After notable turns in No Country for Old Men and Get Out, the Texan actor was rewarded at Cannes last year for his starring role as a real-life mass shooter in Nitram – a part he was initially reluctant to take on
‘Control is a funny thing,” says Caleb Landry Jones. “It can keep you from finding something inherent that is deeper and better for the film: things inside you. Sometimes there’s a kind of control that can be very stilted and boring. I think there’s some kind of balance between knowing what needs to be done and also getting there.”
The livewire 32-year-old actor walks that tightrope in an extraordinary performance in Nitram, the new film by Snowtown director Justin Kurzel about Martin Bryant, the Tasmanian who murdered 35 people in the 1996 Port Arthur shooting. Face bulging with emotion, hyperventilating through temper tantrums, snorting with glee as he pulls his favourite stunt – lunging at the steering wheel of whoever is driving him – Jones seems to be all feeling.
