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20 Actors Who Actually Deserve Your Support

These days most actors are only in the business to make a quick dollar and get famous, but there are some who actually still care and enjoy acting. Cinema Blend have come up with a list of 20 actors who do care and deserve your support.

Ricky Gervais

In 2004, The Office became the first British sitcom ever to win a Golden Globe for Best Comedy. They never filmed another episode. Three years later, despite reported requests to guest star from Madonna, Brad Pitt and Will Ferrell, Ricky Gervais decided not to film another season of Extras. Walking away from a starring role on a major sitcom just as it becomes most profitable is almost unheard of, doing the same thing twice is either a sign of lunacy, a testament to just how much he really cares or an almost superhuman belief in his own abilities as a comedian. Decades ago, people said the same thing about Bob Newhart, more recently, they’ve said it about Dave Chappelle. I haven’t the slightest idea what the truth is, but that’s pretty damn good company to be in. Ricky Gervais deserves your support because he left two brilliant, critically-adored television shows of his own creation to do a movie lampooning God. Then he followed it up with a sentimental dreamedy about growing up in England. It’s as if he’s deliberately killed all momentum he had, cocksure he could rebuild again at any time of his choosing. We’ve yet to see the best out of Ricky Gervais, and when it comes, Cinema Blend will be the first in line to say I told you so. We’ll probably end up sharing credit with Barry from EastEnders.

Viggo Mortensen

Viggo Mortensen is a smolderer. He opens those intense, I-know-how-to-build-my-own-kitchen eyes, and he wins my girlfriend over every time. Obviously, I want to hate him because anyone that ruggedly handsome has to be despised on principal alone, but like Paul Newman and his absurdly delicious salad dressing, there comes a day when you just have to admit a dude’s alright. Viggo Mortensen could have gone the way of Eric Bana, it certainly would have been expected by this writer, but since The Lord Of The Rings climaxed, he’s done nothing but take intense borderline indies and one movie about horses. Turns out that’s excused because he’s reportedly just real into horses. I would write a movie about polish sausage if someone paid me, a man can’t change who he is. Viggo Mortensen is a character actor at heart, he’s a method, no-restraint genius who looks like a mechanic, crossed with zoo keeper, crossed with a brooding former model turned emotionally-tortured bad boy. I need to stop holding that against him. If not for my own credibility, so he won’t steal my girlfriend and kill me with his bare hands in my sleep on his way to winning at least three Oscars before he’s done.

Bill Murray

Bill Murray doesn’t have an agent. He has an answering machine. Leave him a message and if he likes your movie, he might call you back. Most likely he won’t. I suspect Bill Murray cares about life more than he cares about movies. He spends his days on drunken golf outings or eating lunch with Anthony Bourdain. When he chooses a movie it’s only because he thinks it’ll enrich his life to do it. Maybe it’ll enrich yours too. He’ll show up on set when he feels like it and when he arrives, he’ll be everything you could ever hope Bill Murray would be. He’ll hang out at crack jokes, he’ll entertain the crew between takes. When someone turns the camera on, he’ll give it his dead pan all, he’ll elevate every scene he’s in, he’ll make your movie better than it ever could have been if you’d cast anyone else. Then he’ll wander off back to his life, randomly tending bar in Austin and doing whatever it is that Bill Murray does with his endless weekends. He’d like to win an Oscar, he probably should have gotten one for Lost in Translation. But he doesn’t care about pleasing his fans, he won’t do anything just because you want him to. He’ll only do it if he wants to. Bill Murray mostly he cares about life and while you’re cashing paychecks for doing movies about giant robots, he’ll be out there living his.

Kate Winslet

I think Kate Winslet would be better off if she made more movies like The Holiday. That opinion, along with many others, is why I’m not necessarily a writer you should support. For all the laurels I’ve rested on, all the middle-of-the-road, audience-pleasing editorials I’ve delivered, I could never be Kate Winslet. Conventional wisdom dictates one should take roles which further her career, monetarily or critically, Kate Winslet has spent the last decade and a half taking movies like Little Children and The Reader which have merely reinforced her reputation as a woman more interested in achieving than pleasing. There’s nobility in that aim. Only the virtuous would sacrifice manufactured emotion for brutal honesty. That’s why I’m willing to sacrifice Michael Caine, who was originally going to be on this list. 20 actors is more search friendly than 21. Kate Winslet is better than that. That’s why she gets her own paragraph.

Crispin Glover

I’m pretty sure I get Crispin Glover about thirty percent of the time. That’s about twenty percent higher than most people and twenty percent less than Crispin Glover gets himself. Maybe. The how’s-and-why’s of the most honestly, happily eccentric man in show business are too confounding for a single paragraph. There was his Letterman appearance where he fired a roundhouse kick at Dave’s head, his republishing of a book about rats with CIA-style blackouts, his asking the director to remove all of his lines in Charlie’s Angels. The outlandish idiosyncrasies are enough to make OCD-patients look benign. He’s either accidentally stumbled upon that genius level of insane a few people have every generation or he’s carefully calculated an intentionally eerie public persona, the likes of which haven’t been topped since Nero. Lou Reed, on his most desperately anti-social day, skewers toward mass appeal projects twenty percent more than Crispin Glover. It’s like he carefully measures out just enough rope to almost hang himself and then climbs further up the tree. Peeping Toms, one-armed bellhops, Andy Warhol, these are the men Crispin Glover puts life into. He’s a personification of the mystery box, a creepy, off-putting Knave of Hearts lurking behind door number three. I can support that, at least thirty percent of the time.

