Blind Item #3 - Easy Easy
Despite giving this A+ list mostly movie actor his start and some of his biggest breaks, the A+ list actor no longer speaks to the man who gave him his start. Our A+ list actor has moved beyond all that and thinks of himself as a serious actor and not a person who would ever resort to that kind of role any longer.
Coop?
ReplyDeleteThe Rock and Vince M?
ReplyDeleteSounds plausible but the Rock had a new reality/contestant show coming out about Heroes.
DeleteWasn't he just at Wrestlemania?
DeleteEdward Norton? (I'm thinking of primal fear)
ReplyDeleteSteve Buschemi/Adam Sandler.
ReplyDeleteHe was around before that and has directed his own movies. Try the trees lounge
DeleteHe was around before that and has directed his own movies. Try the trees lounge
DeleteWill Smith/Quincy Jones?
ReplyDeleteThat's my guess.
DeleteRock probably picked up a 6 figure paycheck, just from Wrestlemania, he aint pissing on that.
ReplyDeleteAlso, Vince McMahon is not an actor.
Damon/Afleck
ReplyDeleteKeanu Reeves and whoever got him cast in the Bill & Ted movies. David Geffen maybe??
ReplyDeleteSteve Buscemi has been in movies for YEARS - before Adam Sandler.
ReplyDeleteTrue but he hadn't really been in a blockbuster type movie until Billy Madison, even if it was a small cameo. Reservoir Dogs was out before Billy Madison but it was an art-house type flick. IMO, he didn't really hit it big until Fargo.
DeleteBuscemi and Sandler are still on good terms, as are all of his previous co-stars as far as I know.
DeleteIs the rock A-list and he still with the wwe. I'm going with Bradley because it say "take himself as a serious actor" isn't he butting head with the ho3 cast. Maybe he tried of these comedies.
ReplyDeleteOr Ben Affleck brushing off a role in a Kevin Smith comedy
ReplyDeleteDamn, I completely misread the blind. Buschemi aint mostly movie, so it nukes that. And the second guy isnt' an actor, so it could be Vince/Rock.
ReplyDeleteRocky's contract was up after Mania, so I wouldn't read anything into him not talking to Vince. I'd figure it is also the reason that he didn't keep WWE notified on his treatment.
Bottom line is if the Rock needs to promote something or has time and wants to pick up a fat check w/ lil effort, he will be back on RAW again.
Someone and Lorne Michaels?
ReplyDeleteSo let me get this straight. The actor is A+ list, right? :P
ReplyDeletedepp/dicaprio
ReplyDeletewhat about Shia Ledouche and Micheal Bay?? i know Shia worked before, but Transformers was his big break
ReplyDeleteLeo and James Cameron
ReplyDeleteCoop, jj abrams (alias)
ReplyDeleteI agree with auntliddy's guess, but Bradley would be a fool to turn down a blockbuster action film. Maybe JJ wants him to do TV again.
ReplyDeleteJohnny Depp and the Nightmare on Elm Street guy. He did TV before, but I think Nightmare was his big movie break.
ReplyDeleteLong time first time. I read this as Ben and Kevin Smith. But I hope not. Ben has always played along with Kevin, making self-referential jokes in his movies even after getting big.
ReplyDeleteCan't be the Rock and Vince, he did just do some big thing for them and was praised for not forgetting his roots.
ReplyDeleteI somehow doubt this is the rock, mainly cuz i <3 his cheesy-i-make-fun-of-myself movies.
ReplyDeletePLus the dude still gives interviews and talks to wwe and that "kind of movie" or what not... well he wouldn't be able to give up fighting. He also starred in a WWE episode april 1st 2013.
Ive noticed for 3 years he does family, and than 3 years of action, it keeps him in the loop of family and adult films. pretty smart actually.
Im guessing this is someone like Dicaprio or another big name diva lol
Affleck/Kevin Smith fits perfectly, if Enty is fudging Ben just being an 'actor'.
ReplyDeleteKevin Smith could really use the boost right now, and I could see Ben thinking it was below him now.
Bradley Cooper definitely fits.
ReplyDeleteNot for Alias but for Wet Hot American Summer.
