Editor: Li Xiaotian
Feng Shui takes turns, this year to my house!
Once, "Dog Daddy" Gary Oldman did supporting roles for many years, and as a result, a "Darkest Hour" not only turned into the protagonist, but also won the Oscar, and the daughter-in-law became a wife for many years, and embarked on the peak of life;
Before, "Ben brother" Cassie Affleck also did supporting roles for many years, and even the supporting roles could not be obtained at the worst time, and as a result, a "Manchester by the Sea" won the Oscar, and finally had the bargaining power to choose the script at will;
Previously, "Uncle Face" Colin Feith mixed with Hollywood and the British film industry for many years, silently, and as a result, "The King's Speech" turned over in one fell swoop and became the most influential actor in britain, and it also became a prominent figure in Hollywood;
Before that, the supporting role of Ten Thousand Years, Forrest Whitaker, a thick and stupid big man, suddenly won the Oscar for "The Last Dictatorship", and the same beautiful salted fish turned over;
Also, "Dead Fat Man" Philip Seymour Hoffman, the same evergreen leaves, the same film "Capote" completed the reversal, embarked on the road to the protagonist.
Earlier, Jamie Fox, Kevin Spacey, Anthony Hopkins, and others had all made a super-big comeback from supporting roles to absolute protagonists.
Last week, we took stock of a handful of old helpers with golden supporting roles, and for their age, it's too difficult to complete the turnaround. So, today we take a look at today's batch of golden supporting characters who are in the year of the fight, and see who can take the lead in breaking the cellophane and becoming the real protagonist. (Please search for the article "You may not remember their names, but definitely remember these old faces" to watch the last inventory)
In fact, even if they are not the protagonists, they are just as wonderful! There are countless fans, relying not on looks, but on acting skills, and they have done it.
Marc Ruffalo
Masterpiece: Focus
The Marvel Cinematic Universe has a very famous meme, and all the actors will say when they are guarding against spoilers: "I can't tell you that Marvel snipers are taking guns at me." Now, there are two red names on the Marvel Sniper list, one is the mouthless new Spider-Man Tom Holland (who often slips his lips on the talk show); the other is the Invincible Hulk who no one dares to provoke, because his actor Mark Ruffalo brought the live mobile phone into the venue at a screening event before the official release of "Thor 3", so that fans around the world listened to the film for ten minutes in the pocket of the Invincible Hulk. Rufallo tweeted afterwards: "No kidding... Marvel, I'm sorry! Can I get my phone back? ”
However, back in time to the 2010 San Diego Comic Con, the scene is also embarrassing. This is the day when The Avengers revealed the team members. Marvel has always been very good at secrecy, in fact, before the comic show, even Ruffalo himself did not know that he got the role. The day before the show, his agent called him: "Tomorrow morning at five o'clock to look out the window, if there is a car downstairs, it means that you get the role; if not, go back to the bed and sleep." "At five o'clock in the morning, the car came and Ruffalo won!
At five o'clock in the morning of the comic show, Marvel staff escorted him to the airport, took a private jet to San Diego, and then waited in the secret passage of the show. Robert Downey Jr. introduced the actors and the roles they played as the host, he said: "Now it is about to appear, playing the Hulk again..." The whole audience fell into madness, knowing that the last actor who starred in "Invincible Hulk" was Edward Norton, and the fans were reveling, and as a result, Downey read Ruffalo's name. Everyone looked at each other, "Who?" ”
But it doesn't matter, when the film came out, the whole world fell in love with Mark Ruffalo's version of the Hulk Hulk.
Years later, Mark Ruffalo recalls his time in Los Angeles, living a life of abject poverty but a wandering life full of acting dreams. "It was the best period, and it was the worst period," he said. He was taking acting classes in Los Angeles at the time, subsidizing rent by doing gardeners and painters. Crammed into a one-bedroom room with his brother, cousin, and another friend for $600 a month, the cousin slept in the living room, the friend slept in the kitchen, and the two brothers shared a full bedroom and a real bed.
"I'm roughly counting, I've got to have 800 auditions, and none of them passed. I was so depressed that I began to get angry. He even vowed four or five times that he would never perform again, useless, and when he got an audition, he would still regroup and try again. But Los Angeles is full of actors, and who cares about a guy in the middle of america who isn't handsome and has no background? At that time, his greatest envy was the stars of his age in Hollywood, Johnny Depp, Nicholas Cage... "All my thinking and research on theater did not help me step into the door of this industry, I doubted whether I was too hard, anyway, I just couldn't get into that circle." ”
In 2002, Ruffalo's career had just improved, he starred in the independent film "I Do Things You Are Assured", co-starred with his idol Robert Redford in "The Last Castle", participated in "Wind Whisperer Warrior" directed by Wu Yusen and starred in Nicolas Cage, got the male lead of "Girl Dream Thirty", and looked like he was about to take the east wind of the chicken movie to become a mainstream actor in Hollywood... He then identified a brain tumor.
The operation was a success, and the door of luck opened to Ruffalo. In 2010, he was nominated for the 83rd Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in "The Kids Are All Right." At the 66th Emmy Awards in 2014, "Ordinary Heart" won the Best Tv Movie Award. In the same year, Ruffalo was again nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for "Fox Hunter". A year later, he was again nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Spotlight and won the 22nd Screen Actors Guild Awards for Best Group Scene.
Michael Shannon
Masterpieces: Revolutionary Road, The Shape of Water
If you've seen a movie starring Michael Shannon, you'll remember him. He has always adhered to good professional ethics, strict requirements for himself, with a large number of excellent works and long-term persistence for himself to establish a good reputation.
