Adam Driver

7.0/7

'The Big Cheese'

Based on 1 reviews of 1 performances

Born

19 November 1983

Birthplace

San Diego, California, USA

Nationality

USA

Age

Children

About

Adam Driver is a cave-aged Comté: firm, complex and more revealing the longer you sit with it. He can keep a performance tightly contained, then let one pause or shift in his voice change the whole room. Paterson is the place to start. Driver plays a bus driver who writes poetry, making routine feel quietly attentive rather than dull. In Marriage Story, he gives Charlie Barber a restless physicality; even in still moments, the strain seems to gather in his shoulders. BlacKkKlansman calls for a different register, and Driver makes Flip Zimmerman’s measured presence carry its own tension. Silence finds him working through restraint again, this time as Father Francisco Garupe, whose conviction is tested by the demands of his mission. There is no grand flourish to the performance; the pressure builds by degrees, like flavour developing in a cellar. Driver’s work rewards that kind of patience. He is Comté with the rind left on: controlled, substantial, and deeper with every cut.

Highest rated review

Charlie Barber

Marriage Story

2019

7/7

3 days ago

The scene where he yells at his ex wife in the apartment about wishing she was dead…chills. Not because he actually wants that but because of just how much pain is behind those words. His acting is impeccable. How he uses his body as prop as part of his acting as well, absolutely superb