Morgan Freeman

Wanna know what Morgan Freeman is up to right now? He’s narrating Through The Wormhole on the Discovery Channel. Let’s take a second to think about that. Morgan Freeman, a beloved actor with his handprints at the Chinese Theater, is doing the voice work for a little-seen basic cable documentary series. It’s certainly not because he can’t get work or because he’s somehow now incapable of acting, Morgan Freeman is still at the height of his cinematic power and influence, which is why he’s narrating one of the most fascinating programs on the origins of life I have ever seen. Maybe Through The Wormhole shows up without Freeman’s involvement, in fact, it likely does, but would Discovery be running highly-rated marathons of it? I seriously doubt it. Morgan Freeman invokes an aura of legitimacy. Even when he does absolute shit like Evan Almighty, it never really tarnishes his ability, probably because he never stoops or panders, grovels or lowers himself to embarrassment. All the greats, Joe Dimaggio, Ted Williams, they struck out too, but they did so with class, with a confident, I’ll-get-you-next-time grin. Don’t believe me? Then go ahead and stamp your forms, sonny. I doubt Morgan Freeman gives a shit.

Michelle Williams

Michelle Williams made a movie about walking around town looking for your dog, and it was one of the best movies of 2008. If there’s a great movie you’ve never heard of, odds are she’s in it. She could do blockbusters, where she’d invariably be cast as some superhero’s girlfriend. She’s pretty enough, she’s talented enough, and she’s well known enough. I’m sure Marvel wishes they could get her in The Avengers. They can’t. I doubt they’d even ask. Michelle Williams isn’t in it for the glory, or the money, or even accolades. She’d have to be in movies people are likely to see, to get any of those. I’m left to assume that she works because she genuinely likes acting, and chooses her roles accordingly. She’s quietly perfect in everything she does. When she’s in an ensemble you may not even notice her, because she’s so good she’s simply that character. She’s famous, but when you see her you’ll almost never think “hey that’s Michelle Williams”. Even though you’ll never notice, everything is better with her in it, and if it wasn’t already good she wouldn’t be in it anyway. Got a lost dog? A midget in need of a friend? A gay husband in need of a confidant? Got a quiet, incredibly smart movie which probably won’t sell tickets but really should be seen anyway? Give Michelle Williams a call.

Tom Hanks

More than anything else, this list is a celebration of risks. It’s an ode to the men and women who try new things, carve their own paths and make us alter the way we see movies; why is why, at first glance, Tom Hanks seems a bizarre fixture amongst the Viggos and Kate Winslet’s. There’s something intuitively safe about Tom Hanks. One big budget film a year in which he plays a loveable good guy tearing at the audience’s sympathies. But like a wise father who knows when its time for discipline and when it’s time for ice cream, Tom Hanks is only safe because he’s consistently proven for two decades that he knows what he’s doing. Ask people what their favorite Hanks movies are and not only will you get different answers, you’ll get different genres. Philadelphia is a legal drama about AIDS. Saving Private Ryan is a horrifying World War II picture. That Thing You Do, my personal favorite, is a disposable piece of early 60s nostalgia. Cast Away, The Green Mile, Catch Me If You Can, Bachelor Party, hell even You’ve Got Mail has its ardent supporters, me included. Tom Hanks may not stray us too far from our comfort zones, but right now, at this moment, he is the only actor in Hollywood who still carries a legitimate seal of quality. This paragraph was written in the USA and is Hanks-approved.

Edward Norton

I’ve never played Clue with Edward Norton, but I’m almost positive he takes notes on the questions other players ask, just like I’m positive he buries players for cutting across the middle, argues like a woman scorned and consistently orders the best thing on the menu. Edward Norton is the type of guy who despises second place performances and phoned in efforts with every ounce of his will power. One could argue he simply fights for the sake of fighting, obsesses for the sake of obsessing, his difficult-to-work-with reputation would probably speak to that, but I honestly believe he’s just life-or-death invested in everything he does. You can’t partially commit to paying a skinhead, nor can you obscure your own identity behind a mask for an entire movie because it somehow selfishly helps you. Edward Norton cares, probably too much. He’s the guy who corrects the teacher when he’s misinformed, even when he knows it’ll get him kicked out of class. What’s worse being a tedious failure or a disliked genius? I don’t know. Let me rewatch Primal Fear before I answer that.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Lewis spent eight months learning and training for his character in The Last Of The Mohicans. This is not unusual in itself—the training—even the guys in The A Team went to Army Boot camp. But the performances of Daniel Day-Lewis are different from that of Bradley Cooper not simply because of Day-Lewis’ clearly superior acting or his ability to mold dialogue (which are obviously not part of Bradley Coopers will-be-handsomer-than-thou schtick), but in the choosing of characters and the projects he picks. This becomes obvious with only one glance at Day-Lewis’ Filmography. While the man has been on the radar since the mid eighties and has been given leads since ’88, when he played in Philip Kaufman’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being, in the last twenty years, he has acted in nine films. Nine, yes the same number, yes, there’s a joke in there somewhere, but we’re not finding it so let’s move on. Suffice to say, we should support Daniel Day-Lewis, because if we don’t, he might actually have to take his first role for a paycheck in decades. I hear Phil’s character needs a father in The Hangover 2.

