[Leica] D'Onofrio

[bd at bdcolenphoto.com (B. D. Colen)]

He is a terrific actor.


On 10/13/06 5:30 PM, "Jeff Moore" <jbm@jbm.org> wrote:

> 2006-10-13-17:01:45 B. D. Colen:
>> The really high point of his - Vincent D'Onofrio - career was his 1993
>> performance in an episode of Homicide: Life on the Street - Season 6,
>> Episode 7 - called Subway.
> 
> Certainly *a* high point.  It stood out even against the background of
> Homicide's remarkably high overall quality (although folk familiar with
> the Bal'mer MTA might observe that the trains don't have quite the same
> sort of gaps a person might fall into -- I heard that the story was
> adapted from an incident which occurred in NYC).
> 
> But D'Onofrio hasn't been sleeping since then.  Just recently, on his
> current gig with Law & Order: Criminal Intent, there was a stunning
> example of his craft: his character was interviewing someone he had
> history with and cared for, but he knew he had to get a confession from
> her -- with each revelation of either a childhood experience which had
> ultimately twisted her, or of a fact which would cement her conviction,
> the emotions playing on his face in the reaction shots were appropriate,
> perfectly of the moment, and apparently deeply felt...  I just don't
> know how it's even possible to do what he did.
> 
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