Agree that he’s a good shoutout. He doesn’t really have leading man traits, but clearly has enough respect to get offered premium supporting parts basically anywhere he wants, and he chooses really well.
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I still haven’t seen it. Was talking to a co worker last night about our favorite Tom Hanks movies and she said Bridge of Spies too.
Oh damn, I thought you actually disliked it. I was tickled that the Blank Check guys absolutely lavished praise on this movie in a way that I’ve rarely heard it talked about.
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The film was crafted around the song.
Clive Owen
Chewi
Gene Hackman
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Leonardo DiCaprio
Margot Robbie
I’m surprised I’ve never seen it. Premise sounds good. Written by the Coens, directed by Spielberg. Hard to think I won’t like it when the time comes.
(It was reasonable of me to have concluded that you probably disliked it.)
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Lol that’ll teach me to make feet jokes 
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Speaking of: recently swimming around in the pool of silent films, and even watching a Clara Bow film (who Robbie’s character was based on), is beginning to make the prospect of a Babylon rewatch irresistible. Being like 3:15 long is not ideal, but I think I’m going to have to go back in with the additional context of that era in mind. It’s very interesting to watch that transition period.
Separately: it’s very odd to me that there’s a movie starring Robbie, Christian Blake, and John David Washington that everyone just universally hates (Amsterdam). I’ve chosen to shrug and believe them about that one.
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Clive Owen: Children of Men and Inside Man are top 10 for me. Not sure where I would rate Closer but jfc if you’ve ever been Jude Law this film will bring back the burn.
Chiwetel Ejiofor: Children of Men, Hotel Rwanda, Inside Man, Dirty Pretty Things ( a great example of the halcyon era of indy film watching), and, do not scoff, but RedBelt which, despite a few plotholes, is executed to perfection. If you’ve seen Rocky more than once, and haven’t seen Redbelt, you’re doing it wrong.
Gene Hackman: I’m sure he’s been in a few bad films but I haven’t seen them. Eureka is in the queue.
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These are good picks. Love Chiwetel Ejiofor.
Oh wow, Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman were picked as least likely to succeed by their acting classmates.
Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman both studied at the Pasadena Playhouse in 1952. In many ways, Hackman told Film Comment, they were the two odd men out. Hackman’s Marine Corps years made him an unconventional acting student, and he had a life milestone most of his classmates didn’t: He was already married. Meanwhile, Hoffman’s unconventional fashion sense got him dubbed a beatnik, and his shortness seemed to put him out of the running for traditional stardom.
Hackman was taller, but he still faced many of the same criticisms his friend did. He simply didn’t look like a movie star was supposed to, and everyone in the business, from casting directors to his acting teachers, defined him as a character actor. “I accepted the limitation,” Hackman said, “of always being the third or fourth guy down, and my goals were tiny. But I still wanted to be an actor.”
But his classmates didn’t see that in his future, and they voted Hackman and Hoffman as that year’s “least likely to succeed.” Unsurprisingly, Hackman didn’t stick around the Playhouse very long after that. He and Hoffman, of course, have both had storied careers that have since proven their detractors wrong. It’s harder to say what happened to the rest of the class.
eh, should have been obvious why nobody calls him Chewi. 
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I was in a scene with Chiwetel Ejiofor and I can’t for the life of me remember the name of the film.
I remember torrenting it to see if I was in it and my scene was cut. He was giving a remote interview and I was a sound guy sitting in front of him. When he was done, I took his mic and mic pack or whatever it’s called off of him.
Fun and exciting!
Edit: LaKeith Stanfield was also in the scene, just before he got really famous.
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If it’s Come Sunday, that’s a dang shame because it’s on Netflix and I’d gladly have queued it up just to watch your scene.
Very cool that you got to meet him.
Dicaprio
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I was counting on you to continue the Pacino love. Speaking of: does he mention The Insider in his book at all? Because I’m increasingly obsessed with people understanding just what a masterpiece that movie is.
Even al pacino wouldn’t answer al pacino to this question
If he talked about the insider he didn’t say too much because i don’t remember any comments. I havent seen it yet either tbh
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