Matthew Goode

There are others in the factory who are better looking, with better attitudes and with more talent.

He’s a brat.

I've always thought he was handsome af, but he comes across as a total dick in that interview. Either he is a dick, or the interviewer had it out for him. I'd still fuck him.

[quote] Andrew Garfield, Tom Hiddleston, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Eddie Redmayne

Much better looking than any of them in my opinion. Cumberbatch pretty much looks like an alien.

Maybe check out "The Lookout". Great little film with terrific performances by all - including Joseph Gordon Levitt and Matthew Goode.

Despite having a great body and pretty facial features, he has a weak chin, so he's really not that easy to cast as a leading man. He's been best off playing character roles where the character is meant to be sen as good looking to other people onscreen (if that makes any sense!), such as Lord Snowdon in the second season of "The Crown."

Gorgeous but his attitude ruined things.

A weird thing about the British is that though they've had several quite handsome actors appear in the last 20 years--Matthew Goode, Kit Harrington, Rupert Penry-Jones, James Purefoy, Jeremy Northam--the ones who have really done best in Hollywood over time have been unusual looking: Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Craig, Eddie Redmayne, Hugh Laurie, Martin Donovan. Tom Hiddleston might be one of the few exceptions to the rule (although he is not conventionally handsome the way Purefoy and Northam are).

What sort of attitude does he have?

Eddie Redmayne is pretty conventionally handsome...

R9, he’s really not. He has liver lips and is a ginger. He’s one antenna short of an alien like Cumberbatch.

Liver lips?

That dumb romantic comedy in Ireland with Isla Fisher ruined him for me.

I don't see the alien admixture I detect in Cumberbatch. I see no resemblance whatsoever. Goode is generically handsome, but very little sex appeal.

FINN POLMAR!

[quote]That dumb romantic comedy in Ireland with Isla Fisher ruined him for me.

Hahah, that was Amy Adams.

He's one of my favorite Brits, take-his-pants -off-wise. I wish he'd gotten better movies after A Single Man.

Goode is a maintenance actor. He gets the job done, but not that interesting.

He's openly trashing films he's been in, slating directors and producers, and shading co-stars, and you wonder why he wasn't a bigger star? The evidence is right there. If you don't play the Hollywood game you don't get the keys to the kingdom.

I used to like him until he appeared in that utterly revolting "Post-Modern/Transgressive" mess last year called 'Ordeal by Innocence' where everything was made to be as ugly as possible.

He’s sort of meh. He’s perfect for vanilla rich dude roles like Match Point

The only film I ever saw him in was Stoker, that really creepy film with Nicole Kidman and that Alice in wonderland chick.

I liked his performance as Ozymandais, and his flashback performance as Colin Firth’s dead husband in Single Man.

bland, snobbish, pooncey, bore

from that interview he sounds like an arrogant dickhead with a stupid mouth

I guess he just wasn't Goode enough.

He is cunty and let's it show in interviews. He shit on a few of his own movies and at least one director. And then at the height of Weinsteins powers Matthew gave an interview where he swiped at Weinstein for A Single Man’s failed Oscar campaign. Harvey then responded with “I mean, we have 250 Oscar nominations and 72 wins, but I think Matthew might know a little bit more than me.”

Ladies, before his fall you knew better than to criticize Harvey in any way whatsoever. The fact that Harvey publicly responded should tell you the hammer he dropped on Matthew Goodes career in private.

I wouldn’t kick him out of my bed.

r27 I would. He'd bitch about your love making to all and sundry in the newspapers!

ISHC

He was never going to be a big star because he lacks a gigantic head. His head is actually too small for his body. He should be grateful for his career as a steadily working actor.

See also, Ben Barnes.

Never fuck a man with an ego this big. He'll spend the night making you feel inadequate.

are we sure he's not gay? He's vain and cunty enough to be

Do you want to know why Andrew Garfield is a star? Look at the size of this head. You can use it as a battering ram.

Patrick Schwarzenegger also has a really tiny head for his huge body. It might be normal in real life, but it does make him stick out in Hollywood.

Shirtless shots of Mr Goode?

[quote]That dumb romantic comedy in Ireland with Isla Fisher ruined him for me.

It ruined him for me in a different way. After the film he talked about how horrible the script was and he knew it was terrible and only took the gig for the free trip to Ireland with his family.  He promoted the film to get butts in the seats, then turns around to say that. Discretion is the better part of valor.  Just say it didn't turn out the way you envisioned it and don't shit on the hard work of the filmmaker. I hate when actors do that.

I enjoyed him as host on The Wine show with Matthew Rhys.