Shannon has been quite active in the past 10 years, starring in nearly 50 films and more than 10 stage plays! In the past two years, not counting his cameos in "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" and "Love", there are only a number of films he has led or co-starred in, including Tom Ford's "Nocturnal Animal", which also made him nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor again, in addition to "The Shape of Water" that shined at the Oscars, and "12 Warriors" starring Hammer Brother, and "Power War" co-starring with Curly Fu.
Regardless of the genre of the film and the size of his characters, Shannon's characters have a distinct quality —they are all alive, as if the person outside the screen really exists, even his first role on the big screen, the one in 1993's Groundhog Day. Some of Shannon's characters have had a sense of danger, others are more withdrawn, and they are always uncomfortable, either because of the environment, or because of the people around them, and some because of self-perception problems.
Shannon has played a number of impressive roles, mostly in independent films, including 4 collaborations with director Jeff Nichols (Shotgun Story, Asylum Seek, etc.), as well as films like Iceman, 99 Homes, and Complete Strangers. Even in supporting roles in blockbusters, Shannon's performances are just as brilliant, such as Revolutionary Road (for which he received his first Oscar nomination in 2009), Western Hero Jonah Hax, Fatal Emergency and, of course, General Zod in Superman: Man of Steel.
While other actors recall that they got into the actor's path because they wanted to perform, Shannon said that he was actually just looking for something to do than his desire to stand on stage. "I didn't expect to be an actor at all," he replied when he said of his interest in acting, "and no one in my family is in this business." My father was an accounting professor, my mother was a social welfare worker, and there were no relatives in the family who were actors. ”
Shannon said that he didn't really watch movies when he was a child. "I basically don't go to the movies because the conditions at home are not good," he says, "and we don't have the extra money to go to the cinema." I only recently watched Jaws for the first time, and there were groundbreaking works released in my era, such as E.T. Alien. I didn't even see it when I was younger. ”
He was able to enter the industry thanks to the nobleman of his life, Tracy Letz. "He is my guardian angel. The two works he's written— Killer Joe and The Broken Hole— are great, and I think they're two of the best of the stage plays I've ever starred in. I've played Chris Smith in Killer Joe and Peter Evans in A Thousand Holes, both of which changed my life and have had a bigger impact on me than any other I've ever played. ”
Shannon recalled the role of Peter Evans in the 2006 film version of "A Thousand Holes" directed by William Friedkin, and although it did not hit at the box office, the film made Shannon's popularity in Hollywood rise a lot. Casting directors and producers saw Shannon's prowess, and soon after, Shannon began working with top directors such as Oliver Stone, Curtis Hansen, Sidney Lumet, Sam Mendes, and Werner Herzog.
Speaking of "Revolutionary Road" in 2008, when Shannon starred with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, under the influence of two big names, the Oscar finally nominated the only performance to Shannon. Probably the reunion of the two big names since "Tantronic" is more eye-catching, and Although Shannon was nominated, he still did not become famous or changed the trajectory of his career. (That year's Award for Best Supporting Actor went to the late Heath Ledger for the film The Dark Knight.) ）
Shannon was nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for Nocturnal Animals, and this award should have had more impact. Shannon plays Detective Bobby Ande in the film, a role that seems to be a mix of several other roles That Shannon has played. Viewers who have seen "The Iceman," "99 Homes," or Shannon's other works will have the familiar cold and terrifying tension when watching Nocturnal Animals, and they will feel a little powerless. The two Oscar nominations reflect the industry's recognition of Shannon's talent. Coupled with his performances in "The Shape of Water" and "Superman: Body of Steel", Shannon has entered the hearts of fans with his unique temperament.
Woody Harrison
Masterpiece: 2012 (In fact, "Rise of the Apes 3" can better express his style, but for z source or re-selected "2012", the peak announcer in it can also show his style. ）
Speaking of Woody Harrison, if you are not a fan of American dramas and American movies, it is estimated that you are really not familiar with him. But in the past two years, the villain colonel in Rise of the Apes 3: The Final Battle and the tragic sheriff in the award-winning "Three Billboards" are his superb performances.
Born in Texas in 1961, he grew up with a rebellious personality, is this because of the genetics of his father, the killer who was sentenced to life in prison? He began acting in 1982 and became famous for his performances in Cheers (11 seasons from 1982-93), a series that influenced an entire generation in Europe and the United States, but was also arrested for misconduct because he was too high-profile, and he did not return to the audience's attention until the fourth season of '85.
After that, he also participated in films such as "Little WildCat Eats Big Tiger", "Blue Soul Night", "Black and White Dragon Tour" and so on, but what really made domestic audiences familiar was the "Born Killer". In the film, the crazy and fierce Miki he plays really plays the essence of the characters in the play, leaving an indelible impression on all fans, although the film is criticized for triggering violent crimes among teenagers, but Woody himself seems that the core of the film is not violence, but romantic love.
After the explosion of acting skills, he was also a good drama, and then the award-winning classic film and television works such as "Sex Book Tycoon", "The Messenger", "True Detective" and "Rule Change" came into being.
Once with thick and long hair, now withered hair, his temperament is much gentler and calmer than before, in his own view, he has changed his sex relatively late, looking back at his former self is indeed very mixed. But this does not prevent him from continuing to play some violent roles, such as the colonel in "Rise of the Apes 3", that kind of fanatical love, anti-human horror is driven by his temperament.
