Although first submitted in lead alongside his “Escape at Dannemora” co-star Benicio del Toro, Paul Dano will now be contending in the Best Limited Series/TV Movie Supporting Actor category. Will his lead-to-supporting escape translate into an Emmy win?
In “Dannemora,” directed by Ben Stiller, Dano plays David Sweat, the real-life former inmate at Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate New York, who in 2015 helped his fellow inmate Richard Matt (del Toro) orchestrate an escape from the maximum-security prison. With the help of prison worker Joyce “Tilly” Mitchell (Patricia Arquette), both men managed to successfully escape. After a three-week manhunt, however, Matt was killed by the police while Sweat was captured and then sent to Auburn Correctional Facility, a new maximum-security prison.
Dano visibly transforms into Sweat, a man convicted for being involved in the killing of a police officer with two accomplices, as they were caught unloading looted firearms. Despite...
In “Dannemora,” directed by Ben Stiller, Dano plays David Sweat, the real-life former inmate at Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate New York, who in 2015 helped his fellow inmate Richard Matt (del Toro) orchestrate an escape from the maximum-security prison. With the help of prison worker Joyce “Tilly” Mitchell (Patricia Arquette), both men managed to successfully escape. After a three-week manhunt, however, Matt was killed by the police while Sweat was captured and then sent to Auburn Correctional Facility, a new maximum-security prison.
Dano visibly transforms into Sweat, a man convicted for being involved in the killing of a police officer with two accomplices, as they were caught unloading looted firearms. Despite...
- 3/29/2019
- by Luca Giliberti
- Gold Derby
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