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Title: What defines a good actor/actress
Post by: Miss Demeanour on October 28, 2012, 08:28:27 AM: I can't remember how we got talking about it but someone on Friday suggested that Ray Winstone was a good actor.

Now I have seen a few of his films but to me he always plays the same role in some guise or the other ...even in The Sweeney when he was supposed to be the good guy for once he wasn't.

These roles also don't seem too departed from his own persona when he does interviews etc.

So to me he gets paid for being himself ....not a great stretch of acting talent required rubschin:
Title: Re: What defines a good actor/actress
Post by: Snoopy on October 28, 2012, 08:29:27 AM: See also Sean Connery
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Post by: Nick on October 28, 2012, 08:34:47 AM: Alec Guinness simply vanished into whatever character he was playing.
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Post by: Snoopy on October 28, 2012, 08:40:31 AM: See also John Thaw.
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Post by: Barman on October 28, 2012, 09:30:52 AM: Michael Sheen cloud9:
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Post by: Nick on October 28, 2012, 09:33:56 AM: I spose you keep the whole Sheen family in business
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Post by: Just One More on October 28, 2012, 09:40:09 AM: Not a film actor, but David Jason has played a number of characters in differing programmes over the years, and you never think, oh it's Delboy, Jack Frost, Pop Larkin etc
Title: Re: What defines a good actor/actress
Post by: Miss Demeanour on October 28, 2012, 09:46:41 AM: Exactly he is not typecast into one role only.

Hugh Grant = slightly goofy English gentleman ALWAYS ::)
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Post by: Just One More on October 28, 2012, 09:47:43 AM: Suarez

Luis Suarez DIVE Liverpool v Stoke SHOCKING (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvLykEcCNqs#ws)

Maybe not lol:
Title: Re: What defines a good actor/actress
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I always thought he would have been a great character actor if he had gone into "talkies"
Title: Re: What defines a good actor/actress
Post by: Miss Demeanour on October 28, 2012, 11:10:48 AM: whatimage:
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Post by: apc2010 on October 28, 2012, 11:13:03 AM: Quote from: Miss Demeanour on October 28, 2012, 11:10:48 AM
whatimage:

Maybe he was on the radio.......... rubschin:
Title: Re: What defines a good actor/actress
Post by: Darwins Selection on October 28, 2012, 11:19:34 AM: Quote from: Miss Demeanour on October 28, 2012, 11:10:48 AM
whatimage:

redface:

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Post by: Barman on October 28, 2012, 11:28:01 AM: Quote from: Darwins Selection on October 28, 2012, 11:06:46 AM
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I always thought he would have been a great character actor if he had gone into "talkies"

happy001
Title: Re: What defines a good actor/actress
Post by: Just One More on October 28, 2012, 12:06:58 PM: Quote from: Miss Demeanour on October 28, 2012, 11:10:48 AM
whatimage:

I thought he was on about the invisible man rubschin:

Speaking of which, David McCallum has to be the most wooden actor I have ever seen (I'm sure there are many others that never reached his dizzy heights though)
Title: Re: What defines a good actor/actress
Post by: Snoopy on October 28, 2012, 12:14:31 PM: rubschin: And not one single actress yet .... That tells us something.
Perhaps there are very few actresses who actually do more than provide the "Love Interest". Eye candy a-plenty but other than Maggie Smith I am hard put to think of any actress who didn't build a career out of looks but simply "acted" herself throughout her time on TV or in movies and then faded from view as she aged.
Title: Re: What defines a good actor/actress
Post by: Miss Demeanour on October 28, 2012, 12:19:34 PM: Well Meryl Streep does a pretty good job :thumbsup:

As does Susan Sarandon !

Jennifer Anniston on the other hand - you could almost predict her lines in her films noooo:
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Post by: Snoopy on October 28, 2012, 12:22:55 PM: Joanna Lumley's acting has improved with age.

