James McAvoy was trending on Twitter—I will NEVER call it X—yesterday because he took his shirt off in the trailer for Speak No Evil and everyone was like, Oh yeah, James McAvoy is super hot. I feel like we have this conversation every few years, because McAvoy has a tendency to keep his head down and mostly disappear between gigs, so we’re not constantly talking about him, which means we forget that he’s a Grade I hottie.
Speak No Evil is his latest film, co-starring Mackenzie Davis, Aisling Franciosi, and Scoot McNairy. It’s about vacationing families who become friends until it turns into a nightmare. James McAvoy plays a super buff and super inappropriate guy who is obviously an axe murderer. I haven’t seen a more “this guy’s an axe murderer” character since Texas Chainsaw Massacre. McAvoy is, of course, no stranger to horror, having previously appeared in M. Night Shyamalan’s Split and Glass, as well as playing the grown-up version of Bill in IT: Chapter Two.
The movie looks fine, hopefully it’s got more in the tank than “creepy family murders nice family”, because otherwise the trailer has given everything away. But I like all of the actors involved, so I will probably watch it eventually. It’s being released on September 13, which is just after I come back from TIFF, so I might not get to it right away, depending on workload, etc, but I do always find time for James McAvoy. I like him as an actor, I like that the next couple of months feature new films from James McAvoy and Josh Hartnett like it’s 2007, and, of course, I have to keep up my running tally of “Does James McAvoy Snot Everywhere In This Movie”.
Once you see it, you’ll never un-see it. My gift to you!
