Double Jeopardy and Gerald's Game to sensitive working class men such as Billy Ansel in The Sweet Hereafter, Greenwood has carved out a path for himself as a reliable jack-of-all-trades in both film and TV. What's more our guest Niall Cassin has worked with him on a TV pilot and as well as being an incredibly versatile actor, Greenwood has a presence off-camera as calming as his most authoritative roles and a knack for guitar playing too. With three films he's written coming to streaming later this year, a super secret American TV show coming this autumn and a horror film he scripted and produced shooting soon it might not be long before Niall - who has production credits on Deadpool, Tully and The Last Duel - finds himself working with Greenwood again. Sign up to HeadStuff+ at headstuffpodcasts.com for the small price of €5 a month to unlock exclusive bonus episodes of I Know That Face. Andrew Twitter: @Andrew_Carroll0 Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface / Facebook: @iknowthatfacepod Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Featured Image Credit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we're travelling from feudal Japan to the surface of the sun with the career of Hiroyuki Sanada. Sanada began acting at the age of six, rapidly fulfilling his childhood dream as an action star. After a slew of samurai films in the 1970s he went west to Hong Kong to star in martial arts films like Ninja in the Dragon's Den and In the Line of Duty: Royal Warriors. He became a well-respected actor in genre circles in the west after his performance in the 1999 J-Horror Ring. Sanada's desire to push himself saw him leave martial arts mostly behind in the 2000s as he went to Hollywood for films like The Last Samurai, The White Countess and Danny Boyle's Sunshine. He has mostly continued to act in western-financed blockbusters ever since like Speed Racer, The Wolverine and Life. The now 60 year old will return to action this year with Mortal Kombat, Zach Snyder's Army of the Dead and David Leitch's Bullet Train. Sign up to HeadStuff+ at headstuffpodcasts.com for the small price of €5 a month to unlock exclusive bonus episodes of I Know That Face. Andrew Twitter: @Andrew_Carroll0 Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface / Facebook: @iknowthatfacepod Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Featured Image Credit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Andrew and Stephen discuss the programme for the 2021 Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival, running from March 3 - 14. They each pick five gems from the line-up to check out. Then, in the second half, Stephen chats to actor and writer Les Martin and director Cathal Nally about their Dublin-set drama-thriller and DIFF highlight Be Good or Be Gone. They talk about the movie's festival homecoming, shooting in the capital and the long road to getting their film made. Andrew's picks: Boys from County Hell, Deadly Cuts, Dinner in America, Jumbo and Wild Swords Stephen's picks: Apples, Be Good or Be Gone, Beasts Clawing at Straws, Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time and Son HeadStuff's Be Good or Be Gone review Sign up to HeadStuff+ at headstuffpodcasts.com for the small price of €5 a month to unlock exclusive bonus episodes of I Know That Face. Andrew Twitter: @Andrew_Carroll0 Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface / Facebook: @iknowthatfacepod Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For this bonus episode, Stephen got to speak with Indonesian filmmaker Kimo Stamboel - best known for his bone crunching action flick Headshot. He has a new horror out on Shudder now called The Queen of Black Magic, a reimagining of the older cult film of the same name. Kimo talks to Stephen about his approach to remaking a classic, how prevalent black magic is in Indonesia and how streaming services are helping Western audiences discover the country's great genre movies. He also reflects on Headshot's impact on action cinema. Sign up to HeadStuff+ at headstuffpodcasts.com for the small price of €5 a month to unlock exclusive bonus episodes of I Know That Face. Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface / Facebook: @iknowthatfacepod Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two iconic French women are on the podcast. First time guest, long time I Know That Face editor and filmmaker in her own right Charline Fernandez joins us this week to talk the incomparable Isabelle Huppert. With a career stretching over nearly 50 years Huppert has been a constant in French and world cinema since her BAFTA winning breakthrough performance in La Dentelliere. She has worked in France, America, the Phillipines, South Korea, Italy, Cambodia and Russia with acclaimed directors from Michael Cimino to Paul Verhoeven to Hong Sang-soo. She has won Best Actress at Cannes for Michael Haneke's The Piano Teacher and was showered with awards in 2016 for both Verhoeven's Elle and Mia Hansen-Love's Things to Come, the former winning her a Golden Globe. Although best known for high-brow, complex films Huppert has appeared in the American action vehicle