Casting Bits: Ryan Reynolds In ‘A Boy Named Sue;’ Garret Dillahunt In ‘Looper;’ Walton Goggins In ‘Officer Down’
By Russ Fischer/May 10, 2011 4:11 pm EST
After the break, two great character actors, Garret Dillahunt and Walton Goggins, get new gigs.
You should revere the ‘Random Roles’ column at the Onion AV Club if you don’t already, or at least be sure to read each installment. The latest spotlights Garret Dillahunt, and as is often the case, the column turns into not only a wonderful career overview for the actor, but a window into his general thinking about work and acting. You’ll get statements like “I’m happy to talk about Winter’s Bone all you want, but its success certainly has nothing to do with me. That really rested squarely on Jennifer Lawrence’s pretty young shoulders. She carried it with aplomb beyond her years, so I’m really just riding its coattails.”
Finally, Walton Goggins, someone I’m happy to see in any context, even when it is throwaway crap like Predators, is now in Officer Down alongside David Boreanaz, Stephen Dorff, Dominic Purcell, Stephen Lang, James Woods and AnnaLynne McCord. We reported on the film a couple days ago, but to recap the John Chase script, which seems to blend a slightly metaphysical angle with what might be a thriller of sorts, we’ve got this:
Walton Goggins will be “the prime suspect in the sexual assault of a young woman, a case being investigated by a gruff detective (Dorff).” [Deadline]
When a doctor and security guard dream at night, their dreams consist of what the other person did during the day. They meet when the security guard murders his wife, is then hit by a car and brought into the doctor’s emergency room. Boreanaz will play a humorless and ambitious rival detective to another cop played by Dorff.
