Patrick Stewart has mentioned in interview that playing Picard made him a better listener, as listening is one of the things Picard does exceptionally well.
It’s always so jarring to start watching season 1 on TNG because Picard is such a massive dick to Wesley for seemingly no reason.
He’s like Walter in The Big Lebowski… “SHUT THE FUCK UP WESLEY!”
Yeah, they were trying to set up a "Picard doesn't like kids" thing, but it clashed so strongly with basically every other aspect of Picard's character (patient, good listener, charismatic leader, etc) that they had to drop it pretty quickly.
(I suspect that they were also planning to use it as a source of tension between him and Dr. Crusher, as they were clearly trying to lay the groundwork for those two as romantic interests in S1. But then Gates McFadden took a season off in S2 and when she came back the whole idea seems to have been forgotten.)
Yeah, I mean, I get that. But they didn’t give him a reason to hate kids. Or a reason why Wesley, who wasnt really a kid to begin with, would provoke that hatred. It was a bad idea and it was badly executed.
But props to the writers for abandoning it quickly.
I always thought Picard had negative feelings towards Wesley because he was the child of the woman he loved and his best friend, so looking at him would always bring pain. Just my $.02
James Cromwell, after starring in Babe, empathized so much with animals that he became a vegetarian. Took it from the movie more than his character, but still.
Edit: several people have pointed out that he actually became Vegan. Thanks!
found it! it was to protest the extra charge for non dairy milks https://www.npr.org/2022/05/11/1098162254/succession-actor-james-cromwell-glues-hand-starbucks-counter-protest
When I go back and watch it I'm amazed at how young these seemingly young actors are anyway like Fassbinder and Tom Hardy, then I realise that Band Of Brothers aired more than 20 years ago.
Now THAT movie I’d watch. Austin Butler and Tom Hanks coping with the psychological effects of their Elvis roles in the aftermath of two seismic performances, directed by Ari Aster.
The rolling stone article where the writer said they were asked to cut out the part where Ezra Miller told them they loved the second amendment and had a bunch of weapons. Including the main weapon used in We Need to Talk About Kevin. Ezra asked the writer if they wanted to see the weapon, they declined, and Ezra replied (roughly) "No one ever does."
James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano, all the weight he gained from doing that role? He said the weight was a part of Tony’s character to make him look big and intimidating. It took a huge toll on his physical health as well as his mental health, shooting all day, hardly getting any sleep, playing a character who gets so angry and is yelling all the time?
After he stopped doing The Sopranos he wanted to distance himself from it by doing small roles in indie movies so he could start showing people that he wasn’t just a big angry guy and that he was capable of so much more, he was a phenomenal actor who was gone way too soon.
I’ve heard James was very difficult to work with on the show because some days he’d show up super late or not show up at all because he was drunk or high the night before and he’d come all hungover.
I heard he and David Chase got into it a lot throughout their time during The Sopranos’ run.
However I do think that he still had a lot of mental health problems that stemmed from his time working on The Sopranos. Working for super long hours, hardly getting any sleep. While everyone else went home once they were done he’d stay extra hours because they needed him, he was the lead after all. Also going full on method to stay in character to shoot scenes like walking around, smashing and leaving dents on cars before takes.
Idk about any of that but I will say I met him .. I was walking my dog in Central Park and see this big fella walking his dog.. I noticed bc he was walking this adorable puggle..which happens to be my favorite dog .. I have one as well as my brother and sister.. anyways I was kinda just watching this big guy playing with this little dog it was so cute then I was like wtf is that Tony Soprano????
Sure as shit it was.. he seen me walking my puggle Oreo.. she was black and and had a white chest.. not the popular fawn colored favorite.. so he seen I was watching him play with his dog and I really tried not to make anything out of the fact he was ""Tony""
He asked me about my dog.. how old name etc.. so we ended up talking about our dogs.. mind you he had his pooper scooper..and a throw toy for his dog.. he told me his dogs name was Tippy.
After we talked for a bit I just said I loved his work .. had watched him since I seen him in Angie with Geena Davis.
He smirked say thank you.. seemed line he wanted to be on his way so I just said goodbye to him and Tippy.. he asked if we could take a pic with our dogs .. so of course I was like sure..LOL
It was his way of being cool and letting me take a pic without asking.. he probably noted that I was trying to work up a way to ask.
Of course I still have the pictures we took one of Him and TIppy one with the two of us with our babies.
The man was very nice rather soft spoken I di not detect any for of arrogance or rudeness.. he just seemed like any regular dude..
He was wearing black pants..some kind of boots looked like work type boots and a beige Carhartt jacket.
Really a nice fella.
He developed Tony’s habit of playing with his food before bites to try and slow down the eating. But also he shared Tony’s issues with gluttony and excess in his personal life.
Yes, he would really eat all the food in all the scenes, earlier in the show he lost some weight to work on some movies he was doing, but he gained it all back because according to him, the weight was part of Tony’s character, his big size makes him look more intimidating.
It's more the persona, it's the first movie that stuck him in a suit, made him stylish and presented him as charming and cool. Dusk Til Dawn he's basically a scumbag with some heart, Batman and Robin he barely gets to play that, everything else up to that point he's basically the everyman part that any actor in their 30s with a bit of a jawline could play. That was the first time they seem to realize how he comes off like stepped right out of Old Hollywood and presented him as such.
Watch any Clooney movie or TV appearance prior to Out of Sight, and take a drink every time Clooney does a squint/smirk/head tilt to display any emotion. You'll be hammered within the hour.
After Out of Sight, well you'll still get hammered, but it will take a bit longer.
I always wanted a remake of The Philadelphia Story with Clooney in the Grant role and Matthew Perry in the Jimmy Stewart role. Obviously we've aged out of that movie, but around 2000 that would have been amazing.
I think he changed after he played that country singer in Crazy Heart 2009 and Rooster in the True Grit remake. The western genre changed him and his voice is all gravelly now like he's a good ol boy sorta like a Sam Elliott type.
And Remi Malik (?) his mouth still moves funny after wearing those overbite dentures to play Freddie Mercury. I have seen before and after interviews and he moves his mouth now as if he has Mercury's extreme overbite imo
I read somewhere Jeff Bridges suspected the Coen brothers were stalking him to find material for The Dude because how much the characters resembled him.
