Steve Zahn Gets Serious in RESCUE DAWN
Steve Zahn and Christian Bale search for a way out in Rescue Dawn.
Breakthrough roles can happen anytime - and this week, Steve Zahn, best known as a young comic actor (REALITY BITES, HAPPY, TEXAS, ), may score a breakthrough with audiences and critics for the second time in his career for his dramatic portrayal as an American flyer battling despair and the elements in Werner Herzog's RESCUE DAWN.
Here's Nathan Rabin's interview with Zahn from The Onion's AV Club. And you can read Choire Sicha's conversation with him here.
Zahn's always been an endearing actor, but this time his performance lingers in the mind long after the movie's over. According to a radio interview, he'd been obsessed with Herzog's documentary LITTLE DIETER NEEDS TO FLY to the point of ordering multiple DVDs to give to friends. When he heard that the feature version was in the works, he knew he had to be a part of it.
Fortunately for us, he is.