Dead Man Down, Neil Jordan's send-up of 90's thrillers Greta and also starred in the 11th season finale of Law & Order: SVU and an episode of French film industry themed sitcom Call My Agent. This episode is sponsored by the SEAI podcast 180 Degrees. Sign up to HeadStuff+ at headstuffpodcasts.com for the small price of €5 a month to unlock exclusive bonus episodes of I Know That Face. Charline's documentary Maria is available to stream here. Andrew Twitter: @Andrew_Carroll0 Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Charline Instagram: @charline_frnndz Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface / Facebook: @iknowthatfacepod Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Featured Image Credit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this special episode of I Know That Face, Stephen Porzio chats with Dublin based Italian writer-director Chiara Viale about her film The New Music. Now available on VOD, the coming-of-age drama centres on a classically trained pianist. After being diagnosed with Parkinson's, he embarks on a path of self-discovery which leads him to join a punk band. Chiara tells I Know That Face about the research that went into portraying Young Onset Parkinson's onscreen, what punk means to her, her love of Dublin and how ecstatic she was to screen the film in the Irish Film Institute pre-pandemic. Sign up to HeadStuff+ at headstuffpodcasts.com for the small price of €5 a month to unlock exclusive bonus episodes of I Know That Face. Where you can watch The New Music. Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface / Facebook: @iknowthatfacepod Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's a whole new year and we've got a whole new episode for you! This week we spoke remotely with special guest and fellow HeadStuff alumnus Mark Conroy about the flourishing career of Bill Camp. Known best as a stage actor throughout the 90s and 2000s, he began to appear in bit parts in films like Steven Spielberg's Lincoln and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Birdman in the early 2010s. From 2015 onwards he became a popular player with Jeff Nichols who cast him in Midnight Special and Loving as well as Scott Cooper who hired Camp for both his crime thriller Black Mass and his western Hostiles. More significant roles came in The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Molly's Game, Wildlife and last year's Dark Waters. He has also made a name for himself on TV with vital supporting roles in The Night Of, The Looming Tower, The Outsider and The Queen's Gambit. This episode is sponsored by the SEAI podcast 180 Degrees. Donate to I Know That Face on headstuffpodcasts.com to unlock exclusive bonus episodes. Andrew Twitter: @Andrew_Carroll0 Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Mark Twitter: @smark993 Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface / Facebook: @iknowthatfacepod Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We spend a lot of time on I Know That Face looking back into the past. For our last episode of 2020 we thought it'd be fun to look forward to next year and all the great movies we'll hopefully get to see - from the return of old masters like Paul Verhoeven and Ridley Scott with Benedetta and The Last Duel respectively to younger guns like Sam Levinson with Malcolm & Marie and Olivia Wilde with her sophomore feature Don't Worry Darling. 2021 will also see the resurgence of the erotic thriller with Adrian Lyne - the father of the genre - returning to filmmaking after a near 20 year hiatus with Deep Water starring real life couple Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas. For those of us who just want to see two big animals fight until one falls over Godzilla vs Kong has us covered. Meanwhile the Guillermo del Toro-produced Antlers and Edgar Wright's Last Night in Soho have us pretty hyped. And of course who can forget 2020's greatest loss, Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch? All that and more in this episode, see you at the movies! This episode is sponsored by the SEAI podcast 180 Degrees. Andrew Twitter: @Andrew_Carroll0 Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface / Facebook: @iknowthatfacepod Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thanks to the kind folks over at horror streaming service Shudder, I Know That Face co-host Stephen Porzio got to chat with some filmmakers with new projects on the platform. First to be interviewed was indie legend writer-director Larry Fessenden. Known for films like Wendigo and The Last Winter, his latest Depraved is a new take on Frankenstein set in modern day New York. He discusses it, as well as his side-career as a producer and mentor to filmmakers like Kelly Reichardt and Ti West and as a character actor who has worked with Martin Scorsese, Jim Jarmusch and Neil Jordan. Then in the latter half of the show, Stephen speaks with director Justin G Dyck and writer Keith Cooper about their acclaimed movie Anything for Jackson. TV Christmas movie experts turned horror maestros, the pair discuss the transition to more scary fare. Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Editor: Stephen Porzio Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface / Facebook: @iknowthatfacepod Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Another trip around the sun, another best of list. The only difference is you have to listen to this one. This week, to close out a terrible year filled with amazing films, the I Know That Face crew take you through some of their favourites. With Emma, Little Women and Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Andrew discovered a hidden love for period dramas. Horror lovers will get their fix as Stephen talks about Host and Saint Maud while Andrew waxes lyrical about The Lighthouse. Those in need of a good cry need look no further than Stephen's recommendation of Babyteeth. Ever wanted to hear Andrew talk at length about his obsession with Chinese neo-noirs like Long Day's Journey into Night and The Wild Goose Lake? Now you can! Although both Andrew and Stephen agreed on True History of the Kelly Gang as one of their favourites both of their number one spots are different. Listen in to find out what they are... Andrew Twitter: @Andrew_Carroll0 Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz Community Manager: Katie McGrath Twitter: @itsnotKateok I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface / Facebook: @iknowthatfacepod Andrew's Top 10: 10. Long Day's Journey Into Night / 9. Emma / 8. Uncut Gems / 7. The Lighthouse / 6. The Wild Goose Lake / 5. True History of the Kelly Gang / 4. Promising Young Woman / 3. Little Women / 2. Parasite / 1. Portrait of a Lady on Fire Stephen's Top 10: 10. Host / 9. The Personal History of David Copperfield / 8. True History of the Kelly Gang / 7. Saint Maud / 6. Da 5 Bloods / 5. Babyteeth / 4. Ema / 3. Uncut Gems / 2. Portrait of a Lady on Fire / 1. Parasite Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As his career has moved through decades and crossed into a new century Willem Dafoe has only become more experimental and varied in his parts as he's aged. This week Stephen and Andrew tackle the vast array of roles he's played from 2000 to the present day. Beginning in 2000 with his Oscar nominated role in Shadow of the Vampire, Dafoe went on to play a second iconic villain as the Green Goblin in Spider-Man. His rarely used comedic talents were put to the test in Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and in 2007 with Mr Bean's Holiday. 2009 saw him in seven films including Lars Von Trier's Antichrist while his third Best Supporting Actor Oscar nod came in 2014 with Sean Baker's The Florida Project. 2018 saw a Volpi Cup win in Venice and his first Best Actor nomination at the Oscars as Vincent Van Gogh in At Eternity's Gate. In 2019 he starred opposite Robert Pattinson in Robert Eggers' salty, smoky seadog horror The Lighthouse and in Edward Norton's noir drama Motherless Brooklyn. This episode is sponsored by the SEAI podcast 180 Degrees. Andrew Twitter: @Andrew_Carroll0 Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz Community Manager: Katie McGrath Twitter: @itsnotKateok I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Featured Image Credit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this special bonus episode, co-host Stephen Porzio chats with acclaimed documentarian Alexandre O. Philippe about his new film Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on the Exorcist. Now streaming on Shudder, it sees the director of the iconic horror talking about his influences, how the classic movie was put together and his feelings on it now. Here, Alexandre discusses with Stephen his time spent with the legendary Friedkin, what he wanted to do differently with this doc and what’s next for him. Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Editor: Stephen Porzio Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface / Facebook: @iknowthatfacepod Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this special episode of I Know That Face, co-host Stephen Porzio chats with Catherine S. McMullen, the writer of The Other Lamb. Now streaming on Mubi UK and Ireland, it centres on a girl (Raffey Cassidy - The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Vox Lux) born into an all-female cult led by a man (Michiel Huisman, The Invitation). In the cult’s compound hidden away in the woods, she begins to question his teachings and her own reality. Catherine discusses what inspired her to write the psychological thriller, how her script getting chosen for the Black List helped progress her career, the transition from page to screen and the movie being shot in Ireland. This episode is sponsored by the SEAI podcast 180 Degrees. Catherine S. McMullen Twitter: @CSMcMullen Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Andrew Twitter: @Andrew_Carroll0 Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Featured Image Credit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Call us Ishmael, because we've just landed our first white whale! In celebration of our first anniversary we've decided to cover the inestimable Willem Dafoe. Over two episodes we'll be looking at his long, varied screen career with Part One covering his work in