NFT: Who is your go to actor or actress

Actress - Audrey Hepburn

Michelle Williams.

In comment 14911860 81_Great_Dane said:

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since actors aren't in control of the material. They're mostly hired help. They don't decide which take gets used, or which bits stay in and which bits are trimmed. Big stars have some influence on the script but hardly any of them have final cut. Maybe Tom Cruise, who tends to have a lot of control over his projects. But for the most part even the biggest stars are pretty much at the mercy of the director and the editor. But I can tell you that Michelle Williams has a knack for picking indie dramas. A lot of the films she's in end up being contenders for big awards, especially for screenplay awards. So if she's in an indie drama, I'm pretty confident it's going to be worth watching. If you like that sort of thing, her involvement tends to be a quality mark.

Not always true. Take Scorsese for example. He lets his actors create on the fly in some cases. The chest chanting scene in Wolf of Wallstreet was something Leo saw McConaughey doing to prep for his scenes and said he should add it in at the end of the take. They took it and ran with it.

Great actors pick great roles and great directors will give some creative leeway, or a lot in some cases.

In terms of the OP i'll always watch Daniel Day Lewis, DiCaprio, Denzel or Joaquin Phoenix, plenty of others as well.

Actresses I'm all about Amy Adams or Jessica Chastain.

I enjoy the comedy horrors like Ready or Not and the Babysitter and he short role in Ash vs Evil Dead. She'll def be in a lot more horror films

I read this as an actor I won't pass by when channel surfing.
All time? Clint Eastwood. Tom Hanks.
Lately? (TV actors) Jason Bateman, Tom Hardy

Sidney Poitier always makes me feel inspired


Kate Beckinsale always makes me drool

...or Ed Begley Jr.

Old Time Greats
- Duke
- Bogard
- Flynn

More Recent
- Hanks
- Ford
- Costner
- Selleck
- Cruise

Modern
- Damon
- Afleck

In comment 14911839 bceagle05 said:

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but I've been obsessed lately with Al Pacino's crazy run of movies in the 1970s - Godfather, Serpico, Godfather II, Dog Day Afternoon, And Justice For All, etc. Those movies are like watching a legendary athlete in his prime. Also have a celebrity crush on Mary-Louise Parker, whose work is mostly TV/theater, but I always enjoy any work of hers I can find (Weeds and Angels in America come to mind).

If you like Pacino, watch the Hunters on Amazon streaming.....pretty good IMO.

Mifune. Great SNL skit out there where Phil Hartman must have wondered what it would be like the guy to replace Yul Brennar in the King and I.

I'd say pound for pound, our finest American actor.

Actor
Christian Bale and Tom Cruise (still makes great action flicks)

RIP Philip Seymour Hoffman

Director
Nolan, Scorcese, and Coen Brothers

RIP Stanley Kubrick

Filmmaker
Mike Judge

Murray.

In comment 14911816 Prude said:

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Besides the girl-movies every movie he is in is great.

He really is an underrated actor. I was just watching "The Nice Guys" again recently and he's just so damn good in it. It's crazy how much I enjoyed both that movie and "Drive" yet he plays completely different characters. Crowe was also good in "The Nice Guys" and is another actor that comes to mind with a ton of great movies.

I know he's pretty much the same guy in most movies, but I've always liked Jason Statham movies. Just like the Liam Neeson movies, it's fun to turn your brain off and enjoy a pure action flick. Plus he was great in "Snatch" which is one of my favorites.

Brad Pitt, Ray Liotta

In comment 14911954 Professor Falken said:

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Murray.

There's only so much Wes Anderson I can take!

Sean Connery !!!!!

But I have been searching for any show hosted by Richard Hammond or James May from TopGear/TheGrandTour.

Sean Penn
Juliet Binoche

In comment 14911940 YAJ2112 said:

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I'd say pound for pound, our finest American actor.

Not to name drop, but you should have heard some of the stories Brando had to say about Hollywood.

Great actor, big actor.

Tom Hanks
Denzel Washington
Leonardo DiCaprio

And Bruce Willis

Dawn Wells
Florence Henderson
Jean Simmons

Penn
Hoffman
The actress from Fargo.

Of the 24 movies that he's in that is available for purchase on Youtube, I purchased all of them.

After him: Cruise, Pacino, Deniro, Pitt.

As for filmmakers; Tarantino and Christopher Nolan are my favorites.

Female... Annabella Sciorra, Marisa Tomei, Kate Beckinsale (yeah, I have a type)

His theater work is a stroke of genius .

but In find Bill Murray timeless. And I just re-watched one of my childhood favorites, Meatballs, for the first time in decades and loved it.

