Bill Hader – The Skeleton Twins
Bill Hader is this year’s Simon Pegg. A primarily comedic actor who takes a slight turn toward the dramatic, he does beautiful work and is ignored because it doesn’t fit into typical awards contention fare. The biggest difference is that we’ve never seen Hader like this before. Prior to this film he was always playing bit or sketch characters, but his character Milo in this film is possibly the realest character that I’ve seen this year – he feels human. Raw, insecure, loveable and funny, he’s a fully fleshed out person, making it very easy for us as an audience to support him. Hader does remarkable work but has been largely overlooked due to showier and more conventionally “big” performances. If we continue to get performances like this one and he continues to pick interesting films, I’ll be a happy fan.
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