# Who is Dylan McDermott fellating? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 15, 2014, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-dylan-mcdermott-fellating/701381 "2014-10-15T06:16:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2014, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-dylan-mcdermott-fellating/701381/41 "2014-10-21T21:26:33Z")
> [@](#): > > She was playing a terribly written character in the \*Twilight \*films, and I don’t think there’s an actress alive who could have made that part work. On the other hand, Jennifer Lawrence can’t actually give a bad performance. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2014, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-dylan-mcdermott-fellating/701381/42 "2014-10-21T22:18:26Z")
> [@Diceman](#): > > I’ve always wanted to know which major Hollywood producer Adam Sandler is the love child of. That’s the only plausible explanation for how he’s managed to appear in so many movies. I feel the same about Ben Stiller. At least Adam Sandler has some acting skill. Stiller is simply terrible. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2014, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-dylan-mcdermott-fellating/701381/43 "2014-10-21T22:27:09Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > On the other hand, Jennifer Lawrence can’t actually give a bad performance. Jennifer Lawrence would have been even worse. A major part of the character was that she saw herself as nothing and entirely plain. Can you see Jennifer Lawrence doing that? ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2014, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-dylan-mcdermott-fellating/701381/44 "2014-10-21T22:39:16Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > At the moment, Scarlett Johansson is fellating me. > > She’ll call you back as soon as I’m finished. Is this where you’ve been these past 7 years? ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-dylan-mcdermott-fellating/701381/45 "2014-10-22T03:49:02Z")
**gaffa** , I’ve never seen a single one of those movies, so that’s not it. And as a matter of fact, I did like her as Joan Jett. But that still doesn’t mean she can act or has more than one stupefied facial expression. I always thought, too, that her anger at everything and everyone was justified because living in a fishbowl must suck. Now? I think she’s just stuck on herself and, due to that, can’t grow in her craft. Maybe in fifty years. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-dylan-mcdermott-fellating/701381/46 "2014-10-22T05:28:33Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Thomas Gibson makes Dylan McDermott look like Sir Laurence Olivier. I liked him in **Love and Human Remains**. Of course I liked Brad Pitt in \*\*Johnny Suede \*\*and he is hardly an actor either. The part happened to be just right for him, kind of like Keanu Reeves in **Bill & Ted**. ---
**Author:** ![JoannaDee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@JoannaDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoannaDee)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-dylan-mcdermott-fellating/701381/47 "2014-10-22T05:44:06Z")
> [@Diceman](#): > > I’ve always wanted to know which major Hollywood producer Adam Sandler is the love child of. That’s the only plausible explanation for how he’s managed to appear in so many movies. Based on talent, he should be a supporting actor, not his own damn genre. Though not for everyone his first few movies were funny to many and made a lot of money. Unfortunately everything he’s made since is total crap but somehow some of them still make money. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-dylan-mcdermott-fellating/701381/48 "2014-10-22T07:00:59Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > **gaffa** , I’ve never seen a single one of those movies, so that’s not it. And as a matter of fact, I did like her as Joan Jett. But that still doesn’t mean she can act or has more than one stupefied facial expression. It doesn’t? In _The Runaways_ she was playing a real person with a well-known persona, and did a credible job of it. That is a pretty good definition of “acting”. > [@](#): > > I always thought, too, that her anger at everything and everyone was justified because living in a fishbowl must suck. Now? I think she’s just stuck on herself and, due to that, can’t grow in her craft. Maybe in fifty years. I pay zero attention to the fishbowl. The only things I know about any actor is what they do in a film or the trailer for a film. So Kirsten Stewart could have either cured cancer or shot a man for snoring too loud and I would be blissfully unaware of it. So I’m capable of judging her work on it’s own merits I saw several of the Twilight films (though I never bothered seeing the final two) but then my wife and I see a LOT of films, and are as likely to see art or indie films as Hollywood ones, and she has as good a chance of doing respectable work as anyone else, especially if she seeks work in art or indie films. An actor has to have a reliably shitty body of work for me to write them off. Like Rebecca Pidgeon. We _know_ the person she is fellating - David Mamet. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-dylan-mcdermott-fellating/701381/49 "2014-10-22T14:44:09Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > It doesn’t? In _The Runaways_ she was playing a real person with a well-known persona, and did a credible job of it. That is a pretty good definition of “acting”. But from what I know of surly Joan Jett’s attitude, Stewart was basically “playing herself.” So again, although I used to be in her corner up to that point, everything since has convinced me that she’s very flat, one-note abs with zero range. How you can go through a film like _Snow White and the Huntsman_ and look just bored is beyond me. I’m hoping she might do better in the Kerouac movie though. We’ll see. > [@](#): > > I pay zero attention to the fishbowl. The only things I know about any actor is what they do in a film or the trailer for a film. So Kirsten Stewart could have either cured cancer or shot a man for snoring too loud and I would be blissfully unaware of it. So I’m capable of judging her work on it’s own merits > > I saw several of the Twilight films (though I never bothered seeing the final two) but then my wife and I see a LOT of films, and are as likely to see art or indie films as Hollywood ones, and she has as good a chance of doing respectable work as anyone else, especially if she seeks work in art or indie films. > > An actor has to have a reliably shitty body of work for me to write them off. Like Rebecca Pidgeon. We _know_ the person she is fellating - David Mamet. I brought up her behavior in real life because it totally mirrors how she “acts” in her profession. And again, I had said that as a previous defender of her antics both in real life and on the screen. But once the bloom is off the rose, then I have to take the results as they are. I think she sucks and you don’t, but figured you’d want to know that it wasn’t because she’d been in love with a sparkly vampire. Which, contrary to the hypothesis, I’d never seen. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-dylan-mcdermott-fellating/701381/50 "2014-10-22T17:24:03Z")
Not having anything to advance the OP, my contribution: Richard Lewis. For a while, he was a really popular guest. I just found him annoying ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2014, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-dylan-mcdermott-fellating/701381/51 "2014-10-22T19:08:57Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Oh FFS, can we just say “blow”?! “Fellate, fellate, fellate…” It’s beginning to sound like something that is done to deli meats before they go in the cooler. Fellate, fell-ate, He fell into the deli meat he ate. > [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > I feel the same about Ben Stiller. At least Adam Sandler has some acting skill. Stiller is simply terrible. I don’t know if Stiller is fellating them (I hope not), but when your parents are Ann Meara and Jerry Stiller that’s a lot of pull to have behind you. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-dylan-mcdermott-fellating/701381/52 "2014-10-30T14:03:23Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Dylan McDermott is neither the best nor the worst actor out there. He’s neither the handsomest nor the ugliest actor out there. > > He’s a decent looking, perfectly competent actor of limited range. To be sure, there are LOADS of actors out there of whom I could say the same thing. So, why does he work more often than most of them? Because he’s established himself as a guy who shows up on time, knows his lines, and conducts himself like a professional. Producers who’ve worked with him in the past know they can depend on him, and hire him when they have roles available for which he’s well suited. > > There are a LOT of producers and directors out there who like to use the same actors regularly. Many of them have a “stable” of actors they like to work with. That’s partly because they know the quality of the work they’ll be getting and they’ve established a certain rapport. > > That can keep an actor working steadily. And the more steadily you work, the greater the chance that some OTHER producer will see you on TV or in a movie and say, “He’d be great for a new role I have to fill…” > > A lot of us on the IMDB laugh at Ted McGinley, and ask how he keeps getting work. It’s probably for the same reason- he’s a good looking, competent, professional actor who does whatever producers and directors ask of him. People who’ve worked with him before tend to like him and hire him again, or gladly recommend him to colleagues to are hiring. It isn’t much more mysterious than that. You’re right. OK, I have to cut Dylan McDermott some slack. > [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Thomas Gibson makes Dylan McDermott look like Sir Laurence Olivier. Wanted to like Gibson, but after all that Dharma/Greg and all the CM, he’s STILL stiffer than a Vampire’s Day-walker Henchman. Maybe they put bolts in his neck on Halloween and hang tinsel from him in December… I just don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![justmeetee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@justmeetee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justmeetee)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2014, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-dylan-mcdermott-fellating/701381/53 "2014-10-30T18:17:07Z")
The list of actors I could ask this question about is quite extensive. Mostly I attribute this to being an old fart. I’m always looking at ads on tv and in print of a “celebrity” pitching a product or cause and find myself saying “Who the fork is that?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-dylan-mcdermott-fellating/701381.md?page=2)