Julianne Moore

Do you remember Julianne Moore in The Fugitive? I do, and I saw that movie once, probably five years ago, played on cable with commercials. And it’s not just her hair (that would clearly cause members of South Park to riot), it’s not her height, her lissom lack of curves, or even her charming smile. It’s not the role she plays in the film—she’s a doctor who helps Harrison Ford’s character in a modestly important part. There’s something more important than a striking appearance in Moore’s portrayal of Doctor Anne Eastman. She’s memorable, and whether her convincing acting was the entire culprit or whether her body language and facial features played a part is an entirely beside-the-point argument, because on the merit of this role in The Fugitive, Spielberg cast her as a lead in The Lost World without an audition. Then, P.T. Anderson had to actually court her repeatedly for his film Boogie Nights. I’d like to present a few more points of evidence. Ms. Moore has often and repeatedly taken roles that would offer her more interesting parts over more money, although she has had successful box office hits. Her recent foray The Kids Are All Right exemplifies this. She once said, “I don’t understand fame without content.” And if there is anything a movie watcher should support, it’s content over fluff. Julianne Moore has taken the acting world into two hands and triumphed. And maybe, just maybe, Julianne Moore could be the one ginger South Park residents could love.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is 29 years old. In acting years, this is the equivalent to Julianne Moore appearing in the made for tv-movie Money, Power, Murder. It’s Pacino before The Godfather, Spacey before Glengarry Glen Ross… it’s Costner while his scenes were being deleted from the Big Chill. I know, I know, the opposite argument could be applied to this paragraph—that many actors begin youngish careers and are successful. What separates Joseph Gordon-Levitt from these other young career seekers is his choice of roles. He’s not picking roles blindly, he’s not an “if you find a fork in the road, take it” kind of guy, but he’s also not simply an obscure-indie-loving, “I took the road less traveled by,” kind of guy. By straddling two worlds, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is able to have his cake and eat it too. Which means we get to see him play fresh characters across the board, from Brick to The Lookout, from (500) Days of Summer to Inception. Even when he chooses big budget films like G.I. Joe, he still feels Downey fresh. Pretty clean for a kid who began his career doing peanut butter commercials.

Jet Li

Jet Li is on this list because he isn’t Jackie Chan. Both once had an unmatched talent for brilliant action sequences. Earlier in his career and right up through the 90s, Jackie Chan made better movies than Jet Li. He just did. Jackie had better stunts, Jackie has a sense of humor. Jet Li simply has the ability to kick ass. But in the new millennium, as they both got older and the stunts got harder to do, Jackie Chan sold out. He stopped doing his own stunts and lied about it. He started doing horrible, Hollywood babysitting movies, just for the paycheck. And while early in his career Jet Li was never as good as Jackie Chan, later in their careers he’s the one who didn’t sell out. Instead of using his fame to get big paychecks doing terrible movies, Li used it to fund passion projects like Hero and the beautiful martial arts history movie Fearless. When he does do a big Hollywood movie, he tries to pick something interesting. His movies aren’t perfect and neither are his choices. But even though he’s older and the stunts that made him famous are getting harder to do, Jet Li hasn’t sold out. Jet Li will never be as fun to watch as Jackie Chan, he’d never be able to pull of a real acting role like Jackie’s in The Karate Kid. Jet Li’s idea of slumming it is doing a ridiculously fun movie like The Expendables or being the best thing about a bad Mummy movie. Jet Li will never be a babysitter and his work, while far from perfect, is almost always worth the price of admission.

James Franco

James Franco is not a good actor. But it’s not a lack of effort which makes him mediocre at best, merely a lack of talent. Franco compensates by making it a point to be interesting. He picks roles he has no business doing, seeks out projects that better actors might be afraid to touch, and damn his ability he’s doing them anyway. James Franco should probably try to get by solely on his James Dean good looks, he should probably go wherever that crooked smile takes him, but he’s not interested. Talented or not he’s out there doing the insane and the ridiculous. He shows up when you least expect him, playing the weirdos, the stoners, pulling off the crazed hillbilly cameo in a movie for an audience which will ultimately forget he was ever in it. James Franco does soap operas, just because it seems like fun. He finds his way into movies which, if his role were played by someone else, might have won them an Oscar. James Franco’s only real asset is that he’s pretty, but he refuses to use it. James Franco is not a good actor and many of the movies he’s been in might have been better if his role were given to someone else. But that’s not his fault, that’s not his problem. Some of those movies wouldn’t have been made at all without him. James Franco is not a good actor, but that hasn’t stopped him from giving it his all. He’s too small to play running back, too slow to hit a fast ball, too short to dunk on an NBA regulation hoop. Sure he could give it up, move to China, and have a successful career in men’s table tennis instead; but he’s out there, giving it everything he’s got anyway. James Franco should probably be Ashton Kutcher, but he’d rather be Dustin Hoffman. He’ll never get there, and I suspect he knows it, but you have to love the guy for trying.

