Tommy Lee Jones

Yuck. He's never looked hot. NEVER.

In a New York minute

Looks like a poor man's version of Richard Gere. Meh.

Very manly and hot.

He's better looking than rabbit faced Gere. But Jones looks mean. Rough trade that might kill ya. In Cold Blood.

Trivia...he and Al Gore were roommates at Harvard.

What bad reputation?

I think he just has a general reputation for being grouchy, rude, not liking interviews, etc.

Apparently very mean and difficult. The biggest one was the Jim Carrey issues on the set of Batman who said Tommy was horrible to him.

Apparently very mean and difficult. The biggest one was the Jim Carrey issues on the set of Batman who said Tommy was horrible to him.

so hot. my pants would have just disintegrated at the sight of him.

He's aged badly. Hasn't taken care of himself.

Jim Carrey seems irritating himself, never a quiet moment. Here's a story about the two of them:

[quote] [Jones] said, 'I hate you. I really don't like you.' And I [Carrey] said, 'What's the problem?' and pulled up a chair, which probably wasn't smart. And he said, 'I cannot sanction your buffoonery.'"

The complete opposite of someone who has had too much plastic surgery.

I mean Jesus christ

He looks a bit like Dionne Warwicke.

Then and now.

I'm surprised he's a Democrat. That mean face and the fact he's from Texas just scream "Republican".

His first wife is the stepdaughter of Ring Lardner, Jr., who was one of the Hollywood 10 (please see Hollywood blacklist).

He allegedly would only sign on to do "Men in Black II" if Linda Fiorentino was not involved. She was supposed to have been Will Smith's new partner, but Tommy got her canned.

Well to be fair, she had a reputation for being a real cunt, so can you blame him?

Poor Linda. Tommy Lee could act like a complete jerk and still get big budget movie projects. Linda acts like a cunt, and her career is over.

Tommy Lee Jones is a dick for that. To fuck up someone's career moment over whatever shit he was irritated about is just evil.

He did not fuck up her career, He did not want to work with her. They could have fired him and hired her. I also totally understand his dislike of Jim Caarrey’s buffoonery. I think personally he may be an ok dude but I do not enjoy his low brow physical comedy (buffonery) so I do not watch his films. So far I have not read anything to make him seem particularly difficult.

I like her work alot(what there is of it) but she doesn't have the greatest reputation either.

[quote]The biggest one was the Jim Carrey issues on the set of Batman who said Tommy was horrible to him.

Carrey is a real handful. No one seems to remember how insufferable and sometimes even hateful he was in the 1990s, and in fact you can see videos of him on SNL or Arsenio on YouTube where people are cheering him on, even though he's being a racist or homophobic jackass.

As for Linda Fiorentino, she was an absolute monster to everyone. I don't think Jones got her fired, NO ONE wanted to hire her.

Speaking of Fiorentino, anyone else remember when she dated an FBI agent just to get him to give her information on her real boyfriend, "fixer" Anthony Pellicano?

Let's dial back the "poor girl" pity for Linda Fiorentino, she's a menace.

"I cannot sanction your buffoonery.'"

That one sentence alone makes him 100x hotter in my eyes.

I remember he was Al Gore’s college roommate and I seem to remember he put Gore’s name into nomination for President.

R18, America’s possibly most liberal president LBJ was a Texas Democrat. Before GWB Texas had a liberal governor , the country wasn’t always so polarized.

"I cannot sanction your baffoonery" is right up there with "Don't bore me with tales of your incompetence."

Anna Wintour, I've got someone I'd like you to meet....

He was Timmy Siegel on One Life To Live.

R32 he was hot on "One Life to Live" and also in "The Eyes of Laura Mars" though I seem to recall Rex Reed panning the movie and wisecracking that Jones and Faye Dunaway were so skinny their sex scene was like watching 2 skeletons make love (or something similarly bitchy.)

And really, who DOESN'T hate Jim Carrey?

I knew Richard Gere in the mid 1970s and met Tommy Lee Jones back then too. They were both very nice to me.

I like him. Can he be difficult and hard to work with? Yes. But usually only with people he finds difficult and hard to work with. He liked working with Will Smith, he hated working with Linda. Why? Because she was rude and nasty and kept fucking up scenes. Will, way what you want about him, was professional and hard working. He respected him.

Jim Carrey sounded insufferable to work with though. What was pissing Tommy off most was that Jim never followed the script or screenplay, and a lot of what we see from him in Batman Forever is improvised. He would do all his crazy “buffoonery” during scenes and do things out of nowhere, which he didn’t do during rehearsals. This would throw Tommy off and he didn’t know how to react to Jim’s buffoonery, leading them to have to reshoot scenes constantly. He hated Carrey and felt he was doing all that to show off and show up the other actors.

