Mellow actor gained intensity for gritty photojournalist story

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And now he’s in Cannes to promote something a little less hunky and a little more serious: The Bang Bang Club, an upcoming movie, which may not be released for a year or so, about four real-life press photographers whose pictures of African suffering helped bring an end to apartheid in South Africa.

Kitsch plays Kevin Carter, a legendary photojournalist who took a picture of a starving child in the Sudan, dying, while a vulture perched nearby.

“By far the most challenging role I’ve ever had in my life,” he said, and for several reasons.