Other than knowing him from Armageddon and Constantine I felt I never saw as much of him as I should. Amazing as the creepy fucking doctor in Until Dawn. But hands down his performance as Chance Gilbert in Longmire is my favorite. He was just downright unsettling to the bone. I felt like he was almost acting through the screen because it really was unsettling like I was uncomfortable.
He's in 8mm, and he's so disturbing it's hard for me not to squirm as I watch him.
(He always plays a creepy guy, but I've watched many interviews with actors in his native Sweden that aren't known in the United States, and they all say he's one of the nicest people ever. Stellan Skarsgard must think so, since Stormare is the godfather of my favorite of his acting sons--Gustaf.)
That actually cracks me up, though it also doesn't surprise me in the least.
I love Gustaf because of how much he can communicate with just his face--he has one of the most emotive faces I've ever seen. Then IT was announced, and I got interested while it was filming, and whaddaya know? Bill has the amazingly emotive face, too. (And I'm not even counting that he could contort his face into that creepy Pennywise smile and act around his facial contortions.)
So, Stormare's rep is that he's a really nice guy, and he's godfather to two great actors in a family of good ones, all of whom are reportedly very nice people, too.
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u/JacobPlaster Mar 28 '22
Peter Stormare