Ryan Phillippe played the role of a character.
Ryan Phillippe . In 2010 , Phillippe starred as Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Greg Marinovich in The Bang-Bang Club . Stop-Loss is a 2008 American war drama film directed by Kimberly Peirce and starring Ryan Phillippe , Channing Tatum , Abbie Cornish and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as young soldiers whose experience in the Iraq War leaves them psychologically shattered .