There are bad guys, and there are bad . Guys. Veteran Australian actor Ben Mendelsohn plays the latter in Animal Kingdom , the Sundance-winning, Melbourne-set crime drama currently wowing moviegoers in limited release. Much of that reaction has focused on the quality of the film’s evil double-headed, awards-worthy hydra, with the terrific Jacki Weaver smiling and snarling on one side and Mendelsohn — as bipolar (or monopolar, really) robber ganglord Arthur “Pope” Cody — on the other. As Mendelsohn candidly and readily admits, it was not a beast you wanted to mess before or during the grueling Kingdom shoot.
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Ben Mendelsohn on Animal Kingdom, Crafting a Monster, and the Upside of Tension