Jeff Bridges

Jeff Bridges didn’t really like making movies at first. He did it because everyone else in his family did it, and they sort of talked him into it. But Jeff wasn’t going to stick with it, unless he really fell in love. At some point, he did. These days Bridges doesn’t do it unless he loves it. Jeff is Hollywood legacy, he doesn’t have to make movies, he chooses to make them. When he chooses one, he chooses it only because it’s something he believes in, only because it’s something he thinks you’ll believe in. Sometimes he’s wrong (The Door in the Floor) but most of the time he’s right. Every time Jeff Bridges shows up on screen there’s always reason to think and hope that this could be the next Big Lebowski, the next Fisher King, the next Tucker, the next Starman. Jeff Bridges cares about what he’s doing. He cares about the characters he’s playing. He cares about his audience. Maybe he’ll make the occasional wrong move, every once in awhile he’ll do The Men Who Stare At Goats. It doesn’t matter, the movie may be bad, but odds are he’ll still be the best thing about it. He’ll probably even make it watchable. The day Jeff Bridges stops caring is the day he stops doing it and holes up somewhere to focus entirely on his photography. It doesn’t matter what Jeff Bridges is in, rest assured that he’s only doing it because he believes it’s worth your time.

Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep is so good that she’s become a cliché. She’s good in everything and everyone knows it. She’s a character actor, when you need someone to play a culinary Big Bird or the bitch from hell boss. She’s a leading lady, whenever you need someone to make out with Alec Baldwin. She has two Oscars, but she’d probably have more, except these days everyone just expects Oscar-worthy performances from her. Lately, she delivers at least one of those, almost every year. She’s done it by being good and making it a point to work with good people. These days she really doesn’t have to go through the effort. She’s Meryl Streep and if she’s attached to a project other good talent will surely follow. So she could phone it in, and let the Steve Martin carry the load. But she won’t. She’s the consummate professional. Meryl’s name on a movie poster is a symbol of quality, it means something, the way Ford used to back when Henry was still alive and the company gave a damn. The way Disney used to, before everyone found out Walt was probably a secret Nazi. The way GE used to be, back when they were all about making great toasters. Most of the names we’ve come to rely on have long since had their reputations tarnished. But not Meryl Streep. She’s still going strong.

Adrien Brody

After winning an Oscar for his work in The Pianist Adrien Brody had the hardware he needed to chart his own course. He could have carved out a career doing period dramas and kissing girls in corsets. That’s what respectable Oscar winners do. Or he could have thrown it all away for a series of big paychecks lending credibility to horrible films, let’s call that the Cuba Gooding Jr. method. Instead he decided to make movies about things he liked and Adrien Brody, it seems, loves smart quirky, genre movies. He likes brain-benders about science run-amok. He likes detective stories, and time travel and fantasies about strange other worlds. Maybe his choices haven’t always worked out, I don’t think anyone would argue in favor of The Jacket, but they’ve all come from the right place. Brody picks movies because he thinks they’re interesting, or because they’re about things he’s interested in. Whether or not that results in something good every time around, it always seems to result in something that tries. The thing is, Adrien Brody is out there trying. He’s not cashing paychecks or chasing more awards attention, he’s just doing movies he thinks he’d like to see on screen and in the process hopes that it’s something you’d like to see too. Everything Adrien Brody does at least attempts to be something bigger than the sum of its parts. It’s not the usual shlock. He could do Transformers 3, and maybe he’d make more money. He could do a Jane Austen movie, and he’d almost certainly get more respect from the cinematic snobs. But instead Adrien Brody does Splice and Adrien Brody does Predators, because Adrien Brody is doing what he loves.

Leonardo DiCaprio

As I write this, Leonardo DiCaprio has 22 film projects in development. He’s not starving for an audience; in fact, he may be one of four individuals whose films I will see regardless of whether I am interested in their content (the others being Day-Lewis, Spacey, and Cruise). I’m not choosing to write about him because I feel an urgent need for readers as individuals to support DiCaprio—he is such a prevalent icon at this point regardless of whether you liked his accent in Blood Diamond or the authenticity of his knife throwing skills in Gangs of New York. In the last decade, nearly every movie he’s made is watchable, in the sense it has some interesting shit going on, often because of DiCaprio himself (and most often because these films are good). Did you read the Richard Yates book Revolutionary Road is based on? It’s like F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night, only it gets more aplomb in critical circles. The reason I bring up Revolutionary Road, is because the narrative closely follows my feelings on DiCaprio. The first thirty pages are classic, filled with new and interesting narrative styles and ideas, the ideas. If you reread again there is always something new, something you missed the first time that you wouldn’t have even known how to look for. After that, the book sort of takes on its own vibe, goes in directions that aren’t reassuring or familiar, and are sometimes even unlikeable. Yet for some reason, it is still compelling, and you find yourself sucked in to the very end. This is DiCaprio’s talent, to try new things, to sometimes steer off course, to go out to sea, but to know that when he’s going, to paraphrase Chris Rock, he’s going out fucking.