He was passable in “A Single Man.” He will never be a sought after screen actor. I think his strength is in community theater and maybe off-Broadway.

If Amy Adams who is a superior actor with a better filmography can be gracious about that film then Matthew Goode should have shut his arrogant mouth.

His best role was "One Of Lady Mary's Fellas" in Downtown Abbey.

[quote] Hahah, that was Amy Adams.

Ha ha, I'll say!

He pissed off Harvey Weinstein

Rhys has ten times the charisma of Goode, even if he’s not as conventionally handsome as the other Matt.

Wow, he came across as an arrogant asshole in that interview at R1! If that’s any indication of what he’s like, there’s your answer about his career!

So many British and Irish actors in his broader age group have done better than him in their various ways, be it in theatre, with high brow directors in in independent film and streaming: Ben Whishaw, Rory Kinnear, Michael Fassbender, even Sam Clafin...

You can get away with being a twat if you're REALLY gifted as an actor or a huge box office draw.....he isn't either of those things

Someone posted on a Downton Abbey thread that he was not well liked on the DA set either, both series and movie.

I found the pairing with Lady Mary so stiff, rushed and lacking chemistry, he sounded like a robot throughout.

If there is a second movie I hope they kill him off...in a car accident...it should become Lady Mary's thing...dead husbands scattered about roads in Yorkshire.

Definitely the weakest link in Downton Abbey.

I love him because he seems so bitchy. And he's hot.

I was told by a production assistant that he has “tinymeat.” That’s probably why he’s not cast in leading roles.

Interestingly, even though he usually plays extremely high-born types, he is from a much more ordinary background. Unlike most of the other actors named in this thread, he did not come from a wealthy background nor attend Oxbridge (he went to the University of Birmingham).

Maybe that's why he's such a snob--he has to prove himself among all the posh types.

Matthew Goode was actually in second place to Henry Cavill for Man of Steel. Given the brave face Cavill put on in dealing with the DC movies’ terrible reviews, it’s hard to imagine the snippy Goodge doing similar.

Did Tom Ford make him put out to do A SINGLE MAN?

I don't believe that Matthew Goode was a serious contender for Superman. Among other things, Superman is always cast as a perfect face with a strong jaw. Matthews good looking in a more imperfect way with that nose and chin. Plus his frame doesn't suggest a capacity to bulk muscle in the Dorrito style.

Jesus Christ, do a google search. It was between Henry Cavill and Matthew Goode.

He's having a great career as an actor- not necessarily American movie star which if you are a guy in 2020 means you have to have a franchise film set- I'm overstating- but not much. Plus he is very sexy.

Matthew Goode is not as obviously gay as Eddie Redmayne with his EXTREMELY GAY lips. But he's still one of Dorothy's friends.

He's pure sex in the excellent "A Discovery of Witches" which was renewed for a second season.

R54 You are aware that it's not uncommon for agents to put out rumors like that about clients who were nowhere near a role, right?

Goode was never in the running for Superman. Cavil was chosen, they just had to throw a random name in the ring for optics. The studio wanted us to think it was a tough decision if only to generate more buzz/publicity.

It was widely reported in the trades that Goode was up for the role.

Nope. Goode was never a serious consideration. Again, it was all for optics.

Widely reported in what other Trades besides THR (which became the source of all the other reporting)? It seems planted to me.

What about the movie he did with Mandy Moore at the height of 2002, after her album FLOPPED? What's it called?

[Quote] Definitely the weakest link in Downton Abbey.

Bless you, my child.

Chasing Liberty

I actually remember ads for that film which said he was going to be the next Brad Pitt

R63 Hahah, Chasing Liberty. This dude was in some bad rom coms...

R63 You seem delighted at a nondescript album from 20 years ago not performing well. That you even remember a detail like that is true commitment to being a hater. I applaud you

[Quote] That you even remember a detail like that is true commitment to being a hater.

What Mandy Moore album didn't flop, though?

R67, not really a hater, because I liked her debut album that had "Candy" on it, but I just thought she was gonna take off from there and she didn't. Amanda Bynes did, LOL. Who's doing better now because of a flopped movie and album?

However, I will say that Chasing Liberty is what turned me on to Matthew Goode. I guess his chin wasn't as prominent to me as it is now, which made him more sexy to me. That or he was younger than what we're discussing now when I then liked him. I don't think I have the same feelings for him now, haha.

R12 his voice coach should have been strangled. His accent was horrendous.

Is he pretty loaded?

I think he is gorgeous and he was excellent in the Crown!

I wonder how he got along with Juliana Margulies on the set of The Good Wife?

