Tony Revolori

Tony Revolori was working as a child actor in Anaheim, with a baseball film called The Perfect Game already behind him, when Wes Anderson cast him as Zero in The Grand Budapest Hotel. He was still a teenager, sharing most of his scenes with the film's star, and he plays the lobby boy watchful and unflappable, which is the only way that comedy works. The film needed a straight man at its centre and he was it.

Anderson has kept him around since, in The French Dispatch and Asteroid City, and Marvel picked him up for the Spider-Man trilogy. Flash Thompson in those films is a complete rewrite: instead of the bruiser from the comics, Revolori plays a rich, insecure kid whose bullying runs through his phone and his father's money, and he makes the character funnier and more recognisable than the source ever managed.

The more interesting work sits outside both franchises. Dope gave him a genuine co-lead in a film about being a clever teenager somewhere that assumes otherwise. Servant used him across several seasons of slow-burn unease. He turns up in Scream VI, in Willow, in Roofman, and he is still under thirty, which makes the shape of the career so far look like someone deliberately avoiding the trap of being the kid from the Wes Anderson film.