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Mendelsohn's played all sorts of roles, both hero and villain and also those inbetween and he can certainly play a frightening and intimidating villain (see "Animal Kingdom", where he's flat out terrifying).
Oct 11, 2019 · The Australian actor on his Netflix film The King, the virtues of the English accent, and why bad-guys need gravitas. Ben Mendelsohn © Giacomo Cosua.
- Raphael Abraham
- Mississippi Grind—Gerry
- Darkest Hour—King George Vi
- The Place Beyond The Pines—Robin Van Der Hook
- Killing Them Softly—Russell
- Exodus: Gods and Kings—Viceroy Hegep
- Slow West—Payne
- The Dark Knight Rises—John Daggett
- Bloodline—Danny Rayburn
- Starred Up—Neville Love
- Lost River—Dave
One of few non-threatening characters Mendelsohn has played since recalibrating his career with Animal Kingdom, Mississippi Grind’s Gerry is still no hero. He may be the focus of Anna Fleck and Ryan Boden’s gambling drama, but Gerry’s an antagonist; it’s just that his compulsion to bet away every last penny makes him a danger to himself more than a...
Mendelsohn’s catalogue of low-rent scumbags makes him seem like a strange choice for a monarch, but considering that George VI, who only took the throne after his brother abdicated, wrote that he “broke down and sobbed” the day before his coronation, the fact that Mendelsohn doesn’t quite fit makes him strangely perfect for the role. His George isn...
Playing the twitchy, nicotine-stained getaway driver who convinces Ryan Gosling’s pretty-boy bank robber to break bad in the first place, Mendelsohn surprisingly emerges as one of the more likeable figures in Derek Cianfrance’s lush familial saga. Sure, Robin is an unapologetic criminal, but he’s also warmly paternal towards Gosling’s self-consciou...
Andrew Dominik’s nihilistic anti-thriller, set in a Boston crime scene that’s so far from organized, is packed to the rafters with lousy bad guys, but Mendelsohn’s verbose junkie thief Russell is quite probably the lousiest criminal of the bunch. A small time crook in the game primarily to fund his smack habit, Russell is a character to be repulsed...
Enlivening Ridley Scott’s turgid biblical tale as an ingratiating viceroy to Joel Edgerton’s affected Ramses, Mendelsohn allows himself a rare moment to indulge. A sultan of camp lacquered in fake tan, Mendelsohn’s Hegep is dangerous only by birthright, in command of a fiefdom and personal militia but otherwise too cowardly and obsequious to be int...
Always chewing on a fat cigar and draped in a comically gigantic bear-skin coat, Mendelsohn manages to exude ruthless authority with hardly a word in John Maclean’s patient pastiche western. As bounty hunter Payne, on the trail like our mismatched heroes Jay (Kodi Smit-McPhee) and Silas (Michael Fassbender) of a fugitive father and daughter pair, M...
In a trial run before later promotions to chief blockbuster antagonist, Mendelsohn in 2012 took the minor role of wealthy benefactor to colossal Bat-villain Bane. Mendelsohn is one of many performers jostling for space in Christopher Nolan’s unwieldy superhero epic, given only minimal screen time as the suit unleashing a supervillain on Gotham as p...
In an Emmy-winning performance, Mendelsohn elevated Netflix’s trashy sunshine noir as Danny Rayburn, the black sheep of a wealthy Florida Keys family that would prefer to see the back of its most difficult son. It’s an anxiety that Danny is happy to exploit when he returns home after years away with murky intentions, and we understand why Danny’s f...
When first we meet the long-incarcerated Neville Love, he’s squaring up to newbie jailbird Eric (Jack O’Connell) in the yard of Starred Up’s anonymous British prison with a foul-mouthed warning to avoid any “dramas” during his stay. Only later do we realize that these two are father and son, and what was intended as advice only sounded like a threa...
If there’s one person who makes Ryan Gosling’s sub-Lynchian wotsit worth sitting through (other than alchemist cinematographer Benoit Debie), it’s Gosling’s Place Beyond the Pinesco-star in another scuzzy supporting role. Like most everyone else involved, Mendelsohn doesn’t seem entirely sure what Gosling’s dim fable is aiming at, but as a crooning...
Nov 20, 2018 · The Australian actor talks about his Robin Hood role, his sprawling résumé of villains, and his early days breaking up a couple on a daytime soap.
Feb 13, 2024 · Mendelsohn, as actors go, seems to have a pretty healthy relationship with his own ego. As is often the way for those cast as screen villains, he has become accustomed to dying on screen.
Mar 22, 2018 · There’s something to be said for embracing type, however, and finding humanity and depth in villains – and that’s exactly what Ben Mendelsohn does.
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I’ve been loving Ben Mendelsohn as a villain for a while but only just realized how good he is in those roles. He’s maybe not Oscar-worthy in any of them, but I’ve never seen a role of his I didn’t like.
