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John Cusack: Roles
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John Cusack, aka John Cusak, is an active actor, producer, and writer and John Cusack is the man in dozens of movies. His most recent role was as John Kelso in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. You ... heard his voice as Dimitri in Anastasia.
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John Cusack and Rachel Weisz play a couple out to manipulate a jury in "Runaway Jury," based on the bestselling John Grisham novel. In this interview, Weisz and Cusack discuss their roles and working with Hoffman and Hackman.
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With an impressive body of work spanning the course of two decades, John Cusack has evolved into one of Hollywood's most accomplished, and respected actors of his generation. He has garnered both critical acclaim as well as prestigious accolades for his dramatic as well as comedic roles.
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Despite these films, Cusack has remained tagged with his Eighties persona—a charming underachiever, a romantic underdog, an emotionally immature but basically good guy. Instead of being a hindrance, this persona began to serve Cusack well. In 1997, Cusack referenced his Eighties roles in Grosse Point Blanke (which he co-wrote), starring as a hit man—a nice one—who returns home for his ten-year high school reunion to find the girl he left behind. Again Cusack returned to type in High Fidelity (2000), playing a commitment-phobic thirty-something record-store owner still living the life of a teenager. Pushing Tin (1999), Serendipity (2001), Must Love Dogs (2005), and America's Sweethearts (2001)—wherein the erstwhile romantic underdog was matched with Julia Roberts, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Anjelina Jolie, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, and Diane Lane—contained elements of Cusack's well-established persona as well.
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After Say Anything, Cusack started to receive offers for better roles. His first major adult role came in Martin Scorsese's gritty film The Grifters. Both Cusack's co-stars Angelica Huston and Annette Benning received Oscar nominations. Though Cusack did not get nominated, he still received rave reviews from the critics. Next, Cusack appeared in True Colors with James Spader, a film about friendship and betrayal and he appeared in a cameo role in The Player. Money for Nothing came out in 1993, which had the potential to be a great film.
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Instead of riding the momentum of his success in adult roles, Cusack took small parts, often in odd projects, for the next couple of years. He first collaborated with Woody Allen in "Shadows and Fog" (1991) with a considerably smaller role than one with his reputation might be expected to play. In 1992, he had a cameo as a misguided revolutionary in the very strange "Roadside Prophets" and ... appeared in Tim Robbins' impressive directorial debut "Bob Roberts.†Cusack appeared again with Robbins as himself in Robert Altman's Hollywood satire "The Player" (1992), then followed with a supporting role in the period drama "Map of the Human Heart" (1993). His return to the starring fore was a role in the small film "Money for Nothing" (1993), playing an unemployed man who finds $1 million that fell from an armored car. Cusack was reportedly unhappy with the final edit of the film, arguing that it didn't focus much on character, making a potentially arresting film far less remarkable. Reuniting with Woody Allen, he appeared in the entertaining "Bullets Over Broadway" (1994), playing a playwright who sacrifices his ideals for success on the Great White Way.
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