MVP Of the Week: Lee Pace
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 8:00 am
I’ve been a big fan of Lee Pace since I first saw him in “The Fall” and “Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day.” He has a rare sincerity and magnetism on screen and shows impressive range in creating remarkably vivid characters with just a gesture or a look. This month, he appears in two high-profile movies. In “Lincoln,” he plays one of the President’s most outspoken opponents, Fernando Wood. In “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2,” he plays a sinuous vampire who can tell stories about his days as a Revolutionary War soldier.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRC_zw0q58QMVP Runner-up is Rami Malek, another vampire in “Breaking Dawn 2.” He also appears in last month’s “The Master” as the son-in-law of the character played by Philip Seymour Hoffman. I first noticed him as the regal but sweet young Pharaoh in “Night at the Museum” and I enjoyed his dim but sweet community college student in “Larry Crowne.” He also co-starred in “The Pacific.”
Here he is with fellow “Twilight” star Jackson Rathbone in the sitcom “The War at Home.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Alq1cFCOYL8
A delicious retro romp about a failed nanny who finds her true calling when she transforms the life of a flighty singer, this film is designed around two fabulously entertaining stars, Frances McDormand and Amy Adams.