The Oscar for Best Supporting Actor Should Go To Mike Pence
His monologues are studies in insincerity, overcoming his personal belief in faith and family to project pride standing next to a man who embodies almost everything he disdains.
JOHN AVLON
03.04.18 9:30 AM ET
It’s Academy Awards night in America, the Super Bowl of the Hollywood elite and millions of movie goers everywhere. But scan the list of Oscar nominees, and you’ll notice one name notably missing from the Best Supporting Actors’ list: Mike Pence.
This is a criminal oversight. There is no greater working actor today than the Vice President.
His steely yet adoring gaze at President Trump, clenched jaw punctuated by affirming nods, is a highly disciplined work of art. The man is a consummate method actor, inhabiting his role for 20 months since his nomination in July of 2016 without ever breaking character in public. His monologues are studies in insincerity on the world stage, overcoming his personal belief in faith and family to project pride standing next to a man who embodies almost everything he disdains in private life.
A full catalogue of his work would be impossible, but Pence set the tone early into the administration, by declaring “This is the greatest privilege of my life, to serve as Vice-President to a President who’s keeping his word to the American people.” Despite serving a president who by the Washington Post’s calculation made more than 2,000 false or misleading statements over his first year in office alone, Pence routinely calls the president “a man of his word” without a hint of irony.
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