Ellen Page

Ellen Page has no business being on this list. She’s only 23. She hasn’t been around long enough to earn a place on it. We didn’t want to put her on it, but her work demands it. The thing is, Ellen Page may be only 23 but she’s already been in more good movies than more famous, more well-traveled, better respected Hollywood actors twice her age. That just can’t be an accident. Sure she had a role in the mostly terrible X-Men 3, but the brilliant part of that decision is that the entire movie was so shallow and empty odds are you’ve already forgotten it. But starting with Hard Candy in 2005 she’s made it a point to show up in some of the best and most interesting movies released every year and worked with some of the best writers and directors the movie industry has to offer. Maybe it’s her unconventional look or her even more unconventional style of acting that keeps them casting her, but a lot of it, you have to think, has been up to her. It’s not just that she keeps picking good movies, but she keeps picking different movies. Movies that no one else is doing. She’s been a molested child out for revenge, a pregnant hipster, a genius prodigy, a roller girl, and a dream designer. All of that in a space of less than five years. Ellen Page is too young to be on this list, too new to have a reliable track record. But here she is anyway.

Russell Crowe

It feels like Russell Crowe has made about thirty bad movies in a row. I looked it up. In actuality, he’s made nine movies in a row worse than A Beautiful Mind. That’s ten movies in a row worse than Proof Of Life, eleven movies in a row worse than Gladiator, and twelve movies in a row worse than The Insider. That’s not to say everything he’s done since The Insider has successively debilitated like the reflexes of Mohammed Ali after Joe Frazier beat the living hell out of him in Manilla, but it has been a slow, yet steady chug down from the untouchable good graces of the American public. Twelve movies in a row worse than The Insider, yet Russell Crowe is on this list largely at my behest. I can’t fully explain it away, or excuse his choices, but I can say I still believe in Russell Crowe. I believe in him because he narrates documentaries about Robin Hood on the History Channel, because he did a fucking Western. His recent choices may not have proven fruitful but it wasn’t because they were back-up plans. This is a man who truly cares about getting other men right, getting the nuances down, getting stories he believes in made. Cinderella Man is a good movie; so too are American Gangster and 3:10 To Yuma; they can’t all be better than The Insider. But if you keep watching long enough, another one of ‘em will be.

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12 Actors Who Could Play The Hulk

Edward Norton dropped out of reprising his role as The Hulk and since they are going to make another movie here is a list of 12 actors who could end up taking over for Norton.

12. Paul Rudd

Rudd has been insanely likeable in so many comedies over the last few years, we’d love to see him step up to the blockbuster plate.

Incredible Hulk?: Rudd could definitely convince as Banner, bringing a lighter touch to the role than his forebears Bana and Norton.

Hulk Smash: We just can’t imagine Rudd getting angry. Ever.

11. Jon Hamm

TV’s Mad Men has gained Hamm small-screen fame and acting plaudits aplenty, but he’s yet to have a standout film role. Joining The Avengers could be the perfect opportunity to repeat his success on the big screen.

Incredible Hulk?: As Don Draper, Hamm has had plenty of experience dealing with repressed anger.

Hulk Smash: We wouldn’t want anything to conflict with his chance of being cast as Superman in that upcoming reboot.

10. Daniel Craig

With Bond on a seemingly endless hiatus, Craig is currently looking for projects to fill his schedule with.

Incredible Hulk?: He’s no stranger to carrying a high-stakes franchise on his shoulders, and has proved he’s not afraid of rebooting a well-known character in Casino Royale.

Hulk Smash: Taking on two iconic characters can be tricky, and fans might just reject the idea of James Bond hulking out.

9. Timothy Olyphant

Olyphant’s lower-rung level of fame would probably help him slip into a role previously inhabited by Eric Bana and Ed Norton. Come to think about it, he kinda resembles a morph of the two actors.

Incredible Hulk?: TV roles in Deadwood and Justified show Olyphant can really act when required, and he also did a decent job in the better-than-it-should-have-been remake of The Crazies.

Hulk Smash: Olyphant’s previous blockbuster efforts, Die Hard 4.0 and Hitman, have been pretty awful. Perhaps he should stick to quality telly instead.

8. Andy Serkis

The world starting taking notice of mocap acting after Serkis’ CG-augmented performance as Gollum/Smeagol in The Lord of the Rings. He’s also taken advantage of plenty of opportunities to show off his skills as flesh actor

Incredible Hulk?: It’d be exciting to see what mocap king Serkis could do as the green, musclebound lunk.

Hulk Smash: Hobbit commitments could see Serkis called away at any point, should the production get a green light.

7. Mark Ruffalo

Mark Ruffalo has been consistently providing great support in various ace films for so long (Eternal Sunshine, Collateral, Zodiac, Shutter Island), he deserves a shot at an iconic lead role.

Incredible Hulk?: Looks wise, Ruffalo would be an awesome match for the comics’ Bruce Banner.

Hulk Smash: Ruffalo been showing his directorial debut Sympathy for Delicious at various festivals, so he might not be available for superhero shenanigans.

6. Ryan Gosling

Gosling was gathering serious acclaim as his generation’s best actor in film’s like The Believer and Half Nelson. Leaving The Lovely Bones meant things went a bit quiet for a while, but he’s back with a bang in astounding drama Blue Valentine.

Incredible Hulk?: He would make for a fascinatingly conflicted Bruce Banner, ensuring you’d feel the big guy’s angst and anger.

Hulk Smash: We’re not sure we could see Gosling interested in a summer tentpole of this size, and he may not be the commercial investment Marvel would be after.

5. Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Shaking off the ‘that kid out of 3rd Rock from the Sun’ tag, Gordon-Levitt has been building up an increasingly impressive body of film work, including a key role Nolan’s Inception.

Incredible Hulk?: J G-L’s got the same mix of indie cred, lady-slaying charm and genuine acting ability that Robert Downey Jr brought to Iron Man.

Hulk Smash: He’s rumoured to be up for a role in Batman 3, which might see him out of the running here. And he could be just a little too young-looking for Bruce Banner.

4. David Duchovny

The actor formerly known as Fox Mulder was rumoured to be in contention for the Banner role in The Incredible Hulk before Norton was cast. He could really do with a hit, after the disappointment of the second X-Files movie, and the lacklustre reception given to The Joneses.

Incredible Hulk?: There’s no doubting Duchovny can act, and his days in The X-Files earnt him a cult following.

Hulk Smash: Could his ongoing TV role in Californication get in the way? Perhaps he’s just better suited to the small screen.

3. Adrien Brody

Brody won an Oscar for his role in Holocaust drama The Pianist, but the serious thesp has since flexed his action muscles in King Kong and Predators.

Incredible Hulk?: Brody bulked up impressively for Predators, and his role in Splice proves he can wear a lab coat with conviction.

Hulk Smash: The CGI Hulk normally takes on some of the Banner actor’s facial features, and we just can’t see Hulk with Adrien’s massive hooter.

2. Sharlto Copley

Copley had virtually no acting experience (he worked in production and did a bit of directing) before Neill Blomkamp cast him as the lead in District 9. His performance was one of the surprises of last year, and he’s also going to be seen half-inching scenes from this summer’s The A-Team as ‘Howling Mad’ Murdock.

Incredible Hulk?: Copley knows how to bring humanity to an effects-heavy blockbuster, and is familiar with undergoing bodily transformation.

Hulk Smash: Would the role put be too similar to D9′s Wikus for the chameleon-like Copley?

1. Joaquin Phoenix

No sooner had Ed Norton been unceremoniously dissociated from the role than early online rumours were speculating that JQ could be in the running for the job.

Incredible Hulk?: He could certainly pull of the troubled, hounded Bruce Banner in his sleep, and after his wilderness period, The Avengers would be the perfect big-scale blockbuster to put him back on the movie map.

Hulk Smash: We’re not sure we want Hulk to try to reinvent himself as a rapper, however hilarious the consequences.

If I had to choose one of these then I would opt for Timothy Olyphant. Who would you want to take on the role?

source: 12 Actors For The Hulk [Total Film]

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Litttle Samba King & Links To Hollywood

Little Samba King – City Rag

Yep, Jesse James Is Moving To Texas – Pop Eater

Megan Fox Has Had Some Work Done – Amy Grindhouse

Adrianne Curry’s In Lingerie Again – The Superficial

Jill Zarin Vows To Take Out Kate Gosselin – OMG Blog

Shauna Sand Shows Her Classiness – Popbytes

Adrien Brody Does A Predator Good – Tabloid Prodigy

Warren Beatty Sex Change Scandal – Hollywood Dame

Rachel Bilson, Video Game Vixen – Hollywood Life

Miley Cyrus & Bret Michaels Murder His Classic Song – Anything Hollywood

Fergie Wants To Get It On With Cheryl – Holy Moly

Khloe Kardashian Is Proud Of Lamar – ICYDK

Chanelle Hayes Pregnant Bikini Pictures – Drunken Stepfather

Lindsay Lohan Has A Male Assistant – Celebrity Smack

Anna Paquin Talks Bisexuality – Celeb News Wire

Brooklyn Decker Is The Sexiest Woman Alive – F-Listed

Sarah Palin Doesn’t Care If You Smoke Pot – Betty Confidential

It’s The Nick Lachey Effect – College Candy

Meet Miss Ink N Iron 2010, Gia Genevieve! – Zelda Lily

Kevin Costner Wants Cleanup Devices Near Oil Rigs – Wonderwall

Ryan Seacrest Is Dating Julianne Hough – Allie Is Wired

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Adrien Brody Talks Disturbing ‘Splice’ Sex Scene

When working in Hollywood, the occasional sex scene is not out of the question. But for Adrien Brody, his “Splice” character’s encounter with a genetically engineered monstrosity takes the term “sex scene” to a whole new level.

In the film, Brody plays a scientist who collaborates with his colleague and girlfriend Sarah Polley to create a new life-form that rapidly evolves into a sentient humanoid creature played by French actress Delphine Chanéac — a creature who eventually (spoiler alert!) seduces Brody in a shocking sex scene.

“How can one compare what takes place in this movie with anything else I’ve had to do? It’s a new level — it’s a very Gen-X sex scenario.”

For those of you who know me, know I love a good horror — this one looks amazing!

source: ‘Splice’ Star Adrien Brody Talks ‘Disturbing’ Sex Scene [MTV]

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Cheeky McDimples & Links To Hollywood

Cheeky McDimples – City Rag

Lady Gaga Tested For Lupus – Pop Eater

Britney Spears Is Already Planning Her Death? – Holy Moly

Courteney Cox Has A New BFF – Betty Confidential

Chris Noth Grabs Some Booty On The Red Carpet – Amy Grindhouse

Gay “Twilight” Features Twinks & Blood – OMG Blog

Joe Francis Attacks Pregnant Women Now – The Superficial

Crystal Bowersox Must Win American Idol – Popbytes

Colin Farrell’s Man Cleavage – Yeeeah!