The thing that's always put me off about him is that he looks like he's wearing a bad rug. Perhaps he is, I don't know, but it doesn't matter, because that's what his hair looks like in everything and I can't help seeing him as this sad alopecian creature who went to Rip Taylor's wigmaker clutching a soggy coupon for 15% off.

I don't see rug. I do see the weak jawline.

that totally looks like a rug to me.

There's no way on earth WB was seriously considering R75 for Superman. Hilarious

To be fair, he's aged quite a lot in recent years.

Does he smoke?

Wow, i cant believe this interview in R1 is real. He is shitting on Ben Whishow. He is shitting on everybody. This man is an idiot.

R80 He isn't "shitting on Ben Whishow".

He says the character was dour.

He says that he would have been better cast in the role, i.e. that Whishaw took it to Doursville.

He literally says Whishaw played it wrong and the part should have been given to him. I can see big filmmakers not wanting to work with him after this. No wonder he went to die in supporting roles for saccharine frau TV shows

Goode has an infinitesimal role in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society but he's so dashing in it. He's like Cary Grant minus the comedic timing.

R83 British actors dish each other all the time. They have a different sense of humour to Americans.

British actors are in a small bitchy competitive profession based in London. Everyone knows each other. I bet they both have laugh and a beer with each other.

Tosh. I don't know any British actors who speak like this about each other in interviews. Even cunts like Rupert Everett and Jeremy Irons know better than to go this far

Matthew greets Ben with a "Hello, luvvie" and Ben squeezes Matthew's butt with an "Allo, luvvie".

Did he ever escort?

R81

But he is. I honestly never read anything like that. And no, it's not what british actors do. So... Pathetic and classless.

even his ass is bland

What a sad ass. And how is he fucking with the skirt over her holes? Bad acting.

Is his witch vampire show getting a second season

I wonder what the original draft of that interview looked like? I thought that might be a one-off but it isn't. Woof. I went to school with dozens like him. The first time I saw him, I thought, "He looks like Wickham." Little did I know, if the shoe fits... He is charming in "The Wine Show" but the interview he does for "Stoker" (another movie he recently moaned about) with Nicole Kidman, she looks like she can't get far enough away from him on the sofa. (I realise there are strong opinions about her, but I don't think I've ever seen a cast interview with that kind of body language, made worse by him talking OVER her which is just rude no matter who you're sharing a fugly sofa with.) He followed the same trajectory as Eddie Redmayne and Benedict Cumberbatch: when he first started to get "big" he replaced acting school girlfriend with a well-connected waifish, milquetoast partner. He is also fairly well-connected, his sister is Sally Meen and his BIL is Russ Lindsay. He's trying the foppish Hugh Grant thing, but Hugh Grant already did that in the 90s and now he's a delightfully crabby old man with piles of money, half a dozen kids, and a surprising level of introspection balanced by cynicism. I am still delighted by Hugh Grant, Matthew Goode does not have that kind of longevity.

^ Well some of us seem to think that actors' interview performances are as important as their on-screen performances.

(I personally don't care. Actors are not idols to be worshipped)

If it's a pattern of being a perfect twat in interviews that extends across years and isn't just being slightly unsure of their footing, then for some of us, yes, it starts to bleed into how much we would like to sit through one of their films/mini series/20 minute wine bantering as opposed to giving ourselves a colonic with a bottle of gin. "How badly do I want to watch this blazing narcissist take his trousers off tonight on ITV?" Some people you can develop a grudging respect for in spite of them being insufferable because they are extraordinarily clever.

Douche-y

Not as Douchey as JonahHill Ratzenberg.

I have odd taste in men, which would explain this...

...I found him to be incredibly attractive and sexy in the Potato Peel film. And the character was gay!

I really liked him, he is very attractive, but this interview in R1 really turned me off. So pathetic.

I liked him, I found him utterly charming, which is never a good sign. As for his role in the Potato Peel Film, he was very charming, but I think Hugh Laurie (young or re-written for an older Hugh) would've done it more justice especially with the comedic timing.

r98 The only thing as douchey as Jonah Hill would be a Summer's Eve factory.

One last thing and I'll stop prattling on here, but in that Telegraph interview, the interviewer actually does him a favour (or his publicist, someone who was supposed to be minding the shop, but had clearly popped off somewhere to smoke or have a wee or both) by essentially warning that he is OLD ENOUGH and BRIGHT ENOUGH to know EXACTLY what he's doing when he just runs his mouth and doesn't seem to care. That was about as polite as they could put it without being equally rude. He's like a cocky 17 year-old always swinging his imaginary golf club around.

Even though he's straight that interview made him sound like a bitchy queen:

Every so often, he claps his hand to his mouth and says: ‘Oh God!’ as if he can’t help himself.

he looks/sounds good here.