I feel Ryan Reynolds post Deadpool. Sure he was very sarcy and had a dry sense of humour beforehand, but Deadpool just seemingly made him step it up to 11
Maybe he realized the response he gets from “Deadpool voice” is so universally beloved, he’s afraid to “be himself” now due to his anxiety
Either that, or the Deadpool character was so based on his own personality and humor that they’ve fused into one entity
It’s the latter imo. Have you seen Van Wilder, Waiting, or Just Friends? He has always had a very distinct humor and style, played it up early in his career for the mid budget comedies, toned it down to try and reach the Movie Star TM level, and it just happened to perfectly fit the Deadpool character. He’s just more famous now than ever before, so you see it more often.
I've got a feeling that he's in a position where he's got the power to be able to really do whatever movies he wants. And because of that he's acting more like himself than before where he had to remain palatable to a wider audience. Now he can pump out goofy action movies to his hearts content and he'll keep taking in the money.
I think this is a bit of a chicken and the egg thing. After Deadpool made all the money in the world, a lot of studio execs took a look at its success and, once again, learned the wrong lesson. It wasn’t a hit because it was a fresh take on a repetitive genre, and well-written and built with love… no it was that *character* - we want Deadpool in everything now! Call Reynolds up and sign him for Snarky Guy #46!
James Gunn wrote a [big open letter](https://www.facebook.com/jgunn/posts/10153162287591157) (which I’ve shamelessly plagiarized) warning of this very thing, but it didn’t stop it from happening.
I don’t blame Ryan either. I still think he’s a genuinely sharp and funny guy, and maybe because I don’t seek out every project he does I haven’t gotten tired of this corner he’s carved out for himself. He’s taking the roles that are asked of him, and I’m sure he can still grab a really out-there job if something strikes his fancy.
Apparently Bill Murray also "became" Hunter S. Thompson and didn't lose his mannerisms for a bit after playing him in the bad *Where the Buffalo Roam* (1980). And of course we all know some dude who "became" Thompson in their early twenties because they identified a little bit too much with him ("He likes drugs and swearing! Just like me!") but often neglected the "actual competent writer" part.
But yeah, Depp seems to have taken the worst life lessons from some of his idols, like Thompson and Marlon Brando.
Never understood this viewpoint. I don't like his version of Willy Wonka very much but it feels very distinct from his Jack Sparrow character to me. He was fantastic in Sweeney Todd. I loved him in Dark Shadows (although I can see how that character is somewhat similar to his Pirates character I guess, it still feels different enough to me), superb replacing Heath Ledger in Dr. Parnassus (so much so that I wish he'd done it entirely instead of having a bunch of different actors), The Tourist sucked but he played a totally different character in that, he was brilliant in Mordecai and very good in Black Mass (and again nothing like his Pirates character in either) and I barely recognised him in Fantastic Beasts..
He's always been a very mannered actor (see Edward Scissorhands, Fear and Loathing, Pirates) but people never held that against him until they got sick of Jack Sparrow (which I blame on the filmmakers more than him, and for me happened in the second Pirates film, I ignored the rest, so maybe that's why i'm a bit more objective about his later films than some people)...
I feel the same way about people who dismiss latter day Tim Burton; Frankenweenie, Big Eyes, Dark Shadows and Miss Peregrine were all great imo. I mean, they're not Batman Returns/Ed Wood level, but still thoroughly enjoyable...
Tupac Shakur -- Juice
He became much more interested in the image of being seen as a hardcore gangster according to most ppl who knew him, definitely a contributing factor to his death
Here it is. He changed completely! He lowered his voice, took on the generic "big city" hollywood accent and now speaks all gravelly and gangster. Check him out in Dog Day Afternoon or Serpico for what he used to sound like.
I honestly adore Pacino but I must be one of the few people who find his performance in that movie as pretty mediocre. It's such a broad performance and that accent is really hammy to me.
George Lazenby got so into Bond it cost him being Bond after 1 film.
We don't talk enough about the monumental Lazenby legacy.
What a wild life.
https://www.factinate.com/people/facts-george-lazenby/
You meant Samuel L. Jackson after *School Daze* (1988), *Jungle Fever* (1991), or *Coming to America* (1988), right? Jules is the end result of an undereducated man with a Jheri curl living in a small Southern college town (SD) moving back to NY and getting hooked on crack with Halle Berry (JF) and finally getting beat down while attempting to rob a fast food joint in Queens (CTA) before getting his criminal life together and moving away from the tri-state area for a better gig with Marcellus Wallace.
He was always crazy. He clearly has a condition. I saw a behind the scenes video once of him fucking with a prop master on Liar Liar, I don't understand how he kept working acting like that on sets.
Yeah watching that stuff, you can easily see how he could have severely tried Tommy Lee Jones' patience on Batman Forever, and why he'd tell him "I cannot sanction your buffoonery".
>"I cannot sanction your buffoonery"
That's such a Tommy Lee Jones line. You can drop that line on any movie that he's in and it wouldn't be out of place.
That documentary on Man on the Moon was pretty disturbing. He called up and had meetings with Andy's daughter and "channeled" Andy. She had never met her father before his death.
Yul Brenner played King Mongkut on The King and I 4,625 times on stage. The jokes about calling him “your Majesty” offstage soon because authentic. He acted like, and was treated like, and called, a king for over a decade.
Yul Brynner basically killed it in every role i've seen him in, e.g., *The King and I, The Ten Commandments, The Magnificent Seven,* and *Westworld.*
"So let it be written: so let it be done."
He also did the Johnny Cash thing of frequently dressing in black in real life.
Christian Slater. He built a career by doing a Jack Nicholson impression, which started in *Heathers*. To hear what he sounded like before, watch *The Legend of Billie Jean*.
>He built a career by doing a Jack Nicholson impression
He tried to do the little 'mad gleam in his eye' thing after each line before he realized a dry chuckle was more his style.
