Rutger Hauer is a man who has had arguably three or four different film
careers worth of work: he first became noted in the Netherlands with regular
collaborator Paul Verhoeven on numerous films, such as Turkish Delight, Soldier
Of Orange and Spetters, before transitioning to America, most notably playing
existential villains Roy Batty in Blade Runner and John Ryder in The Hitcher.
Since then, he’s been in any number of direct-to-DVD films (many of which are
rubbish: as Mark Kermode said to me personally, “it’s almost like there’s a market
for bad Rutger Hauer films”) and Hollywood productions as a reliable go-to guy
and respected veteran for parts in Sin City, Batman Begins, The Rite and the
deliriously self-mythologizing Hobo With A Shotgun.
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