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We quote them. We sometimes act like them. Maybe we wish we were them? Famous actors discuss the most iconic characters they've played during their career: Nick Offerman, Guy Pearce, Martin Freeman, Ben Affleck, Diego Luna, Jack Black, Danny DeVito, Octavia Spencer, Ray Liotta, Mark Ruffalo, Tim Blake Nelson, Al Pacino, Edward Norton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Forest Whitaker, Cillian Murphy, Sarah Paulson, Gerard Butler, John Goodman, Kevin Bacon, Alan Cumming, Jake Gyllenhaal, Alec Baldwin, Sir Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Pedro Pascal, Caleb Landry Jones, Tim Roth, Willem Dafoe, Ken Jeong, Andy Serkis, Jennifer Lopez, Claire Foy, Ben Mendelsohn, Alexander Skarsgard, Oscar Isaac, Jonah Hill, Eddie Redmayne, Sarah Jessica Parker, Greg Kinnear, Jeff Bridges, Michael Peña, Lucas Hedges, Adam Devine, Sissy Spacek, Kyle MacLachlan, Nicolas Cage, Jason Bateman, Mark Wahlberg, Ethan Hawke, Will Arnett, Simon Pegg, Evan Peters, Rob Schneider, Terry Crews, Hugh Grant, Paul Bettany, and Bill Hader.
This is very cool. At the same time, I hate to be a curmudgeon, especially in times like this, but there are 6 women on this list and 52 men and it's pretty depressing.
I haven't bothered counting white actors vs. anyone else but it doesn't look much better.
posted by trig at 6:44 AM on April 24, 2020 [32 favorites]
I haven't bothered counting white actors vs. anyone else but it doesn't look much better.
posted by trig at 6:44 AM on April 24, 2020 [32 favorites]
I thought this was a double (of this) but it looks like one is GQ and the other is Vanity Fair so I guess not? Also I guess one is breaking down their movies and another their characters.
posted by RustyBrooks at 6:49 AM on April 24, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by RustyBrooks at 6:49 AM on April 24, 2020 [2 favorites]
trig,
That's a good observation. It makes you wonder where on the scale the thumb is being placed. Did GQ bias the results based on who they invited? Was there a layer of skew in who accepted, and if so what shaped the decisions of any who declined? Or is it "just" a reflection of the inequality that has long coursed through the veins of Hollywood?
posted by Godspeed.You!Black.Emperor.Penguin at 7:31 AM on April 24, 2020 [2 favorites]
That's a good observation. It makes you wonder where on the scale the thumb is being placed. Did GQ bias the results based on who they invited? Was there a layer of skew in who accepted, and if so what shaped the decisions of any who declined? Or is it "just" a reflection of the inequality that has long coursed through the veins of Hollywood?
posted by Godspeed.You!Black.Emperor.Penguin at 7:31 AM on April 24, 2020 [2 favorites]
...you need look no further than the quote that makes up the thread title.
posted by fairmettle at 7:44 AM on April 24, 2020 [5 favorites]
posted by fairmettle at 7:44 AM on April 24, 2020 [5 favorites]
Well, GQ originally stood for "Gentleman's Quarterly" and I've always considered it a "men's magazine" (not sure if GQ still presents itself as such, though) but it's still stupid that so few women are represented on this list.
posted by SoberHighland at 8:09 AM on April 24, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by SoberHighland at 8:09 AM on April 24, 2020 [2 favorites]
On the plus side, I finally get why everyone's in love with Oscar Isaac. What a cutie.
posted by Beardman at 8:42 AM on April 24, 2020
posted by Beardman at 8:42 AM on April 24, 2020
I was a bit disappointed that the Forrest Whittaker one isn't 30 minutes about ghost dog... But the Last King of Scotland discussion was really fascinating, so I'll allow it.
posted by kaibutsu at 9:18 AM on April 24, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by kaibutsu at 9:18 AM on April 24, 2020 [2 favorites]
Reassuring to find that Caleb Landry Jones is as profoundly unsettling out of character as he is in.
posted by eugenen at 9:33 AM on April 24, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by eugenen at 9:33 AM on April 24, 2020 [1 favorite]
No Christopher Walken? You miss all of the shots you don't take.
posted by Splunge at 9:52 AM on April 24, 2020
posted by Splunge at 9:52 AM on April 24, 2020
I too came here to point out the lack of women, but I see that's been taken care of so I'm off to watch some of these, probably starting with Willem Dafoe and Jeff Bridges.
posted by WalkerWestridge at 11:07 AM on April 24, 2020
posted by WalkerWestridge at 11:07 AM on April 24, 2020
I count 9 POC actors on the list, which is a little fraught so assume that's plus-or-minus 2.Still quite a bit better than the male/female skew (which should be about 50-50). The US census puts the country at 76.5% white and while I realize not all of these actors are American certainly Hollywood and GQ are, so white folks are at least about 8% overrepresented. Honestly I expected that to be worse, but it still sucks.
posted by axiom at 11:10 AM on April 24, 2020
posted by axiom at 11:10 AM on April 24, 2020
I don’t usually like media about entertainment, but these are quite good! Thanks.
posted by Sterros at 11:18 AM on April 24, 2020
posted by Sterros at 11:18 AM on April 24, 2020
I love so many of these actors and their performances are worth recognition. But all of that being said, I'd love to see a woman, queer, poc-focused version of this.
posted by Fizz at 11:56 AM on April 24, 2020
posted by Fizz at 11:56 AM on April 24, 2020
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