Although his participation in "Three Billboards" did not achieve good box office results after the domestic release (the box office accumulated 64.675 million yuan), the sick sheriff he played in the play won the love of the audience with his calm temperament and tolerance of violent hatred, and it was only because the police role played by Sam Rockwell was too brilliant that he lost his hand with the little golden man.
He is not only an actor in Hollywood, but also an environmental activist and anti-war activist.
As for the latest film, Spider-Man's spin-off "Venom: Deadly Guardians" that is being released, the real villain is woody Harrison.
Sam Rockwell
Masterpiece: Moon, "Three Billboards"
That's right, he took the Oscars from Woody Harrison. The several mentioned above have all been nominated for at least two Oscars, but they have not won, and as a result, Rockwell, a lucky guy, has only been nominated once and has been included. Luck is lucky, but if you watch Rockwell's crazy performance in "Three Billboards", you will feel that it is worth the award, he is worth it!
In fact, in terms of strength, as early as the distant 2003, Uncle Sam had already won the Berlin Film Festival emperor of that year with the movie "Confessions of Dangerous Thoughts".
Speaking of the origins with the movie, Uncle Sam has already said in his Oscar speech: I remember when I was 8 years old, I was once called into the office by the principal, and my father told him solemnly: "It's your grandmother's business." He was very nervous, so he followed his father, but when he came out of the principal's office, his father said to him: "Just find an excuse to go to the movies." "With such a warm father, Uncle Sam is naturally deeply affected.
The main reason why Uncle Sam was not so active in the eyes of the public before was that he was only active in independent productions. Uncle Sam, who has been acting since he was a teenager, is a professional villain character, playing a role that is more crazy than the other. In "Miracle in the Green", he is a cruel perverted killer; in "Iron Man 2", he is a "rich" villain arms dealer; in "The Galaxy's Guide", he becomes the crazy president of the galaxy; in "Seven Neurotics", he becomes an unemployed actor who steals dogs and cheats money. In "Night of Box Light", Uncle Sam plays a strange man called "child", as his name suggests, like a small child, bare ass naked running what is natural; in "The Day of Playing a Dog's Face", he is also a debauched and free-loving lawnmower, and the little girl's yearless friendship is nothing, suddenly taking off his pants and bathing on the road to be hot-eyed, and Uncle Sam, who dedicates his naked body to filming, is also quite dedicated.
Throughout the works starring Uncle Sam, the supporting roles he plays are often very brilliant, and even steal the limelight of the protagonist, belonging to the kind of actors who can angrily brush up on the sense of existence when playing supporting roles. In the small-budget science fiction movie "Moon", Uncle Sam is not only the protagonist, but also a multi-role role. Although the film budget was only $5 million and the shooting time was only 33 days, "Moon" received continuous praise, and the Los Angeles Times named it "2001: A Space Odyssey" in 2009. In the film, Uncle Sam not only has to play the protagonist, but also plays other clones like the protagonist, which can be said to support the whole movie by himself. You know, this is a very test of the actor's acting skills, after all, no audience wants to watch the whole movie, back and forth is a person, it is too easy to be boring.
In the next film, Uncle Sam also continued to play a supporting role in "Vice President" starring Christian Bell, playing former US President George W. Bush, which is a very dramatic guy, looking forward to Uncle Sam's wonderful performance.
Benicio del Toro
Masterpiece: Border Killer
This guy is also a god actor. Although he shares the same surname as Oscar-winning director Gilmour del Toro, and has the same middle name, they are not brothers, relatives, or even of the same country.
Director Guillermo del Toro is Mexican, while Benicio del Toro is Puerto Rican. However, they are both gods, Guillermo del Toro is the Oscar for best director, Benicio del Toro also owns an Oscar for best supporting actor ("Drug Network"), and he is also a Cannes film emperor ("Che Guevara"), Venice film emperor ("21 grams"), Berlin film emperor ("Drug Network").
Benicio del Toro is probably the most manly tough guy in Hollywood since Marlon Brando. His most charismatic moments are when he mutters vague lines in a deep voice, and of course, occasionally he performs better—when he has no lines to read at all. Del Toro is best at using his performances to dissolve the script, and a word is worth a thousand words, and the taciturn killing in Border Killer is too cool to have a skyline. Moreover, he also won the Cannes Film Emperor with this trick, and one person saved the dull "Che Guevara".
Puerto Rico, a free state of the United States, grew up there by Benezio del Toro, and later immigrated with his family to Pennsylvania to study acting in New York. There, he quickly found his first job, playing a small role in the 007 film Series's License to Kill (1989).
However, the director has always liked to arrange del Toro to play some of the lower classes or marginalized people, such as Latin American immigrants who run into walls everywhere. In the late 1980s, he was given screen roles as gangster drug dealers, such as in the most popular American TV series of the time, "Miami Storm". At the age of 21, he became the youngest villain in the 007 series of movies. In 1995's "Very Suspect," his ambiguous dialogue became a highlight and has since become his feature. By the end of the '90s, he had gained 40 pounds and played Dr. Gonzale, who was addicted to drugs all day, and was a criminal accomplice to Raoul Duke, played by Johnny Depp. He gave everything for the role, but his methodological performance did not win the praise of the film critics, and the doubts continued. In 2000, he played a Mexican border policeman in Soderbergh's Drug Network, where his rational and sober performance won him the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. In 2001, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor again, and Mexican director Alessandro González Iñárredo's 21 Grams became his best platform for acting.