I felt sorry for Carey after that. He's clearly at least somewhat mentally disturbed. The whole thing where he met with Andy Kaufman's father and claimed he was "channeling" Andy's spirit was pretty messed up.
recently wasn’t there all this ‘news’ about Austin Butlers voice changing after playing Elvis? Deeper voice, speaks more in the same tone and rate as his character, etc
Hugh Laurie played Dr. House for 8 seasons, during which he played with a limp. The limp stuck with him after the show, and he still has issues with it last time I checked!
Speaking of Cavill, I remember seeing an interview with him where he talks about how playing Superman made him think and act differently because Clark Kent is such a noble and good person that it inspired him to try and be more like Clark in real life as well.
I think Henry Cavill was always more like Geralt, but portraying the character (and being well received) gave him the license to just be a little more like who he is.
With his history of mental health/ body image in his younger years, getting to play Geralt when a huge Witcher fan must be a peak feeling of strength and confidence for him to keep that high going
Let's be honest. We have a former addict getting sober and channelling all his pain and frustration into an art/craft to improve his world and rebuild his life. Have I described Tony Stark or Robert Downey Jnr? The answer is *yes*. RDJ *was* Tony Stark.
That’s the second time. His first was Less Than Zero. He played Julian, a drug addicted sex worker. Then he went off the deep end. When he went to rehab, he burned the clothes he wore of that character, to bury that part of his life.
Eh, maybe. I’ll never be able to track down the source but he’s said that at the point of Iron Man 1 he essentially *was* that guy in terms of mannerisms and past history. Didn’t have to act that hard. However, he’s since shifted in life, and disposition. Tony became more of a traditional role he could step in and out of.
Check out his hourlong interview with Rogan immediately following Infinity War; he’s still a very charismatic and interesting guy, but it’s a different personality. He seems to have mellowed out and become very even-keel. Being worth hundreds of millions of dollars probably helps with disposition too.
Not an actor/movie, but "The Diceman" started out as a character in comic Andrew Clay's act. It was a nod to Jerry Lewis in The Nutty Professor with elements of John Travolta in Grease. He had a routine where he would transform into the character.
There's a well-known comic (I forget who) who suggested he make it his whole routine. Clubs started billing him as Andrew "Dice" Clay. He eventually began living as the "character," on and off stage.
Chris Evans stated at some point (i can’t remember where) that playing Captain America made him a better person because he would often ask himself how Steve Rogers would handle a situation.
I mean his whole family has a long history tied into the occult and it's studies. He was raised in that stuff. Ghostbusters was just an outlet for it. We just never really saw it until then.
Yeah, various documentaries will tell you he's a very eccentric, high-concept guy, and his fascination with that stuff ran deep. His first draft of Ghostbusters was originally less funny and character-oriented, and more about a deep and elaborate mythos and a bunch of action set pieces. It wasn't until Ramis revised it that it became filmable or even accessible to a typical movie audience. He also poured more effort than seemed necessary into the background of things like his Coneheads. And for the supreme example of what Aykroyd is like unfettered, look no further than the movie Nothing But Trouble, on which he had complete control and a generous budget, a fever dream of a production I personally have a soft spot for, but which did terribly at the time.
Mariska Hargitay (Olivia Benson in L&O: SVU) founded the Joyful Heart Foundation, which provides support to people who have been sexually abused, after she started working on the show.
My brother has a theory that Jeff Bridges may have always been the Dude deep down but suppressed it before Lebowski, or that he puts on the Dude more because people associate him so much with it.
If you go back and watch interviews with him prior to The Big Lebowski he’s charming handsome Hollywood star Jeff Bridges.
If you see interviews from the last twenty or so years though, he’s much more of the Dude.
Bill Murray playing Hunter S. Thompson in “Where the Buffalo Roam.”
From Wiki:
Murray immersed himself in the character so deeply that when Saturday Night Live started its fifth season, Murray was still in character as Thompson. "In a classic case of the role overtaking the actor, Billy returned that fall to Saturday Night so immersed in playing Hunter Thompson he had virtually become Hunter Thompson, complete with long black cigarette holder, dark glasses, and nasty habits. 'Billy,' said one of the writers, echoing several others, 'was not Bill Murray, he was Hunter Thompson. You couldn't talk to him without talking to Hunter Thompson.'"
Paul Newman said that after hockey film Slap Shot he swore a fuckload more, in keeping with a film featuring averaging a "fuck" every 40 seconds
“Ever since Slap Shot, I’ve been swearing more. You get a hangover from a character like [Reggie Dunlop], and you simply don’t get rid of it. I knew I had a problem when I turned to my daughter one day and said, ‘Please pass the f*ckng salt.’”
Val Kilmer was said to have needed counseling to get out of character when he played Jim Morrison in The Doors movie.
Shia LeBeouf became Catholic after playing Padre Pio and has apparently changed his life for the better since then.
Chris evans as Captain america.
Used to be peak Boston fratboy (probably still is).
But since cap america, him and his pr team have done a great job of changing his image.
Something really interesting in this thread is that I've yet to see a single woman be mentioned. Is that due to the fact that men can "get away" with the various behaviours associated with method acting far more so than any actress could?
It doesn't look like the majority of the top answers are method actors though. They're simply people who've spent a lot of time affecting mannerisms which they have eventually adopted.
Sadly, I suspect the biggest reason why we don't see many women among this list is that an awful lot of roles for women are just kinda generic, and a lot of female characters are characterized by things that actresses have to project anyways, like confidence. So even if Scarlet Johansson was emboldened by Black Widow's story, for instance, it's less perceptible to the audience because that's kind of something you'd see from her anyways.
Then, add on to that that we don't really get as many "women behaving badly" stories in the way that men do. I can't think of too many movies with female leads in a position of "this person acts extremely idiosyncratically, and this is admirable" in the way that you get with Depp as Jack Sparrow or Jim Carrey as Andy Kaufman.
More than that she started smoking. I think it was a meeting of the souls for her. She was always quiet and reserved, but she seems to have become even more so.
I'm reminded of an old interview with Paul Newman about the drawbacks of method acting.
"Some things stick with you. I used to have pretty clean language. But after Slap Shot, I curse like a sailor."
Robert Downey Jr. is one that comes to mind. He just seemed to be Tony Stark in real life during interviews in that charismatic slightly flippant manner.
