With Alan Arkin, you didn’t wait for payoffs built on escalating or sudden hysteria, the way you did with Gene Wilder, his fellow comic genius. Who better to play the increasingly worried sounding board for John Cusack’s hit man in “Grosse Pointe Blank”?
Abigail Breslin and Alan Arkin in"Little Miss Sunshine." Arkin, who died this week at 89, won an Academy Award for his performance.
Arkin was a terrific dramatic actor, too, largely because he didn’t have to shift gears all that much. Arkin’s comic peaks, starting with his Oscar-nominated film debut as Lt. Rozanov in the 1966 “The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming,” reside just a stone’s throw from straight drama.
Take the 1967 film version of the thriller “Wait Until Dark,” Libera says. Arkin plays the slippery villain in that one, terrorizing Audrey Hepburn. But what and who is he? A beatnik? A guy pretending to be a beatnik? A psychopath? “He’s layering characters on top of characters,” Libera says, “and as an actor he had an ability to move behind a character’s lines and a character’s initial circumstances. He let you know that there are other worlds to explore behind the facade of every character.
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