George Miller’s The Witches of Eastwick (1987) and James L. Brooks’ As Good As It Gets (1997) give us two very different versions of Jack Nicholson as a romantic lead. One is a 1980s horror comedy classic and the other arguably the greatest role of his entire career.

In Episode 7 of EveryMan: The Masculinity in Cinema Podcast, film critics Kat Ellinger and Martyn Conterio explore Jack Nicholson’s approach to acting and what makes him so charismatic on the screen.