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Tom Hardy in The Drop (2014) photographed by Nicholas Karakatsanis. Nick was born in Belgium and has 68 cinematography credits from a 2003 short to a 2023 Belgian feature.

His other notable credits include Bullhead, a 2014 Johnny Cash video, I Tonya, Cruella, and Dumb Money.

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Noomi Rapace and Tom Hardy in The Drop (2014) filmed in Brooklyn.

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James Gandolfini as Cousin Marv in The Drop (2014). James died one month after filming ended for The Drop. Jim was born in Westwood, New Jersey, and had 50 acting credits from 1987. His entries among my best 1001 are She's So Lovely, The Man Who Wasn't There, and Enough Said.

He is best known as Tony Soprano on 86 episodes of The Sopranos 1999-2007.

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Three dogs were used for Rocco, used for different stages of his growth, in a publicity still for The Drop (2014) with Tom Hardy.

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James Frecheville as Fitz in The Drop (2014). This is Jim's second honorable mention, after Animal Kingdom.

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Matthias Schoenaeerts as Fitz in The Drop (2014). Matt was born in Antwerp, Belgium, and has 61 acting credits from a 1992 Belgian feature to ten episodes of Django 2022-23.

His other notable credits include Bullhead, Rust and Bone, The Danish Girl, A Bigger Splash, Our Souls at Night, and Amsterdam.

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Tom Hardy and Ann Dowd are mother and son in The Drop (2014). Ann was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, and has 113 acting credits from a 1985 tv episode to The Exorcist: The Believer (2023). Her entry among my best 1001 is Captain Fantastic. This is her second honorable mention, after The Notorious Bettie Page.

Her other notable credits include Green Card, Lorenzos Oil, Philadelphia, It Could Happen To You, Garden State, The Manchurian Candidate, Flags of our Fathers, Marley and Me, The Informant, Compliance, Side Effects, St Vincent, Hereditary, Rebecca, Mass, and 42 episodes of The Handmaid's Tale.

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Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace in The Drop (2014). They first met a few years earlier when they were rehearsing for a film neither one ended up doing. They became good friends and both still wanted to do a film together. After The Drop (2014), they worked together again in the less successful Child 44 (2015).

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Noomi Rapace as Nadia in The Drop (2014). Noomi was born in Gavleborgs Ian, Sweden, and has 51 acting credits from 12 episodes of a 1997 Swedish series to ten episodes of Django, a 2022-23 Italian French series in English, filmed in Rumania.

Noomi's other notable credits include The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Alien: Covenant, and eight episodes of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan.

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James Frecheville comes into to the bar owned by James Gandolfini to make The Drop (2014) with Tom Hardy.

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Tom Hardy as Bob in The Drop (2014). This is Tom's second honorable mention, after Stuart: A Life Backwards.

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The Drop premiered Sep 5, 2014 in Toronto and Sep 12 in the US. It is an honorable menton.

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Tom Hardy and James Gandolfini in The Drop (2014). The producers brought in dialogue coach Jerome Butler to help with the Brooklyn accents, as James was the only American among the leads. Tom is British, Noomi is Swedish, and Matthias Schoenaerts is Belgian.

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Michael R Roskam directing Tom Hardy, James Gandolfini, and Matthias Schoenaerts in The Drop (2014). Mike was born in Flanders, Belgium, and has 12 director credits from a 2004 short to three episodes of a 2022 mini-series.

His other notable credits include Bullhead (also with Matthias).

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Tom Hardy and James Gandolfini behind the scenes of The Drop (2014), written by Dennis Lehane, based on his short story. Dennis was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and has 11 writing credits from Mystic River (2003) to six episodes of Black Bird (2022).

Mystic River and Shutter Island are based on his novels. His other notable credits include three episodes of The Wire, and an episode of Boardwalk Empire.

Tom Hardy successfully lobbied Dennis and the producers for a more ambiguous ending, which Dennis re-wrote on the set.

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Alfre Woodard and Al Freeman Jr in a scene from Down in the Delta (1998). Al was born in San Antonio and had 49 acting credits from a 1958 tv episode to a 2004 episode of Law and Order.

His other notable credits include Black Like Me, Ensign Pulver, The Detective, Finian's Rainbow, episodes of Mod Squad, Maude, Kojak, The Cosby Show, and 219 episodes of One Life to Live (1972-88 as Capt. Ed Hall), and Malcolm X, and Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored.

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Al Freeman Jr leans into Esther Rolle in a scene from Down in the Delta (1998) with Alfre Woodard. This is Esther's third honorable mention, after Nothing But a Man and Rosewood.

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