These of his role positions actually come from Hollywood's mindset of Latino actors, which is a misunderstanding of Del Toro. In fact, Del Toro was born into a middle-class family and his parents were lawyers. His older brother Gustavo is a pediatric oncologist. His mother died early, suffering from hepatitis when he was 9 years old. Del Toro's acting skills may have been cultivated at the time—he had to work hard to "perform" to make his mother on the sickbed happy. At that time, he never told his mother that he wanted to be an actor in the future. Now he hopes that his mother will see every movie he has starred in in heaven. He said he wasn't a good kid when he was a kid, but he wasn't a bad kid either. "At best, there are some misunderstandings... You know The Catcher in the Rye, right? The protagonist of that novel may be arguably the most famous 'marginal man' in Postwar American literature, because of a misunderstanding. ”
Fortunately, in del Toro's own words, he was always an optimist. In the face of disappointment, it made him feel that there was hope for change, and he saw bad things, but it made him cherish the present more. Finally, with his solid acting skills, he took a path step by step.
In recent movies, he can not only be seen in many independent productions, but also in major productions such as "The Avengers", "Guardians of the Galaxy", and "Star Wars".
Christopher Waltz
Masterpiece: Shameless bastard
Fast forward to 2009, when almost everyone first saw Christopher Waltz in Shameless Bastards, they asked, "Who was that Nazi officer?" ”
We don't know anything about him before, even in Austria or Germany, he is not a well-known A-list star, after he became famous, fans can dig up nothing more than a few mediocre movies, in which he is a serious and tragic green youth.
Waltz, nicknamed "Uncle Wa" by Chinese fans, is sixty-two years old this year and is in the golden maturity of male actors. However, from "Shameless Bastard" to "Django Rescued", he has only appeared in the public eye for a short time, but he has won countless industry awards, including two Oscars for best supporting actor, and has quickly become the most dazzling green leaf. For the first half of his life, he seemed to be accumulating strength for fame. Now he is a talented performer, a natural entertainer, and a train that sells cute middle-aged and elderly people to whistle through the fans. He cherishes the opportunity, there is no European actor cold and noble twisted body, his attitude towards Hollywood is very positive, the selection of films is not taboo, art and business are not a word.
"Shameless Bastard" made Waltz famous in one fell swoop, Quentin described this cooperation as crazy, comparable to Jia Baoyu meeting Lin Daiyu, Liang Shanbo meeting Zhu Yingtai, Jin Feng Yulu once they met and winning but countless classics in the world are just like this, as if the world's slippery man, I only take you this scoop. In fact, when writing the script, he had no idea that there was an Austrian named Christopher Waltz in the world, and the role of Hans Landa originally belonged to Leonardo DiCaprio, but then Quentin changed his mind and wanted to find an older actor who could speak English, German, French, and Italian.
One day in 2008, Waltz's manager in Berlin told him to go to a very ordinary audition, and what was not unusual was that before the audition, he received the script for the whole play, and after reading the script, he felt that the role of Hans Landa came to life. Then I went to meet the American named Quentin Tarantino. After the historic meeting, everything was different.
Waltz said: "I'm obsessed with Quentin's script, really. He's a genius, and I'm willing to devote myself to his films wholeheartedly and unconditionally. He called Quentin a "pure" director, with every nerve fiber serving his directorial identity, never directing the actors, but leaving them to understand and play on their own. Perhaps it was this laissez-faire that allowed Waltz to spew out half a lifetime of acting energy, turning Shameless Bastards into a show of its own, and making big-name stars like Brad Pitt completely reduced to passers-by. Presumably, Quentin was also secretly happy about his decision, saying "Without Waltz, I will not shoot this film", which is an hindsight rhetoric. In fact, Waltz, who is completely "new" to the film industry and audiences, is indeed the biggest highlight of this movie.
Before Waltz, Quentin's favorite actor was undoubtedly Samuel Jackson, and after Shameless Bastard, Uncle Watt also stayed in Quentin's harem. Quentin described the relationship between the three as follows: "I see script writing as writing poetry, they are the ones who make poetry, they jump on the paper, and sometimes even if it is not appropriate, I just can't stop." "When planning Django rescued, Quentin had not yet met Uncle Wa, so in the outline of the script, there was no dentist Schultz at first, but! Quentin said, "As soon as I sat down and wrote the beginning, the character flowed out of my pen, and this is God's will!" ”
During the scriptwriting phase, Quentin called Waltz home and put the outline of the script in front of him for him to read, which moved Waltz with the creator's trust in the performers. However, after the script was formed, Waltz did not plan to take over Dr. Schultz because he felt that it was too "tailor-made". Quentin, of course, insisted on himself, saying he didn't want to hear Waltz say no. Eventually Waltz came up with a condition: the character must be pure and not have negative or evil behavior. Quentin didn't say a word, gave him a handwritten note, and wrote: "Of course, my sir!" -Q" (Of Course, Mein Herr!-Q) and Waltz then sent back a telegram saying, "Of course, my husband!" ——CW（Mein Herr, Of Course!- CW）”
So we see in Django a German dentist who is full of justice, idealization to innocence, love and peace, encouraging Django to slaughter dragons, the ruffle of the trench coat flying leisurely on horseback, and after completing the task of mentor, he resigns brittlely. For this performance, Waltz said in an interview: "I am very soberly aware that I can't repeat myself, it's a different story, different characters, different movies. I'm not going to continue that performance just because the last Shameless Bastard was a success. But I had to be careful not to slip to the other extreme—to be too reserved. Compared with the brilliance of "Bastard", Waltz in "Django" restrained a lot, but quentin's lines still made him shine, and the "sorry, I can't help it" after the shooting was cute, which is called the golden sentence of the year.
