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Re: Greatest Living Actor Relay Race
« Reply #20 on: January 11, 2013, 08:02:39 AM »
Antares did a good job inserting Bardem, otherwise this thread should have been titled greatest living american actor race  :o

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Re: Greatest Living Actor Relay Race
« Reply #21 on: January 11, 2013, 08:14:49 AM »
Daniel Day-Lewis, Cate Blanchett, Kate Winslet, Tilda Swinton and Anthony Hopkins aren't American.


Edit:  Sorry, that probably comes off as snotty.  I just posted that because I was like "hmm, yeah, they are all American, oh wait, they aren't" kind of thing.  Just an observation, nothing snarky.
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Re: Greatest Living Actor Relay Race
« Reply #22 on: January 11, 2013, 08:37:10 AM »
Daniel Day-Lewis, Cate Blanchett, Kate Winslet, Tilda Swinton and Anthony Hopkins aren't American.

While I was typing I thought someone could come up with this, for a second I had even considered to write Anglo-American, but does it really make a difference? Day-Lewis, Blanchett, Winslet, Swinton and Hopkins, where have they gathered their notoriety if not in American films? Bardem works a lot in the US lately, that's why he is in the race, this is the kind of list I expect to see on an ordinary American forum, not here at filmspotting, this forum can do better than this  ;)
By the way, usually when I have to choose a film to see I ignore who the actors are, I go for the director, there is only one actor/actress I watch everything she does and she is not American, but then, that's me.

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Re: Greatest Living Actor Relay Race
« Reply #23 on: January 11, 2013, 08:37:58 AM »
Unless Martin beats me to it, I'm pretty certain I'm going to swap in a person who's native language isn't English. :)
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Re: Greatest Living Actor Relay Race
« Reply #24 on: January 11, 2013, 08:53:35 AM »
I bet I know who you're thinking of, and that would  be great.
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Re: Greatest Living Actor Relay Race
« Reply #25 on: January 11, 2013, 09:17:15 AM »
You know me!
A thought struck me: maybe this person has retired since it's been a while since I saw him/her doing something. I checked it and it turned out that there's another movie incoming just about now. So still around, which is great.
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Re: Greatest Living Actor Relay Race
« Reply #26 on: January 11, 2013, 09:28:49 AM »
Now you made me curious and thinking  :-\

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Re: Greatest Living Actor Relay Race
« Reply #27 on: January 11, 2013, 09:40:18 AM »
Now you made me curious and thinking  :-\

That was intentional.  :)
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Re: Greatest Living Actor Relay Race
« Reply #28 on: January 11, 2013, 09:45:33 AM »
I'm only going to add an American male who stars in blockbuster movies about explosions.
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Re: Greatest Living Actor Relay Race
« Reply #29 on: January 11, 2013, 09:46:51 AM »
I'd insert the usual disclaimer of performances in foreign languages being tough to measure.

 

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