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Nobody’s written the BIG piece yet on how the golden age of acting has led to a surfeit of character actors stealing scenes, and whole movies, from big stars. Viola Davis shows up in the middle of Doubt for a chat with Meryl Streep and haunts the rest of the movie. And this is a vehicle that pairs Streep with Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams.
Now comes Archie Panjabi from The Good Wife, the comeback drama for Julianne Margulies featuring Sports Night‘s Josh Charles, and her bi-spy throwaways steal the entire season. She turns judges into trained seals, and keeps schooling her boss, Margulies, on how knowledge is power.