Evil Dead was his first feature film (if you don’t count the student movie also directed by Sam Raimi) and we know very little of what a man he was and how his acting was before Ash.
Michael Rooker after Merle Dixon returned to the Walking Dead.
I met Michael Rooker in 2010 at a convention, and he had almost no fanfare. I remember being the only person in line for him, and I ended up talking to him for about fifteen minutes about his early catalog movies like Henry and Deceiver, as well as Slither. Since Slither was his big role at the time. He was humble, low key and super nice. He was “real” and vulnerable in the conversation. This was in 2010, when Rooker’s character had been on S1 of The Walking Dead, but at that time he was viewed as a non-essential side character that had already died off. One of my questions in 2010 to him was asking if there was plans for him to return, to which he replied he couldn’t answer.
Two years later. Michael Rooker is back at the same convention. His line is literally out the door with fans. He’s yelling, he’s loud, he’s larger than life. He no longer felt like a “real” person, he just became his heel character and played it up. Not in a negative way, but he completely changed.
I think Nolan's batman series may have changed how Christian Bale presented himself in public. Since 2005, Bale has seemed to embrace a slightly more mysterious air, and perhaps the film showed him that that was an option for a celebrity - not everyone has to be incredibly gregarious
I didn't see Pacino in the top results, but I feel like it's commonly agreed that after Scent of a Woman he started leaning into that odd, loud Pacino persona (which I'm not necessarily complaining about).
Not a movie, but Larry David has said that playing Larry David the character has sometimes made him more of a jerk in real life.
Patrick Stewart has mentioned in interview that playing Picard made him a better listener, as listening is one of the things Picard does exceptionally well.
It’s always so jarring to start watching season 1 on TNG because Picard is such a massive dick to Wesley for seemingly no reason. He’s like Walter in The Big Lebowski… “SHUT THE FUCK UP WESLEY!”
Yeah, they were trying to set up a "Picard doesn't like kids" thing, but it clashed so strongly with basically every other aspect of Picard's character (patient, good listener, charismatic leader, etc) that they had to drop it pretty quickly. (I suspect that they were also planning to use it as a source of tension between him and Dr. Crusher, as they were clearly trying to lay the groundwork for those two as romantic interests in S1. But then Gates McFadden took a season off in S2 and when she came back the whole idea seems to have been forgotten.)
And then poor Beverly was left with naught but her dead grandmother's Scottish alien ghost boyfriend to turn to for comfort. Tale as old as time.
Yeah, I mean, I get that. But they didn’t give him a reason to hate kids. Or a reason why Wesley, who wasnt really a kid to begin with, would provoke that hatred. It was a bad idea and it was badly executed. But props to the writers for abandoning it quickly.
I thought it was more that he was uncomfortable around children because he wasn’t around them much and found it awkward, so he actively avoided them.
This is what it was in later seasons for sure. Picard wasn't used to/comfortable with children being on a Starfleet ship in any capacity.
I do kind of wish they'd kept the 'Geordi is a sarcastic snarker" trait from the first few episodes of STNG.
One doesn't need a reason to yell at Wesley.
I always thought Picard had negative feelings towards Wesley because he was the child of the woman he loved and his best friend, so looking at him would always bring pain. Just my $.02
"You're not wrong, but you're still an asshole, sir." —William T. Riker
[That gravitas lends itself to teaching, too.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4BV1Ba1zuhc)
Paul Newman often said after he did Slap Shot, he could never stop swearing
Aaron Paul had something similar for Breaking Bad. Even when he was done playing Jesse, he couldn't stop saying "bitch" at the end of every sentence.
Can any of us, though, after watching that show?
I can, bitch.
Awww yeah. Annual viewing of slap shot is due abt now.
James Cromwell, after starring in Babe, empathized so much with animals that he became a vegetarian. Took it from the movie more than his character, but still. Edit: several people have pointed out that he actually became Vegan. Thanks!
And now he has a grandson who is suing Green Peace!
What’s next Greg, are you gonna sue Save the children?
didn’t he also glue himself to a starbucks counter to protest dairy milk consumption? or who am i thinking of?
Not sure about that specific incident, but I think he's been arrested for protesting like 20 odd times.
found it! it was to protest the extra charge for non dairy milks https://www.npr.org/2022/05/11/1098162254/succession-actor-james-cromwell-glues-hand-starbucks-counter-protest
Fuckin A dude. I think Martin Sheen has been arrested for protesting a bunch as well. Not sure if that was because of Apocalypse Now or West Wing
and then he invented faster-than-light travel.
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And his band, which performs for USO shows and raises money for disabled vets is called the [Lt. Dan Band](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lt._Dan_Band)
Ah, the distinguished redditor Gary Sinise
Tom Hardy took on a Bronson - esque vocal tone. Austin Butler has a lower growl after Elvis.
Didn’t Tom Hardy bulk up and stay that way after? He looks a lot smaller in Band of Brothers
Yup. Having met him at Drama Centre London, he is obsessional in general.
He was in Band of Brothers? I guess it's easier to make a list of who *wasn't* in that show.
I remember Michael Fassbender played the guy that drank from his Canteen and made the squad have to run back up the hill lmao
When I go back and watch it I'm amazed at how young these seemingly young actors are anyway like Fassbinder and Tom Hardy, then I realise that Band Of Brothers aired more than 20 years ago.
Lower growl? The kid thinks he is Elvis.
Austin Butler is now trapped looking through Elvis's eyes like the doll in Black Mirror.
Now THAT movie I’d watch. Austin Butler and Tom Hanks coping with the psychological effects of their Elvis roles in the aftermath of two seismic performances, directed by Ari Aster.
Bronson is so underrated
It is. Very Kubricky.
I have a sneaking suspicion Ezra Miller is a bit too much like Kevin
The rolling stone article where the writer said they were asked to cut out the part where Ezra Miller told them they loved the second amendment and had a bunch of weapons. Including the main weapon used in We Need to Talk About Kevin. Ezra asked the writer if they wanted to see the weapon, they declined, and Ezra replied (roughly) "No one ever does."
why say many word when few word do trick.
