Ah, poor Patrick Wilson. He’s a steadily employed actor with the kind of looks 99.4 percent of us fellas would kill for. But lately WWTW’s heart has been going out to Wilson.
His most recent films, “The Switch” and “Morning Glory,” cast him in roles so thin you could feed them into your printer.
What gives?
The actor’s first flurry of features had substance and depth, letting him prove he was more than a genetically gifted soul. He played the creepy protagonist in “Hard Candy” and then moved to the suburbs for the Oscar-nominated nightmares of “Little Children.”
Stars on the rise don’t play “Generic Male Love Interest” as he does in “Morning Glory,” opening Nov. 10.
Maybe Wilson’s 2010 is just a very bad year, a radar blip which also included a vacuous gig in “The A-Team.” But his career started with both promise and purpose, and lately he’s been used as little more than set decoration.
Update: Wilson has had better luck in IndieWood. One of his most recent features, “Barry Munday,” hits DVD on Dec. 7. But it sounds like a tough sell – he plays a ladies man whose “family jewels” are removed during an assault. That could be the ultimate “Himbo” switcheroo.
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Save Patrick Wilson from Himbo Hell
Ah, poor Patrick Wilson. He’s a steadily employed actor with the kind of looks 99.4 percent of us fellas would kill for. But lately WWTW’s heart has been going out to Wilson.
His most recent films, “The Switch” and “Morning Glory,” cast him in roles so thin you could feed them into your printer.
What gives?
The actor’s first flurry of features had substance and depth, letting him prove he was more than a genetically gifted soul. He played the creepy protagonist in “Hard Candy” and then moved to the suburbs for the Oscar-nominated nightmares of “Little Children.”
Stars on the rise don’t play “Generic Male Love Interest” as he does in “Morning Glory,” opening Nov. 10.
Maybe Wilson’s 2010 is just a very bad year, a radar blip which also included a vacuous gig in “The A-Team.” But his career started with both promise and purpose, and lately he’s been used as little more than set decoration.
Update: Wilson has had better luck in IndieWood. One of his most recent features, “Barry Munday,” hits DVD on Dec. 7. But it sounds like a tough sell – he plays a ladies man whose “family jewels” are removed during an assault. That could be the ultimate “Himbo” switcheroo.
(Photo: Actor Patrick Wilson)
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