Dan Stevens and Jared Leto, two of television’s most otherworldly handsome men, embraced their characters' insecurity through one surprisingly transformational trick.
Stevens gets to play an insecure striver—the lawyer in the Nixon White House whom everybody overlooks, and who gets involved in Watergate basically because he can’t think of any other way to impress his bosses. On a date with’s flight-attendant-cum-novelist, you believe John Dean would screw it up by being too awkward, tooIt’s a winning, fully lived-in performance, made possible by Stevens’s talent. And also, one small magic trick: brown contacts.
The power of brown contacts has also been on vivid display for weeks now in an entirely separate show: Apple TV+’suses the full extent of his movie star charisma, convincing investors and his employees and the media that his shared-office-space empire is capable of “elevating the world’s consciousness.” But the show begins with Neumann as a nobody, schlepping all over New York trying to hawk things like baby pants with kneepads.