Mallorie Sullivan

msullivan@enquirer.com

Analysis: Arnold's Bar and Grill played host to a special guest Friday night.

Actor Jeffrey Wright, known for his role as engineer Bernard Lowe on HBO's hit science-fiction series "Westworld," stopped by the downtown Cincinnati bar Friday night, according to its Facebook page.

Arnold's posted a photo Friday of Wright and bar manager Chris Mario Valentine, and it confirmed everything we knew about Wright: He's the nicest guy ever.

The actor, who is known also for his roles in films such as the "Hunger Games" trilogy (Beetee) and in the James Bond reboot "Casino Royale" (Felix Leiter), is in the Queen City to film "The Public," a new drama starring Emilio Estevez, Alec Baldwin, Taylor Schilling and Jena Malone.

According to a December 2016 news release, the movie is about a standoff between patrons of the Cincinnati Public Library and police. The patrons there stage a sit-in. Baldwin ("The Departed," "30 Rock") plays a negotiator, with Wright cast as the head librarian. Estevez and Malone will play librarians, and Schilling will portray an activist.

But until his character's name is revealed, Wright will continue to be the mild-mannered Bernard to area "Westworld" fans. And while he wasn't dressed in a crisp suit holding a tablet and observing the hosts' behaviors Friday night, he sure knows how to bring things full circle for them.

Haven't watched Westworld? The entire first season, starring Wright, Evan Rachel Wood and Ed Harris, is streaming on HBOGO. The second season has been announced and isn't expected to air until 2018, HBO's programming president Casey Bloys told Entertainment Weekly in November 2016.