I saw Ricky in a show on here called Hollyoaks and then the 100. His acting was not too great in Hollyoaks (lol typical, they hire mainly on looks) but he improved in the 100, while the show deteriorated after the initial burst. I'll see American Gods and get back to you. Sly can act but he got pigeon holed early on and almost had to continue to be that person. I feel Cruise is more versatile with his acting. I look similar to Oscar Isaac I've been told and I can see the resemblance myself, without those ears lol. But if I could look like anyone I'd want to look like Eddie Cibrian as a man.
I think Sylvester became such a commodity and so powerful in 80s that he went the route of money over acting skills. He is a business man and an artist--and I think business man won out most of his career. He saw himself in mid 80s as a product to maximize.
He made some real stinkers.
He made some early films (Fist, First Blood) his acting was fantastic.
I know he was obsessed with trying to make a film about Edgar Allan Poe--I don't know what happened why he never did it.
I work with actors and I think people don't realize for some it is really a struggle to expose themselves emotionally...they have to get into a head space--some do it effortlessly and just slide in and out of emotions like we do a jackets and its fascinating to see them do it...some really struggle, there whole demeanor will change.
I worked wth the nicest actor, always sweet charming sometimes almost annoyingly chipper and upbeat at like 5 in the morning...when the days he had to do the really dark stuff he was a total sh*t for the whole day...he really went off on me one day on set because i had to reset something technical and he did not have patience for it because he was so hyped up..basically he has this huge temper tantrum 80 people myself included just starred at him while he ranted and we did not say a word because we knew he was in that head space he needed to be in, no one wanted to break him out of it. He apologized to me later that week.
Its not comfortable for everyone to go down that dark rabbit hole...some directors are fantastic getting actors there and others are complete sh*t.
there is a reason why Jennifer Lawrence is 'sometimes' a good actress and other times she is not..it's the directors. Especially someone like David O Russel who to me is like Scorses with his actors. He gets
fantastic performances from them.
He gets fantastic results from all his departments I think. He loves making 'whole' moves, it shows in his work I think.
You can tell watching some Directors works if they actually love the process or it ifs more of a dark obsession and they value some areas over others.
