The Canadian star of ‘Drive’, ‘The Gray Man’ and the forthcoming ‘Barbie’ has mirrored – and maybe predicted – cultural, societal and digital trends for much of his fame. Eloise Hendy asks what it is about the dancing, mumbling, swooning actor that makes him so damn powerful
Their Marvel films generated $7bn. Now Anthony and Joe Russo’s wham-bam Netflix thriller ‘The Gray Man’ is breaking records with a reported budget of $200m. But, says Geoffrey Macnab, it wasn’t always the case when they started out making indie films financed on credit cards
Once heralded as the ‘James Bond of his era’, Dillon never rose to the prominence that was expected of him, says Geoffrey Macnab, but perhaps the actor’s greatest success was eschewing the limelight early fame afforded him – even if he did so to the detriment of his career
