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Article: Javier Bardem: the actor's actor talks to the critic's critic.(Interview)
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- March 1, 2005
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There aren't many other actors under 40 who can attune their physical presence, modulating from a truculent, sunny realization to a baleful, bruised honesty. Javier Bardem has traversed that territory with fleet grace in his last two roles alone: He fires up the flickering pilot light of anger in one scene as the virtually immobile crime overlord in Michael Mann's Collateral, and as Ramon Sampedro, the vibrant and intellectually vital iconic figure of The Sea Inside, his cheerfulness hurts as he plays someone who doesn't move. But Sampedro's immobility is not by choice: Paralyzed from a diving accident, he wrestles with a society determined to keep him alive against his ...
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