Why I love Oliver Platt

I have been following Oliver Platt on the big and little screen the past couple months, some newer projects such as Showtime's The Big C and HBO's Bored to Death as well as an older Showtime series Huff. His most recent movie which I loved was, Please Give which was a great go no where but mean a lot movie.

In Huff Oliver Platt co-stars with long time friend and college buddy Hank Azaria.
Platt majored in drama at Tufts University, where he met and became close friends with Hank Azaria. He spent three years working in theater in Boston, Massachusetts, where he said he had a "wealth of serious amateur theater at that time…I played many roles, and it was the best training I could have had."

His role in Huff as Russell Tupper made him my favorite addict character on television and favorite of creator Robert Lowry, who said, "Oliver plays an alcoholic, drug-addicted, sexaholic, workaholic, womanizing misogynist who is adorable. I don't know any actor who could do that. I originally saw Russell as a blond stud, but when I saw what Oliver could do, I realized how much better, richer, and less predictable he was than my idea of the character...Oliver is very committed to the idea that story and dialogue be character-driven and unique."

Huff sadly was canceled after two seasons on Showtime leaving a lot of unanswered questions.

His next and favorite project of mine is Bored to Death, where he plays Ted Danson's arch nemesis/ buddy as a dueling New York Publisher. They ironically each have the same Chuck Close portrait in their offices showcasing the awesome narcissist that they are.

Platt brings bag the loveable fat guy unlike how Jonah Hill does it in his style, or Seth Rogen for that matter. He has legit background in acting and has brains to back it up.

In The Big C Platt is a silly husband who rides a Vespa around Minnapolis unknowning that his wife played by Laura Linney has cancer at stage 4. It takes mearly half the season for her to tell him and you just keep wanting for more. The series has been renewed for a second one to accompany the other complicated women in the Showtime franchise like Nancy and Nurse Jackie. Oliver's sweet nature and goofyness is so loveable once again. The fact that he plays adult rugby is endearing and finds laundry as relaxing as most mother's do is kind.

So yeah I love Oliver Platt and so should you.