Waltz has been quietly working in the European film industry for more than 30 years, and his heart is somewhat nostalgic and lonely, and when he is more than half a hundred years old, Quentin introduced him to the world and opened the door to a new world for him. "In Europe, they'll say: Hollywood's going to squeeze you dry like a lemon!" But if you still have to squeeze, why not enjoy it? In his conception, Germany lacks a mature film industry system and has many restrictions on the development of actors, which is precisely the advantage of Hollywood. Hollywood will never stop mining an actor, especially an acting school like Waltz with endless possibilities.
After Quentin, Uncle Wa has worked with famous directors such as Roman Polanski, Francis Lawrence, Michelle Gunrie, Terry Gilliam, Tim Bolton, Sam Mendes, Alexander Payne, David Yates and other famous directors for the heyday of his career.
Christopher Waltz was born on 4 October 1956 in a theater family in Vienna, Austria, where his mother, Elisabeth, was a costume designer, his father Johannes was a German and professional stage architect, his grandmother Maria was an actress at Vienna's most famous castle opera house, and his successor, Emmerich, was also an actor from the castle opera house. Coming from an acting family, Waltz naturally inherited the mantle of his father, studied acting at an art school in Vienna, and joined the Theater and Film Research Society in New York after graduation. During those years, he traveled to New York, London and Vienna to run his own stage play business. In the 1980s, Waltz participated in a number of stage performances, and then began to play small supporting roles in TV series or TV movies, and also got some opportunities to appear in movies. Waltz tried to star in an English-language film, but it didn't work out, and those 30 years weren't good. After becoming famous, Waltz once said that he was grateful to God for being able to live by performing and support his family.
Andy Serkis
Masterpiece: King Kong
Golden Supporting Role? Is this dude very yellow, and why is the face so strange?
In other words, Gollum in "The Lord of the Rings" + "The Hobbit", "King Kong" in "King Kong", "Caesar" in "Rise of the Apes", "Captain Adok" in "The Adventures of Tintin" are all Andy Serkis, who do not show their true faces and only rely on their amazing expressions and limbs, which create these movie characters that are beyond traditional performances, which is enough to prove the strength of this brother. As the king of motion capture, Andy Serkis is an uncompromising industry bearer, a brother.
In addition, he can also be seen in "Black Panther", "Star Wars", "Avengers", "Deadly Magic" and other films, and he starred in "Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll" and "Full Town" and won him a British Oscar nomination.
It is such a diligent and silent performer who has been repeatedly ignored and treated coldly by the Oscars. In 2002, the academy judges downplayed "Gollum is computer-effects processed" and turned Serkis away from the nomination, and he sat on the cold bench of the Oscars for a decade. For years, Serkis has been saying day after day that "performance capture is also performance", but only a few fans and technical houses have listened to it.
The word low-key is best used as the middle name of Andy Serkis, and no actor like him has done everything in his famous masterpieces to make a perfect performance, but he hardly has even a chance to show his face. Although more and more actors are now beginning to put on a comical outfit and walk to the front of the green screen, Andy Serkis still occupies the throne of the king that cannot be surpassed in the field of performance capture, he downplays the traces of technology and returns everything to the most simple but complex origin of performance.
That year, Serkis, who worked in small independent productions in The United Kingdom, received an olive branch from Peter Jackson, and his dedication to acting extended his three-week contract to five years. As an important character in the "Lord of the Rings" series of films throughout the book, Gollum's infinitely old body and gray and rough skin are derived from computer special effects; and the complexity of the alternating personality of madness, perversion and desire is entirely due to Andy Serkis's acting skills. In fact, Serkis even created a complete worldview for the character, "When Fodo first met Gollum, he found that there were too many similarities between them. Although Gollum caused him a lot of trouble on his journey to destroy the Ring, without Gollum, their adventure would not have been able to continue. ”
Peter Jackson originally planned to use computer animation to generate gollum images, so Serkis's initial job was to voice the characters and briefly play Smeger when Gollum was in the mirror. But things didn't go as smoothly as expected, and despite Serkis' efforts to inject emotion into the voice, he soon found himself completely unable to fit in, so he consulted with Jackson and asked to play the role himself. Serkis recalls, "I demonstrated a gollum performance on the spot at the studio in LA, and PJ immediately revised the original shooting schedule after seeing it, and we decided to use the performance to capture it. ”
Motion capture technology was so immature that Serkis had to perform in the air in a cramped studio, but the experience gave him hope for future films. The final grunt on the screen shocked everyone, the average audience marveled at how a digital character could be so physical, blurring the line between live-action and animated films, and the staff who knew Serkis' performance was even more amazed, and he injected such convincing vitality into this skinny weirdo.
In 2004, Peter Jackson put on the agenda the plan to remake King Kong, and Peter Jackson intended to make King Kong not only a huge primate with agile movements, but also a rich variety of inner activities, which comprehensively enhanced the emotional content of the film as a joy and sorrow of a foreign race stepping into the human world. Of course, to accomplish all this, it was natural to ask Peter Jackson's old partner Andy Serkis to come out. In the end, Serkis cleverly found a balance between the laws of human and orangutan behavior, making the new version of King Kong look like a realistic gorilla, but also has more human elements. The big guy on the screen incarnated as a lonely and sad hero, the curiosity and uneasiness when he first saw the beautiful woman, the warm pulse of the human beast gradually developing a strong affection, the arrogance and dry cloud of fighting for the salvation of the sweetheart, the pain and madness of losing his lover, the sadness of fighting with fate but unable to return to the sky, all of which were revealed from the smile on King Kong's face under the meticulous interpretation of Serkis, so that the viewer felt empathy for the fate of this gorilla.
