The good thief.(Matthew Goode)(Brief article)

Last seen as the tennis-racket-toting fellow who ditched Scarlett Johansson in Woody Allen's Match Point, Matthew Goode has made a career of playing elegant Brits. But in this month's The Lookout, which marks screenwriter Scott Frank's directorial debut, Goode goes against type as the dark and charismatic ringleader of a band of bank robbers planning a major heist in a minor Midwestern town. Even more difficult than playing an American lowlife, he says, was shooting the movie out of sequence. "On the first day of filming, I had already been shot," he says. "I am leaning on a car bleeding out everywhere ...