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If anyone was under the impression that actors aren’t aware of being typecast and pigeonholed into similar roles again and again, allow Jason Clarke to dispel those rumors\u00a0\u2014\u00a0along with any doubts over whether this is truly a negative or not. As the lead of the Apple TV+ series “The Last Frontier,” the longtime character actor portrays Frank Remnick, the U.S. Marshal of a small Alaskan town. Thrust into a central leadership role when a plane transporting some of the worst and most violent criminals in the nation comes crashing down in his backyard, Frank quickly discovers that he’s only on the fringes of a series of events much larger than he ever thought possible. It’s not a role that Clarke is unfamiliar with, to say the least, having made a career out of playing various cops, soldiers, and other straight-laced military men over the years. And, to his credit, he knows that this comes with its own benefits.<\/p>\n
During a recent interview, I\u00a0asked Clarke whether he’s able to bring over certain traits from one role to the next. Whether it be verbally accosting Cillian Murphy in “Oppenheimer” to within an inch of his life<\/a> or channeling a similar interrogation energy as a CIA intelligence officer in “Zero Dark\u00a0Thirty,” both of these spiritually linked performances (and more)\u00a0all helped lead Clarke to an individual as nuanced and fascinating as Frank \u2014 a man who lives by a strict moral code in his work, even as this leads to complications in his personal life. As Clarke explained:<\/p>\n “It was inside me. You carry them all with you, and they sit inside you. There’s a lot of my father in this, a sheep-shearing, hard-working man. There’s the simplicity and the beauty of that, the decency of it. ‘Zero Dark Thirty,’ the interrogator, the scenes of interrogation in this, they all kind of add into it and that leads to ‘Oppenheimer’ \u2014 the ability to sit there and listen in an interrogation, the ability to needle a little bit to get something out, but you got to be friends, as well. All of them, they all kind of come into something else.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n