It is a small role where he plays Amy Poehler's assistant and 'husband' to Michael Ian Black.
If you haven't seen it, it is pretty campy. Definitely a type of comedy that a 'serious actor' would be above.
So for the connection there are a lot of spiderwebs from that movie, but I would guess either Poehler/UCB, David Wain/The State even maybe Paul Rudd.
hmm was paul rudds big break in clueless? mlol i kid, i kid.
ReplyDeleteWet Hot American Summer kinda fits- they're doing a prequel or a sequel IIRC. Can see Bradley think he's too famous to do it!
ReplyDeleteI totally read it as Affleck/Smith. Ben truly does owe his acting and writing career to Kevin, but I've grown beyond the "Jay and Silent Bob" schtick, so it wouldn't surprise me if Affleck did, too.
ReplyDeleteWow, I guess this wasn't "easy, easy" ...I'm guessing Shia LaDouche and Michael Bay
ReplyDeleteLaDouche got his start through Steven Spielberg, who produced Disturbia, the Transformers movies and Indy IV. And he apologized to Spielberg a few months ago for some of his comments.
ReplyDeleteSo... not him.
Easy...cusack/piven
ReplyDeleteBrad Pitt and Jonah hill
ReplyDeleteI'm guessing Mike Myers/Lorne Michaels.
ReplyDeleteLadouche and Spielberg.
ReplyDeleteThe Kevin Smith/Ben Affleck guess is the one that stood out to me, but that would mean that Ben's ego was really inflated after "Argo". I really hope not. I like the fact that Affleck, Damon and Smith are friends.
ReplyDeleteBTW, did any of you see, "Behind the Candelabra"? Michael Douglas gave a really good performance, but Damon blew it out of the park (no pun intended). Wow!
Mad, saw it. Was very good but somehow hollow- like big parts were left out. Damon and douglass were very very good. And I still havent recovered from those sex scenes!!
DeleteColin Farrell/Kevin Spacey?
ReplyDeleteDamn it Epiphany, was just coming on to write that! I think the implication is no more sexual favours.
ReplyDeleteRight @feraltart - that added implication of this supposedly easy denial-of-roots blind is the only way this post makes sense. If there's not more to it, then it's just casting around to list A+ actors and their early directors.
DeleteI can't imagine referring to Kevin Smith as just "the man who gave him his start", though.
ReplyDeleteDiCaprio/Depp
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking if it were Depp, Dicaprio or BCoop he would be described as a+list Oscar nominee/winner. Particularly if it were BCoop.
ReplyDeleteI like the Keanu guess as he's recently had trouble with/split from the guy who has managed him since he first arrived in Hollywood. But he has said he would do the Bill & Ted movie (3rd installment) so I'm not sure what he'd be turning down.
Does it even rate the man who gave him a start? It looks like the only rated one is the asshole actor? So is the one who came him a start even someone we would know?
ReplyDeleteDon't believe it's Rock/Vince (wrestling fan here) only because he was supposed to return to Raw to start a feud with Brock Lesnar the night after Wrestlemania but he got injured in the main event. Pretty sure Rock got seven figures for returning and probably some more on the backend for PPV/DVD sales.
ReplyDeletePlus, I'm pretty sure Rock came back for the promotional purposes. His movies weren't doing that great and he got signed on for like a dozen movies after his WWE return. That wasn't about his roots, that was a career move that pretty off extremely well.
I don't think this is Ben Affleck. I think he takes himself as a serious director now not a serious actor. When Argo got "shafted" during the awards season for his directing he always joked that no one was mad that he wasn't nominated for best actor.
ReplyDeleteJames Franco/Judd Apatow?
ReplyDeleteJim Carrey and Damon Wayans?
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure Wahlberg would do a movie with Paul Thomas Anderson, so not him. Owen Wilson stars in Wes Anderson movies, still, so not him.
This could be Apatow with anyone from the early days. I'm thinking the man is someone who uses actors frequently - so probably a director or esteemed producer. Affleck/Smith is a pretty good guess, but I feel like people now don't remember the Smith/Affleck team as much as someone thinks of Tarantino/Samuel L. Jackson or Scorcese/DeNiro. But it's totally plausible.
