It was definitely something completely different in comparison to his earlier roles. There's an interesting article with him in the new Rolling Stone, where he talks about how he knew some of his older movies were bad but did them just to keep moving up. Then he took more serious supporting roles, and got this one, which is gonna change his career forever.
I'm sad it debuted at #2

well #2 is good but it deserves #1. GO SEE IT!