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Sean Fennessey

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The Big Picture
The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman!

And so this is happening at the same time.

The Big Picture
The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman!

He gets cast as this arch villain from the 1980s animated series.

The Big Picture
The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman!

And he also has never seen

The Big Picture
The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman!

because he is CGI'd with a skeleton face.

The Big Picture
The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman!

There's something magical about that.

The Big Picture
The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman!

But there's a specific reason for this.

The Big Picture
The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman!

The reason is that Jared Leto is always too much.

The Big Picture
The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman!

He has no ability to turn – and this didn't necessarily always used to be the case.

The Big Picture
The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman!

I would not describe his performance on My So-Called Life as overplayed.

The Big Picture
The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman!

And he has developed a lot of showy bad habits as a performer where he demands the gravity be operating around him in a movie at all times.

The Big Picture
The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman!

And if you look at the movies he's made since Dallas Buyers Club –

The Big Picture
The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman!

Suicide Squad, Blade Runner 2049, The Little Things, Zack Snyder's Justice League, House of Gucci, Morbius, Haunted Mansion, and Tron Ares.

The Big Picture
The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman!

All of those movies, it's about him all the time.

The Big Picture
The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman!

He's drawing all the attention to him.

The Big Picture
The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman!

And Skeletor kind of needs that.

The Big Picture
The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman!

He's a ridiculous, overplayed character.

The Big Picture
The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman!

And also it helps that you don't have to look at his face.

The Big Picture
The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman!

But he honestly just has the sense of humor in this performance that it needs and is working.

The Big Picture
The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman!

Yeah, I mean, just to put a button on it, because we have a bunch of other things to go through.

The Big Picture
The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman!

It feels like a movie almost entirely made for, like,