For as long as Hollywood has made movies, audiences have been fascinated by the seedy underbelly of crime and the desperate people drawn into its orbit. Films like Dog Day Afternoon, Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction, and even the early works of the Coen Brothers center around the all-too-human characters at the center of larger-than-life criminal escapades. That kind of down-to-Earth storytelling was a surefire way to reach critical and commercial success, but in the age of superheroes, those sorts of releases getting mainstream attention is much less likely than it used to be. Action star Frank Grillo, who’s played more than his fair share of on-screen criminals, knows this all too well.
