That Guy, Over There!

Send us Fan MailYou may have seen Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, and if so, you know the moment in the film when Leonardo DiCaprio as Rick Dalton sees himself in a role on TV and points at the screen excitedly --- it’s a meme now. I do it all the time watching film, at least in my mind. I mentally point at the screen, and shout to myself --- “Yeah, there’s that guy! He’s great!” But who is that guy? Sometimes, I’ve seen the actor so many times I have his name committed to memory, but I’ll often have to ashamedly drag myself off to Wikipedia and look him up. They too serve who no one knows. So, this is my pod salute to those actors who are repeatedly great in their roles, never the headliner, never the second lead, but always driving the story forward and so enjoyable to watch. BTW, these are all men, but I have plans in season two of the pod to do a salute to women actors in similar circumstances --- probably femmes fatale. Because all of these male actors have primarily made their reputations as bad guys.  Who are they? They’re memorable actors, good actors, who made their mark in several roles and, for some, hundreds of roles over a long career. As what might be termed character actors, they have idiosyncrasies or tics that plant them in your mind and have producers phoning them up repeatedly, regardless of the genre of film being cast. The kind of actor you point at. Website and blog: www.thosewonderfulpeople.comBluesky: @wonderfulpeople.bsky.social