AdvertisementFor Chris O'Dowd, 'Of Mice And Men' Is More Than An American StoryApril 19, 2014NPR StafffacebookEmail"Any time you're playing someone with a cognitive disability of any kind it's dangerous territory," says Chris O'Dowd, of playing Lennie, in John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. Leighton Meester plays the wife of Curley, the son of Lennie's boss. (Polk and Co.)