I adore Tommy Lee Jones. Gorgeous in Coal Miner’s Daughter

TLJ stone faced at globes lol at 3:39. Can’t blame him. Wiig is overrated and Ferrell has always been horrible.

Jones is incredibly intelligent and a serious man. He isn’t someone you stand and joke with. He isn’t that type of man. He doesn’t get low brow humor. He is someone who would probably laugh at dark humor, satire or sarcasm. But not the Jim Carrey, Will Ferrell type humor. His brain doesn’t seem to be able to understand the buffoonery they’re putting on.

It’s all very stupid to him.

My mother is another one who doesn’t like physical humor or that low brow stuff. She never understood John Ritter’s success because she felt he was just cheesy, not funny

I think he is a great actor. In the valley of Elah ihe gives a great performance. He obviously doesn’t suffer fools. But I do think he may be tricky.

[quote] The biggest one was the Jim Carrey issues on the set of Batman who said Tommy was horrible to him.

GOOD.

well, he tried

Looking scruffy . . .

TLJ issues with Carrey is the fault of Carrey. Jones comes off bad in the drama, but Carrey was intentionally adlibbing and doing his physical crazy shit while filming, and barely following the script. He would rehears one way and then while filming do something completely different.

Carrey’s “rapid-fire zaniness” reminds me of the also-insufferable Robin Williams. Whose buffoonery I also could not sanction.

I had a friend who worked as a legal assistant in the 80s at a wall st lawfirm, and he couldn’t stop talking about being taken along with other members of a deal team to see Robin Williams live one night. “Oh man, he’s GOT to be on drugs” he kept saying. No, I kept thinking, he just has an inflated opinion of his own genius.

R6 Further trivia: the haze at the end of the hall in Dunster where Jones and Gore roomed was not cigarette smoke. Didn't stop him from graduating cum laude, though.

Tommy Lee was an offensive lineman on what was probably Harvard's most famous football team in 1968 when they "beat" Yale 29-29.

One of his first acting roles was, oddly enough, playing a Harvard student in "Love Story."

r46 YES! That "rapid-fire zaniness" is what drove Jones nuts. Filming Batman Forever was a nightmare for him, because of Carrey. Jones was following the script and screenplay, and performing the way they rehearsed, and then once they began filming, Carrey would start bouncing off the walls, doing his rapid-fire shit, making his crazy faces, and ad-libbing etc. which would throw Jones off. They would have to do numerous takes because Jones couldn't understand what Carrey was doing, even asking Carrey to follow the script and stop changing shit once they began filming, and do it how it was rehearsed. Carrey wouldn't. Jones grew angry with him.

Because of Carrey, Schumacher told Jones he needed to camp up his performance, rather than Carrey tone down his. Jones was infuriated.

He was my first major celeb crush. I was 12 and it was 1994/95. The Client, Blown Away, and The Fugitive did it for me and I watched those movies repeatedly. Still found him hot in Men in Black, but the crush faded soon after that.

Obligatory 'The Fugitive' speech.

I like TLJ.

I never met the man but he was friends with my late uncle and even later aunt. They both said he was charming and fun.

However I do not understand why TLJ or any actor would want to do a film with someone they don’t like.

R50 still kind of amazes me he won the Oscar for TF. But Jones took a rather stock role and put his stamp on it. Even though Fiennes and DiCaprio were robbed. TLJ really deserved it for JFK instead of Palance and his career Oscar.

R15 HHHOT!

R51 because many times you don’t know you don’t like them until you begin working with them...

I don't know what these queens are talking about....the young TLJ was hot as fuck. And I've always heard he's a smart, serious man, sometimes cranky. Now he's gotten old. So?????

Every time I read a Cormac McCarthy novel, I 'hear' the narration in TLJ's voice in my mind's ear.

i get TlJ and RlJ mixed up

I first became aware of T Lee Jones way back in the early 80s when I was not yet a teen. HBO, and he starred in a film with Lawrence Olivier, Robert DuVall, Leslie Ann Downe, and Kathleen Beller among others. Sort of like the American "Gosford Park." About a very wealthy Detroit family which made it's fortune in the Automobile industry. Some Harrold Robbins shit. Right up your alley if you care to see it:

"The Betsy" 1978

His younger pics look a lot like Nureyev...

Does anyone remember his naked ass in The Executioner's Song? They recently put it out on Blu-Ray in two different cuts and both cuts eliminate all the nudity and it's a shame, too, because he had a great ass and there was a long shot where he gets out of bed and takes his sweet time walking into the kitchen as his ass jiggles everywhere. You could also see his big dick when she slaps Rosanna Arquette as she's riding him on the bed.

You can see his ass briefly here

The Neanderthal seems strong in this one.

I liked his "Chuck E's in Love" song.

