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Some breakthrough stars don’t announce themselves immediately. It’s only when you’ve seen them in two projects that you begin to grasp their range. Those old enough may recall Daniel Day-Lewis’s explosive cinematic entrance, playing both the priggish Cecil Vyse (A Room With a View) and the feral street punk Johnny (My Beautiful Laundrette)…