After that, Andy Serkis gradually sat in the top spot of motion capture, and there was the "Wrath of Caesar". Many classic characters were born.
As an Englishman, Andy Serkis had a unique love for Shakespeare plays, and he was involved in Shakespeare's plays before he met Peter Jackson. As early as 1989, Serkis starred in Shakespeare's immortal masterpiece "Macbeth" in Manchester's famous Royal Exchange Theatre, this heavyweight debut made him famous, but also made him inextricably linked with the Royal Exchange Theatre, after becoming famous, he returned here many times to star in "Bending Down to Courtship", "The Essence of True Love" and other plays. Subsequently, his interpretation of the image of the wise fool in "King Lear" on the stage of the Royal Court Theatre has also become a well-known classic. Throughout the 1990s, Serkis was active on the British theatre scene and became a weighty figure in the theatre world.
Despite being known as a "motion capture professional", Andy Serkis has never given up on traditional films. Interestingly, after shedding his high-tech lines, the British actor seems to have a soft spot for small indie productions. Since 2002, he has successively filmed the horror film "Valley of The Ghost", the rock band documentary "24 Hours of Party Mania", the comedy film "Girl Dream Thirty", the thriller "Curse", etc., and the rich and varied genres interpret his omnivorous performance maniac nature. In addition, he is a director, with "One Breath and One Inhale" and other good works, and his "Mowgli the Son of the Forest" has also satisfied the hearts of fans.
Mark Strong
Masterpiece: Hai bian Wang
Compared to the above-mentioned high-level actors, "Ma Qiang" Mark Strong looks a little weak. However, in the field of British drama, Ma Qiang is an out-and-out big deal, the ace of drama. In the film industry, as early as 1999, Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weiz co-starred in "Sunshine Lover", and earlier in 1997, "Extreme Fever" starring Uncle Colin Feith, he also had Ma Qiang's figure, and even in 1996, Ma Qiang had co-starred with Kate Beckinsale in Jane Austen's famous book "Emma".
After that, he also performed in "New Nari", "Orphan of the Mist", "Revolver", "Heart of the King", "Sun Havoc", "Rock Gang", "Body of Lies", "Young Victoria", "Robin Hood" and other films, but unfortunately due to role limitations, these performances did not leave too deep an impression. It wasn't until Robert Downey Jr.'s version of Sherlock Holmes in 2009 and King Hayman in 2010 that his iconic bald head finally stood out and showed an amazing performance.
Later, Ma Qiang once again showed his amazing bald head in "Ace Agent", and even under the powerful aura of Uncle Colin Feith, he was not affected at all. Moreover, he also had a good performance in "Hunting Bin Laden" and contributed a lot to the model sister. In addition, there are "Pot Maker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy", "Bad Lieutenant", "Black Gold" and other films, Ma Qiang has a good performance.
Similarly, as a British actor, Ma Qiang is relatively low-key in Hollywood. In the famous British director Guy Richie's popular cast, "Ma Qiang" Mark Strong can be described as a "golden green leaf".- Most of them are known to fans for their image of "social people" who are cold and tough and have few cruel words. The gangster protector in "Rock Gang", the criminal emperor in "Hai bian King" and the SIS agent in "Ace Spy" are unforgettable, and the knife-like gritty face is a proper agent style. Even in the "Ace Agent" series, Ma Qiang's "human collapse" has become a spit bearer and a scribble hand, and he is also a cold-faced smilester who is cool to the bone.
In most of the films he has starred in, his roles are almost unrecognizable, because he tends to change his own image for the sake of the role. For example, in "Stardust" and "Heart of the King", he has a long haircut, in "Rock Gangster" and "The Long Firm" he combs his hairline and receding back, in "Hai Bian King" he is completely bald, in "Body of Lies" and "Star Assistant" has a thick hair, and in "Sun Havoc" he wears a thick makeup, etc., until recent years has retained his bald image in many dramas.
In 2018, Mark Strong co-starred with Paul Luther in the film Catcher Spy. In addition, Mark Strong also joined the highly anticipated DC masterpiece "Thunder Shazam! " as the villain Dr. Shivana.
By the way, Mark Strong, Stanley Tuzi and Christopher Miloni are silly old irons that don't know much, but you have to see clearly.
There were rumors that Strong was cast for the film "Old Nobody" directed by the Coen brothers, and although this rumor lasted for a long time, as one of the last two candidates for the role of the killer Anton Chigurh, Strong did not get this role, and the final inductee was Javier Baden, who eventually made Baden.
His English name "Mark Strong" is not a stage name, but was changed by his mother when he was a child in the name of a dividing deed, helping him integrate into his peers to adapt to life. and baptized as a Catholic. He speaks fluent German and some Italian.
As mentioned above, in addition to starring in film and television dramas, Ma Qiang is also a hall-level drama actor. His stage productions also include The Cure and The Thickness of Skin at the Royal Court Theatre, Richard III, King Lear, Naples Millionaire, Sheep Spring, Murmuring Judges and Johnny on a Spot, produced by the Royal National Theatre, and numerous theatre repertoire.
Michael Pena (also translated as Michael Peggia)
Masterpiece: The end of the vigilance
This guy has also been active for many years, and finally became a bright star with the mouth cannon in "Ant-Man".
In fact, as early as 2000, in the seconds of "Rush 60" shot by Nicholas Cage at the peak of the shooting, Michael Pena was present. And then in 2004, the two big-flying "Million Dollar Baby" and "Crash" have performed well.
