Nocturnal Animals
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Adams
- In Amy Adams: Stage debut and later career
…in Tom Ford’s stylish thriller Nocturnal Animals. She then portrayed a self-destructive reporter who returns to her hometown to cover a recent murder in Sharp Objects (2018), a TV series based on Gillian Flynn’s 2006 novel of the same name. In the biopic Vice (2018), Adams transformed her appearance to…
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- In Tom Ford: Films
Ford next directed and wrote Nocturnal Animals (2016), a thriller about an art gallery owner (played by Amy Adams) whose ex-husband (Jake Gyllenhaal) pens a violent, vengeful novel that parallels their lives. The film, which was also based on a novel, earned widespread praise. Others in the cast included Laura…
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Gyllenhaal
- In Jake Gyllenhaal: Road House and Presumed Innocent
…characters in Tom Ford’s thriller Nocturnal Animals (2016). He later had a supporting role in Bong Joon-Ho’s Okja (2017), about a girl’s relationship with a genetically modified pig. His other movies from the decade include the western The Sisters Brothers (2018) and Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019), about the comic-book…
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Linney
- In Laura Linney
…River; and Tom Ford’s thriller Nocturnal Animals. Linney then was cast in The Dinner (2017), an adaptation of Herman Koch’s novel about two couples’ response to their children’s involvement in a horrific crime. In 2020 she appeared in the dramatic films Falling, which centres on the relationship between a conservative…
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Shannon
- In Michael Shannon: Playing Elvis, Estragon, and George Jones
With Tom Ford’s metafictional film Nocturnal Animals, Shannon plays a terminally ill Texas lawman and earned his second Oscar nomination for best supporting actor. He was also a surprisingly convincing Elvis Presley in Elvis & Nixon, a film that imagines what went on in “the King’s” fabled meeting with U.S.…
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Taylor-Johnson
- In Aaron Taylor-Johnson: Avengers: Age of Ultron, Nocturnal Animals, and Bullet Train
…serial killer in Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals (2016) earned him a Golden Globe Award for best supporting actor. In 2020 Taylor-Johnson played a military leader in Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, a time-bending action thriller. He later costarred with Brad Pitt in Bullet Train (2022), about a group of assassins on a…
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