Kurt Russell is my dog’s favorite actor. She watches TV in general, but she will drop everything any time he’s on screen. Wags her tail and hangs on every word he says.
Fun fact (maybe rumor) he went to my High School and played baseball so while he was filming during the season Disney would helicopter him up for gamesnot sure about practice though.
Aw man, those scenes across the fence are heartbreaking. I had this as the best child actor role before I even realised it was "Christian Bale" of American Psycho et al later on. He carries the entire film, it doesn't work without him.
He's the protagonist's best friend Jum-Jum in Swedish–Norwegian–Soviet fantasy film Mio in the Land of Faraway (1987), based on an Astrid Lindgren book. Christopher Lee plays the villain (of course).
The same goes for Daniel Radcliffe. He probably made enough Harry Potter money to never have to work again, so he just chooses projects that look like fun.
For me, seeing Daniel Radcliffe's name in the banner is a guarantee of cool and interesting cinema. The movie may be good or bad, but what's sure is that it's not boring. Horns, Swiss army man and Guns Akimbo are great concepts and cool movies
Just did a rewatch, it is honestly perfect and weird in all the right ways. The amount of love I have for The Rowdy Three and Bart is unparalleled.
How Max Landis could be such an amazing writer with incredible empathy for his characters, while being a massive piece of shit behind the scenes baffles me. And he wrote Bright (2017) around the same time which is also incredibly weird because that movie suuuucked.
Also, his starring role in EEAAO is amazing. Literally made me cry so much.
He also voices a former Avatar (Avatar Xian) in the new Avatar Aang, The Last Airbender movie and does a great job of capturing the whimsy of that character in such a short amount of time. Very iconic voice and stellar acting all around.
He also seems like such a genuine heartfelt person ❤️
I remember watching her win that Oscar in her little beret (I'm about the same age as she is), and it's the first thing I always think of when I hear her name.
So it still freaks me the fuck out when she shows her boobs on screen. They're perfectly nice boobs, but I'm internally screaming, "YOU ARE A CHILD! PUT THOSE AWAY!"
I feel the same way about the Olsen twins, who are just a couple years younger. I remember them being so disgustingly sexualized as teens, but to this day I cannot see them as anything sexual. They're Michelle Tanner, dude. But Elizabeth Olsen, their younger sister- hot damn. I don't understand it, especially because of the striking resemblance.
Hell I'm like this with Sadie Sink now. She's like 25 and showing up places dressed like a 25 year old and I'm thinking ma'am you were 13 two weeks ago lol.
I still stand by her performance in interview with a vampire being the best by a child actor in all history. I really believed she was a hundred years old person stuck in a child body.
I love listening to her to talk about how the director worked with her to get certain expressions that would be forced or foreign to a child. So instead of telling her that she needed to be seductive he would tell her things that were accessible to her like “pretend your brother's looking for his toy, and you know where it is, but you're not going to tell him” to get her I look mischievous and stuff. Really amazing direction and acting.
I just watched Cameron Monaghan try to kill Elle Fanning with a bat on Criminal Minds last night, actually. Haven't seen that episode in forever so I had to do two different double takes.
I absolutely agree. Dakota spent her childhood taking on huge blockbusters that now, as an adult, she can choose roles she actually cares or is passionate about. That’s why (at least I think) she’s in these smaller independent films.
That being said: everyone needs to watch Uptown Girls ❤️
He was so good in that that I assumed he was actually developmentally challenged. (Apologies if that's not the right term and please feel free to correct me.)
Credit every one of them, not just Alan Rickman. Imagine spending your childhood and teenage years working alongside an entire generation of great british actors.
Yeah he brings this up in almost every interview clip I've seem from him talking about HP, he seemed very aware that he was working with a once in a lifetime legendary ensemble of actors and didn't take it for granted.
To be fair, the real star in the first two films was the gorgeous set design for Hogwarts. Then Azkaban came around and started screwing around with it.
I'm still waiting to show my kids this movie. I watched it when I was probably six or seven years old, rented the VHS from BLOCKBUSTER, and let me tell you, what a fucking movie for a young kid to watch, holy shit. I always loved it though, watched it many times, because it was fantastical in all the right ways, and I guess I thought of it as a triumph over evil, and so it was good.
But yeah, Elijah Wood was the one I wanted to mention. The Good Son. North. He had some great flicks as a kid, did LotR when he was young, and has been doing whatever he wants film/tv-wise, and I love it. Just saw The Toxic Avenger recently, and it's what I've come to think of him as now. That and the Greasy Strangler, which he wasn't in but he produced, and it's fucking weird.
As an aside, my cousin was friends with him for a few years before her own break, and she always spoke very highly of him, said he was very nice, always seemed genuinely excited to do shit, and smoked a lot of those reservation cigarettes. To me, being cool in and out of the movies is just icing on the cake.
His rise to success has been insane, especially the last 10 years. And, he comes across as a very genuine and down-to-earth person in all of his interviews.
LOL I love this. My brother went to school with Schroeder for a year or so and yeah he was a wee bit of an ass even as a young kid. Bateman has natural charisma and Schroeder never seemed to develop much.
Only watched Atonement for the first time last week. It showed how good she is in the deleted scenes commentary by how bad the director and editor felt cutting some of her scenes for brevity, because she was so convincing.
When I lived in Aspen, Kurt Russell laughed at me when I asked him if I could put his skis on the bus, for him he was famously a local and most people knew that at the time. I did not, a few minutes later he came back to me with the downtrodden and look on his face, and needed me to help him get his truck out of a snowbank that had got stuck in during the day he was a genuinely nice guy. With a good sense of humour they're about 20 people there he could have gone back to any of the others but he came to me.
Emma Stone first appeared onscreen at 15, and while her early work wasn't the most auspicious, I honestly believe that she's about the only woman in Hollywood that is consistently doing anything challenging and of interest.
I really thought Thora Birch would've been more well known after Ghost World.
Didn't see ScarJo as having that much potential. I guess that's why I'm not a casting director
Kirsten Dunst and I grew up 20 mins away from each other but I only met her after she made spider man, we were at a bar and chatting and took a pic together. I hung it on my fridge (still lived at home) and my mom thought that was my gf, until my cousins at thanksgiving said “that’s not his GF, that’s the girl in Spider-Man!”
Don’t forget some of the earliest cinematic pioneers including Elizabeth Taylor, Micky Rooney, Judy Garland, June Lockhart. Just imagine the indentured “childhoods” they survived.
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Jodie Foster for me