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O’Toole

Everyone is – and rightfully so – mentioning the late Peter O’Toole’s signature performance in Lawrence of Arabia in the wake of the actor’s passing.

And while lots of people are talking about Ratatouille as an example of O’Toole’s later career work I’m partial to Venus, where he played a veteran actor who gets some help – both physical and emotional – from a young girl. It’s the sort of late-stage work that actors like O’Toole often get that helps remind us that they’re still vital creative forces to be reckoned with.