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Adam Driver Going Huge: Hold on to Me Darling
He takes a role in hand as if it were an old carpet, shamelessly beating the dust out of it.
Kenneth Lonergan’s Hold on to Me Darling, which had its premiere at the Atlantic Theater in 2016 (with Timothy Olyphant in the Driver part), tells the story of Strings McCrane, a megastar country singer who goes home to Tennessee — and straight off the rails — when his mother dies. Strings is a towering toddler in a ten-gallon and tight black jeans — his fits of temper, his relationships with women, his misty-eyed swerves into what he considers poetry (“It’s all red,” he croons to a woman he’s trying to seduce after he’s spilled coffee on her hand. Frank Wood joins the proceedings at the 11th hour, playing Strings’s estranged father in a gentle, understated performance, and it’s clear that here is the hook where Lonergan hopes to hang the hat of his deeper ambitions — but the scene doesn’t rebalance the scales.
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