Had a friend who worked with Clooney back on ER and said that, while he’s a good actor, he’s absolutely crap at remembering lines. When he looks down like that, he’s actually looking at a script that someone has taped to the floor/gurney/patient.
Scarlett Johanssen is the biggest tit-tease in Movies. Unless there is a movie in which she shows her boobs that I don’t know about, she is the one actress that always wears outfits that she looks like she is busting out of, but we never get to see those magnificent mounds of flesh.
I hate her.
As for tics, the one I have noticed since his days on Family Ties, Michael J. Fox says “Sorry” or “I’m sorry.” in everything he has ever made. And it is so noticeable because he has the Canadian accent and his “o” sound is more of a long “o”. If you’ve ever heard a Canadian hockey player say “Offense”, you know what I mean. They say “Oh-fense” not “ah-fense”.
Sarah Jessica Parker (another tit-teaser) has a lisp that is annoying. Robert Iler (played AJ Soprano) has a very odd speech tic. He starts every sentence with a slight “drawn out” sound. I’m not even sure how to describe it, but it’s almost like he stutters on the first letter of the first word in every sentence. So if the line is “Hey, Dad,”. It sounds like “ehhhhhhHey Dad.”
Trust me, it’s there, and once you notice it, it will drive you crazy. I can’t watch old Soprano episodes because of the way he speaks. Drives me bonkers! (Not to mention Edie Falco’s lisp, which grates on my last nerve.)
I am happy to say I’ve never heard of Brian Blessed, and I didn’t recognize him from the links, either.
Nicholas Cage always has a permanent half-open eye thing going on. I’m sure it’s his natural look, but he plays the same exact character with the same facial expression in every movie. He won an Oscar because he naturally looks and sounds like a drug addicted drunk on the verge of committing suicide through drug abuse.
But he has no range. He is a no-trick pony that gets paid for speaking his lines and looking the way he looks without any “acting” whatsoever.
Barbara Hershey has a strange “smile”, if that’s what it is. Sally Field has a perma-frown. Her natural, relaxed face look is a frown that looks as if someone around her just farted.
I could go on. But I’ll stop there so I don’t ruin every show and/or movie for folks that haven’t noticed these things.
John Wayne…I didn’t see these posted, but everybody knows them. That’s probably why they haven’t been posted - everybody knows them. First, his walk (that leading with the shoulders and almost-dragged heel follow)…which I always thought was natural until I heard from Harry Cary Jr. that Wayne got from Harry Cary Sr. (a silent and early talkie star). and the right-hand knuckle to the nose with the head just slightly tilted and shoulders just slightly hunched to create the honest “aw-shucks” moment.
Gary Cooper…The scratched top of the head (Will Rogers used to do this regularly, too) to create the “aw-shucks” moment. The only film of Cooper’s I can not remember the scratched head moment being in was Fountainhead. It still might have been but I just didn’t catch it. He also had a unique “Straight-back” riding style that was always there. This was, however, a physical necessity, I am told. Apparently he had injured his lower back as a youth and the only way he could ride without pain was that straight-back style.