Ben Mendelsohn changes things up in “Darkest Hour,” as he gets to play the good guy for once.
Ben Mendelsohn plays King George VI in “Darkest Hour,” one of the rare times he hasn’t played a bad guy in a movie.
Don’t worry though, he’s got some major bad guy roles coming, like Sheriff of Nottingham in “Robin Hood” and the villain in “Ready Player One.”
But he’s quiet about a possible return of his “Rogue One” character Director Krennic in any future “Star Wars” movies.
After years of being a struggling actor in Australia, Ben Mendelsohn got his breakout in 2010 as the patriarch of a crime family on the run in “Animal Kingdom,” and hasn’t looked back since.
Finding his mark playing complex dark characters in indies like “The Place Beyond the Pines” and “Slow West,” Mendelsohn hit it big when he scored the role of Director Orson Krennic in “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” last year.
Tech: In a career filled with bad guy roles, Ben Mendelsohn is very thankful to show a different side in Churchill drama ‘Darkest Hour’