As for Ms Streep ~ I can never understand a word she says ..... "mumble, mumble, mumble" ... Which I suppose saves her having to learn her lines.
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Post by: Miss Demeanour on October 28, 2012, 12:30:13 PM: I feel the same about Nicholas Cage ...have I stressed lately how much I detect the actor who has obviously been indulged despite having a stroke at birth noooo:
Title: Re: What defines a good actor/actress
Post by: Pirate on October 28, 2012, 05:07:01 PM: Quote from: Miss Demeanour on October 28, 2012, 08:28:27 AM
I can't remember how we got talking about it but someone on Friday suggested that Ray Winstone was a good actor.

Now I have seen a few of his films but to me he always plays the same role in some guise or the other ...even in The Sweeney when he was supposed to be the good guy for once he wasn't.

These roles also don't seem too departed from his own persona when he does interviews etc.

So to me he gets paid for being himself ....not a great stretch of acting talent required rubschin:

The Sweeney... cloud9:

Surely you're too young to remember that angel1

I have the Sweeney theme tune for my ringtone...
Title: Re: What defines a good actor/actress
Post by: Miss Demeanour on October 28, 2012, 05:13:49 PM: Bless you lol:

But I was referring to the recent film remake with Ray Winstone in it ...was a total load of festering kak lol:
Title: Re: What defines a good actor/actress
Post by: Nick on October 28, 2012, 05:17:58 PM: She fell for it noooo:
Title: Re: What defines a good actor/actress
Post by: Barman on October 28, 2012, 05:59:12 PM: Quote from: Miss Demeanour on October 28, 2012, 12:19:34 PM
Well Meryl Streep does a pretty good job :thumbsup:

As does Susan Sarandon !

Jennifer Anniston on the other hand - you could almost predict her lines in her films noooo:

Meryl Streep....(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Fsmileys%2Fsmiley-love057.gif&hash=22ecbb5e1a108b51ab0f1191df22dbbb02c31f14) (http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys.php)
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Post by: GROWLER on October 28, 2012, 06:00:43 PM: Quote from: Nick (GC First Class) on October 28, 2012, 05:17:58 PM
She fell for it noooo:

shutup:
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Post by: Darwins Selection on October 28, 2012, 08:48:46 PM: Quote from: Barman on October 28, 2012, 05:59:12 PM
Meryl Streep....(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Fsmileys%2Fsmiley-love057.gif&hash=22ecbb5e1a108b51ab0f1191df22dbbb02c31f14) (http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys.php)

noooo: Flatter shoe club.
Title: Re: What defines a good actor/actress
Post by: Pastis on October 29, 2012, 04:48:27 PM: No wimmin? No Brits? rubschin:

How about Judi Dench, Brenda Blethyn, Imelda Staunton, Helen Miren, Maggie Smith, and rising fast Sheridan Smith
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Post by: Nick on October 29, 2012, 04:50:15 PM: Helen Mirren :sex023:
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Post by: Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons) on October 29, 2012, 05:41:13 PM: (https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs9.postimage.org%2F47804i3kr%2Fmorgan.jpg&hash=603c35d0f86796647c574d51104c57f0ea65c63f) (http://postimage.org/image/47804i3kr/)
Title: Re: What defines a good actor/actress
Post by: apc2010 on October 29, 2012, 05:50:02 PM: Quote from: Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons) on October 29, 2012, 05:41:13 PM

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She hasn't aged well........... noooo:
Title: Re: What defines a good actor/actress
Post by: Grumpmeister on October 29, 2012, 05:55:09 PM: Too much time under a sun bed from the looks of it. rubschin:
Title: Re: What defines a good actor/actress
Post by: Pastis on October 29, 2012, 05:56:29 PM: Quote from: apc2010 on October 29, 2012, 05:50:02 PM
Quote from: Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons) on October 29, 2012, 05:41:13 PM

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She hasn't aged well........... noooo:

It was a character part; didn't you see it? ;)
Title: Re: What defines a good actor/actress
Post by: Just One More on October 29, 2012, 09:08:14 PM: Quote from: apc2010 on October 29, 2012, 05:50:02 PM
Quote from: Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons) on October 29, 2012, 05:41:13 PM

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She hasn't aged well........... noooo:

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