He appeared in two other successful movies in 2005. He played Andrew in the biographical drama war film ‘Jarhead’ which also starred Jamie Foxx and Chris Cooper. He appeared as Harold Dobbs in the drama film ‘Proof’ along with Anthony Hopkins and Gwyneth Paltrow.
In 2007 he played the crime reporter Robert Graysmith in the mystery thriller ‘Zodiac’ which was based on the manhunt for the notorious serial killer known as ‘Zodiac’ who had killed several people around the San Francisco Bay Area.
He acted in the 2009 thriller film ‘Brothers’ which also had Tobey Maguire and Natalie Portman in the main cast. The film was inspired by Homer’s epic poem ‘The Odyssey’ and took place in Afghanistan and Denmark.
In the romantic comedy ‘Love & Other Drugs’ (2010), he teamed up with Anne Hathaway with whom he had previously acted in ‘Brokeback Mountain’. The film was based on the on-fiction book, ‘Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman’ by Jamie Reidy.
