Voight tunes down the comedic side of Mickey and really hits a terrific dramatic stride in the last 25% of the series.
He’s a terrific foil to Schreiber as he’s allowed to be a little more jocular, a little more off the cuff. Much like Ray, Mickey’s a complex character who has numerous moral twists and turns. Voight, who’s been in some really, really terrible movies over the past decade or so, reminds us that he is actually a damn good actor. It’s as if Mickey wasn’t allowed his mid-life crisis, so he’s having it now.
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Mickey is an out-and-out bastard, a deadbeat dad and a murderer yet, he’s also this older guy who’s trying to reclaim his life and doesn’t know how to act his age. Yet, Mickey isn’t as unforgiveable as Frank Costello. The role of Mickey is not unlike Jack Nicholson’s Frank Costello in The Departed - it’s a hammy, chew scenery type of supporting role that has a deadly air of chaos surrounding it. Voight ate up his role as the Donovan patriarch Mickey like it was an all-you-can-eat-buffet (if you saw tonight’s finale you’ll appreciate the reference). Jon Voight: You’ll also be seeing Jon Voight’s name on the ballot for Best Supporting Actor. The Emmys may have happened the same night as Ray Donovan’s finale, but mark our words, by this time next year you’ll be seeing Liev Schreiber’s name on the Best Actor ballot.Ģ. He warms our heart when he embraces his family, he breaks it when he bangs a Britney Spears wannabe it and he stops it when he murders a pedophiliac. Ray’s Catholic guilt-riddled family man is dangerous and a murderer, but yet, we still feel for the guy. He makes us believe Ray is a man’s man but also a man who hides his tears with broken bones, broken hearts and bottles of Jameson. Schreiber makes Ray Donovan tough yet tragic, ballsy yet fragile. The depth of humanity he gives Ray, which could’ve been a very one-note character, is the mark of a truly gifted actor. But physicality aside, Schreiber can just act his ass off. He’s got the imposing tough guy aura about him but can also play it cooler and calm in a designer suit. Schreiber is the perfect guy to play Ray. He’s given the ball to run with it and within the blink of an eye he’s already done the block with it. Rent Defiance where he plays a badass Jewish revolutionary or how he’s the only other good thing in X-Men Origins: Wolverine besides Hugh Jackman and you’ll see what I mean.įinally, he’s getting his due with Ray Donovan.
But in all seriousness, Liev has been one of the most under-appreciated actors in Hollywood. He’s got a badass hit television series, he sleeps with Naomi Watts (she married him too) and he’s the best narrator in the history of sports outside of “The Voice of God” John Facenda. Liev Schreiber is The Man: Sometimes I wish I was Liev Schreiber. So, here are our reasons why you should be skipping all the lousy new shows debuting this month and catching up on our boy Ray Ray.ġ. It’s a show we were enthralled with every single week, a show we skipped Sunday Night Football for and show we cannot recommend highly enough. Sarcasm aside, Ray Donovan is head and shoulders above any, and we mean any, show that has debuted in 2013 (sorry Hannibal, we still love you). Well, to be a sarcastic son of a bitch, any show that can take the dude who played Manolo in Scarface and cast him as a heavily-accented former Mossad agent (which is an absurd concept) and turn him into one of the most entertaining characters of the show and allow the actor, who hasn’t exactly had an Oscar-caliber career, to turn in a terrific performance…you know you’ve got a damn good show on your hands. The first season of Ray Donovan is in the books, but for those of you who haven’t watched this show because you were too busy enjoying the summer or were obsessed with every second of Breaking Bad, I give you this advice - put this show on the top of your “binge watch” list.
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