The Long Walk, the new film based on the first novel written by Stephen King, didn’t set the box office on fire this past weekend, but it put up solid numbers and is being lauded by critics. Much of the credit goes to the incredible cast of young actors in the film. Cooper Hoffman, the son of Philip Seymour Hoffman, plays the film’s primary lead, and he is great, but it’s another actor who is getting the bulk of the praise.
Hoffman plays Ray Garrity, who is the main character we follow throughout The Long Walk, which sees 50 young men in a dystopian future compete to see who can walk the farthest without slowing or stopping. Garrity makes fast friends with another boy named Peter McVries, played by David Jonsson, and it’s Jonsson’s performance that has truly bowled over fans. In fact, it has some saying that he is going to eventually be looked upon as a generational talent:
