Lee Pace is the third recipient of Vultures very official honorary degree.
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You wouldnt need to say them unless there was some tension over who the center was.
I admit Ive always craved the spotlight, Calpernia says.
Im the rhinestones of this story.
In aprofile for the Cutlast year, Pace was asked about the intensity of fan response to his Instagram.
Unaccountably hot guy begrudgingly agrees to participate in someone elses storythis version of Pace has juice.
Thranduil nearly unbalances themovies with the pain of his buried grief and his deep longing for vengeance.
His eyes glitter as he looms over the grubby dwarves who need his help.
Yet its impossible to imagine a stand-alone Thranduil storya protagonist with that much dazzle and spite would be exhausting.
His most exciting lead performances are built out of the same dissonance.
Calpernia claims not to be the main character ofSoldiers Girl; she keeps insisting we look elsewhere.
But her love transforms her into the person we most care about.
(A wry twist for a show chockablock with metaphors for gay longing.)
Pace is never allowed to go as big and goofy as his co-stars.
What makes him so irresistible is the way he absorbs and reflects them all anyway.
His role as Joe MacMillan inHalt and Catch Fireis built from a darker inversion of that same formula.
Pace knows how to play debilitating longing.
The role may be his best.
Pace is also a consummate performer of his own life.
He gives interviews, occasionally.
He posts photos of himself, sometimes.
He built a house there himself.
He has a dog named Gus.
He is both Rugged Outdoorsman and High Fashion Aesthete.
You cannot thirst for something you have plenty of.
This matches what may be his strongest quality as an actor: his withholding.
Paces stare can feel like a tractor beam.
You cant see all of him, but it feels as if he sees you.
Paces greatest trick is that he makes everyone in the audience feel like the main character.
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