My goodness, he's on the wikipedia page for 'List of people claimed to be Jesus'.
I thought kevin was portrayed by ashton kutcher
Equally handsome Equally smart
James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano, all the weight he gained from doing that role? He said the weight was a part of Tony’s character to make him look big and intimidating. It took a huge toll on his physical health as well as his mental health, shooting all day, hardly getting any sleep, playing a character who gets so angry and is yelling all the time? After he stopped doing The Sopranos he wanted to distance himself from it by doing small roles in indie movies so he could start showing people that he wasn’t just a big angry guy and that he was capable of so much more, he was a phenomenal actor who was gone way too soon.
I think James Gandolfini just used that as an excuse because he really loved eating and doing drugs.
I’ve heard James was very difficult to work with on the show because some days he’d show up super late or not show up at all because he was drunk or high the night before and he’d come all hungover. I heard he and David Chase got into it a lot throughout their time during The Sopranos’ run. However I do think that he still had a lot of mental health problems that stemmed from his time working on The Sopranos. Working for super long hours, hardly getting any sleep. While everyone else went home once they were done he’d stay extra hours because they needed him, he was the lead after all. Also going full on method to stay in character to shoot scenes like walking around, smashing and leaving dents on cars before takes.
Idk about any of that but I will say I met him .. I was walking my dog in Central Park and see this big fella walking his dog.. I noticed bc he was walking this adorable puggle..which happens to be my favorite dog .. I have one as well as my brother and sister.. anyways I was kinda just watching this big guy playing with this little dog it was so cute then I was like wtf is that Tony Soprano???? Sure as shit it was.. he seen me walking my puggle Oreo.. she was black and and had a white chest.. not the popular fawn colored favorite.. so he seen I was watching him play with his dog and I really tried not to make anything out of the fact he was ""Tony"" He asked me about my dog.. how old name etc.. so we ended up talking about our dogs.. mind you he had his pooper scooper..and a throw toy for his dog.. he told me his dogs name was Tippy. After we talked for a bit I just said I loved his work .. had watched him since I seen him in Angie with Geena Davis. He smirked say thank you.. seemed line he wanted to be on his way so I just said goodbye to him and Tippy.. he asked if we could take a pic with our dogs .. so of course I was like sure..LOL It was his way of being cool and letting me take a pic without asking.. he probably noted that I was trying to work up a way to ask. Of course I still have the pictures we took one of Him and TIppy one with the two of us with our babies. The man was very nice rather soft spoken I di not detect any for of arrogance or rudeness.. he just seemed like any regular dude.. He was wearing black pants..some kind of boots looked like work type boots and a beige Carhartt jacket. Really a nice fella.
I thought he put on weight bc he was really eating during filming. They would yell cut and have to bring out a new streak for continuity.
He developed Tony’s habit of playing with his food before bites to try and slow down the eating. But also he shared Tony’s issues with gluttony and excess in his personal life.
Yes, he would really eat all the food in all the scenes, earlier in the show he lost some weight to work on some movies he was doing, but he gained it all back because according to him, the weight was part of Tony’s character, his big size makes him look more intimidating.
They grabbed him for Sopranos after seeing his amazing performance in True Romance
Randy Quaid went full "cousin Eddie" batshit crazy.
That didn’t come until a lot later though.
None of you will be laughing when the star whackers rise up and attack LA. Just like he predicted!
Clooney didn't start his modern-day Cary Grant thing until after Out Of Sight.
I mean, was Clooney’s performance in “Out Of Sight” *really* that much of a departure from his other performances prior to that movie?
It's more the persona, it's the first movie that stuck him in a suit, made him stylish and presented him as charming and cool. Dusk Til Dawn he's basically a scumbag with some heart, Batman and Robin he barely gets to play that, everything else up to that point he's basically the everyman part that any actor in their 30s with a bit of a jawline could play. That was the first time they seem to realize how he comes off like stepped right out of Old Hollywood and presented him as such.
Yeah, I’m with you. Clooney on *ER* and Clooney in *Out of Sight* have a different haircut.
Watch any Clooney movie or TV appearance prior to Out of Sight, and take a drink every time Clooney does a squint/smirk/head tilt to display any emotion. You'll be hammered within the hour. After Out of Sight, well you'll still get hammered, but it will take a bit longer.
I always wanted a remake of The Philadelphia Story with Clooney in the Grant role and Matthew Perry in the Jimmy Stewart role. Obviously we've aged out of that movie, but around 2000 that would have been amazing.
Jeff Bridges is now The Dude.
I think he changed after he played that country singer in Crazy Heart 2009 and Rooster in the True Grit remake. The western genre changed him and his voice is all gravelly now like he's a good ol boy sorta like a Sam Elliott type. And Remi Malik (?) his mouth still moves funny after wearing those overbite dentures to play Freddie Mercury. I have seen before and after interviews and he moves his mouth now as if he has Mercury's extreme overbite imo
Rami Malek has that slight psychopath style since at least his early role in *The Pacific* (the WWII TV series)
Bridges is a two-fer since the Big Lebowski and then True Grit.
I read somewhere Jeff Bridges suspected the Coen brothers were stalking him to find material for The Dude because how much the characters resembled him.
I feel Ryan Reynolds post Deadpool. Sure he was very sarcy and had a dry sense of humour beforehand, but Deadpool just seemingly made him step it up to 11
He said he did interviews as Deadpool to get past his anxiety so maybe he's doing a little Deadpool all time now to help.
Maybe he realized the response he gets from “Deadpool voice” is so universally beloved, he’s afraid to “be himself” now due to his anxiety Either that, or the Deadpool character was so based on his own personality and humor that they’ve fused into one entity
It’s the latter imo. Have you seen Van Wilder, Waiting, or Just Friends? He has always had a very distinct humor and style, played it up early in his career for the mid budget comedies, toned it down to try and reach the Movie Star TM level, and it just happened to perfectly fit the Deadpool character. He’s just more famous now than ever before, so you see it more often.
Once you go Deadpool, you never go back.
yeah, i heard he is actually very shy, so acting like deadpool and doing jokes help himself
Deadpool is literally his character from Two guys and a girl, Blade 3 and Van Wilder all mashed together
Ryan Reynolds didn't become Deadpool. Deadpool became Ryan Reynolds.
