Gary Lewis

Gary Lewis plays Thomas in Peter Mullan's Orphans. Edward Lawrenson's review calls one easy joke in the script weak, then treats the image that follows it as a trump card over such laughs: the man crushed emotionally and physically under the weight of the coffin, wincing with the pain of it. Lawrenson reads that as a fine balance held by director and actor together, calls Lewis acrobatic, and writes that beneath the physical comedy lies a very raw sense of loss. Two of his ten films here were looked at there; the Billy Elliot piece carries his name in the credits block alone and never in the body.