The Leading Man (1996)

"The Leading Man" is a drama that leans into the messy politics of ambition and desire, the kind of film built around simmering tension rather than spectacle. Victoria Smurfit brings a sharp presence to the material, and the single clip pulled from the film for the archive shows exactly why. It's a brief but revealing scene, the sort of moment fans search for specifically, and it earns its place as the one entry on this page worth returning to.