Crispin Glover / Simon Says

Crispin Glover, one of the Hollywood guys with a seriously strange name. You all probably know him from many many movies he did. According to the so called ‘internet’ his most famous roles were in “Back to the future” and “Beowulf” and other stuff. It’s not that I wouldn’t have seen those movies, I absolutely did. Unfortunately I don’t remember having him seen ever but in “Simon Says”.

“Simon Says” is definitely one of my alltime favorite movies and this role of his as the psycho twins is one of the most creepy roles ever. The plot is simple as any teen movie could be. A group of teenagers goes to the woods for camping and they meet a strange guy at the truckstop. Turns out this guy is one of two psycho twins who spent their whole life butchering stuff. Also themselves but I didn’t really get this dramatic point at the story, doesn’t matter how often I watched it.

So to me all that guy is, are the twins. No matter what he will play – like ever – he will always bethe creepy psycho twin.

Michael Emerson

First of all Michael Emerson is a very talented stage actor who had many, many roles on Broadway. He became famous as Oscar Wilde in “The Trials of Oscar Wilde” in 1997 at the Minetta Lane Theatre. Uhm wait, you may ask yourself: Since when is it JebbyStage ? Yeah you are right, you don’t know Michael from his plays, as a movie and series fan you most likely know him as Benjamin Linus from Lost.

So who is this guy, you probably never noticed before he appeared at the series?

David Duchovny

Nowadays everyone knows David Duchovny. Even people who don’t really watch movies know him from „Californication“ the TV series around Hank Moody that went to be a total success all around the globe and everyone who grew up in the 90s would never get Agent Mulder from „The X-files“ out of his mind. David Duchovny has a safe place in the hall of fame of TV stars but he also made it through in Hollywood. Who is that charismatic guy that a famous celeb website even called an „uber-sex god“ – for the record, we find that a bit exaggerated.

David Duchovny was born in Manhattan August 7^th 1960 into a Jewish family. He went to Princeton and Yale later, worked on a Master’s degree in English literature. Young Duchovny was no fool so to speak but some when the interest in acting took over and he dropped the whole thing to … have you ever heard of the „Red shoe diaries“ series?

„Red shoe diaries“ was a TV erotic series that started up in 1992. David Duchovny was on board there from the first part released to the 18^th in 2002. Now if that would not be a start to a serious acting career. He had caught a few small roles from 1988 to 1991 already but what really made him famous were the three episodes of „Twin peaks“ he starred in 1991.

From that he headed over directly to his role of a lifetime, our all time favorite, Mr Everybody-loves-him, Agent Fox Mulder. At total of 176 episodes, 4 movies and lots of video games and specials were released basing on „Spooky

Mulder“ and Dana Scully hunting for mysterious phenomenons at „The X-files“. A whole generation growing up with the series agreed later that 9 seasons were really enough for the latest movie from 2008 was kinda … boring.

But as mentioned from the start Duchovny also got famous with movies. For example there was “Evolution”, the sci-fi comedy from 2001 with Duchovny in a lead role. He was in “Zoolander” with Ben Stiller in 2001 and a handful of other movies in the last years.

But David Duchovny also successfully tried himself as a writer. He wrote 8 episodes of The X-Files and in 2004 the wonderful movie “House of D” .

“Californication” in 2007/2008 brought him back as a teeny idol and sex symbol and it seems he always grabs the right roles to make it up to the top again and again. This guy had a strange but kind of straight career and for that David Duchovny is one of our highly recommended actors!

One Hit Wonders

Sina’s favorites : One hit wonders

For the final post of this special I’d like to mention those actors I liked in one movie only. There are so many of them out there and actually they should be discussed, too. I’d never go as far as calling them my favorites, since I don’t like 90% of their work mostly. No disrespect, just counting. Let’s take a look at those one hit wonders.

Keanu Reeves

He was Mr. “I talk kinda dumb” in many of his movies. What’s that in “Johnny Mnemonic”? I love the movie but why has Keanu to talk as if he’s a bit damaged? No, I am not a big fan of him BUT he was great in “My own private Idaho”, that was some fine classic acting! Another good part was in “Dangerous liaisons”. The rest of his career wasn’t my cup of tea, not even in “Matrix” I liked him. I am sometimes under the impression he turns his acting down, fitting to the grade of the movie. That’s btw what Udo Kier confesses to do. He used to say “If you want me on a B-Movie you also just get a B-Performance!”.

Denzel Washington

Not a big fan of Denzel, though. I don’t really know why, maybe its just not my kinda genres he’s usually in. But I do love him for one role desperatly and that one is in “Fallen”! And from that movie I also got another favorite who is

Elias Koteas

I am not sure if I ever saw any of his movies, except for “Fallen”. His filmography implies I should know him from 4,5 movies. But somehow I didn’t see him in there what means nothing less than that I didn’t like his performance then. But he was unbeatable in “Fallen”, I can assure you!

Colm Feore

who I mentioned before was always the guy I got mixed up with Elias Koteas. They somehow did the same role from my point of view. One in “Fallen” and Feore in “Storm of the century”. It’s kinda similar but still the same greatness in there!

Alec Baldwin

I love him in “Mini’s first time”. That was such a great job! And yea I know he’s a good actor but that doesnt mean I’ve seen him in so many movies. Still, I freaking love this character and acting.

Christian Bale

Was Patrick Bateman. One of the greatest characters ever written. He did him so well that the disappointment about him in person alreay started at the Making Of of the movie. It took some illussions about the actor himself. I never saw another movie again where I thought “Man that is a great actor” although I saw him in many. Nah.

Jon Bon Jovi

Yes, I know he’s a musician. I loved him in “Vampires: Los Muertos” although the movie itself was a bit crappy.

I think I could go on with that for a while but you get the point here. Some actors don’t need to be actual favorites, you see them, you enjoy their work, doesn’t always take 20 movies of one actor to do so.

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