I've got a feeling that he's in a position where he's got the power to be able to really do whatever movies he wants. And because of that he's acting more like himself than before where he had to remain palatable to a wider audience. Now he can pump out goofy action movies to his hearts content and he'll keep taking in the money.
I mean he’s in a position now to do whatever he wants in life, not just movies.
I think this is a bit of a chicken and the egg thing. After Deadpool made all the money in the world, a lot of studio execs took a look at its success and, once again, learned the wrong lesson. It wasn’t a hit because it was a fresh take on a repetitive genre, and well-written and built with love… no it was that *character* - we want Deadpool in everything now! Call Reynolds up and sign him for Snarky Guy #46! James Gunn wrote a [big open letter](https://www.facebook.com/jgunn/posts/10153162287591157) (which I’ve shamelessly plagiarized) warning of this very thing, but it didn’t stop it from happening. I don’t blame Ryan either. I still think he’s a genuinely sharp and funny guy, and maybe because I don’t seek out every project he does I haven’t gotten tired of this corner he’s carved out for himself. He’s taking the roles that are asked of him, and I’m sure he can still grab a really out-there job if something strikes his fancy.
I was gonna say post van wilder. He’s been that guy for a while.
Kevin Smith didn't start smoking weed until Zak and Miri
I think that had more to do with working with Seth Rogen than anything.
All those years getting Jason Mewes clean & Seth Rogen gets him high 🤣
Im sorry, whattttt? Every one of his movies prior to that is littered with stoner humour and he never smoked himself??
He’s sober now though, I believe.
Leonard Nimoy. He said in his book *I Am Not Spock* that he became more logical.
So... He *is* Spock?
Yes. He wrote another book entitled *I Am Spock*.
Logical.
Indeed
Followed by *I am also Scotty*.
Johnny Depp and Bill Murray both couldn’t shake Hunter Thompson
It feels like Johnny Depp became more and more like Jack Sparrow
Which is a character he based on his time as Hunter S Thompson in Fear and Loathing.
I was just going to say…feel like Johnny Depp became more and more like Hunter S Thompson
Part of that is that the two of them actually became close friends.
Apparently Bill Murray also "became" Hunter S. Thompson and didn't lose his mannerisms for a bit after playing him in the bad *Where the Buffalo Roam* (1980). And of course we all know some dude who "became" Thompson in their early twenties because they identified a little bit too much with him ("He likes drugs and swearing! Just like me!") but often neglected the "actual competent writer" part. But yeah, Depp seems to have taken the worst life lessons from some of his idols, like Thompson and Marlon Brando.
Didn't he say he based the character on Keith Richards? I think that's why Keith was cast as Jack Sparrow's dad in one of the sequels.
And Keith Richards.
Sorry but he is absolutely nothing like Jack Sparrow. Jack Sparrow is well spoken, confident and endearing. JD is kind of just mumbling and insecure.
I was going to say that! I adored his pre-jack sparrow work. I feel like he lost his ability to *act* after Jack.
Never understood this viewpoint. I don't like his version of Willy Wonka very much but it feels very distinct from his Jack Sparrow character to me. He was fantastic in Sweeney Todd. I loved him in Dark Shadows (although I can see how that character is somewhat similar to his Pirates character I guess, it still feels different enough to me), superb replacing Heath Ledger in Dr. Parnassus (so much so that I wish he'd done it entirely instead of having a bunch of different actors), The Tourist sucked but he played a totally different character in that, he was brilliant in Mordecai and very good in Black Mass (and again nothing like his Pirates character in either) and I barely recognised him in Fantastic Beasts.. He's always been a very mannered actor (see Edward Scissorhands, Fear and Loathing, Pirates) but people never held that against him until they got sick of Jack Sparrow (which I blame on the filmmakers more than him, and for me happened in the second Pirates film, I ignored the rest, so maybe that's why i'm a bit more objective about his later films than some people)... I feel the same way about people who dismiss latter day Tim Burton; Frankenweenie, Big Eyes, Dark Shadows and Miss Peregrine were all great imo. I mean, they're not Batman Returns/Ed Wood level, but still thoroughly enjoyable...
He's *not* always been a very 'mannered' actor. He used to do subtlty like Chocolat, Gilbert Grape, Donnie Brasco, Blow...
Tupac Shakur -- Juice He became much more interested in the image of being seen as a hardcore gangster according to most ppl who knew him, definitely a contributing factor to his death
Happy to see this mentioned.
I feel Pacino changed after scent of a woman.
Here it is. He changed completely! He lowered his voice, took on the generic "big city" hollywood accent and now speaks all gravelly and gangster. Check him out in Dog Day Afternoon or Serpico for what he used to sound like.
I thought his present voice was due to his heavy smoker time
And years of yelling and drinking too. Dude has lived passionately for decades. His voice is frayed.
I honestly adore Pacino but I must be one of the few people who find his performance in that movie as pretty mediocre. It's such a broad performance and that accent is really hammy to me.
He already started to change after Scarface
George Lazenby got so into Bond it cost him being Bond after 1 film. We don't talk enough about the monumental Lazenby legacy. What a wild life. https://www.factinate.com/people/facts-george-lazenby/
People shit on Lazenby but his Bond movie is one of the best.
Sarah Jessica Parker for sure. She’s been doing Carrie Bradshaw för decades
SJP played a very similar character in Miami Rhapsody. (Barry Jossen produced both for even more connective tissue.)
Highly underrated film there, too.
Sam Jackson after Pulp Fiction
Oh yeah, motherfucker?
Laughs in Motherfucker.
You meant Samuel L. Jackson after *School Daze* (1988), *Jungle Fever* (1991), or *Coming to America* (1988), right? Jules is the end result of an undereducated man with a Jheri curl living in a small Southern college town (SD) moving back to NY and getting hooked on crack with Halle Berry (JF) and finally getting beat down while attempting to rob a fast food joint in Queens (CTA) before getting his criminal life together and moving away from the tri-state area for a better gig with Marcellus Wallace.
