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The 1951 movie that led to Javier Bardem's worst audition

Bardem said the Brando comparison left him frozen during an audition for A Streetcar Named Desire, and he walked away from the role.

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If you could name one of modern cinema’s greatest actors to compare with Marlon Brando, you could go for Joaquin Phoenix, Denzel Washington, Leonardo DiCaprio or, actually, Javier Bardem, who is, after all, the first Spanish actor to win an Oscar and is responsible for the most terrifying villain in movie history. Currently, Bardem is repeating that onscreen menace in the Martin Scorsese-Steven Spielberg reboot of Cape Fear, and he may well agai…

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Remake of the classics of Scorsese (1991) and Thompson (1962), this version of the "Nerfs à Vif" offers a terrifying but nuanced score of the Spanish actor.

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