Microbiologist Meghan May Shines In Male Dominated Area – Zelda Lily

5 Essentials For The Perfect Summer BBQ – College Candy

The Biggest Loser’s Winner Has Been Crowned – Wonderwall

Another Evil Role For Angelina Jolie? – Hollywood Life

2-Year-old Covers Justin Bieber – Why Fame

Gay Goat Rape Upsets Adrien Brody – Tabloid Prodigy

Lindsay Lohan’s Ankle Bracelet – Celebrity Smack

Sandra Bullock & Baby Louis Cover ‘Hello’ – Celebrity Baby Scoop

Frozen Britney Spears Coming Right Up – Celeb News

Tom Cruise Explains The Couch Jumping Incident – Anything Hollywood

Mindy McCready Hospitalized – ICYDK

Juliette Lewis Looks Like She Smells – Drunken Stepfather

Jesse James Discusses The Nazi Photo – Allie Is Wired

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Megan Fox Needs A Bonghit & Links To Hollywood

Megan Fox Needs A Bonghit – City Rag

Bret Michaels Is Back In The Hospital – Pop Eater

David Boreanaz Banged Another One – The Superficial

Jesse James Gives Nightline His Post-Cheating Interview – Amy Grindhouse

Kendra Wilkinson Is A Conniving Little Minx – Betty Confidential

The Best Elton John Picture Ever – Holy Moly

Bethenny Frankel Is Dirty! – Hollywood Life

Gratuitous Kim Kardashian Hotness – F-Listed

Is Adrien Brody Dating January Jones? – Why Fame

Glee’s Matthew Morrison Bares His Abs – Amy Grindhouse

Grace Jones Is Super Fierce At Age 62! – Popbytes

“Busty Cops 3″ Caused Bret Michaels’ Hemorrhage? – Celebrity Smack

Courtney Love’s Lesbian Affair With Kate Moss – Celeb News Wire

Lindsay Lohan Blames Her Dad For Stolen Passport – ICYDK

Drunks Are Healthier, Happier – College Candy

Nobody Puts Baby In A Corner – Tabloid Prodigy

Paris Hilton’s Old Lady Butt Is Gross – Drunken Stepfather

Madonna Speaks Out Over Jailed Gay Couple – Wonderwall

OMG, You Can Get Carrie Bradshaw’s Hair – OMG Blog

Reasons For Breast Obsession Explored – Zelda Lily

Hugh Jackman: Ava Wants To Be A Rock Star – Celebrity Baby Scoop

Doug Reinhardt Rebounds With Miss USA – Anything Hollywood

Ryan Gosling & Michelle Williams Romance Rumors – Hollywood Dame

Justin Bieber: 0 – Door: 1 – Allie Is Wired

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Oscar Curse – Win Best Actress Then Get Divorced

Yesterday it was announced that Kate Winslet and her husband of seven years, Sam Mendes, were divorcing. As we all know that if you win an Oscar there is a curse, it seems for women on top of their career dying they tend to end up divorcing. Here are some of the famous ones:

Benjamin Bratt was the lucky man on Julia Roberts’ arm when she won the Oscar for her role in “Erin Brockovich” in 2001. Three months later their relationship was over—he went on to marry Talisa Soto, while she’s had three kids with husband Danny Moder. She’s yet to be nominated for a second time, so hopefully this relationship is safe.

The second actress to fall victim to this trend? Halle Berry, who won Best Actress in 2002 for “Monster’s Ball.” She’d been dating hot musician Eric Benet for years, and the two got hitched in 2001. Shortly after winning her Best Actress Oscar, Benet started cheating on her and allegedly went to sex addiction rehab. But it wasn’t enough—the couple separated in 2003 and divorced in 2005.

Infamously, Hilary Swank forgot to thank her hubby Chad Lowe, brother of Rob, when she won Best Actress in 2000 for her role as Brandon Teena in “Boys Don’t Cry.” Still, Chad seemed ultra supportive of her, and they were the ultimate down-to-earth Hollywood couple. They had just crossed the 13-years-together mark when Hilary won again in 2005, for “Million Dollar Baby,” and she made sure to thank him, first thing. The two divorced a year later. Rumors circulated that he couldn’t handle the level of success she’d found.

Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Philippe met at her 21st birthday party—she supposedly walked up to him and said, “I think you’re my birthday present”—and got married less than a year later. Reese had already popped out two kidlets seven years later, when she won Best Actress for her role in “Walk the Line,” and the pair seemed forevers. Nope. They split eight months after she gave her acceptance speech. Many assume Ryan was cheating on her with Abbie Cornish.

Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise had already shocked the world by getting divorced when she won the Best Actress Oscar for portraying Virginia Woolf in “The Hours.” But she was clearly still having a hard time with the split at the time of her win. “He was huge; still is. To me, he was just Tom, but to everybody else, he is huge,” she told Ladies Home Journal. “But he was lovely to me. And I loved him. I still love him.” After rumored flings with Jude Law and Robbie Williams, Nicole allegedly gave Best Actor winner Adrien Brody her number backstage at the Oscars, and the two dated for a little while. She, of course, ended up getting remarried to Keith Urban.

