Alfred Molina Appreciation Thread

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No real point to this other than to say “Damn, Alfred Molina is an incredible and strangely overlooked actor!” He’s so versatile that I had seen him in several movies (BOOGIE NIGHTS [as the coked up gay dude with the firecracker popping houseboy], CHOCOLAT [as the repressed mayor], BRAM & ALICE [horror writer in a terrible TV show], and DEAD MAN [small role as a missionary in the outpost]) before realizing it was the same actor. He’s as good as Salma Hayek as her loving but womanizing husband in FRIDA and I’m hoping that he’ll be great as Mussolini in the upcoming Eric Idle spoof of Ivory-Merchant vehicles, REMAINS OF THE PIANO.

That’s all- no thesis or questioning, just an homage to a great actor.

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It always bugged me that in RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK he was credited as Satipo, but was called “Sapito.”

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He will also be playing Doctor Octopus in next summer’s Amazing Spider-Man movie (sequel to Spider-Man), and he was in the fun sci-fi B-movie Species.

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Dont forget the crazy Iranian father in “Not Without My Daughter,”
starring Sally Field, or the owner of the store that William H. Macy works at in “Magnolia.” The guy is awesome. Everyone loves him, even if they dont know it.