In about a minute of screentime, in the Youtube clip in which Pip confesses his obsession to Estella ("you're in every thought…"), Irvine blows Hawke (a fine actor in his own right) out of the water. Irvine delivers a long Dickensian speech with all the shading and shifting of emotional registers the speech needs. He uses his voice like a musical instrument. So many young actors today are simply DULL and BORING to watch, because they mistake a flat, unmodulated delivery for "natural," "realistic" acting (which doesn't impede them from receiving critical hosannahs from dumb reviewers, of course). If Hollywood casting directors have any sense, they'll disregard the uninspired opinions of obtuse reviewers and simply LOOK and LISTEN and OBSERVE what is transpiring onscreen. Irvine beautifully conveys everything we need to know about the psychology of Pip in one brief exchange.