the 80s and 90s. From Kathryn Bigelow's biker drama The Loveless to William Friedkin's amoral masterpiece To Live and Die in L.A. Dafoe's early film years were dominated by villains and dirtbags. This changed with Oliver Stone's Platoon scoring him his first of four Oscar nods and his first role as Willem Dafriend. More varied roles came in the tail end of the 80s with Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ and Alan Parker's Mississippi Burning. This led to his role as Bobby Peru in David Lynch's Wild At Heart, his first collaboration with Paul Schrader in 1992's Light Sleeper and his first collaboration with Abel Ferrara in New Rose Hotel. His ceaseless work ethic, iconic features and desire for challenge put him in good stead as the 90s gave way to the 2000s. Andrew Twitter: @Andrew_Carroll0 Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface Andrew's To Live and Die in L.A. article Andrew's William Friedkin article Stephen's interview with Abel Ferrara - print and podcast Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Featured Image Credit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In their final frightening episode of the Halloween season the I Know That Face crew take a look at the career of the Re-Animator himself: Jeffrey Combs. The actor's big break came in 1985 with Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator in which Combs played the title character. He would return to the role twice more in Bride of Re-Animator and Beyond Re-Animator. He is best known to horror fans for his work in adaptations of H. P. Lovecraft's stories such as From Beyond, The Dunwich Horror and Necronomicon in which he played the writer himself. He has also appeared in Peter Jackson's The Frighteners and has collaborated with Stuart Gordon multiple times in The Pit and the Pendulum and Castle Freak. Star Trek fans will know him as one of the series' most prolific guest stars. Andrew Twitter: @Andrew_Carroll0 Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Featured Image Credit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Steele yourselves as the I Know That Face crew take on the terrifying career of Barbara Steele. The British actress landed her first starring part in the dual role of the innocent Princess Katja and her evil Satanic ancestor Asa in Mario Bava's directorial debut Black Sunday. A string of Italian horror films followed including The Long Hair of Death, Castle of Blood and Terror-Creatures from the Grave, as well as a role in Federico Fellini's 8 1/2. She also starred in Roger Corman's Poe adaptation The Pit and the Pendulum, Michael Reeves' debut The She Beast and the Hammer horror Curse of the Crimson Altar. She became more selective in the 1970s appearing as the villainous prison warden in Jonathan Demme's debut Caged Heat and as the lonely lesbian Betts in David Cronenberg's Shivers. Although mostly retired Steele has appeared in 2012's De Palma-esque thriller The Butterfly Room, Ryan Gosling's feature Lost River and in Netflix's Castlevania. Andrew Twitter: @Andrew_Carroll0 Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Katie McGrath Instagram: @filmfiend__ / Blog Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Featured Image Credit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this special bonus episode of I Know That Face, we turn our attention to film festivals. First, co-host Stephen Porzio chats to Mia Sherry about her experience representing Ireland at this year's Venice Film Festival as part of the 27 Times Cinema programme. As well as talking about being on the jury of the event's Giornate Degli Autori strand, she discusses attending the first major film festival to take place in person after Covid-19 and seeing some of Venice's big titles this year including Nomadland, Pieces of a Woman and One Night in Miami. In the second half of the show, Stephen then chats to filmmaker Eoin Harnett about his new short Hypnos which screens at IndieCork Film Festival in cinema and online on October 7. Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Mia Sherry The Cinema Graph Hypnos IndieCork Film Festival Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gear up for an eerily pleasant listen as we tackle the career of horror heavyweight Donald Pleasence. In our first of three podcasts on horror icons we examine Pleasence's first forays into horror with an episode of The Twilight Zone and the janky UK anthology film Tales That Witness Madness. Best known as Dr Samuel Loomis - a role he'd play four more times - in John Carpenter's Halloween, Pleasence would work with Carpenter twice more in Escape From New York and Prince of Darkness. Along with Carpenter, Pleasence would collaborate with another icon of 70s and 80s horror in Dario Argento's bizarro sci-fi/giallo slasher Phenomena alongside a chimpanzee and a teenage Jennifer Connolly. Although Pleasence has an unbelievable 238 credits to his name it would be a 90 second Public Service Announcement in 1973 that would cement his reputation as a horror icon especially among children. The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water advised children against