In honor of the thread about actors you avoid (Mr. Hanks, Mr. Cruise your train is leaving the station) - name some actors, mainstream or indie, who you actively seek out in movies. I’m sure someone will say this topic has been done before, but frankly hasn’t all of this board been done before :-)?
Tim Roth
Joaquin Phoenix
Kate Winslet
William H. Macy
Mark Ruffalo
Christopher Walken
Gary Oldman
Kate Mara
Rachel McAdams
Anna Paquin
Sarah Polley
Zach Braff
Donal Logue
Mark Ruffalo
Adam Sandler
Bruce Willis
I wouldn’t say I seek him out, but Chris Cooper has made a lot of movies I enjoy. He has very good taste in selecting scripts, I guess.
Maggie Cheung
Zhang Ziyi
Michelle Yeoh
Gong Li
Neil Dickson
Ron Cook
Kate Hodge
Anton Rodgers
John Cusack
Christopher Walken
Johnny Depp
Peter O’Toole
Peter Riegert
Lili Taylor
Tim Roth
Harvey Keitel
Steve Buscemi
Kevin Smith
Jason Lee
Sam Rockwell
Eric Roberts
Johnny Knoxville
Stacey Dash
Jaime Pressly
Clive Owen
Jason Schwartzman
Adrien Brody
Peter O’Toole
Robert Downey Jr.
Johnny Depp
Richard E. Grant
John Malkovich
Eddie Izzard
Anthony Hopkins
Johnny Depp
Miranda Richardson
Forest Whitaker (this has burned me on occasion, but it’s still worth it)
Ray Winstone
Tim Curry
Harvey Keitel
Steve Buscemi
Alan Rickman
Wow, several of my choices are already listed.
Gary Oldman
Alan Rickman
Christian Bale
Tim Roth
Joe and Ralph Fiennes
Daniel Day-Lewis
Jessica Alba. While I haven’t seen her in any non-sci-fi type stuff, my desire to see them is raised a couple notches merely from her being in them, to the point that I consider seeing movies I would never even think of if she were not in them.
Oh, and I don’t consider her a bad actress: although she won’t win an Academy Award, she has her moments.
Tara Fitzgerald
Johnny Depp