# Actors you like \[even\] more than before **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** actor-characters\ **Created:** [August 29, 2022, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-like-even-more-than-before/970555 "2022-08-29T19:15:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2022, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-like-even-more-than-before/970555/21 "2022-09-02T16:07:56Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Yeah, Samuel L Jackson just gets better and better. If you can find it, he reads a children’s book called _Go the F#$% to Sleep_ that’ll put you on the floor, laughing, imagining him reading it to a small kid. You might appreciate this lullaby (it’s also been released as a book): [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dZuv55dGHVk/maxresdefault.jpg "Uncle Bonsai – "Go To Sleep" – Amazing Things Arts Center, Framingham, Mass , October 20, 2017") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZuv55dGHVkm) Not my video, but I was at that show. > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > Especially the latter; for a young actor primarily known for playing a dimwitted stoner to share a screen with RADA-trained heavyweights like Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Brian Blessed and Richard Briers, and in a Shakespeare adaptation to boot, took some stones. It’ takes a certain amount of guts just to be in the same time zone as Brian Blessed. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2022, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-like-even-more-than-before/970555/22 "2022-09-02T18:23:28Z")
> [@2\_More\_Bits](#): > > If you haven’t already, try him in a non-comedic role: [The Spanish Prisoner - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spanish_Prisoner) Unfortunately not a very good movie, but it is true he is solid in it. His screen time is fairly small, though, I think. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2022, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-like-even-more-than-before/970555/23 "2022-09-04T01:22:54Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > You might appreciate this lullaby (it’s also been released as a book): I can not get this to play. Pity. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2022, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-like-even-more-than-before/970555/24 "2022-09-04T02:03:57Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > I can not get this to play. Better luck with this one, maybe. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBdEI8n\_ShA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBdEI8n_ShA) ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2022, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-like-even-more-than-before/970555/25 "2022-09-04T05:43:14Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > How about **James Spader**? He was sorta okay for decades, but as an older guy he is able to pull off so much more. You could substitute Robert Downey, jr. and have that same conversation. Jason Bateman is one I’ve changed on. Going from _Teen Wolf, Too_ to _Ozark_ was a pretty big step. I’ve often wondered how he managed it. I guess popping up in _Dodgeball_ and then landing _Arrested Development_ was an eye opener, even if I can’t understand that process. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2022, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-like-even-more-than-before/970555/26 "2022-09-04T18:55:00Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Better luck with this one, maybe. [Go To Sleep - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBdEI8n_ShA) **SUCCESS!** Thanks. That was just sublime! Wonderful vocals, beautiful twelve-string guitar, pretty funny; I owe you one! ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2022, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-like-even-more-than-before/970555/27 "2022-09-05T00:10:44Z")
He’s highly regarded as a great physical comedian, and I believe it. The jokes, etc… weren’t quite his thing. > [@teelabrown](#): > > But he stole the show in _Once Upon A Time . . . In Hollywood_, IMO. Leonardo Dicaprio was very good, as always, but I liked Pitt’s performance even better. I think Pitt is one of those actors who’s always been very good, but his looks overshadowed his acting ability until he got older and his looks faded a little bit and/or he started getting roles with more gravitas. > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > a young actor primarily known for playing a dimwitted stoner Thing is, you can’t _actually_ be a dimwitted stoner and portray one effectively. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2022, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-like-even-more-than-before/970555/28 "2022-09-05T02:44:39Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > That was just sublime! Wonderful vocals, beautiful twelve-string guitar, pretty funny; I owe you one! Check out more of their work; they do funny, harmonic, and sarcastic very well. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2022, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-like-even-more-than-before/970555/29 "2022-09-05T17:50:47Z")
I thought Colin Farrell was a good actor but figured him for a shallow party boy in his younger years. This interview on Hot Ones made me think of him as a mature, thoughtful and nice man. His acting has mature with him. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/pf9M8Ckomo0/maxresdefault.jpg "Colin Farrell Searches for Meaning in the Pain of Spicy Wings | Hot Ones") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf9M8Ckomo0) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-you-like-even-more-than-before/970555.md?page=1)