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Because Mark Rylance is always moving like a boss and talkin that shit to the King of England
Mar 5, 2025
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📞A man named Ivan Locke (Tom Hardy) leaves a construction site as night falls and gets into his car. Pulling out onto the highway, he takes a call on the car’s hands-free phone system, speaking in a soft, measured Welsh accent. (Hardy has said he based the character’s musical cadences and trilling R’s on the voice of Richard Burton.) As he continues to drive, Locke makes another call, then takes another, his voice getting progressively less soothing as, we begin to realize, his personal and professional life are crumbling around him.
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🎥Been seeing that White Lotus --- a show that I have never had much interest in --- scene and it is reminding that Sam Rockwell is a cold ass actor. I'm happy that he is floating on the timeline again because he is a very good actor. Here is a guy who can turn a character into something insanely memorable by pure charisma and weird charm. Now, he won the Oscar for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri and while that movie is sometimes frustrating, I do think it is a good portrayal of anger at social class that is manifesting itself --- or possibly just because of it --- towards hatred of identity groups. Rockwell is very good in it, getting the better of the showy McDormand performance. But, to me, I hated that he won the Oscar portraying such a dodo bird. He had played such cool and interesting characters -- he even becomes a weirdo as Hammer in Iron Man 2 --- and he understood how to be sly and dopey while still maintain a kind of honest mentality that made people want to root for him in every movie. He's better when he isn't pudgy, isn't striving; in a way, he is a comedic actor at best.
Watch Moon, where he plays a lonely astronaut in space. He is also great in Richard Jewell as a sympathetic lawyer. Character actors like Rockwell deserve publicity, especially when they're doing something unheralded.
Watch Moon, where he plays a lonely astronaut in space. He is also great in Richard Jewell as a sympathetic lawyer. Character actors like Rockwell deserve publicity, especially when they're doing something unheralded.
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🧥While The Lord of the Rings was being filmed, Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn) would hike for days to the filming locations, in costume with his sword, in order to appear authentically travel-worn.
His neighbors called the police on him because he would practice his sword moves in front of his house.
He kept the horse that he rode during the film, too, and the crew said he'd spend hours in the barn bonding with the horses before filming.
Amazing actor.
May 5, 2024
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⭐Even if you end up having to go somewhere else, there still will be culture to get involved in, people to meet, things to learn, realizations to be made. All of that is still right there for you and it will be open in a way you won't even realize until you've done like a year or two. So it's truly still exciting times. As long as you feel generally good about the place you ultimately choose, your time is coming.
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