20 Things You Somehow Missed In Layer Cake
2. An Oscar-Nominated Slasher
Returning to the reality of just how damn stacked this who's who of British acting brilliance genuinely was upon taking a look back at the regularly unpredictable drug-fuelled action, and it's easy to forget that arguably one of the most respected talents working today made one of her earliest cinematic appearances in Vaughn's crime drama.
Looking wholly unrecognisable in comparison to her Oscar-nominated turns in The Shape of Water and Blue Jasmine, Sally Hawkins erupts into many a Layer Cake sequence as the hilariously named Slasher, Duke's combustable, leather-sporting missus.
It's an easily missed but still entirely captivating slice of Hawkins goodness from such an early stage in the eventual Godzilla and Paddington thespian's career, and one that once again proves just how insanely versatile the London-born star has always been.