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Can Xavier Dolan save Tay­lor Kitsch’s film career?

18 Nov 2015

A man with a stern expression, wearing a black leather jacket, set against a dark background with warm lighting.
A man with a stern expression, wearing a black leather jacket, set against a dark background with warm lighting.
The True Detec­tive star joins Jes­si­ca Chas­tain and Kit Har­ring­ton in the director’s first Eng­lish lan­guage project.

Due some­time in 2016The Death and Life of John F Dono­van will be Xavier Dolan’s sixth fea­ture and first Eng­lish lan­guage film. It’s a movie on movies, a sort of take on mod­ern show busi­ness and the hard­ships of fame, most­ly how fam­i­ly deals with the fame of their loved ones, how mums deals with the fame of their sons.” That’s the syn­op­sis Dolan gave us when we spoke to him back in March.

On 16 Novem­ber The Wrap announced the addi­tion of brawny Cana­di­an charmer Tay­lor Kitsch to a cast that already boasts Jes­si­ca Chas­tain, Susan Saran­don, Kathy Bates, Kit Har­ring­ton and the singer, Adele.

Kitsch is an enter­tain­ing actor whose film CV doesn’t match the integri­ty of his tele­vi­su­al out­put in True Detec­tive and break-out show, Fri­day Night Lights. His abil­i­ty to keep it dead­pan amid chaos and look good while run­ning and jump­ing has seen him stuck in for­get­table action fare, like Lone Sur­vivor and Bat­tle­ship. We have not lumped John Carter in this cat­e­go­ry in the hope that the world will final­ly realise that it was fan­tas­ti­cal fun and pro­vid­ed Kitsch’s most joy­ous role to date.

The only detail cur­rent­ly avail­able on Kitsch’s char­ac­ter in The Death and Life of John F Dono­van is the opti­mistic adjec­tive unique”. Here’s hop­ing that the 26-year-old auteur can give life to that one word promise. With a sur­name like Kitsch, a place in the Dolan-verse seems writ­ten in the stars.

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