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Offline Miss Demeanour

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What defines a good actor/actress
« 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:

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Re: What defines a good actor/actress
« Reply #1 on: October 28, 2012, 08:29:27 AM »
See also Sean Connery
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Re: What defines a good actor/actress
« Reply #2 on: October 28, 2012, 08:34:47 AM »
Alec Guinness simply vanished into whatever character he was playing.
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Re: What defines a good actor/actress
« Reply #3 on: October 28, 2012, 08:40:31 AM »
See also John Thaw.
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Re: What defines a good actor/actress
« Reply #4 on: October 28, 2012, 09:30:52 AM »
Michael Sheen  cloud9:
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Re: What defines a good actor/actress
« Reply #5 on: October 28, 2012, 09:33:56 AM »
I spose you keep the whole Sheen family in business
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Offline Just One More

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Re: What defines a good actor/actress
« Reply #6 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
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Re: What defines a good actor/actress
« Reply #7 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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Re: What defines a good actor/actress
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Re: What defines a good actor/actress
« Reply #9 on: October 28, 2012, 11:06:46 AM »


I always thought he would have been a great character actor if he had gone into "talkies"
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Re: What defines a good actor/actress
« Reply #10 on: October 28, 2012, 11:10:48 AM »
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Re: What defines a good actor/actress
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Re: What defines a good actor/actress
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Re: What defines a good actor/actress
« Reply #13 on: October 28, 2012, 11:28:01 AM »
Quote from: Darwins Selection on October 28, 2012, 11:06:46 AM


I always thought he would have been a great character actor if he had gone into "talkies"

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Re: What defines a good actor/actress
« Reply #14 on: October 28, 2012, 12:06:58 PM »
Quote from: Miss Demeanour on October 28, 2012, 11:10:48 AM
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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)
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