I saw Joel Edgerton in a lot of movies over the years but never really paid any attention to him until I saw him in The Great Gatsby, where he played Tom Buchanan.

Some people have a big ego and you kind of know them from even small roles but Joel seemed to sort of disappear into his roles so it's only after I saw The Great Gatsby that I started to pay more attention to him.

I watched The Gift, his directorial debut, which he also produced and in which he also acted, and that was such a good movie. He plays a mysterious guy from Jason Bateman character's past (who has just bought a house with his wife Rebecca Hall) who they meet by accident but then who keeps showing up again and makes their life complicated. It's a very nice psychological thriller.

I won't bore you with the various roles he has played and various films he has been (Zero Dark Thirty, The Green Knight, It Comes at Night, etc.) except to say his most recent, Train Dreams, where he plays Robert Grainier, a railroad worker and a logger, is a phenomenal movie ((95% on Rotten Tomatoes, 88% on Metacritic) that really shows how good of an actor he is. That is not the kind of movie I usually enjoy (period dramas) but he carries that whole movie on his back and brings to life Grainier and make him so interesting.