u/Finalpretensefell

OK so I just had an ephiphany. I always wondered who could have EVER depicted Layne in a biopic or something, but now I think I know who could do it. Just saw it for the first time and COMPLETELY saw it, Matthew McConaughey in the movie Frailty (2001).

Frailty-era Matthew McConaughey had:

• this gaunt, haunted Southern-Gothic intensity
• hollowed-out eyes
• quiet charisma
• strange gentleness mixed with danger
• and the feeling that he was carrying some private unbearable knowledge at all times
• thousand-yard stare
• spiritually burdened cheekbones, “there are things in this world people don’t understand…”
• fragile but intense masculinity
• intelligence mixed with damage
• vulnerability hidden under weird calmness
• and that almost ghostlike quality Layne had later on