If Woodroof is the movie’s guts, Rayon is its heart, and Leto (TV’s “My So-Called Life,” “Alexander”) is stunningly perfect, even when the story veers ever so slightly into expected territory. A scene in which Rayon wears a suit to ask his disapproving father for money to help Woodroof is achingly poignant. Leto and McConaughey make it impossible not cheer these lost-and-found souls’ tough, tender fight.
A virtually unrecognizable Leto tears your heart out (and will certainly get an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor) as Rayon, a drug-addicted transsexual who becomes Woodroof’s closest friend and business partner.
There’s great chemistry in the scenes between the avowedly heterosexual, macho Woodroof and the vulnerable Rayon, who dresses in men’s clothes to plead for money from her father in one of the movie’s most moving scenes.
Though there’s a hint of romance in the warm relationship between Ron and one of his doctors—played by Jennifer Garner, whose virginal sweetness makes a nice foil to McConaughey’s permanent aura of debauchery—the central relationship in Dallas Buyers Club is between Ron and Rayon (Jared Leto), an HIV-positive trans woman he meets in the hospital and eventually makes his partner in the drug-selling enterprise. Rayon, who’s a composite of several real-life people, is a complex character—tart-tongued and hypercompetent one minute, a drug-addled mess the next—but Leto plays her (or “him,” as the change-averse Ron insists on continuing to call Rayon even after they become friends) with delicacy and humor and nary a hint of “look, I’m a drag queen!” straight-actor self-regard.
Jared is an awesome actor and the fact that he got snubbed for Requiem for a Dream (and Ellen Burstyn losing to Julia Roberts) is annoying. He better get them recognitions for this movie!
But it's Jared's performance that is getting the most praise.
He's getting that Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Role.
Actually not Do your homework guuurl. The amount of the prise that Jared gets for it is huuuuge but Matthew's positive outcome is even bigger. It's still Matthew's film, with a great supporting role as addition.
Actually not Do your homework guuurl. The amount of the prise that Jared gets for it is huuuuge but Matthew's positive outcome is even bigger. It's still Matthew's film, with a great supporting role as addition.
Do your homework guuurl. The amount of the prise that Jared gets for it is huuuuge but Matthew's positive outcome is even bigger. It's still Matthew's film, with a great supporting role as addition.