playing near dangerous water with Pleasence voicing the titular spirit. It is still spoken of today in hushed tones, half-remembered in nightmares and on cold, misty days the wind seems to whisper the refrain "I'll be back, back, back..." Andrew Twitter: @Andrew_Carroll0 Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Featured Image Credit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week the guys are joined by book reviewer and Cold Coffee Press founder James Holohan to talk about the intense performances of Paul Dano. Though still young in white male character actor terms, Dano has amassed an incredible body of work in his two decades in the film industry. His debut in 2002's L.I.E proved to be his breakthrough into indie film and led him to Sundance success in Little Miss Sunshine and a BAFTA nod for Paul Thomas Anderson's oil based western There Will Be Blood. He has worked with the likes of Steve McQueen in 12 Years A Slave, Rian Johnson in Looper, Kelly Reichardt in Meek's Cutoff, Bong Joon-ho in Okja and Denis Villeneuve in Prisoners. In 2018 he directed Wildlife which starred Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan and which Dano co-wrote with his partner Zoe Kazan. In 2021 he will appear as the Riddler in Matt Reeves' The Batman. Andrew Twitter: @Andrew_Carroll0 Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio James Blog: Cold Coffee Press Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Featured Image Credit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this special episode of I Know That Face, co-host Stephen Porzio interviews Rob Savage, co-writer and director of Host - a new horror which is one of the best films of 2020 so far. Now streaming on Shudder, Host was made during Covid lockdown and centres on a group of friends who perform a seance over Zoom. Stephen discusses with Rob the unique making of the movie, the filmmaker's influences and some of his other upcoming projects - including a Sam Raimi produced horror. Host trailer Rob Savage Twitter: @DirRobSavage Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caleb Landry Jones is one-of-a-kind and not just because he's the first redhead we've covered. Beginning his career with a one line part in the Coen Brothers' No Country for Old Men he was one of several young stars to be launched from Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class. From there Jones took the road less travelled and picked up his first lead in Brandon Cronenberg's 2012 body horror Antiviral. His red hair, pale skin and sharp features secured him roles as disturbed, often sociopathic characters in Heaven Knows What, War on Everyone, Get Out and American Made. He has played successfully against type in Neil Jordan's Byzantium, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, and this year's The Outpost. Andrew Twitter: @Andrew_Carroll0 Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Saul Dear Drinks Man / Instagram: @saulpbofficialaccount Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Featured Image Credit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this special episode of I Know That Face, co-host Stephen Porzio interviews Irish writer-director Paddy Slattery. His brilliant debut feature Broken Law - telling the tale of two brothers on both sides of the law - will be playing in preview screenings from July 31 before a full nationwide cinema release in Ireland on August 14. The pair discuss the movie, the long journey it took to get made, Paddy's influences, as well as the filmmaker's love of some former I Know That Face subjects. Broken Law trailer HeadStuff's review of Broken Law Broken Law Twitter: @BrokenLawFilm Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week the I Know That Face crew are rejoined by writer, comedian and friend of the podcast Sean Moriarty to talk about the crazy career of South African madman Sharlto Copley. Exploding onto the scene in Neill Blomkamp's 2009 sci-fi apartheid allegory District 9, Copley hasn't slowed down since. Along with his three collaborations with Blomkamp - Elysium and Chappie followed - Copley cemented his Howling Mad reputation in Joe Carnahan's A-Team remake. He varied his choices as the last decade went on in the likes of Spike Lee's Oldboy remake, the POV action film Hardcore Henry, mystery horror Open Grave and as Ron Hollar in John Krasinski's Sundance flop The Hollars. Copley returned to what he does best in Ben Wheatley's Free Fire and was recently seen in Olivier Megaton's The Last Days of American Crime. Andrew Twitter: @Andrew_Carroll0 Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Sean Blog: Cold Coffee Press Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Featured Image Credit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bonjour mon ami! This week on I Know That Face we indulge our inner Francophiles with a deep dive into the career of Juliette Binoche following a strand being devoted to her on arthouse streaming service Mubi. Beginning with her English language debut in 1988's The Unbearable Lightness of Being, we compare and contrast Binoche's powerhouse status in France with her supporting roles in