Willem Dafoe. The man has never delivered a bad performance
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And boy some of them are WILD. Maybe even most. LOL
Tom Cruise, Christian Bale, Jake Gylenhaal
Tom Cruise gets a lot of hate, but he's an amazing actor.
Cruise is one of those actors who is good if the role is within his range. I think it's fair to say he is an okay actor at best, but AMAZiNG for choosing his roles.
I feel like Cruise and especially in his latter years has really gotten a knack for understanding good scripts in the Action/SciFi genre. If he decides to be in the movie, it’s a good chance it’s going to be good. Edge of Tomorrow, THM, MI have been excellent.
It was Heath Ledger.
Now I’m just sad :(
Man, A Knights Tale is just so good. Where I first saw Paul Bettany and Alan Tudyk.
We shall grieve together.
Mads Mikkelsen
Henry Cavill
Yup. I'm a straight man, but he is objectively beautiful. Also a very good (underated?) actor.
Johnny Depp
Gary Oldman. Olivia Colman. Philip Seymour Hoffman. Cate Blanchett. Tommy Lee Jones. Charlize Theron. Val Kilmer. Emily Blunt. Lee Pace. Sydney Sweeney. Walton Goggins. Laura Donnelly.
Agreed on Karl Urban and Gary Oldman. Probably Tilda Swinton too.
Also Harry Dean Stanton, Sam Rockwell, Judi Dench, Anna Kendrick and Jean Reno. And likely more...
Mahershala Ali.
Christopher Walkin
Jim Carrey, Steve Coogan, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Jimmy Stewart, Hugo Weaving, Kristen Wiig, Jemaine Clement, Will Ferrell, Kate McKinnon. Just looking at that list I realise I probably quite like comedy.
Mark Wahlberg, Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, Jason Statham, Jason Mantzoukas, (geez that looks like a trend haha).
Jason Momoa, Jason Bateman, Jason Segal, Jason Alexander, Jason Voorhees, Jason and the Argonauts, JASON DERULOOOooo!
JASON! JASON! JASON!
That last one got me good haha
The Jasons!
Margot Robbie
Florence Pugh
Harry Styles
Zendaya
Tom Holland
Leonardo DiCaprio
Matt Damon
Eliot Page
Bella Ramsey
Ed Norton
Peter Falk, Edward G. Robinson, or Patrick McGuigan.
I'm not normally drawn to actors, but I could sit and watch these guys read the phone book, if they were alive and there were phone books still.
I do LOVE Peter Faulk. I really wish they would reboot Columbo with Mark Ruffalo.
Ruffalo would be an interesting replacement, but personally I can't see Columbo without Falk.
I could actually see a reboot working too, Ruffalo taking down the ultrarich with gotcha moments at the end -- like him taking down a Musk stand in, or some crypto/A.I. bro
I am all the way there for it.
Hugo Weaving
Ian Tracey.
He was doing mostly bit parts from what I'd seen (X-files, Highlander, Poltergeist: The Legacy, etc, etc) until I caught Intelligence (2005-2007) on early Netflix and from there on I was sold.
I then went back and caught the DaVinci's stuff and enjoyed that.
Then he popped up in Sanctuary, Continuum, and Bates Motel. At this point I know anything I see him in, I'm going to enjoy without fail.
I really should get around to listing the actors whose names I see in the credits and automatically relax and start enjoying myself because I know it'll be good. Matthew MacFayden and Keeley Hawes are two more.
Man, I tried running through the list in my head, and most of them are dead. I'm getting fucking old.
Ed Norton is still alive. Steve Martin. Patrick Stewart. Ian Mckellan.
Fuck, that's about it. And there's no actresses alive on my list. Weeelll, maybe Susan Sarandon, but isn't she semi officially retired? I think she is anyway. I guess you could count Helen Mirren, but I wouldn't go see a movie just because she's in it. I would, however, watch a movie that she's in, even if it isn't a movie I would otherwise be interested in.
If I use that criteria, you can add Ryan Reynolds to the list as well. I'll give his stuff a watch just to see how it is, though I won't go out and hit the theater just because he's in something
I think dead ones can still count. I feel that way about Jimmy Stewart and Carrie Grant.
I feel that. Danny Kaye, Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, and Bette Davis added to those are on my list. Hell, as cheesy as it is, John Wayne too. Not because he was always great, but even when he was just meh, he kinda worked anyway because his screen presence made up for the occasional bad movie.
My first choice would be Leonardo DiCaprio.
First of all he is a great actor, who consistently delivers good performances. But besides that he is also very picky with his projects, while at the same time apparently getting offered almost everything Hollywood has to offer. So I know it'll also be a strong script.
Unlike for example Nicolas Cage who can definitely act, but over his career has taken on a mixed bag of movies.
True, but there are also few people who have been in the sheer VOLUME of films that Nicholas Cage has.
steve martin. charlie day. alison brie
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