I also like Cruise and can watch a lot of his stuff at any time, even if formulaic. He does great action and does his own stunts.

I can always watch Hanks.

On the female side, I love Pfeiffer at any age, Streep, Allison Janney (more of a supporting role), Mirren, Blanchett, Emma Thompson, Julianne Moore. I used to love Julia Roberts, buut can't stand a lot of her more recent work.

DiCaprio is a great actor who also gets great roles. There is a reason he keeps getting work with some of the best Directors of this generation in Tarantino, Spielberg, Scorsese and Christopher Nolan.

not one mention of local Jersey girl - Corey Chase?

Greatest actor of all time, in my opinion, male or female.

I watch her and cannot believe anyone can be so good at anything. She's the Beatles, the Shakespeare, of acting in my opinion.

21 Oscar nominations...yes, you read that right. Three wins.

She's so good in "Postcards From the Edge," it's frightening....

My 2 cents...

In comment 14912241 dannysection 313 said:

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Greatest actor of all time, in my opinion, male or female. I watch her and cannot believe anyone can be so good at anything. She's the Beatles, the Shakespeare, of acting in my opinion. 21 Oscar nominations...yes, you read that right. Three wins. She's so good in "Postcards From the Edge," it's frightening.... My 2 cents...

I agree and it is really a crime that she only won 3 times. Too many times she gets passed over because she has 3 in the bag and that often dissuades voters when there is another compelling option, especially a first time winner. But, she easily could/should have won at least 10. Early in her career I marvelled how she could completely immerse in a new accent ivrtually each year. Now, I can appreciate even more. She can completely transform, even still. She has movies now where she completely looks and acts whatever part she has regardless of age, look, circumstance, etc. With every role, she just absolutely is that person. I can watch her any time.

.. Mila Kunis

Daniel Day Lewis is fucking fantastic and probably the best actor in recent memory...too bad he is super picky with scripts.

Streep is also the best female actress arguably of all time.

Actors & Actresses that are my go to's include (pardon spelling)

Matt Hardy
Leonardo DiCaprio
Robert Dinero
Val Kilmer
Jack N.
Matt Damon
Ben Aflack
Diane Lane
Ashley Judd
The chick who plays Kimmy Drexler on Better Call Sal...she is fantastic!
Vera Farmiga
Mark Wahlburg
Vince Vaughn
Ryan Reynolds
Kate Mara (kidding)
Kevin Spacey (before all the crazy shit)
Tom Cruise(before all the crazy shit)
Guy Pierce
James Ganodolfini
Steve Buscemi
Idris Elba
A younger Natalie Portman
Liev Schreiber
Helen Hunt (amazing in As Good As It Gets)
Helen Mirren

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Newman
Glenn Ford
Cagney
Mitchum
Richard Conte
Richard Widmark
Brando
DeNiro
Pacino

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...and whichever actress is playing opposite of Peter North.

Kurt Russell never lets me down.

In comment 14911963 Osi Osi Osi OyOyOy said:

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In comment 14911816 Prude said: Quote: Besides the girl-movies every movie he is in is great. He really is an underrated actor. I was just watching "The Nice Guys" again recently and he's just so damn good in it. It's crazy how much I enjoyed both that movie and "Drive" yet he plays completely different characters. Crowe was also good in "The Nice Guys" and is another actor that comes to mind with a ton of great movies. I know he's pretty much the same guy in most movies, but I've always liked Jason Statham movies. Just like the Liam Neeson movies, it's fun to turn your brain off and enjoy a pure action flick. Plus he was great in "Snatch" which is one of my favorites.

If you haven't seen Gosling in Half Nelson, I suggest you remedy that situation, stat.

Ben Foster movies and characters I enjoyed:

3:10 to Yuma
Hell or High Water
Lone Survivor
Pandorum
The Mechanic
Alpha Dog

Just a really fun movie. I don't know why it didn't do better than it did.

(F) Margot Robbie

And for completely different, but equally compelling reasons, Diane Lane. I’d watch her recite the alphabet for two hours.😀

Actors:

Paul Newman
H. Bogart
Denzel Washington

Actresses:

Olivia De Havilland
Natalie Wood
Abbie Cornish

Last month it was DeNiro and Brando.

Looks like I'll be back to work soonish so the neverending evening Bingefest will come to an end.

Never made a movie that wasn’t good. Quite possibly the finest actor this nation has ever produced.

In comment 14912380 Greg from LI said:

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Just a really fun movie. I don't know why it didn't do better than it did.

I love that movie. Ryan Gosling was hilarious in it.

Tom Hanks

My new favorite

Matthew Rhys