Lucas Hedges

and I don't mean "...suspense!" it's just what you said, it's a TV movie from 25 years ago where you can predict every beat of the film from beginning to end, always at the same flatline pace, always lit like an execution scene

I prematurely exiled him in a Coen Brothers thread--found Let Them All Talk streaming cheaply, and, notwithstanding one scene I found awkward, he's very good. Still mulling over the movie (the Steven Soderbergh/Meryl Streep thing from two years ago), but I was reminded of why I started this thread.

He's wonderful as the closeted gay kid in Ladybird. That breakdown with Ronan behind the coffee shop!

I was picturing Lukas Gage when I clicked on this thread

i was picturing the kid from American Gothic

lucas hedges has been excellent more than a few times imo its no longer a question of benefit of the doubt

The thing that impressed me this time was how different his performance was from everything else I've seen him in; that, and how well he played off of famous actresses, one of them Meryl Streep.

Oops-missing one word: "three famous actresses..."

Manchester By The Sea was such a great film. I was amazed by everyone in it, including Lucas Hedges. Casey Affleck deserved the academy award, and Michelle Williams...oh my god, that was a performance for the ages