James McAvoy has hit out at how actors are made to lie to win awards

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He is talking about that pompous p*ick, Leo di Caprio.

R2 It's so obvious that Leo doesn't even try to act.

Yeah obviously he's talking about DiCaprio and the bs campaign for The Revenant

Not only that, some also get a beard if they are not straight enough..................

Yep - he's talking about the fat, sluggish, sexless Leonardo DiCaprio.

I realized some actors lie when they want to win awards. The interviews are always ridiculous. It's good to see an actor talking about it.

Portman

Love him.

He is an actor, not sure about the rest of the people mentioned on this thread.

My first thought as well, R8 - all the bullshit about how she did her own dancing in Black Swan, and it turns out she had a dance double who did it all.

Shouldn't the evidence of good or bad acting be in the film?

Like Christian Bale constantly gaining and losing weight for his roles, or shaving his head.

Can it get more absurds with the luvvies? It's like their ballerina role is only worthy if they almost lost a toe after months of grueling training (which isn't even that relevant to the acting). Same with the Revenant acting lile your cold and starved in the wilderness requires talent and craft, actaully being cold and starved during the filming just requires an out of his mind director with too much money in his hands.

Well, all the creative and media professions thrive on hyperbole and insincerity — it's the myth-making at work. The problem is that it is spilling into other professions as well.

Does everyone know that I lost so much weight, and got so sick from standing in the rain for hours during the filming of BB, that I had to go to the hospital? Just thought I'd mention it again in case anyone forgot.

Don't lie Timmy. You got emaciated and sick from taking drugs yourself. You know, for the sake of "method acting" and such?

R16, Timmy Tay, darling de la frail-tay, I hope someday soon you'll be strong enough to fully spell out a movie title instead of the annoying little acronym you shat there.

That happens a lot, r11. Goopy's stupid SHALLOW HAL movie had a double in a lot of scenes and yet she insisted in interviews it was all her -- but when she was in a fat suit, she was covered from her neck to the tips of her fingers. The double would wear Daisy Dukes and be shot from the back.

And in movies like THE LONGEST HOUR, they digitally superimposed the face of Churchill onto Oldman (the scene where he's looking up at the rain), and in I, TONYA they did the same during one of the skating a during a spin. They used Robbie's face pasted over the skating double for most of it but would slip "subliminal" frames of Tonya herself in too.

But during awards season it's "ooh I did it all and am so dedicated to my craft."

* skating scenes, not "skating a," whatever that was supposed to mean

Its silly how actors claim that their job is sooooo hard yet they get paid millions so they can hang around and have a body double do the work

My mother ruined him for me a couple of weeks ago by pointing out how much he looked like my most evil exboyfriend in that Keira Knightly period piece --- which I realize is completely redundant and could mean about 80 different films.

R22, Atonememt is the name of that film.

It’s “SHOW” business you idiots. PR is to get and keep people talking about a subject for as long as possible while a project is out.

James McAvoy and his people have decided that shitting on “SHOW” business is an effective way to define his brand.

But he’s still just doing PR, you ignoramuses.

R24 = pissed off publicist

In my day, you won the Oscar if you had an assistant peeling your grapes-- whipping them up into a refreshing enema because who has time to chew when you're doing blow? I also insisted the studio supply me with a wide selection of Ferragamo wedgies so I could swan about my trailer pretending I was Jody Foster's Iris from Taxi Driver. No one had the impudence to suggest Iris couldn't afford actual Ferragamos. But when a wardrobe lady had the temerity to complain about all the hot pants I had her making...well honestly, I can't remember how that turned out.

One of the grips knew a guy who had a private plane that made "special deliveries" from Bogota. I think I fucked that grip. Probably fucked the pilot as well. C.I.A. that pilot, I'm pretty sure. Did they just look the other way that he was getting fucked by an Oscar nominee? Look, animated short counts and I put up that money so I could take the tax loss. Who knew that thing was going to make money? And I fucked that animator darling, because who knows how something like that could pay off in your future? I'm making a mint doing voice work now. It's not cocaine and peeled grapes money, but at my age I get enough enemas it's not that fun anymore and I had to go to rehab so often, let's just say, I'm glad Nickelodeon doesn't give a shit.

What do you mean it's Netflix? Is that good? I mean the work is going to be steady, right? I've got a vintage set of wedgies that need re-corking or I'm going to break a hip.

big penis

R26 and R27 what does this have to do with what James has pointed out? He's said something quite valid, why do people have to drag the general tone of conversation to their level when the DL has an interesting thread?

If 100 people are in the room, you only need one to belive in you...

If 100 people are in the room, you only need one to belive in you...

If 100 people are in the room, you only need one to belive in you...

If 100 people are in the room, you only need one to belive in you...

If 100 people are in the room, you only need one to belive in you...

[Quote] and in I, TONYA they did the same during one of the skating a during a spin. They used Robbie's face pasted over the skating double for most of it but would slip "subliminal" frames of Tonya herself in too.

I thought that was obvious???

R29, what is "belive"?

[quote] why do people have to drag the general tone of conversation to their level when the DL has an interesting thread?

The thread got interesting when r27 mentioned penises.

Far too many posts without a pic of beefy McAvoy.

So who's going to see Glass?

Wow, he looks great there @ R33.

So he really didn’t become a centaur?

[QUOTE]So who's going to see Glass?

Everyone.

"It's not cocaine and peeled grapes money"

HA

r33 doesn't look like him, though. He's hiding his attractiveness.

My guess is because he doesn't need to rely on his attractiveness to survive, he doesn't give a shit.

He needs to rely on his attractiveness if he wants me to watch anything he's in. It's a large part of his appeal.

As we all know, G had to dredge through the emotional wreckage of her own three failed marriages in order to play the title role in The Wife. This was not an easy process for her, and I'm certain Academy voters will take her personal turmoil into account when they award her a long-overdue Oscar.

Nicole Kidman always does this.

Allison Janney gets the "Sure, Jan Award" for claiming she was a figure skater (I, Tonya) -

He is right of course, but its the entertainment industry, he can't be surprised by how fake and manufactured a lot of it is. That's the name of the game.

[quote]he doesn't need to rely on his attractiveness to survive, he doesn't give a shit.

His attractiveness is the only reason he has a career in the first place.

Has he ever done dong? Shown his on camera, I mean?

Yes, it's been part of the whole p.r. machinery for decades. I often wonder if they eventually come to believe the lies themselves; refreshing to hear someone admit that it's all b.s.

He was briefly nude in "Last King of Scotland"

His dick seemed respectable, but pretty average.

Grower. Thanks, r49.

It’s acting. How hard could it possible be?

So, will we see you among the nominees come January, then R51?

Ben Stiller started writing tropic thunder when he was working on a movie before he hit it big and a bunch of actors had gone through a weeklong military Boot Camp. He heard them talking about it as if they had actually served in Vietnam because of that one week training . I always wondered which movie and which actors were saying that

Not true. I just show up. Sometimes I don't even read the script.

R53 There's a similar story about Generation Kill. The Marine played by James Ransone, Corporal Person, met up with the cast, and they were all telling him about how tough they found it to re-adjust themselves to "civilian" life after filming the series, and how some thought they had PTSD. After they left, Person said to Evan Wright

[QUOTE]"What's up with those actors? Are they a bunch of pussies or what? Fuck, when I came from Iraq all I wanted to was go to Disneyland with my fiancee. What kind of pussy gets PTSD from acting in a movie?"