American and international productions. Up for discussion are The English Patient, Michael Haneke's Caché, Abbas Kiarostami's Certified Copy, Bruno Dumont's Camille Claudel 1915, Olivier Assayas' Clouds of Sils Maria and Ghost in the Shell. Binoche on Mubi Andrew Twitter: @Andrew_Carroll0 Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Featured Image Credit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week the I Know That Face crew tackle a titan of Japanese cinema. Ken Watanabe began acting in the late 70s and became widely known throughout Japan for his samurai roles. Beginning with the 1985 classic Tampopo and taking in everything from his work in Tom Cruise's ego project The Last Samurai to Clint Eastwood's sensitive humanistic Letters From Iwo Jima, Watanabe brings a dignified grace to every role he chooses. His presence in western blockbusters like Batman Begins, Inception and both recent Godzilla movies lend an added weight to scenes that would otherwise feel like exposition dumps. With an upcoming role in Michael Mann's Tokyo Vice series Watanabe isn't finished in the spotlight yet. Andrew Twitter: @Andrew_Carroll0 Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Featured Image Credit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we have no choice but to Stan... field. This week's episode of I Know That Face is all about supporting star Lakeith Stanfield. Beginning with Short Term 12 in 2012 Stanfield made a name for himself as a versatile supporting player over the coming decade. 2017 was a banner year for Stanfield with incredible supporting turns in Jordan Peele's masterpiece Get Out, Netflix's Death Note and Donald Glover's anthology Twin Peaks-esque show Atlanta. His first leading role came in Boots Riley's 2018 critically acclaimed satire Sorry to Bother You. More recently he has supported in Knives Out and Uncut Gems. Andrew Twitter: @Andrew_Carroll0 Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Featured Image Credit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're all about the Wright stuff here at I Know That Face especially when it comes to character actor Jeffrey Wright - best known for his role in The Hunger Games sequels, TV's Westworld as well as CIA agent Felix Leiter in the Daniel Craig Bond films. The actor has also supported in numerous under-the-radar films like Ang Lee's war western Ride With The Devil, Michael Mann's sports biopic Ali, geopolitical thriller Syriana and Alaskan-set mystery Hold the Dark, along with in prestige TV series like Angels in America and Boardwalk Empire. In 2021, Wright will enter the character actor hall of fame when he plays Commissioner James Gordon in Matt Reeves' The Batman. Andrew Twitter: @Andrew_Carroll0 Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz Community Manager: Anais Albouy Instagram: @anapowers I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Featured Image Credit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on I Know That Face Andrew and Stephen tackle the long, unique career of Jennifer Jason Leigh. An Oscar and Golden Globe nominee for her role as Daisy Domergue in Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight, Leigh's career spans four decades. She broke out as the Hollywood It Girl in Fast Times at Ridgemont High before rejecting the bright but short career of a Tinsel Town starlet in favour of stranger, meatier roles in smaller films like Paul Verhoeven's Flesh + Blood and opposite Rutger Hauer's iconic villain in The Hitcher. Roles in Single White Female, David Cronenberg's eXistenZ and recently Good Time made her a genre heavyweight. She explored more sympathetic characters in higher brow films like The Hudsucker Proxy, Anomalisa, Annihilation while maintaining a career in TV and occasionally on stage. Andrew Twitter: @Andrew_Carroll0 Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz Community Manager: Anais Albouy Instagram: @anapowers I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Featured Image Credit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week's episode of I Know That Face lands with a high-flying kick as Stephen and Andrew talk all about the extremely versatile Michelle Yeoh. The Malaysian actress' proficiency in martial arts, stunt work, languages and acting have placed her in high demand throughout her entire career. Her best known work came in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies and Ang Lee's romantic wuxia movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Throughout her career Yeoh has matched Jackie Chan blow-for-blow in Police Story 3: Supercop, radiated icy glamour in Crazy Rich Asians and grew plants in order to save the sun in Sunshine. All of these and more are discussed. Andrew Twitter: @Andrew_Carroll0 Stephen Twitter: @StephenPorzio Editor and Community Manager: Charline Fernandez Instagram: @charline_frnndz Community Manager: Anais Albouy Instagram: @anapowers I Know That Face Twitter: @IKnowThatFaceP1 / Instagram: @iknowthatface Intro and Outro Music: No Boundaries (motorik groove) by Keshco. Licence Featured Image Credit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices