I don't see how all the responses aren't Anthony Mackie in altered carbon s2.
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I didn't watch season two only because they cast Mackie, who is wooden and vanilla in everything. I don't understand how he's an actor.
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One of the things that annoys me the most is when the heroes go into a dingy greasy spoon diner in the middle of nowhere and the waitress looks like a cover model. And then, because it costs more if the actress has lines, the heroes don't even interact with her.
American productions don't allow for normie women; they all have to look like rock stars.
Kathy Bates went for an audition for the Sylvester Stallone movie, 'Paradise Alley.' She told Stallone she'd read the script and every single woman was described as 'beautiful.'
Another story I like. I saw "Erin Brockovich" with Julia Roberts. At one point in the movie Roberts interacts with a beautiful waitress. I rolled my eyes but at the end of the movie I checked the credits. The waitress was a cameo by the real Erin Brockovich.
It's especially gross in something like ready player one. I know it's already a shit ass movie, but in the book, i'm pretty sure the people are described as pretty normal or uglier and fatter. The love interest is supposed to be "ugly" and they casted a beautiful woman and drew a scar on her face. But not an ugly scar, because someone might not be able to jerk off to her. Or game of thrones. No one is really as ugly as they are supposed to be.
My son, who is an actor and a cinephile, complains about how movies and shows all have actors who look like actors, and don't look like real people. He often talks about "iPhone Face," where a character in a period piece like a 19th century western, looks like they know what an iPhone is.
My wife loves Asian period dramas and this is a hugely common thing that drives me nuts. It doesn't matter if you've got period clothing and scenery etc. If the "lowly common girl" has a perfect complexion, teeth, and obvious cosmetics it just breaks it.
The Viking ladies with shaved arm pits...
Yeah some of them back then would probably have been able to braid more than just the hair on their head...
Having had a few Scandi-descended girlfriends, I concur. But on average, they're nowhere near as hairly as Slavs or Armenians. Not that anything's wrong with body hair.
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Luis Guzman is one of my favorite New York actors. Born and raised in the City, trained in the City, always played NYC locals. Maybe a cop, maybe a psycho, but always a New York City guy.
One day his agent calls him; they want him for a movie, The Count of Monte Cristo. He's flabbergasted. He plays New York, that's what he does. But he goes in and auditions and they decide they want him.
I remember seeing him and recognizing him and saying 'no way.' Then he starts acting and it's like, yeah, there were Puerto Ricans in the 1800s.
Yeah, I love him, too. He's always great.
This is one of the good things British shows have. People looks like people.
That's why I don't like american tv shows as much. Mand di i love the Inbetweeners or peep show for example. When real people play real people. Not 30 year old top models play 16 year olds. And the have one fat extra to make fun of.
I always like Buffy The Vampire Slayer. They tried to play off that Alyson Hannigan was the 'plain' looking girl.
Common in Silo. The guy is only good as one-dimensional characters, nothing more than that.
I think he was fine in the earlier season(s) (what season are they on now?) but agree he still acts the same after the "change" (to not spoil anything).
Yup, because in the beginning his character was one-dimensional. As time goes by, his character gets more depth and that’s where you notice he’s still playing it the same way.
Almost every actor cast in Borderlands.
They got a funny man to play the straight man. A woman almost twice the age of Lilith in the game to play Lilith. Jack Black as Claptrap at least makes some sense, but it's not his usual energy and then they tweaked his voice so much I can't tell it's him from clips I've seen.
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Anything Mark Wahlberg is in. I've never seen him do a good performance, and I've seen him do a LOT of terrible ones. Mediocre is the best he's got. And yet, he is sure he's going to get an Oscar one day.
True. Now i wonder what even his best movie was.
The Fighter is a good movie. He plays a boxer and Chriatian Bale plays his brother (for which he got his oscar). Mark is still good in this movie.
I liked The Other Guys, but not because of him.
Watch 'Mile 22.' Mark plays a giant asshole. It's a good thriller.
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There was a miniseries about OJ Simpson and the trial and everything. They cast Cuba Gooding Jr as OJ Simpson. OJ Simpson has a square jaw, broad shoulders, tall athletic. CGJr is small, round, narrow, high pitched, etc. CGJr doesn't even look like he could be OJ's little brother. No idea how he got that part.
Their physical appearance is the least important aspect of their performance. It's up to the audience to suspend disbelief, or else we end up getting people covered in so much prosthetic that they can't emote.
Well whatever was the most important part was also bad. He didn't need to look just like OJ. But part of OJ is this enormous cocky presence that CGJr just can't have.
Anything involving Pat Hingle.
Going a bit off topic into movie, but he simply isn't Jim Gordon in the Batman films. Straight up. Does not fit in any way. I don't look at him and see Gordon. I see Hingle. And I don't like Hingle.
That stems morstly from his Murder She Wrote appearances, where I always find him to be the weak link in the guest cast. (To somewhat bring it back on topic).
Contrast that to i.e. J Jonah Jameson in the Tobie McGuire Spider Man movies. I was absolutely floored to see how they managed to get somebody who fit they look, attitude and mannerisms of what was pretty much a relatively low-screen-time side-character.
Actually in general I'd say the casting choices for the first two movies contributed very strongly to their success. So many of them just fit.
Dane DeHan in Valerean. The part was for an older Han Solo type. Dane was 35, but could still pass for a high schooler. The movie mostly now gets remembered for this miscast, and for its immensely interesting opening sequence, but the whole movie is made of action set pieces made out of sci fi insanity It should be remembered for that, and that Luc Besson is a grooming creepazoid.
Also, Timothy Chalamet. He was terrible in Dune, but I think he was most miscast as Willy Wonka. Hes always wooden, but Wonka needs to be animated! Cinema was introduced to the character with a fake fall into a back flip! Jeremy Alan White is right there!
I'd say Chalamet was even more miscast as Henry V. Henry was a hell-raising rowdy before becoming king, and as king, the kind of leader who liked getting into battle and hacking people to pieces. Barrel-shaped Kenneth Branagh was probably closer to the type than Chalamet, who's no kind of thug.
The show runner for Mad Men cast his own son as 'Glen', and that kid was a terrible actor (he's an adult now obvs, so I consider his performance fair game for criticism).
I would've suggested the girl sally. They clearly wanted a teenager to go through the 60s but the actress ended up looking permanently 13.
Still looking 13 in Sabrina.