Although 2023 isn’t even halfway over yet, it seems like no one has emerged as quite a bigger winner than Chris Messina.
Messina is a longstanding character actor who’s appeared in countless classics, but it finally seems that he’s getting the recognition that he deserves as a result of his incredible, scene-stealing role in Ben Affleck’s Air, a role that would certainly earn him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a more fair award season.
Between his exciting new roles in the Peacock original mystery series Based on a True Story and his leading role in Rob Savage’s new horror film The Boogeyman, it’s safe to say that Messina is having a career renaissance right now.
It serves as a welcome reward for Messina considering that he basically played a perfect husband in the Nora Ephron classic Julie & Julia, and we need to talk about it.
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