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masterofsparks

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Actors you can watch in anything
« on: August 28, 2010, 12:38:42 PM »
For those who haven't already listened to the excellent interview with Tom on Ken Plume's podcast, there's a point in the conversation where they each try to name actors that they find compelling in anything, regardless of how bad the movie itself might be (I can't remember all of their choices, but Tom mentions Bill Murray and, I believe, Warren Oates, and Ken mentions Gene Hackman). I started thinking of my own responses while they were talking and it seemed like a good discussion. So who are yours?
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Pastor Josh

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Re: Actors you can watch in anything
« Reply #1 on: August 28, 2010, 12:54:11 PM »
Bill Macy.  Yeah, I'd watch Marmaduke.  I don't plan on it, but I would if I had to.
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daveB from Oakland

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Re: Actors you can watch in anything
« Reply #2 on: August 28, 2010, 01:00:07 PM »
Steve Buscemi
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Re: Actors you can watch in anything
« Reply #3 on: August 28, 2010, 01:03:46 PM »
Oops, forgot to give mine. The ones that jump to mind are Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, and Lee Marvin. For modern folk, I'll say Richard Jenkins.
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Re: Actors you can watch in anything
« Reply #4 on: August 28, 2010, 01:11:04 PM »
Sam Rockwell, Mia Farrow.
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Re: Actors you can watch in anything
« Reply #5 on: August 28, 2010, 01:33:22 PM »
Vin Diesel, but not for the reason one would expect, nor in the actual spirit of this survey - I laugh at every tortured word that escapes his gaping maw.

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dave from knoxville

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Re: Actors you can watch in anything
« Reply #6 on: August 28, 2010, 02:01:32 PM »
Catherine Denueve. Catherine Keener. Robert Duvall. Dwight Yoakum, believe it or not.
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masterofsparks

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Re: Actors you can watch in anything
« Reply #7 on: August 28, 2010, 02:22:27 PM »
Quote from: dave from knoxville on August 28, 2010, 02:01:32 PM
Dwight Yoakum, believe it or not.

Yoakam is fun in the Crank films.
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Re: Actors you can watch in anything
« Reply #8 on: August 28, 2010, 02:44:36 PM »
Jeffrey Wright
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Re: Actors you can watch in anything
« Reply #9 on: August 28, 2010, 02:55:38 PM »
Jean-Louis Trintignant




Romy Schneider


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Re: Actors you can watch in anything
« Reply #10 on: August 28, 2010, 02:56:55 PM »
Warren Oates is a great choice.  Sterling Hayden. Brando. Tom Waits.
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Re: Actors you can watch in anything
« Reply #11 on: August 28, 2010, 03:54:51 PM »
Oates, Hackman, Duvall, Matthau, Mitchum
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Re: Actors you can watch in anything
« Reply #12 on: August 28, 2010, 04:21:44 PM »
Gary Oldman, Catherine Keener, Gene Hackman, Phillip Seymour Hoffman.
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Re: Actors you can watch in anything
« Reply #13 on: August 28, 2010, 05:13:34 PM »
Sir Vincent Gallo
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Re: Actors you can watch in anything
« Reply #14 on: August 28, 2010, 06:11:54 PM »
I could watch Vincent Gallo having his fingernails pulled out, but "in anything," not so much.
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