It was that performance, in which McCallany was able to balance steely professionalism and quiet melancholy, that earned him a meeting with director Sean Durkin, who was looking for the right person to play the patriarch of the Von Erich clan in his biopic of the legendary Texas wrestling dynasty.
As Fritz Von Erich, a loving but severe father who pushed his four sons (played by Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson, and Stanley Simons) beyond their limits—often with tragic results—McCallany is earning the best reviews of his career, and even, to his own shock, some Oscar buzz. As he told Fincher over Zoom a couple of weeks ago, he’s still letting it all sink in.as somebody who could get a possible Academy Award nomination for Supporting Actor, even though it’s going to be a very tough year. FINCHER: That’s great. But because we haven’t caught up in a while, was this a movie that you shot in the middle of the pandemic
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