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Javier Bardem Interview: Biutiful Is His Bleakest Role Yet

He played a quadriplegic in The Sea Inside and won an Oscar as a hit man in No Country for Old Men, but his dying hustler in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s new Biutiful, out Wednesday, may top them all. Bardem tells Gina Piccalo about losing himself in characters—and why he doesn’t perform to win awards.

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Javier Bardem attends the Los Angeles premiere of Biutiful. (Photo: Michael Buckner / Getty Images)

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