The Actor Every Other Actor Loves

Bobby Cannavale has just arrived at the Corner Bistro in Manhattan's West Village neighborhood, and he wants my seat. He's on time, but I was early. It's not that Cannavale wants to attract the attention of any passing fan as he devours a burger. No, this is something different. It's about being prepared. The 54-year-old actor gets noticed. A lot. If you don't recognize the name, you know the mug. He's the guy from the thing—the kind of supporting actor who makes everything he's in better—whether that thing is a TV show like Boardwalk Empire or Mr. Robot or a hit movie such as The Irishman, Ant-Man, I, Tonya, or MaXXXine. He's made a career of facing rooms.

View in Browser  SHOP EXCLUSIVE SUBSCRIBE Everybody Loves Bobby Cannavale Bobby Cannavale has just arrived at the Corner Bistro in Manhattan's West Village neighborhood, and he wants my seat. He's on time, but I was early. It's not that Cannavale wants to attract the attention of any passing fan as he devours a burger. No, this is something different. It's about being prepared. The 54-year-old actor gets noticed. A lot. If you don't recognize the name, you know the mug. He's the guy from the thing—the kind of supporting actor who makes everything he's in better—whether that thing is a TV show like Boardwalk Empire or Mr. Robot or a hit movie such as The Irishman, Ant-Man, I, Tonya, or MaXXXine. He's made a career of facing rooms. Read More A Plaintive Cry Concerning Tariffs Is Emerging from the Heartland Can we stop saying "most of the United States has voted for" this??? Read More The 10 Types of Jeans That Every Man Should Know It's time to expand your horizons beyond skinny and wide. Read More Denzel Washington Told Us His Life Story I don't have a lot of actor friends. Family friends, sure, like Sam Jackson. His wife and Pauletta go way back, and he and I go all the way back to A Soldier's Play, in 1981. But now, when I make a movie, I'm not trying to make friends. We wrap, I'm trying to go home. But my faith has always informed the roles I choose. Always. I've always been led by God, and most of my performances are faith filled. Even if I was playing the devil. I still have my shooting script from Training Day, and I wrote on the cover: "The wages of sin is death." The wages of sin is death. And now all these years later in Gladiator II, I play another bad guy in another great movie. Even in the darkest stories, I'm looking for the light. Read More 15 Gifts That Even Your Super-Picky Dad Will Love Vetted and approved by my super-picky dad. Read More The Cult of Haruki Murakami How did a demure jazz-club owner become a global literary sensation and a perennial Nobel Prize contender? Behind the unlikely rise of Japan's greatest contemporary writer. Read More Inside the Improbable Rise of 'Say Nothing,' One of the Year's Best Shows Every author dreams about getting a call from Hollywood. For Patrick Radden Keefe, a staff writer at The New Yorker in his late forties who investigates hidden histories, that call came almost twenty years ago. Now FX's stunning new series about the Irish Troubles, Say Nothing—which is based on Keefe's book—is one of the greatest TV shows of 2024. Yet according to the creators of the show, it's a miracle that the series even came to life during our current streaming era of risk-averse television. Read More Follow Us Unsubscribe | Privacy Notice | CA Notice at Collection Esquire is a publication of Hearst Magazines. ©2024 Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This email was sent by Hearst Magazines, 300 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019-3779