After that, he served as the same heavy responsibility as the male second in a series of large-scale films, such as "World Trade Center", "Life and Death Sniper", "Lincoln Lawyer", "End of Vigilance", etc., and other films such as "Babel Tower", "Lion's Mouth", "Battle of Los Angeles", "American Deception", "Rage", "The Martian Rescue", "12 Warriors" and other films have also been performed.
"Ant-Man" was originally just a series of works that were not so stunning in the Marvel map, but the appearance of Michael Pena brought unexpected surprises to everyone, and his cannon-like lines, like mercury pouring out, were cheap and funny, and there was a warm male atmosphere, which made this character shine. In the second part, Michael Pena's role was added. However, this time the footsteps seemed a little harsh, and Michael Pena was also a little too hard, and although his character was also very funny, the effect was always a little discounted. However, I believe that Pena's future will be better and better.
To say that the masterpiece, in addition to "Ant-Man", Michael Penner and Jack Gyllenhaal co-starred in "The End of Vigilance" left people with more wonderful moments. In this first film directed by David Aye, Pena contributes superb acting skills, no less wonderful than Jack Gyllenhaal.
Simon Peggy
Masterpiece: Hot-blooded detective
This dude is an uncompromising inspirational emperor.
Simon Page was born on 14 February 1970 in Gloucester, England. At the age of 15, Peggy left school because her father's business went bankrupt and traveled east and west to London, where she worked in a restaurant for six years. Six years later, in 1993, Peggy felt he needed to make a difference and moved to London, hoping to make a difference in the comedy world. Since then, he has embarked on his own stand-up comedy tour, and later, he has the pleasure of dabbling in television comedy, starring in some TV series. It happened that his girlfriend and Nick Frost were waitresses at the same restaurant, and Peggy stopped by to eat with them, imitating Chewbacca at the dinner table, and Peggy felt a sense of affection, and the two became friends. Peggy and his girlfriend broke up and moved in with Frost. Peggy continued to gain comedic experience on stage, and Frost continued to work in restaurants.
In 1996, the series Mash and Peas introduced Peggy and Edgar Wright, a friend of the lead actor Williams and Jessica Hines. That same year, Wright, Peggy, and Hines collaborated on the comedy series Mental Hospital.
In 1999, Simon Peggy teamed up with Jessica Hynes to adapt the Channel 4 TV series "House Trouble", and Peggy invited her best friend Frost to appear on the show, writing the military madman character that Frost usually created to please Peggy. For her rendition in the series, Peggy won a British Comedy Award nomination for Best Comedy Newcomer.
After the honor, Simon Page began to write and act on "Shaun of the Zombies", directed by Ed Galett, and co-starring his best friend Frost. In the end, the film became a hit, not only out of the British Isles, but also all over the world.
After that, Peggy, Frost and Wright's Iron Triangle continued to work together on "Bloody Detective" and "The End of the World", completing the "Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy".
The public's familiarity with him lies in the fact that he starred as Captain Scott in the "Star Trek" series, Bangui, a technical expert in the secret service squad in "Mission Impossible", and played the Thomson twins in "The Adventures of Tintin". In addition, he played roles in Ready Player One and Star Wars. He has also served as a major voice actor in animated series such as Ice Age, The Chronicles of Narnia, and Box Monster. In this way, being able to continue to play important roles in large-scale productions has made him familiar.
In fact, he is not only an actor, but also a brilliant screenwriter, not only in the "Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy", but also in big productions like Star Trek III: Beyond the Stars.
From a restaurant receptionist who dropped out of school at the age of 15 to a pre-eminent Hollywood celebrity, Simon Peggy did it, and you say inspirational or not?
Paul Dano
Masterpiece: Blood is coming
Compared with the above stars, Paul Dano belongs to the young generation of unforgettable ones.
This guy can hardly find his figure in mainstream films, but he is at ease in the field of literary and art films. Paul was born on June 19, 1983, and grew up with his sister in Wilton, Connecticut. From the beginning of the fourth grade to high school, Paul's passion for acting brought paul to the Broadway stage, where he began performing in Charles Dickens plays "A Christmas Carol" and "A Month in the Country". After graduating from high school, he moved to New York with members of his band Cherry Revision, initially to pursue his musical dreams and to continue his acting career, but the result was that performance gradually gained the upper hand in some way.
Paul Dano first appeared briefly in "Smart Guy", the real debut performance is the 2000 family comedy "The Newcomers", the next time the audience sees him in the independent film "L.I.E.", this film noir about the long island problem boy with a broken family won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and won the Best Debut Performance Award at the Independent Spirit Film Festival. Then in 2002, Paul Dano joined HBO's hit Series Sopranos. In 2003, Paul Dano met with music video director Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Farris, who were preparing for their first official feature film, Little Miss Sunshine, and despite the couple's difficulties that caused the project to be repeatedly delayed, Paul kept an eye on the film while working on other work until the final collaboration. In 2005, "Little Miss Sunshine" was finally released, and this popular Sundance film can be said to have changed the life of Paul Dano. Despite working with actors of the caliber of Steve Carell, Greg Kinnell and Alan Arkin, Paul still reflects a light that critics can't ignore.
A year later, in 2006, Paul co-starred with Daniel Day-Lewis in "Blood Is Coming", and the collision with "enemy" Daniel Day-Lewis and "father" William Hurt seemed to inspire Paul Dano to greater energy, and film critics used words such as "unfathomable" to describe his performance. In the collision of the two Oscar winners, Paul did not see any timidity, but burst out of amazing acting skills, and some people even felt that he should get an Oscar nomination for his performance in the film.
