Black Mass: Peter Sarsgaard is brilliant as a nervy cokehead in this interrogation scene
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Your support makes all the difference.Black Mass is being hailed as Johnny Depp’s return to actually making good films again, but his central performance is not the only highlight.
Benedict Cumberbatch, Joel Edgerton, Dakota Johnson, Adam Scott, Corey Stoll and Peter Sarsgaard are also part of its impressive ensemble cast, with the latter in particular showing his talents in this exclusive clip.
Sarsgaard plays Brian Halloran, a coked-up neurotic gang associate trying to serve as an informant for the FBI while not implicating himself in other crimes, something that causes Edgerton’s detective John Connolly to lose his temper.
Directed by Crazy Heart’s Scott Cooper, Black Mass has an outside chance of snatching some Oscars this year, in spite of Cumberbatch’s controversial south Boston accent.
Black Mass opens in UK cinemas on 25 November.
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