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Actors/actresses with weird line deliveries?

One who comes to mind is 80s/early 90s character actor Clarence Felder.

by Anonymousreply 25June 23, 2021 10:33 PM

Bobcat Goldthwait.

Janeane Garafalo.

by Anonymousreply 1June 23, 2021 5:54 PM

Tammy Grimes. My theater professor said she didn't know how to deliver a line when he saw her in some show; maybe she wasn't to his taste generally. She still managed quite a career, so others disagree. She did have a unique delivery though.

by Anonymousreply 2June 23, 2021 5:55 PM

I guess you could add her daughter, Amanda Plummer, too.

by Anonymousreply 3June 23, 2021 5:56 PM

Kerry Washington. She ends her lines weird.

by Anonymousreply 4June 23, 2021 5:56 PM

Teo Leoni -- her line readings are monotone and sound all about the same.

by Anonymousreply 5June 23, 2021 5:59 PM

Tea, that is

by Anonymousreply 6June 23, 2021 6:00 PM

Sandy Dennis was the queen of this. You never knew what kind of journey she would take a piece of dialogue on.

by Anonymousreply 7June 23, 2021 6:00 PM

Theatre critics loved her for it though -- 2 Tonys practically off the bat.

by Anonymousreply 8June 23, 2021 6:02 PM

Meg Tilly in The Big Chill.

by Anonymousreply 9June 23, 2021 6:04 PM

William, Shatner.

by Anonymousreply 10June 23, 2021 6:10 PM

Marlon Brando, when you can understand him.

by Anonymousreply 11June 23, 2021 6:32 PM

Mary Steenburgen. And I really like her, but wow.

by Anonymousreply 12June 23, 2021 7:17 PM

She's also something of a slow talker. Some tongues were wagging when they teamed her as Mother with her male counterpart slow talker James Olson as Father in Milos Forman's "Ragtime". Steenburgen is very charming, and when she won her Oscar, people in Hollywood thought she was going to be a big new comedy star on the order of Goldie Hawn. She's had a fine career, but did lots of dramas as well.

by Anonymousreply 13June 23, 2021 7:21 PM

Liv Tyler

by Anonymousreply 14June 23, 2021 7:24 PM

No one beats Jeff Goldblum for weridness.

by Anonymousreply 15June 23, 2021 7:27 PM

Ruiner of every movie she's in, Andie MacDowell

by Anonymousreply 16June 23, 2021 7:31 PM

Dominique Jackson

Phina Oruche

by Anonymousreply 17June 23, 2021 7:56 PM

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by Anonymousreply 18June 23, 2021 8:00 PM

Laura Linney - so odd I can't decide if I like it or hate it

by Anonymousreply 19June 23, 2021 8:21 PM

I would say Winona Ryder. I think of this time and time again. For some reason, when I have seen her in certain roles, she delivers her lines like she’s going to burst into tears and someone just needs to hand her a cookie.

by Anonymousreply 20June 23, 2021 8:27 PM

Grayson Hall

The pauses between words, the gasps, and her special way of dramatizing things. I love it.

by Anonymousreply 21June 23, 2021 9:55 PM

Jennifer Jason Leigh does it every now and then. There was a scene in Single White Female where the way she delivered a line took me by surprise and felt so right for that character. It was an odd pause between a word or adding emphasis to a strange word in the sentence.

by Anonymousreply 22June 23, 2021 10:11 PM

I never thought about Mary Steenburgen. She's always had a way of talking that reminded me of my southern grandmother. Even when she was in her 20's, she spoke like a genteel old lady.

by Anonymousreply 23June 23, 2021 10:12 PM

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by Anonymousreply 24June 23, 2021 10:31 PM

Ronee Blakley

by Anonymousreply 25June 23, 2021 10:33 PM
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