Becoming the new favorite of film critics, he did not choose to move closer to the mainstream film industry while it was hot, but instead continued to take over many independent films, showing a general style of honor and humiliation. He is a supporting role, in fact, it is also for mainstream movies, in independent production, he is a full-fledged male number one.
Although he has occasionally appeared in commercial productions such as "Danger", "Cowboy and Alien", "Ring Messenger" and other films, he is more at ease with small literary productions, and he has worked with Ang Lee ("Making Woodstock Music Festival"), Spike Jones ("Beast Home"), and Dennis Villeneuve
("The Prisoner"), Steve McQueen ("Twelve Years of Slavery"), Paul Sorrentino ("Young and Vigorous"), Bong Joon-ho ("Jade" and other literary film directors collaborated, but also took on the lead himself, shooting the temperamental "Wild Life", and won the Cannes Film Festival Golden Camera Award (Directorial Debut) nomination.
In December 2015, he also won the Boston Film Critics Award for Best Actor for his role as Brian Wilson in Love and Mercy, alongside Leonardo DiCaprio's The Revenant. In addition, he also won a series of awards such as the weighty Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Actor.
Outside of acting, he hasn't forgotten his music, he's also the lead singer and guitarist for his band Cherry Revision, as well as the lead singer and lead guitarist for Mook. (Asked why I'm more focused on acting than music)" "[In music] I think I'm too stubborn and can only do things my own way. Music used to give me a lot of hope and some really great musicians, but the current trend of pop music makes me have to admit that many aspects of it are really not for me. I don't know how I'm going to adapt or do anything else. ”
Will Poulter
Masterpiece: Detroit
Finally, come on a younger one. Will Poulter was born on 28 January 1993 in Hammersmith, London, England.
Why is it that this little town is so young and can be in the same list as the above-mentioned famous celebrities, how can he?
After reading his list of awards and nominations, you know his strength. These glories, many filmmakers may not be able to get so much in their lifetime, but he has already done it at a young age.
In fact, don't look at his young age, in fact, it is a drama. Since the age of four, he has been performing drama in the local area and has opened his passion for acting. In 2007, Will Poulter starred in his film debut In Second Blood as school bully Lee Carter, for which he was nominated for Best Young Actor in a Co-production at the 2009 Young Artist Awards. As a result, the film was finally invited to the Toronto Film Festival, the New Apt Beach Film Festival, the Seattle Film Festival, the Glasgow Film Festival and the 51st British Film Institute London Film Festival. The film later won the Empire Magazine Film Award for Best Comedy and the Audience Vote Award at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland; it was also nominated for the British Academy of Film Arts Best Screenwriting and Director Awards, four British Independent Film Awards, and Will was nominated for the Most Promising Newcomer Award.
In 2010, he played the cousin of Peter's siblings in the fantasy film Narnia Legends 3: Dawn Treading Waves, adapted from the novel by british fantasy literature C.S. Lewis. He was nominated for the 2011 Saturn Award for Best Young Actor for this film. In this series, which is not as famous and artistic as the "Harry Potter" series, he can stand out and get more performance achievements than the actors in the "Harry Potter" series, which only Will has done.
In 2013, Will Poulter starred with Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudages, and Emma Roberts in the comedy Counterfeit Family, which tells the story of a counterfeit family named Miller who formed a counterfeit family named Miller in order to smuggle a shipment of goods from Mexico to the United States. For this film, he was nominated for best newcomer actor at the 2014 British Empire Awards.
In 2014, he played Gally in the sci-fi thriller Maze Of Moving, starring Dylan O'Brien and Kaya Skodario. In the same year, with his outstanding performance in "Counterfeit Family", he became the EE star of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards aimed at launching the "Newcomer Actor and Actress Who Show extraordinary talent and is destined to become a dazzling star in the future".
The above films, in addition to the high artistic achievements of "The Second Blood", the others are average, but Will is partial to raw food, and he comes out of the film with a temperament that is not outstanding, not the protagonist is still hard to carry, with good acting strength.
Later, he also had a good performance in the "Wilderness Hunter" starring Xiao Lizi, in this film he did not have many roles, far less than the male protagonist Leonardo DiCaprio and the male second Tom Hardy, but he was still able to get rid of the aura of Xiao Li and Tang Lao Wet, so that his role had great recognition.
In 2017's "Detroit", he went one step further, almost turning a group-based film into his own one-man show, becoming the most eye-catching of the actors. Unique temperament, although not nominated for the Oscars, many film critics agree that he is a lost pearl.
In time, Will will will be able to mix a famous, believe me!
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Others, like Javier Baden, Ralph Fiens, Max Mickelson, Matthew Amalik, although they play supporting roles in Hollywood, but everyone is No. 1 in their home country, a national treasure level actor, and everyone deserves to be pulled out alone to say it well;
There are also Jared Leto, Ben Foster, Joel Edgerton and others, always wandering between the protagonist and the supporting role, the film also has its own advantages and disadvantages, it seems that the supporting roles are better, here is not more to say;
As for the others, such as Jonah Hill, Sean Bin, Stanley Tuzi, Ken Watanabe, etc., although they are also familiar faces, they always feel that they lack a blockbuster work that makes people completely remember the image, and they are not included in it. Others include JK Simmons, Mark Relance, Mahershala Ali and others, who have emerged in the past two years because of an unexpected outbreak to win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, but more works are needed to prove whether it is short-lived.