Javier Bardem stars in a pair of book-to-film adaptations that are currently in theaters--Gabriel García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera and Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men.
"Certain masterpieces depend more on description and imagination and are harder to film," he told USA Today, adding that the structure of McCarthy's dialogue-driven novel "is much more linear. As I read it, I knew it would be easier to perform."