Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: Ben Kingsley, Sir

…The real turning point was Sexy Beast. For in that inspired, delirious film, we went from asking ourselves what on earth Ben Kingsley was doing, to praying that he would not stop. It’s as if his director, Jonathan Glazer, whispered to him: “Take the film over, inhale it, and roar like its demons.” It was a moment of self-assertion and identification, like Malkovich in Being John Malkovich. Even the Queen got it – the next year she called him up and made him Sir Kingsley. David Thomson in the Guardian.
See also: John Dahl’s You Kill Me, a Téa Leone production.