[quote] I adore Tommy Lee Jones. Gorgeous in Coal Miner’s Daughter

Loretta Lynn's husband was actually short and, frankly, kind of dumpy. Still, good casting choice! He and Sissy Spacek did seem like a real couple. However, the orange hair was not necessary.

I always thought that Belinda Lee was the more attractive of the British blonde dollies of the 1950s, but for some reason, it was Dors who shot out of the gate and made a bigger splash, while Lee is little remembered today.

Oops. Wrong thread.

He directed Sissy in a tv western in the 1990s, and also starred in it with her. They had great chemistry in CMD and I believe they’re still friends.

The clip in the OP's thread is from The Betsy.

Supposedly, he and Sally Field didn't get along on Backroads, but eventually reconciled on Lincoln.

I'd like to thank Mr. Tommy Lee Jones, who really made the performance that I gave possible.

He was actually was very handsome. Too bad he turned out to be such an arrogant prick. He’s one of those actors that you never hear anything good about. He has this attitude like everyone Including his fellow actors are beneath him.

(R67) Because Sissy is a sweetheart. My cousin who is a make up artist, says she is the nicest actress he’s ever met.

I first saw TLJ in the Charlie's Angels pilot in 1976.

All his scenes were opposite Jaclyn Smith.

They were at the prime of their youth and sexiness

Yowsah.....

The Eyes of Laura Mars. Very hot.

"I'm the one you want."

Yes you were, Mr. Jones, but you were a prick to my Texan sister in law when you were visiting Dallas to play polo. She worked as a hostess in your hotel. You will always be an asshole.

Excellent actor, no complaints on that score. Used to be a huge modeliser, chased them sometimes with.. umm... a bit too much aggression (didn't hit/beat/stalk he was just aggressive).

Josh Hartnett looks like a younger TLJ.

And I don't blame TLJ for disliking Jim Carrey. I never understood why the fuck Carrey decided to play The Riddler like he was The Joker. The Riddler was a nerd not a clown. Carrey completely fucked up that role and ultimately the movie due to his campy performance.

A grown man named "Tommy"? Ridiculous!

I loved Jim Carrey on "In Living Color" I thought he was a genius and maybe he was.

I've never seen "The Mask" or "Pet Detective" or any of his comedies. I saw "The Truman Show" and something something "Spotless Mind" and they were fine, he was fine.

When you look at his latest thing - his cartoons, you can see that he's filled with rage. FILLED. I love them but the mind behind them is almost frighteningly dark.

Why did Lorne Michaels throw Jim Carrey the Biden bone. He's terrible and everyone could have predicted he would be terrible. But he's shit with sprinkles. The internet tears him apart every Saturday and they are inclined to want to enjoy SNL.

Carrey was talented in a broad sketch comedy sort of way and he started out as a pretty good impressionist. He is absurd and pushes things far. But it is a dark mind at work and he seems unable to play a new character of any sort now. I feel bad for the guy - he's bombing so bad and looks so uncomfortable on live TV.

Josh Hartnett doesn't have any space between his features. He should be handsome, but he's neanderthal. Like Ashton Kutcher. Tommy Lee Jones was both fine faced and rugged. Those deep set eyes and heavy lids, the cheekbones and jawline, the bad skin and reluctance to smile. But he had a nasty robust laugh. Really sexy. Josh Hartnett resembles Mark Wahlberg more than Tommy Lee Jones.

Jim Carrey must be a gigantic pain in the ass to work with. He downgraded himself before the industry did.

I find TLJ really sexy and a great actor. It's too bad that he seems like such a jerk. However, he's worked steadily over the years and he has worked with certain actors more than once, like Meryl and Sissy, so maybe he's not that bad??

I can't find the interview, but I remember a story from Nick Searcy, where during their scene in "The Fugitive", Tommy Lee Jones was really difficult, quite the snob - I wish I could remember the details - though I still like Jones, of course.

the interview must've been removed, it was one of those instances where an otherwise smart person lets their snobbishness make them stupid, there was script dispute, Jones came off as a brat, I wonder if it was Searcy or Jones who wanted it gone.

I always thought The Executioner’s Song was a made for TV movie. He won an Emmy for it. They wouldn’t show him nude, would they?

I remember he showed his ass in Back Roads with Sally Field. It was the only good thing about that movie. Muscular and tight.

Jim Carrey was the least funny person on In Living Color...

Isn't Nick Searcy a far-right Republican? I take what he says with a grain of salt (though I loved him on Justified).

I believe they shot extra material for The Executioner's Song for international release.

TLJ turned down the J.R. Ewing role on Dallas. So did Robert Foxworth. Suckers!

I totally forgot that TLJ was in 2 of my favorite guilty pleasure movies of the 90s: Volcano and Double Jeopardy.

Anyone know what movie this is?

Savage Islands, 1983, R90