Jonathan Rhys Meyers: he's always had the smoldering good looks and swells of tempestuous talent to make hearts melt. So how come it took the movie's Kibbitzing King of neuroses to unlock it all?(THE HOTSY-TOTSY)(Interview)

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Here's an insolent Renaissance prince for cocktail-hour chitchat in English country-house drawing rooms. In Woody Allen's Match Point, Jonathan Rhys Meyers gives his most gripping performance yet as Chris Wilton, a failed tennis pro who seizes the opportunity to enter a world of privilege by courting sweet but clueless Chloe (Emily Mortimer), the daughter of a wealthy upper-middle-class businessman. Chris's undoing is his uncontainable lust for Nola (Scarlett Johannson), the frankly carnal American actress girlfriend of his future wife's brother. Their trysts have a full-lipped ...

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