It's both an effort to avoid being known as "that guy" and connecting better with the audience.

Frank Grillo, 53, hadn&rsquo;t always envisioned himself on the big screen. Born to an Italian-American family in New York, Grillo started his career with a business degree and a stint on Wall Street, but fate had other plans. After starring in commercials, his path veered into the world of film and television. But you should know that he&rsquo;s not your textbook definition of a leading man: &ldquo;My career is my career,&rdquo; he maintains. &ldquo;I&#39;m not Matt Damon or Brad Pitt&mdash;I take roles that I connect to because they&#39;re the best-written things for me.&rdquo; Which is precisely what he&rsquo;s done.

In the Captain America film franchise, he took on the role of the villainous Crossbones, Chris Evans&rsquo;s ally turned enemy. On the TV show Kingdom, he appeared alongside Nick Jonas as Alvey Kulina, a retired MMA fighter. His latest film, Donnybrook, peppered with references to the U.S. opioid crisis and Fight Club, follows the life of a former U.S. Marine training to win a vicious prize fight. In it, he plays Chainsaw Angus, a sociopathic drug dealer. On-screen Grillo is often gritty, raw, and downright evil, the antithesis of his IRL good-time-guy disposition. The fact that these roles are all super masculine and require feats of physicality are not lost on him, though. There is in fact, a method to his madness. &ldquo;What I try to do is find the vulnerability instead of making him &lsquo;that guy,&rsquo;&rdquo; says Grillo. That way &ldquo;we have something for the audience to connect with.&rdquo;

Frank Grillo Tells Us Why He Adds Vulnerability to Each of His Movie Roles

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