Matthew Lillard Joins Trouble With the Curve

This is a case of weird timing.

Caught a rerun of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit last night – don't judge, it was late, I was tired and nothing else was on. The second-banana special guest of the week (Carol Burnett was the Big Kahuna) was Matthew Lillard. Maybe it was the extra rolls on his cheeks or his pervert-looking mustache. But Lillard disappeared into that character without an ounce of Stu from Scream or Shaggy.

So it was weird to see on EW this morning low and behold, Lillard landed a plum role co-starring next to Clint Eastwood and Amy Adams in Trouble With the Curve. The drama, not directed by Eastwood but Robert Lorenz (When was the last time he starred in a vehicle that he also didn't helm?), centers on an a baseball scout trying to come to grip with going blind and taking his estranged daughter on a scouting trip. Lillard will play a rival scout.

He's currently appearing in The Descendants, a film on its way to several Oscars (for its star George Clooney and possibly its director Alexander Payne) and getting the actor back into the limelight for the first time in quite a bit.