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Eddie Redmayne Should Always Be an Old Man
The Day of the Jackal plays his assassin’s prosthetic work with dead-serious hilarity.
The British actor and erstwhile model possesses an idiosyncratic beauty rooted in the slender angles of his visage, and as it turns out, these very facial aspects are what enable him to look simply incredible as someone you’d find in a retirement home. He’s very convincing, so much so that when his cover is blown and the Jackal proceeds to kill several people with alarming alacrity, the tension between Redmayne’s looking so very old and moving so very precisely produces unexpected hilarity — a quality deepened by how the show and the actor play the scene with dead seriousness. In this week’s climactic episode, which sees the Jackal finally attempting the long-awaited hit on tech genius Ulle Dag Charles, the assassin adopts the identity of a vaguely middle-aged classical-music concertgoer in order to sneak into the venue.
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