When most audiences think of David Dastmalchian , they picture him lurking on the fringes of blockbusters and comic book worlds — a familiar face in films like The Dark Knight , Ant-Man , and The Suicide Squad . Over the last decade, he’s built a reputation as a scene-stealer, providing performances for the unsettling presence in the corner, the oddball with a tragic undercurrent, the man who can make a five-minute appearance unforgettable, and more. But before he became a genre fixture, Dastmalchian gave one of the most personal, gutting performances of his career in Animals .

In Animals , which he also wrote the screenplay for , Dastmalchian plays Jude, a man living with addiction alongside his girlfriend in a downward spiral. The film isn’t concerned with

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