The Reason: Let it not go unsaid that “Mulholland Drive” should be eligible for this, but “Gosford Park” — and the sheer feat of assembling the cast of “Gosford Park” is a central part of the appeal of this Robert Altman/Julian Fellowes joint — the reason we had like a whole genre of period television (your “Downton Abbey,” your “Call the Midwife”) in the 2010s. The real “find” among the cast is probably Lupita Nyong’o, on balance, but from the main leads to the background actors, Maisler and her team cast the kind of people who would help immerse us in the world of “12 Years A Slave.” It’s one from which there can be no escape. The Reason: The difficulty level of this setting is pretty high, the scope of the story is vast, and the art of finding folks whose screen presence can effortlessly hang with bigger names like DiCaprio and De Niro is tricky.
Author: Sarah Shachat
Published at: 2026-02-02 22:00:00
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