Claim: David Thewlis was passed over for the role of Johnny.
Evidence: Other notable performances include the films Naked -LRB- for which he won the Best Actor award at Cannes Film Festival -RRB- , Dragonheart , Kingdom of Heaven , The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas , The Theory of Everything , Black Beauty , and Macbeth -LRB- in which he played King Duncan -RRB-.
Naked is a 1993 British black comedy-drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh and starring David Thewlis as Johnny , a motor-mouthed intellectual and conspiracy theorist.