"The questions of who I am, and what I want the rest of my life to look like, are ones I’ve been wrestling with in this midlife moment," says the star.

Despite splitting the difference between stage and screen in dazzling ways, Duke Johnson’s The Actor is all shine and no substance. Starring André Holland as an amnesiac stage performer piecing together his past, the part-thriller, part-love story fails to alchemize its many flourishes, leaving only a dull, hollow core.

In this case, the man dreaming is Paul and, as perfectly played by the always great André Holland, he is attempting to answer a question both simple yet vastly existential: What kind of guy are you? Well,