ReplyDeleteOoh Jim Carrey and the Wayans - really good guess. Though Ace Ventura kinda made him too. But I can see him saying he won't go back to slapstick.
ReplyDeleteIt's a little far fetched but remember when Shia was supposed to be the best next thing after Indiana Jones? Steven Spielberg was trying to sell him on every outlet. That that he's gone indie, I wondered if he feels he won't do "cartoonish" characters.
ReplyDeleteHow about Leo and James Cameron?
ReplyDeleteDax Shepard/Ashton Kucher?
ReplyDeleteNick Cage and Johnny Depp
ReplyDeleteEnty says this is Easy Easy so I guess its supposed to be the obvious choice, Cooper.
ReplyDeleteI think Ben would be in Kevin's movie, because he thinks it'd make him seem cool, edgy and likable. He's wily, ol Ben.
ReplyDeleteAnd Vince McMahon is an actor, this is wrestling we're talking about. He's just sucky.
Maybe Keanu Reeves, is he still A-list? I just know I'd watch Bill and Ted's Excellent Retirement. Party on! :-)
Bradley Cooper and Victor Garber.
ReplyDeleteBCoop was boytoy to Victor as a way to get the role in Alias.
Now that BCoop is A+ bu-bye
Cooper is A+ list and thinks that he's a serious actor now :he hangs out with Dicaprio,Fassbender(my guess is that he will work with them),Affleck and he's very very power-hungry(he produces his own movies and he wants to direct)
ReplyDeleteI had Franco & Apatow in mind while reading, however I like the Bradley Cooper & David Wain guess. Coop already said years ago that he won't do the Wet Hot sequel, so Easy Easy = public knowledge turned into a blind.
ReplyDeleteKevin Smith retired from directing last year. He gave an interview saying he didn't want to do it anymore. He is still acting though. I just saw him in 4.3.2.1.
ReplyDeleteActually he announced it in February 2011
ReplyDeleteI think it's BCoop too. While Smith may have given Ben his acting start, Affleck put himself on the map winning an Oscar for best Screenplay for "GWH"
ReplyDeleteMy guess is Clooney.
ReplyDeleteWhen he left ER he said he'd never go back and wanted to be taken seriously as an actor. Also came across as embarrassed by it. I know Rex Smith claims he gave him his big break in Street Hawk. Although in Clooney's bio, it says has it his cousin Miguel Ferrer gave him his 1st role. Dude does a lot of TV and was even on ER.
What I meant but "it" was TV. He said he'd never go back to doing TV and seemed embarrassed by it when trying to focus solely on movies.
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ReplyDeletesteve carell and judd apatow?
ReplyDeletebut that wouldnt be easy easy
I bet it's Robert Downey Jr and Lorne Michaels. It's curious RDJ, being of sound mind and humor, hasn't returned to SNL to host to promote any of his Iron Man movies.
ReplyDeleteI'm now 100% positive this is Jonah Hill about Judd or Seth Rogen after reading this quote:
ReplyDelete""I've done one of the biggest challenges you can do in Hollywood, which is transition from being a comedic actor to being a serious actor, and I'm really prideful of that," he says. "I could have made a billion dollars doing every big comedy of the last 10 years and didn't, in order to form a whole other life for myself. Now I have fulfillment doing both." That being the case, though, you'd think he'd be able to relax a little, open up, take it easy (and perhaps find a replacement word for "prideful"). But he can't, and so, today at least, he continues on his mulish path.
This is from the new Rolling Stone, where the author is totally clearly fed up with Jonah's attitude the entire time.
ALSO:
ReplyDeleteLater, he'll say, "In This Is the End, I'm overly nice in a really false way and really deep down have a lot of jealousy and nastiness and am really into my fame and success. In real life, I'm the polar opposite." And then, if you remind him that Apatow once called him "angry, nerdy," he'll again make with the better-left-unexamined subtext and say, "Yeah, there was probably an angry time for me. But I couldn't be a less angry person. Judd maybe thinks of himself that way. But I haven't worked for him in five years. I adore him. But I'm fucking 29 years old and not some angry kid."