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This week, Stephen and Andrew are joined by returning guest and fellow HeadStuff writer Mark Conroy to discuss the career of America’s favourite soulful sad sack Richard Jenkins. From comedy in Burn After Reading and Step Brothers to horror in Bone Tomahawk and The Cabin in the Woods to incredible dramas like The Visitor, The Shape of Water and The Humans, Jenkins is one of America’s most reliable and versatile character actors.

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"I just want to tell you both good luck, we're all counting on you."

I Know That Face returns with an episode critics are calling "outrageously hilarious" and "side-splittingly funny" focused on all-time comedy great Leslie Nielsen. Our episode on the so-called "Olivier of spoofs" examines the performer's path from clean-cut dramatic actor in Forbidden Planet to his transition to character actor in 1972's The Poseidon Adventure before finally covering the funnies. From Airplane! to The Naked Gun franchise all the way to the 2000s spoof-heavy comedy scene, Nielsen defines not only a certain kind of comedy but the genre itself.

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Let's talk about Riley Keough! Let's talk about Fury Road! This week Stephen and Andrew freefall through the career of one of the 2010's best character actors: Riley Keough. Already familiar with fame as the granddaughter of Elvis Presley, Keough took the road less travelled when it came to her own career. Beginning with The Runaways in 2010, the actress spent the first half of the 2010s appearing in indie fare like Magic Mike and Dixieland, before hitting the big time in George Miller's oil and chrome odyssey Mad Max: Fury Road. From there, Keough stuck with independent cinema and became a frequent collaborator of Steven Soderbergh's in the TV series The Girlfriend Experience and crime-comedy Logan Lucky. In the last few years, Keough has pursued darker roles, especially in It Comes At Night, The House That Jack Built, The Lodge, The Devil All the Time and Zola.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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