TheDavisBros
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We're fine, we're all fine here
i can't think of one single movie with a celebrity impersonater in the lead that was any good...ever....
In TFA they say she has run that outpost for a 1000 years so she probably wouldn't look much younger in this movie IF that was Maz.
Argh.
every time I read praise for Anthony ingruber I think, well if they like him so much, why not just watch his other movies....
Oh wait..............
he’s not Han, cuz impressions don’t make you a good actor.
apparently they had a seasoned and praised actor who still needed a coach... there’s no way in a million years he was getting that role.
I’ll bet he doesn’t get any major role ever, period. Nothing against the guy, but a lot of guys can regurgitate actors reads after seeing it enough times. But give the guy new lines...??
Okay, AGAIN –
Ingruber DOES NOT HAVE TO IMITATE FORD to give us the feeling that he's a young Han Solo because he LOOKS LIKE A YOUNG HARRISON FORD (and kind of already sounds like him, anyway). Alden DOESN'T SOUND OR LOOK like Harrison Ford. Which, in my mind, is a disconnect to buying him as SOLO.
It doesn't matter, anyway, at this point. But, PLEASE STOP BRINGING UP THE IMITATION. That is SO NOT THE POINT of some of us wanting Ingruber in the beginning. It's the LOOK.
AND, about Alden's screen acting. I've seen a few of his movies and, NEWSFLASH – he's not that good. The only thing he's really been praised for is Hail Caesar (which I did enjoy him in). AND he wasn't even acting normally, but DOING A CHARACTER. Or doing an IMITATION. And he got RAVES for it.
So, think about that for awhile, guys. Alden Ehrenreich is best known for doing an IMITATION.
Ron Howard is in a win-win situation. If the movie is good they'll say "Ron Howard saved the movie!" If it sucks they'll say "Look what he had to work with."
According to leaked Lego pictures it seems the droid's name is DD-BD.
NO ONE cares that he looks like him. River Phoenix didn't look like him.
I'm not in either actors camp, I haven't seen either in their roles...
I'm saying that they aren't going to cast a guy for a bit part in a movie, or cuz of his youtube. They're going to do casting calls... they're gonna have reads.
They're gonna look at marketability, award noms. Past films.
A guy who does video game voice over and youtube impersonations isn't going to get hired cuz he looks like Harrison Ford. they aren't going to care.
I've sat in casting audtions.. and pretty much every time the conversations POST great audition ( or from a sent in audition) go like this "Great Audition!.. Oh I liked him/her in that other thing as well... bring up that clip.... yeah that's great... hey you guys see him/her in this movie?... yeah but would you grandma know who this is? No?... but he did get nominated for an academy award... who represents him?...."
And that's a GOOD audition. If ingruber made it in the room, and he didn't knock it out of the park, he would have been instantly forgotten.
I'm not saying he did a bad audition, but his IMDB doesn't tell me he's knocking every audition out of the park.
Which makes one wonder, why even have auditions?
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