Charlize Theron‘s relationship with actor Stuart Townsend seemed solid when she awed the Academy with her portrayal of serial killer Aileen Wuornos and won the Oscar. The two never officially tied the knot because they were waiting for same-sex couples to have the right to do the same. But Townsend said, “I don’t need a certificate or the state or the church to say otherwise. So no there’s no big official story on a wedding, but we are married … I consider her my wife and she considers me her husband.” Until the two sadly split up in January.

I guess that means Sandra Bullock should be worrying about her marriage to Jesse James could end up with the same faith since she won the Oscar this year.

source: Oscar Theory #5: Win Best Actress, Get Divorced [The Frisky]

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Celebrities Who Look Like Muppets

Celebrities are truly a funny breed… but not nearly as funny as their Muppet comparisons.

I’m not sure why I am so amused by this, but one of my favorite Muppet creations was the Fraggle Rock Doozers.

Beaker and Carrot Top

Miss Piggy and Tori Spelling

Janice and Donatella Versace

Grog and Bruce Vilanch

The Swedish Chef and Dr. Phil

Fozzie Bear and Jack Black

Rowlf the Dog and Whoopi Goldberg

Gonzo and Adrien Brody

source: Hollywood Muppets [tmz]

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Brad Renfro Dies at Age 25

Actor Brad Renfro has been found dead.

The 25-year-old actor was found dead at his Los Angeles home this morning. The cause of death has not been determined, however, Renfro had a history of drug abuse.

Sources tell us Renfro, who had starring roles in “The Client” and “Apt Pupil” had been working valiantly to stay clean, especially since this summer. Renfro had been convicted of several drug offenses, including attempted heroin possession.

Renfro had been filming a movie with Winona Ryder and Billy Bob Thornton. The movie, “The Informers,” just wrapped.

Renfro has had a rough time personally since moving from Tennessee to Los Angeles. His parents split, and we’re told he did not have real guidance from adults as he tried navigating the treacherous movie industry.

Brad Renfro Biography:

Renfro was ten when he was discovered by Mali Finn, a casting director for Joel Schumacher, director of The Client. He played the title role in the film, adapted from a best-selling John Grisham novel, opposite Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones. The suspense/drama was one of the top-grossing films of 1994. Renfro went on to act in other films including 2001′s Ghost World and Bully and 2005′s The Jacket with Keira Knightley and Adrien Brody. He also played Huck Finn in Tom and Huck with Jonathan Taylor Thomas. In 1995, he won Hollywood Reporter’s “Young Star” award and was nominated as one of People magazine’s “Top 30 Under 30″. Renfro also appeared in “Watch”, an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

Recently he completed filming his role in the upcoming film The Informers.

source: Actor Brad Renfro dead at 25 [msnbc]

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Owen Wilson Makes First Public Appearance

Last night at the premiere of “The Darjeeling Limited”, Owen Wilson made his first public appearance since the suicide attempt. Although he avoided the red carpet, he did join costars Jason Schwartzman, Natalie Portman, and Anjelica Huston onstage.

Owen was introduced by director Wes Anderson as “my best friend.” He aded, “I’ve never made a movie without him. and I hope I never have to.”

Jason Schwartzman was also happy he was there, saying, “Owen is doing very well and he is with us tonight, and I love him.”

It’s good to see Owen out and about, and I can’t wait to see Wes Anderson’s latest.

Source: “Owen Wilson Shows Up at Movie Premiere” [People]; “Owen Wilson – Back in the Game” [TMZ]; Photo: dlisted

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Natalie Portman Nude Scene from ‘Hotel Chevalier’ – NSFW

Natalie Portman, who’s set to appear in the movie ‘Hotel Chevalier‘, and based on these racy photos, will no doubt get those tongues a wagging.

For those of you who actually care about the movie, and not a nude Natalie Portman:

Movie director Wes Anderson, known for such offbeat films as “Rushmore” and “The Royal Tenenbaums,” is adding an especially unconventional touch to his latest project.

Before “The Darjeeling Limited” is released in New York on Saturday, Mr. Anderson is urging audiences to see another of his films — this one a related 13-minute short called “Hotel Chevalier” that will be released on the Internet this week.

“Hotel Chevalier” represents a novel approach to generating buzz for “Darjeeling,” a quirky film from Fox Searchlight that doesn’t have a powerhouse marketing budget. The main film is about three brothers — played by Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman and Adrien Brody — who take a comic “spiritual journey” through India after their father’s death. Like Mr. Anderson’s past films, the new picture isn’t easily summarized or boiled down to an easy selling point.

“Hotel Chevalier,” meanwhile, is a prequel of sorts that was made a year before “Darjeeling” even began filming. It takes place entirely in the Paris hotel room of Mr. Schwartzman’s character and includes information that later becomes relevant in “Darjeeling.” The short film’s premiere will be Tuesday night at Apple stores in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Santa Monica, Calif. Then, starting Wednesday, it will be available as a free download on Apple Inc.’s iTunes Web site. Read more…

What other’s said:

• Egotastic says, “Ass. Side boob. Awesome.”

NSFW After the Jump!

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