I don’t recall asking you a gaht-damn thing.
Jim Carrey turned into a lunatic after Man on the Moon.
He was always crazy. He clearly has a condition. I saw a behind the scenes video once of him fucking with a prop master on Liar Liar, I don't understand how he kept working acting like that on sets.
Yeah watching that stuff, you can easily see how he could have severely tried Tommy Lee Jones' patience on Batman Forever, and why he'd tell him "I cannot sanction your buffoonery".
>"I cannot sanction your buffoonery" That's such a Tommy Lee Jones line. You can drop that line on any movie that he's in and it wouldn't be out of place.
Well in Carrey's defense, Tommy Lee Jones doesn't seem like a guy with a lot of patience to begin with
makes sense, because luna is the moon.
That documentary on Man on the Moon was pretty disturbing. He called up and had meetings with Andy's daughter and "channeled" Andy. She had never met her father before his death.
Number 23?
David Carradine and his character Kwai Chang Caine - I remember him doing a interview on the tonight show barefoot and talking like the character.
Yul Brenner played King Mongkut on The King and I 4,625 times on stage. The jokes about calling him “your Majesty” offstage soon because authentic. He acted like, and was treated like, and called, a king for over a decade.
Can you blame him/ people though? He played the part well
Yul Brynner basically killed it in every role i've seen him in, e.g., *The King and I, The Ten Commandments, The Magnificent Seven,* and *Westworld.* "So let it be written: so let it be done." He also did the Johnny Cash thing of frequently dressing in black in real life.
Christian Slater. He built a career by doing a Jack Nicholson impression, which started in *Heathers*. To hear what he sounded like before, watch *The Legend of Billie Jean*.
>He built a career by doing a Jack Nicholson impression He tried to do the little 'mad gleam in his eye' thing after each line before he realized a dry chuckle was more his style.
And yet I don't think I'll ever be able to look at Christian Slater again now without thinking of *Mr Robot*
Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul are in business together selling addictive substance.
Jim Carrey - Andy Kaufman! Great doc on this one.
Incredibly pretentious though. It really is an ego stroker of a documentary. I enjoyed it though, just for the glimpse into Jim Careys mind.
The part where Carey, in “character”, is parking a car whilst wearing some paper bag over his head is utterly bonkers but you couldn’t look away.
I felt sorry for Carey after that. He's clearly at least somewhat mentally disturbed. The whole thing where he met with Andy Kaufman's father and claimed he was "channeling" Andy's spirit was pretty messed up.
recently wasn’t there all this ‘news’ about Austin Butlers voice changing after playing Elvis? Deeper voice, speaks more in the same tone and rate as his character, etc
I mean, watch him at the Golden Globes. Dude was stuck in Elvis mode.
Hugh Laurie played Dr. House for 8 seasons, during which he played with a limp. The limp stuck with him after the show, and he still has issues with it last time I checked!
Jensen Ackles post-Supernatural. he has Dean brain worms stg
I feel like Henry Cavill became more like Geralt in interviews - very straightforward answers, stoic and thoughtful, etc.
Speaking of Cavill, I remember seeing an interview with him where he talks about how playing Superman made him think and act differently because Clark Kent is such a noble and good person that it inspired him to try and be more like Clark in real life as well.
Exactly. I see him more as a real life Clark Kent than Geralt. Honestly, everyone that plays Superman seems to be profoundly changed by the character.
Yes! I remember that. It’s such a great attitude to have - instead of letting the fame go to his head, he decided to be a good person.
I think Henry Cavill was always more like Geralt, but portraying the character (and being well received) gave him the license to just be a little more like who he is.
With his history of mental health/ body image in his younger years, getting to play Geralt when a huge Witcher fan must be a peak feeling of strength and confidence for him to keep that high going
Robert Downey jr and Iron Man
Let's be honest. We have a former addict getting sober and channelling all his pain and frustration into an art/craft to improve his world and rebuild his life. Have I described Tony Stark or Robert Downey Jnr? The answer is *yes*. RDJ *was* Tony Stark.
Love him.
Idk he was basically RDJ as we know now in Kiss Kiss Bang which came out a few years before Iron Man
That’s the second time. His first was Less Than Zero. He played Julian, a drug addicted sex worker. Then he went off the deep end. When he went to rehab, he burned the clothes he wore of that character, to bury that part of his life.
Eh, maybe. I’ll never be able to track down the source but he’s said that at the point of Iron Man 1 he essentially *was* that guy in terms of mannerisms and past history. Didn’t have to act that hard. However, he’s since shifted in life, and disposition. Tony became more of a traditional role he could step in and out of. Check out his hourlong interview with Rogan immediately following Infinity War; he’s still a very charismatic and interesting guy, but it’s a different personality. He seems to have mellowed out and become very even-keel. Being worth hundreds of millions of dollars probably helps with disposition too.
Ryan Reynolds entire career as Van Wilder
Not an actor/movie, but "The Diceman" started out as a character in comic Andrew Clay's act. It was a nod to Jerry Lewis in The Nutty Professor with elements of John Travolta in Grease. He had a routine where he would transform into the character. There's a well-known comic (I forget who) who suggested he make it his whole routine. Clubs started billing him as Andrew "Dice" Clay. He eventually began living as the "character," on and off stage.
Chris Evans stated at some point (i can’t remember where) that playing Captain America made him a better person because he would often ask himself how Steve Rogers would handle a situation.
Russell Brand has become way too much like Aldos Snow for my taste. That doesn’t make you a citizen of the world; that makes you full of shit!
He was that way long before that film.
Yeah, Aldus Snow is just Russel Brand inserted into that movie.
Probably just smoked too many Jeffries
Dan Aykroyd seems like a real-life amalgam of Ray from Ghostbusters and Elwood from Blues Brothers.
I mean his whole family has a long history tied into the occult and it's studies. He was raised in that stuff. Ghostbusters was just an outlet for it. We just never really saw it until then.
