It's taken me decades of watching him play the same disheveled, goofy, stoner-ish, mildly out-of-it character in countless films to appreciate just how natural he is on screen.
The penny dropped last night while I watched his latest, "Crime 101," in which he plays a burned-out Los Angeles police detective trying to solve a series of seemingly related high-value burglaries all of which have occurred near the 101 freeway.
I'm sure he won't win any awards for his performance, just as he's never won an Academy Award though he's been nominated four times; he's been nominated seven times for a Golden Globe and did win once, in 2021, for "Best Actor" in "I Know This Much is True."
I must say I was astonished at his great performance opposite Emma Stone in 2023's "Poor Things," in which he played a debauched lawyer as far as is conceivable from his typical roles.
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