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I have a confession to make. The inspiration for this piece was not Laurence Fishburne (credited in the opening as “Larry”), but Jeff Goldblum. His role in Bill Duke’s Deep Cover](Deep Cover (1992) - Movie | Moviefone) is one of my favorite roles for the actor – a chance to see him play a complex part as a drug-addled family man/insecure Jewish lawyer/sexually curious villian. But, the title of this article is “Their Best Role”, and, to me, Goldblum’s best role is still in David Cronenberg’s The Fly](http://www.moviefone.com/movie/the-fly/4859/main?icid=movsmartsearch). It would’ve felt dishonest to call the David Jason character Goldblum’s personal best.
When I started to think about the movie’s leading man, though, I began to consider that Fishburne may never have been better than he is here. He’s settled into being a reliable character actor, in movies (Armored](Armored (2009) - Movie | Moviefone)) and television (CSI), but there was a time in the early/mid 90’s (basically immediately following Boyz In the Hood) when Fishburne was making a decent stab at becoming a honest-to-goodness leading man. Deep Cover was a film riding on the crest of a wave of low-budget “urban” crime stories spawned by the success of New Jack City](New Jack City (1991) - Movie | Moviefone) during that time, but it stands apart due to the character work of the leads, FIshburne and Goldblum.
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