^ He's very pleasant there; the earlier 9 year-old interview at R1 was obviously done when exhausted by a grilling, rapacious newspaperman.

R106

Not an excuse. He's not a smart man.

[Quote] Every so often, he claps his hand to his mouth and says: ‘Oh God!’ as if he can’t help himself.

That didn't make me think of an old queen, it made me think of a naughty schoolboy, delighted with his transgressions.

I watched Watchmen for the first time and was really disappointed by him. (Meanwhile I liked the usually abysmal Malin Ackerman) The mysteriousness character showed up his lack of acting talent. And the bleached hair, rather than him looking like a gorgeous blond god, made him look weak chinned, big nosed and bulging eyed.

That was 10 years ago, r105.

I only know Malin Ackerman from THE COMEBACK. She wasn't abysmal in that, though she had nothing to do beyond being likeable (which isn't as easy a quality to pull off as one might think).

The anti Matthew Goode troll is... odd. Calm down.

My apologies, end of term with a classroom full of these types and their stupid e-mails and redundant essays makes me crazy. I'm equal opportunity, could've been any of these pretentious, overrated poster children. Take my own advice now and have some gin.

[quote]Bunty

A portmanteau of "Boy" and "cunty."

I've just always found him very bland. He had no chemistry with Juliana Marguiles on The Good Wife. I noticed they shipped off his character rather quickly. To be fair, she didn't have any chemistry with Jeffery Dean Morgan either. He was boring as Lady Mary's suitor in Downton Abbey. I thought she had more chemistry with Tony Gillingham, who was far better looking. He's just all right as the vampire in A Discovery of Witches, but he's lucky that the lead female character is played by an even blander actress. I always wondered if that was done on purpose by the casting directors to make sure he's not the blandest thing on the screen.

I think he's had more of a career than he's deserved. He's not particularly good looking or charismatic. I was surprised by how often he'd pop up in TV shows and movies. Couldn't they find someone better to have Lady Mary end up with on Downton Abbey? Mercifully he was barely in the DA movie.

[quote]Couldn't they find someone better to have Lady Mary end up with on Downton Abbey? Mercifully he was barely in the DA movie.

Amen.

A portmanteau of "Boy" and "cunty."

Pity I am not of that particular persuasion and calling me "cunty"? You flatter me.

What film is R90 from?

I found him strangely hot in the movie Stoker, especially in the piano scene.

Straight down the shitter..

R109

I heard this role was written for Tom Cruise. And you can say a lot about him, but his charisma is undeniable. Goode just doesnt have IT factor, so Rorshah stole the movie in the end.

You are delusional R121 Tom Cruise has all the charisma of paint drying. NONE.

Tom Cruise was one of the biggest stars of the 80s and 90s for what, r122, his talent?

Of course he's charismatic.

R119 I agree he's hot in that piano scene. I don't know enough about music to know whether he was complementing the music, adding to it or intruding into it.

He does diabolical charm well, which is where he's most appealing. I don't know if that is a particular niche that needs to be filled, but if you're going to be typecast, it seems like an amusing place to land. If they wanted to dredge up "Psycho" for another go around, he'd make a phenomenal Norman Bates.

He was excellent playing Snowdon in The Crown, but going by that interview, being a self-important cunt comes naturally to him.

R123 His looks got him roles, neither talent nor charisma.

Madonna has neither talent nor charisma and look at what a big star she is.

Only thing I have seen Goode in that I thought he was truly good in was playing Anthony Armstrong-Jones in The Crown.

He's getting a little old for it now, but he'd be an excellent Ted Bundy or George Wickham. As R125 said, diabolical charm is his sweet spot.

I liked him as the gay bestie of Lily James in that Guernsey pie movie on Netflix. Very charming.

He's one of those actors where, unintentionally one can end up watching only things he's in. Watch a little The Crown, some Downton and oh hey, what's this British period drama on Netflix? It looks good. Ohhhh, Matthew Goode is in it. Who would have guessed?

R119 I loved Stoker and the piano scene. It's a gem of a movie and the casting for everyone was on point. Highly recommend it.

Stoker was written by DL fave Wentworth Miller

He's rapidly approaching an age where he should secure a pension via Agatha Christie/Father Brown/etc. updates or become the new sidekick on the eternally running Midsomer Murders. There's always a market for cosy mysteries, while I don't know how much longer we'll have to endure time traveling and vampires, I sincerely hope we'll exhaust those before the turn of the decade. The mysteries seem like an amusing way to spend your career, but it's all about the wardrobes for me, so maybe it would get exceptionally dull after a while.

I always thought he was hot. Have no idea what happened to his career.