We compare him to Joaquin Phoenix in Joker: Who Is Caleb Landry Jones, Dogman’s Hero?

After previewing at the Deauville Festival and being selected in competition at the Venice Film Festival, Dogman is now available in cinemas from 27 September. The film marks Luc Besson’s return to directing, four years after Anna and the rape and sexual assault allegations against her that led to the case being dropped.

Like Leon and Nikita, Dogman has a marginal and isolated character who craves revenge. We follow Douglas, a man abused as a child who becomes disabled after being shot by his father and whose only company is an abundance of dogs.

If critics are divided on this new opus from the French filmmaker, all agree to praise the performance of its lead actor, Caleb Landry Jones, who JDD describes as. “Stunning intelligence and sophistication”And the FranceInfo site finds it “excited” And that Le Parisien emphasizes that it “Stunning, as at times moving, terrifying, disturbing.”

This isn’t the first time Caleb Landry Jones’ play has been applauded. Originally from Texas, with a father who was a construction entrepreneur and a mother who was an educator, he first appeared on screen in No Country For Old Men in 2007: he was one of two teenagers on a bike that Javier Bardem met. at the end of the movie. We’ve since seen him in Breaking Bad and The Social Network, but in 2010 he landed his first real-life role in the horror The Last Exorcism.

After the Friday Night Lights series, where he played the drummer for the band Crucifictorious, led by Jesse Plemons, Caleb Landry Jones made his first foray into blockbuster action in 2011 with X-Men: The Beginning. Along with Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy and Jennifer Lawrence, he plays the superhero Banshee (howling in French).

But she thrives in US independent cinema: her unique physique allows her to be both angelic and disturbing. Thus, she destroys the vampire Saoirse Ronan in Neil Jordan’s Byzantium and plays Xavier Dolan’s dead lover in Tom on the Farm. Then he started an unusual business: selling the viruses that infected celebrities in Antivirus, the first feature film of David Cronenberg’s son. After dressing up as a soldier for John Boorman (Queen and Country), the actor plays a drug addict drifter in the Safdie brothers’ Mad Love in New York (2014).

2017 is a good year for him: we see him in The Florida Project, the phenomenon Get Out – he plays the white supremacist brother of the hero – Barry Seal: American Traffic, carried by Tom Cruise, multiple awards. Won 3 Billboards: Revenge Panels and finally the highly anticipated Season 3 of Twin Peaks where he is Amanda Seyfried’s abusive husband.

A production followed that remained unreleased in France (Tyrel, To the Night, Viena and the Fantomes) before rediscovering it in 2019 in Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die. Thanks to the latter, he connected with the label Sacred Bones Records and released his first album the following year. mother stoneBetween psychedelic rock and folk.

In 2021, he voices the robot Finch, Tom Hanks’ companion in trouble in a post-apocalyptic world. But Nitram in particular made a name for himself that year. Inspired by the Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania in 1996, the feature film paints a portrait of an outsider who becomes a mass murderer. Caleb Landry Jones’ performance won him the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival.

Together with Dogman, he plays another inappropriate role. In the opening minutes of the film, she is seen in drag, wearing a pink dress and a platinum wig and dripping makeup, like a distant cousin of Todd Phillips’ Joker. A relationship that the public, like the press, did not highlight.

“Dogman owes a lot to Caleb Landry Jones. We needed an actor who could embody the desire, the strength, the sadness of this complex and fascinating character.”, says Luc Besson at the film’s press conference. A successful bet for the actor.