The creatures of the night, what music they create – especially in the new haunting but extremely entertaining horror film by Ryan Coogler, “Sinners”. The last of the director of “Black Panther” means that Michael B. Jordan draws in double vigor as a smoke and battery, Twin Brothers returning home in the Mississippi of the 1930s to install their own club, to find nightmarish foreigners trying to appear on the guest list. The covered terror of Bordeaux leading this monster choir, Remmick, is played by Jack O’Connell, a British talent whose name is undoubtedly greater on one side of the pond than the other … although it can – and should – change in the very close future.
Advertisement
At 34, O’Connell has already collaborated with impressive names, including George Clooney, Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie and Ben Mendelsohn. However, it would not have taken place, without embarking on celebrity at a young age and offering roles that determine the career in British television and films. Indeed, one of his first remarkable projects is “Skins”, a famous erotic British dramatic series which would make “Euphoria” blush and presents a range of current stars (including the actor “Black Panther” Daniel Kaluuya). O’Connell also made a brief appearance next to it Star and co-creator of “Adolescence” Stephen Graham In what is considered a classic but brutal English film, in addition to playing the villain in a film that cut / The horror movies of the film that have gone too far.
Advertisement
Jack O’Connell has taken roles of adolescents often living brutal and dark
The early 2000s was a good time for O’Connell, even if he often played characters leading resolutely difficult lives. In 2006, he was part of the distribution of support for the British classic of maturity “This is England”, which also features Graham. Two years later, O’Connell appeared in “Eden Lake”, which is one of the The best horror films of this time. The film throws the actor as the leader of a group of teenagers who make the life of hell for a couple on vacation on weekends (as played by Michael Fassbender and the star of “Yellowstone” Kelly Reilly). It is a painful watch, but also that O’Connell carries like a truly disturbing offender with a murderous sequence, leading to a really disturbing finish.
Advertisement
O’Connell has not finished playing young characters in dark and painful projects after that. In fact, he started his race on “skins” shortly later, joining Kaluuya, Nicholas Hoult, Dev Patel and the many other big names that played on this Landmark series when they were younger. Shortly after the end of the show, O’Connell then delivered this / the film considered A star performance in the drama of the “Starred Up” prison. There, he appeared in front of Mendsohn as a son and father who are forced to live in the same penitentiary. The film was directed by David Mackenzie, who was himself going to direct the famous modern Western in the Taylor Sheridan, “Hell or High Water”. It is an O’Connell testimony that he continued to find himself running in talented circles like this.
Advertisement
Jack O’Connell put his game for uninterrupted and northern water
2014 turned out to be a busy period for O’Connell, who played in films like “’71”, “300: Rise of an Empire”, and the drama of Angelina Jolie in the Second World War “Unbroken” during the year (and won the Bafta Rising Star Award for his efforts). He would continue to share the screen with Clooney in the thriller led by Jodie Foster “Money Monster” in 2016 and, in 2021, will join the distribution of the Chilling AMC Limited series “The North Water”. The show saw O’Connell find Graham and face a malicious and cruel whale in 1859 (as played by Colin Farrell in one of his professional salients).
Advertisement
As Henry Drax, Farrell is the cloth of nightmares, performing odious acts aboard a ship that is traveling on the edge of the world. However, it is an O’Connell testimony that he is able to hold on to such a man’s beast that the surgeon of the ship, Patrick Sumner. “The North Water”, as well as many other titles in its CV, proves O’Connell is made of more severe stuff as an artist.
Since then, O’Connell has played in Michael Mann’s “Ferrari”, Amy Winehouse “Back To Black” and “SAS: Rogue Heroes”, the dramatic series of World War II created by “Peaky Blinders” Showrunner Steven Knight (which you can catch on Epix). You can also expect to see it potentially filled with rage in the next horror suite “28 years later”, which has just released a brand new trailer.
Advertisement
“Sinners” now plays in theaters.
