![]() ![]() Now in The Painter Jones plays JMW Turner. The last couple of years have found Jones returning to the theatre in lead roles – in Tom Stoppard’s collaboration with Andre Previn, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour at the National, Jez Butterworth's Parlour Song at the Almeida. The performance that got Jones noticed was in The Play What I Wrote, the theatrical homage to Morecambe and Wise in which he starred with the Right Size comedy duo. Plus something he can’t talk about starring Robert De Niro. Forthcoming films include The Rite, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and as the dastardly Arnim Zola in Captain America. He has also voiced Dobby in the Harry Potter movies, and played a sadistic figure in Ian Dury’s childhood in Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll. ![]() No more leads, in short, but the high-profile character roles started coming in droves. In 2008 came three more films with Jones’s crinkly features in the mix: he played Bill Murray’s sidekick in a sci-fi fable City of Embers, Karl Rove in Oliver Stone’s Dubya biopic W, while in Frost/Nixonhe donned the thick-framed specs of Hollywood super-agent Swifty Lazar. In that year of waiting he filmed The Painted Veil and Amazing Grace and played Robert Cecil to Helen Mirren’s queen in Elizabeth I. The producers decided to hold Infamous back for a year, but felt guilty enough about pressing the pause button on its star’s career to circulate rushes to generate work for him. In Capote, Philip Seymour Hoffman had a simultaneous crack at the effete high-pitched author of In Cold Blood and won an Oscar for it. Not that Jones’s run of poor luck was quite over. ![]() Anyone attending the play, or listening to it on Radio 4, would have laid long odds against the actor once cast as a stalker of stars eventually landing the lead in a Hollywood film surrounded by Daniel Craig, Sandra Bullock, Gwyneth Paltrow and Sigourney Weaver. ![]()
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