This guy totally gets it.

cin33:

”The role of Proctor goes against nearly all of Whishaw’s prodigious gifts as a performer; he is wrong for the role physically and emotionally. The surges of domineering and chauvinist male physicality with which he is made to attack Abigail and the young serving girl Mary Warren (Tavi Gevinson) are totally foreign to his sensibility, but Whishaw leaps right into them anyway and he is vocally splendid, as musical and lyric as John Gielgud. Whishaw’s talent and need is so vast that he labors with this unsuitable role and wrestles with it and finally pins it down to the mat in his magnificent last scene, where he tears emotions of shame and despair from his guts and even further below and hurls them out at us.

Whishaw was so wrecked and so involved in this last scene that snot was flying from his nose, and it was a heartening sight to see him acting with such super-intense abandon while also conscientiously and desperately trying to keep the snot off and away from his fellow actors; surely this is some of the finest mucus acting since Jane Fonda’s last scene in Klute (1971). At the curtain call, Whishaw looked so depleted and ruined that a standing ovation seemed inappropriate. Talent like this comes along once in a generation, and it needs nurturing and protecting.”

DAN CALLAHAN

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