"He’s not a bad guy. I don’t think he’s wrong in a lot of what he says right off the bat to the headmaster," the actor says of his haughty, dismissive teacher character.
Consider Daniel Day Lewis in “Lincoln”; Rami Malek singing with Freddie Mercury’s overbite in “Bohemian Rhapsody”; Nicole Kidman's prosthetic nose in “The Hours.” Intense transformations are often a key part of heralded movies.