Oh, hi. Meet Tom McCarthy, professional badass dude. What’s that? All you see is a painfully average white guy? He kind of reminds you of your buddy Derek, the one who works in a bookstore?
Let me clarify. Tom wrote and directed The Station Agent (2003), one of the more grown-up and damn humane movies of the decade; you know, a story with a dwarf character who’s not a moronic joke. Oh, he also auteured The Visitor (2007), a similarly respectful story which has Richard Jenkins in perhaps the best role of his life, learning how to kick it in a drum circle. Seriously. Did I mention Tom also played the weasely reporter Scott Templeton, a crucial character in the fifth season of the greatest TV show of all time, The Wire?
And did you know that he co-wrote one of the best Pixar movies - i.e. one of the best movies period - a heartbreaking, old-man-celebrating, cliff-jumping wonder called Up? I mean, Tom McCarthy’s score in life is like a solid 97% at this point. I love you all but if I could pick one person to sit and chat with today, Tom is it.
