Rhys Ifans
He’s Welsh. I remember him mainly as the stoner flatmate in Notting Hill, and I know I have seen him in Human Nature, in which he played some sort of ape-man in an early Charlie Kaufman-written script, and I saw him in what I would consider his most normal-guy role, playing a man who loses his job, and in a drunken state, attaches a large number of helium-filled weather balloons to his Deckchair and sails away into the clouds, only to land in an isolated community. It’s essentially a farcical take on the Man Who Would Be King, as he becomes a community leader even as his old life is coming after him. Supposedly it’s based on a true story, but that probably just means it was based on a news item in which a want-to-be deckchair pilot fell into a tree soon after leaving the ground.
In the films I seen featuring him, he’s not established any kind of persona that really sticks with me. That may be an excellent attribute of his acting chops, but I am not sure it says much about his star power.
Ten best roles
10) Notting Hill 9) Hotel 8) Heart 7) Elizabeth: The Golden Age 6) Janice Beard 45 WPM 5) Twin Town 4) You’re Dead 3) Human Nature 2) Danny Deckchair 1) Once Upon a Time In the Midlands
Percentile rating
79.29
July 12th, 2008 at 12:10 am
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msrbl bstrds, oh, I found my beer..