five star turns
ANIMAL KINGDOM 2010
After playing Uncle Owen in Attack Of The
Clones and Revenge Of The Sith, edgerton went to the dark side as Barry ‘Baz’ Brown, mate of the Cody crime family.
WARRIOR 2011
edgerton and tom hardy played brothers who clash, explosively, in an MMA tournament. “It was a drama first and a fighting movie second,” he says when explaining Warrior’s punch.
the gift 2015
Our man took one of the three leads and wrote and directed this slippery, genuinely unnerving tale of a married couple whose life is upended when edgerton’s oddball turns up at the door. Knock, knock...
LOVING 2016
Following on from sci-fi-mystery Midnight Run, edgerton and director Jeff nichols re-teamed for this landmark true tale of an interracial couple fighting systemic racism in ’60s virginia. ruth negga co-starred.
IT COMES AT NIGHT 2017
A taciturn edgerton tries to protect his family in this stripped-down, post-apoc horror. the actors prepped to play a survivalist family: “we shot some guns, cooked some food, chopped wood,” he says.