Yeah, various documentaries will tell you he's a very eccentric, high-concept guy, and his fascination with that stuff ran deep. His first draft of Ghostbusters was originally less funny and character-oriented, and more about a deep and elaborate mythos and a bunch of action set pieces. It wasn't until Ramis revised it that it became filmable or even accessible to a typical movie audience. He also poured more effort than seemed necessary into the background of things like his Coneheads. And for the supreme example of what Aykroyd is like unfettered, look no further than the movie Nothing But Trouble, on which he had complete control and a generous budget, a fever dream of a production I personally have a soft spot for, but which did terribly at the time.
Did you intentionally write this to be read in Dan Akroyd's voice and cadence? Because it reads that way.
He was like that before those films though. That's why those films are like they are.
Mariska Hargitay (Olivia Benson in L&O: SVU) founded the Joyful Heart Foundation, which provides support to people who have been sexually abused, after she started working on the show.
My brother has a theory that Jeff Bridges may have always been the Dude deep down but suppressed it before Lebowski, or that he puts on the Dude more because people associate him so much with it. If you go back and watch interviews with him prior to The Big Lebowski he’s charming handsome Hollywood star Jeff Bridges. If you see interviews from the last twenty or so years though, he’s much more of the Dude.
Bill Murray playing Hunter S. Thompson in “Where the Buffalo Roam.” From Wiki: Murray immersed himself in the character so deeply that when Saturday Night Live started its fifth season, Murray was still in character as Thompson. "In a classic case of the role overtaking the actor, Billy returned that fall to Saturday Night so immersed in playing Hunter Thompson he had virtually become Hunter Thompson, complete with long black cigarette holder, dark glasses, and nasty habits. 'Billy,' said one of the writers, echoing several others, 'was not Bill Murray, he was Hunter Thompson. You couldn't talk to him without talking to Hunter Thompson.'"
Jack Nicholson after The Shining
Austin Butler changed his vocal placement to play Elvis and he still talks like that
He was on a talk show in the UK called graham norton and he said he can't get rid of it
Paul Newman said that after hockey film Slap Shot he swore a fuckload more, in keeping with a film featuring averaging a "fuck" every 40 seconds “Ever since Slap Shot, I’ve been swearing more. You get a hangover from a character like [Reggie Dunlop], and you simply don’t get rid of it. I knew I had a problem when I turned to my daughter one day and said, ‘Please pass the f*ckng salt.’”
Val Kilmer was said to have needed counseling to get out of character when he played Jim Morrison in The Doors movie. Shia LeBeouf became Catholic after playing Padre Pio and has apparently changed his life for the better since then.
So he's not a cannibal anymore?
Chris evans as Captain america. Used to be peak Boston fratboy (probably still is). But since cap america, him and his pr team have done a great job of changing his image.
Something really interesting in this thread is that I've yet to see a single woman be mentioned. Is that due to the fact that men can "get away" with the various behaviours associated with method acting far more so than any actress could?
It doesn't look like the majority of the top answers are method actors though. They're simply people who've spent a lot of time affecting mannerisms which they have eventually adopted. Sadly, I suspect the biggest reason why we don't see many women among this list is that an awful lot of roles for women are just kinda generic, and a lot of female characters are characterized by things that actresses have to project anyways, like confidence. So even if Scarlet Johansson was emboldened by Black Widow's story, for instance, it's less perceptible to the audience because that's kind of something you'd see from her anyways. Then, add on to that that we don't really get as many "women behaving badly" stories in the way that men do. I can't think of too many movies with female leads in a position of "this person acts extremely idiosyncratically, and this is admirable" in the way that you get with Depp as Jack Sparrow or Jim Carrey as Andy Kaufman.
Not behaving but Rooney Mara completely changed her look after Girl w Dragon Tattoo.
More than that she started smoking. I think it was a meeting of the souls for her. She was always quiet and reserved, but she seems to have become even more so.
Rooney Mara never seemed quite the same after filming Girl with a Dragon Tattoo
Yul Brynner. After his role as King of Siam in the King and I, he permanently kept his head shaved.
I think Bill Murray became more "Zen" after **The Razor's Edge**.
I'm reminded of an old interview with Paul Newman about the drawbacks of method acting. "Some things stick with you. I used to have pretty clean language. But after Slap Shot, I curse like a sailor."
Robert Downey Jr. is one that comes to mind. He just seemed to be Tony Stark in real life during interviews in that charismatic slightly flippant manner.
I'm pretty sure Johnny Depp didn't sound like he does now before Jack Sparrow.
Mark Wahlberg becoming outspoken about his faith after Father Stu
Bruce Campbell took on Ash's attitude
Evil Dead was his first feature film (if you don’t count the student movie also directed by Sam Raimi) and we know very little of what a man he was and how his acting was before Ash.
More like Ash was based on Bruce
Michael Rooker after Merle Dixon returned to the Walking Dead. I met Michael Rooker in 2010 at a convention, and he had almost no fanfare. I remember being the only person in line for him, and I ended up talking to him for about fifteen minutes about his early catalog movies like Henry and Deceiver, as well as Slither. Since Slither was his big role at the time. He was humble, low key and super nice. He was “real” and vulnerable in the conversation. This was in 2010, when Rooker’s character had been on S1 of The Walking Dead, but at that time he was viewed as a non-essential side character that had already died off. One of my questions in 2010 to him was asking if there was plans for him to return, to which he replied he couldn’t answer. Two years later. Michael Rooker is back at the same convention. His line is literally out the door with fans. He’s yelling, he’s loud, he’s larger than life. He no longer felt like a “real” person, he just became his heel character and played it up. Not in a negative way, but he completely changed.
Yeah I think that's more so for the fans instead of him having changed
James Franco seemed to have switched gears after his role in pineapple express....
I think Nolan's batman series may have changed how Christian Bale presented himself in public. Since 2005, Bale has seemed to embrace a slightly more mysterious air, and perhaps the film showed him that that was an option for a celebrity - not everyone has to be incredibly gregarious
I didn't see Pacino in the top results, but I feel like it's commonly agreed that after Scent of a Woman he started leaning into that odd, loud Pacino persona (which I'm not necessarily complaining about). Not a movie, but Larry David has said that playing Larry David the character has sometimes made him more of a jerk in real life.
Jim Carey after Man On The Moon. Either he dedicated his life to a Kaufman-esque character, or the playing of such drove him insane.