Why did Ed Burns' career go down the crapper

He’s not that interesting.

He pestered everyone to borrow his comb. No one wanted to use that dirty thing. What a kook.

He seemed more interested in filmmaking than acting and wasn't particularly good at either. Had the independent film scene not been so anemic in the early and mid '90s, "Brothers McMullen" wouldn't have attracted any interest.

Imagine what it's like to be his son Finn given how good-lookng the rest of that family is. Finn isn't ugly. He just stands out from the rest of the group.

Probably directs sub-IMDB level stuff like TV commercials or corporate training videos.

Agree with r3. Also, devoid of charisma despite his good looks.

Can I see his feet anywhere so I can fap?

For R7

Ed Burns' directing career was never based on talent though it beats me wtf it was based on.

He's a dick in person.

Are there any hot nudie pix? 🥰

I wish there was some possible way to get under his desk.

R4, their kids are not very attractive. Interestingly, Christy Turlington’s nephew, her sister’s kid, is a model who looks just like her.

Never heard any real scandals about Ed Burns so I guess he's just a boring bourgeois family man. That's not so terrible.

Would have killed it in porn

Maybe has the irish curse?

He is now an advisor to ICX Media, an ad-tech audience analytics data firm.

Also he just finished writing, directing and producing the TV comedy Bridge and Tunnel that ran for 2 seasons. Set in the early 1980s in the working class of Long Island, New York, six childhood friends have just graduated college and are stepping out into the real world while also trying to hang on to the familiarity of their hometown and remaining years of their youth.

It ran for 2 seasons of six episodes each on Epix, and he was the only name attached to it, so let's not pretend it's not anything more than a half-step above a web series.

You were set to make the series and then the pandemic happened, and Covid protocols like constant testing and deep cleaning cost $2 million, a big chunk of your budget. Did your background as an indie filmmaker help prepare you for this?

I’ve made so many no-budget and low-budget movies — you have to be able to think on your feet, to rewrite a scene on a moment’s notice, tear up your plans for the day when you lose an actor or when the cops show up and say, “Hey you don’t have a permit.”

If I do have a strength as a filmmaker, it’s my ability to pivot. They said with the $2 million they didn’t think we could do the series. I said, “I can reimagine this show.” We were originally doing eight episodes and half the show took place in Manhattan — we’d see characters coming out of an interview or meeting in a bar there.

I said I’d cut it to six episodes and rewrite everything to take place on the block where they grew up. I moved as many interior scenes as possible to exterior locations for safety, which is why they’re always in the park or hanging in the backyard.

wow, 8 episodes to 6 episodes. 🙄

The son is only 16 years old. However, he's tall (Burns is 6'1"), but slim from not having filled out yet - more like a growth spurt for which the rest of him hasn't caught up.

If you look really closely at the face and ignore than terrible teenage boy hair, it's symmetrical with a strong jawline and good chin.

I think he's going to mature relatively well over the next few years. He may not be as handsome as the father, but the daughter isn't nearly as pretty as the mother. He won't look completely out of place in future family photos.

R22 stop fantasizing about kids.

[quote][R22] stop fantasizing about kids.

No one is fantasizing about kids, except you r23.

I was merely pointing out that the kid isn't as fug as r4 and the usual DL pile-on suggests he is.

Anyway it IS ugly to call some innocent and unknown kid "not ugly but...."

He falls in the category of Boring Straight Guy actors like Chris O'Donnell.

I love that Burns and Turlington's children are 18 and 16 and they have led almost entirely private lives up to this point. Good parenting!

He's much better looking than Chris O'Donnell.

R10, tell us more?

The daughter has a look like CZJ. The son needs to slick his hair back or shave it down to a buzzcut. Show off his features more, the curls are a distraction.

A r4, that looks like a tensely unhappy family

Are there only 4 eldergays recognising R4's joke?

[quote] Why did Ed Burns' career go down the crapper?

Because he's ugly because he has no eyelashes.

Because Ed Burns is a flash in the pan just like Ed Byrnes (R31) was a flash in the pan.

I think the daughter looks like Ashley Judd.

I got it, r31, but it was r2's joke.

Gaylings here will have no idea how immensely popular the original Edd with a double d was. Far more than Ed with a single d is or ever was.

We got the joke. It just wasn't funny enough to acknowledge.

He isn't a good actor.

He has a whiney weird voice.

Not a very special director unless telling a very small story.

Apparently less than charming in person.

R30 = Heather Graham.

was the Brothers Mc Mullen homoerotic at all?

I feel like he was Ben Affleck’s rival and lost. They look like each other, both played similar roles, both had passions in filmmaking and Ben won.

Ed is and always has been so much better looking than Bat-ears

Ed was pleasantly handsome but he wasn't Rock Hudson or Guy Madison, was he? Affleck was a handsome young man as well.

Affleck was cockier on screen. Don't underestimate the seductive pull of a cute douchebro. And obviously more cut throat careerist and productive as an actor / writer than Ed Burns.

No offense r34 but it's not just gaylings who won't know who Edd Kookie Byrnes is. "77 Sunset Strip" premiered in 1958 and the song hit the charts in 1959.

Hey, r43, I'm 74! Anyone under 60 is a gayling to me.

Not related to anything, but I remember an interview with Ed and Heather was there. I think it took place at his apartment or something. Anyway, during the interview he said, I’m just with Heather for the sex. Oh, he was as kind about it as possible rather than blunt, but it was very clear. Heather got more and more insecure as the interview went on. She kept interjecting trying to prompt him to say something complimentary about her, but he just kept dodging. I felt kind of bad for her towards the end.

Heather who?

She should have attacked him with her rollerskates.

Heather Graham dodged a bullet with him. This interview (with her) also makes him sound like an asshole.

Why have her present during an interview and imply he's only with her for sex?