For nearly his entire four-decade career, Holt McCallany has been playing guys you don’t want to cross. His physicality plays into this — his height is imposing and his broad solidity suggests an obstacle; he’s played U.S. marshals, assassins, and a guy named, with no irony, Bullet. But more important is his bearing, his ability to project comfort with other people’s discomfort. When given the opportunity to be more than muscle, McCallany plays characters who can harden in an instant, and whose mercuriality conveys sometimes-complementary, sometimes-contradictory extremes of feeling.
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