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Cory Michael Smith’s performance as Chevy Chase is one of the many highlights of the new film Saturday Night.

And while some viewers might be discovering the 37-year-old’s talents for the first time, Cory has been demonstrating his impressive abilities for over a decade.

After bursting onto the scene in the acclaimed 2014 HBO miniseries Olive Kitteridge, Cory quickly became a favorite of award-winning filmmaker Todd Haynes.

Cory Michael Smith attends the opening night gala of Metropolitan Opera’s “Dead Man Walking” at Lincoln Center on September 26, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)

And if you’re one of the many new fans wondering where you might have seen him before, here’s a quick rundown of Cory’s most memorable roles:

Carol (2015)

Based on Patricia Highsmith’s beloved 1952 novel The Price of Salt, this Oscar-nominated film centers around an illicit romance between Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara.

Chainsaw Man uses the image of praying astronauts to evoke the fear of space and darkness, drawing a connection to real-life tragedies like the Apollo 1 incident. The bisected astronauts represent humanity's lack of control over the unknown darkness of space, emphasizing the theme of fear in the manga. The image of fallen astronauts serves as a warning about the horrors of space and the importance of taking them seriously, aligning with Chainsaw Man's overall thematic exploration of fear.

Tatsuki Fujimoto's Chainsaw Man is known for its over-the-top action and brutal scenes of gore, yet it has always maintained a sense of thematic layering beneath its eye-catching panels. Chainsaw Man tackles various themes including love, change, and most of all, fear. Nowhere is that clearer than the series’ most jaw-dropping panel, which makes no attempt to hide Fujimoto’s message about fear.

In chapter 64 of Chainsaw Man, the international...

Why doesn’t this movie show astronaut Neil Armstrong (Ryan Gosling) planting the American flag on the moon? That was the question nagging away at folks in Venice after the premiere of First Man, Damien Chazelle’s bluntly visceral and deeply empathetic look at the Apollo 11 mission that culminated on July 21, 1969, when Armstrong became the first man ever to walk on the lunar surface. The answer comes down to the filmmaker’s approach to the material, which favors men over machinery and the personal over the political. The Stars...

Films like “Apollo 13” and “Gravity” have delved into the deadly risks astronauts take when they go into space, but Damien Chazelle will show how those disasters impacted Neil Armstrong, in “First Man,” his upcoming film starring Ryan Gosling as the famed Apollo 11 astronaut.

“What I really wanted to do is get to know the people who went on this unimaginable journey and take audiences along with them,” Chazelle said before unveiling the film’s first trailer at CinemaCon.

The trailer shows Gosling as Armstrong taking care of his infant child with his wife, Janet, played by Claire Foy. It then shows the couple mourning their friends in Nasa who were killed in previous missions while watching new tests and launches take place, often with disastrous results.

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Among those infamous tragedies are Ed White and Roger B. Chaffee (Jason Clarke and Cory Michael Smith), the men who were tragically killed on the launch pad during the first Apollo mission. Pablo Schreiber will also appear as Jim Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who said the infamous “Houston, we’ve had a problem.”

“We have every intention of coming back,” Armstrong assures his son before embarking on his lunar voyage.

“But you might not,” his son replies, to which Armstrong can only admit,”That’s right.”

“First Man” will hit theaters October 12.

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