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Who do you think was the BEST actor/actress cast in a film.

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Shoshe · 09/09/2008 22:10

For me Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain.

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Spillage21 · 11/09/2008 20:29

Sam Eliott as Lee Scoresby in the Golden Compass, he was EXACTLY the person I imagined when I read the book.

arthursmum · 11/09/2008 20:38

Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch in To Kill A Mockingbird.

TheConfusedOne · 11/09/2008 20:41

Liger BBM has just got to be the best film ever

(yes it is Shoshe, dont ask, blame it on Psycho)

MarsLady · 11/09/2008 20:42

Taye Diggs when he got his kit off in "When Stella Got her Groove Back"
Wesley Snipes when he got his kit of in "New Jack City"
Jamie Foxx when he got his kit off in "Miami Vice"

[lascivious laugh]

piratecat · 11/09/2008 20:43

James Spader in Sex Lies, and Videotape

TheConfusedOne · 11/09/2008 20:44

Mars, best Actor not best body

cornsilk · 11/09/2008 20:45

Toni Collette in Muriels's wedding.

TheConfusedOne · 11/09/2008 20:47

But if you are, Viggo_Mortensen in LOTR

MarsLady · 11/09/2008 20:49

oops! My bad!

Jimmy Smits when he got his kit off in LA Law!

Oh sorry... cast in a FILM!

TheConfusedOne · 11/09/2008 20:53

What about Orlando Bloom in Kingdom of Heaven crap actor great body

choosyfloosy · 11/09/2008 20:53

agree with all of these that i've seen!

I'm actually not sure how to answer this. Very hard to know whether some actors who I think are excellent in just about everything they do are well cast, typecast, or just very good actors. Kristin Scott Thomas for example - I think she's fabulous in everything I've seen her in (e.g. The Walker: acts everyone else including Lily Tomlin off the screen) but her parts have a certain sameness about them as well.

Woody Harrelson and Courtney Love and Edward Norton in People Versus Larry Flynt.

BBBee · 11/09/2008 20:56

bloke in napolean dynamite

agree re: rocky horror - esp. tim curry

midnightexpress · 11/09/2008 20:56

Agree with:

Sean Penn in Carlito's Way (if that's the one where he's the coked up lawyer with the bad perm)
Ralph Fiennes in The English patient
Anthony Hopkins in Remains of the Day

Would also add

Jude Law in The Talented Mr Ripley (though I generally loathe him in most things)
Kate Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story

BBBee · 11/09/2008 20:56

NO - it was tim rice wasn;t it - time curry was that 80's blue peter presenter. He would have been crap in rocky horror.

TheConfusedOne · 11/09/2008 20:57

[shudder] not Jude Law ewwwwwwwwwwwwww

BBBee · 11/09/2008 20:57

hang on, or is time rice the one who writes musicals with andrew llyod webber and judges booker prize??

TheConfusedOne · 11/09/2008 20:58

No BB you were right first time Tim Curry

francagoestohollywood · 11/09/2008 21:01

yes, it's that one midnight

FattipuffsandThinnifers · 11/09/2008 21:07

James Stewart in Vertigo.

Jack Lemmon and Walther Matthiau in The Odd Couple.

Also agree about Cary Grant... sigh.

blueshoes · 11/09/2008 21:14

John Travolta in Grease
Robert Carlyle in Trainspotting
Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction

lottiejenkins · 11/09/2008 21:15

Thanks Fatti......... he was lovely wasnt he............. swoon... agree about James Stewart tooo.... they dont make actors like those two any more!!

devilsavacado · 11/09/2008 21:33

Bette Davis-Now Voyager

Errol Flynn-Gone with the wind

Bette Davis and Joan Crawford-Whatever happened to baby Jane

midnightexpress · 11/09/2008 21:36

Errol Flynn in Gone with the Wind? Did I miss something (quite possible in 3-hour film)?

How about Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront?

janeite · 11/09/2008 21:43

Audrey Hepburn in "Breakfast At Tiffany's".

The guy that was Gimli in LOTR.

John Malcovich in "Of Mice And Men" is absoloutely incredible.

TheDuchessOfNork · 11/09/2008 21:59

Rufus Sewell as Seth Starkadder in Cold Comfort Farm (in fact everyone in this film is perfect)

Kenneth Branagh as Henry V

Ralph Fiennes and Kristin Scott Thomas in The English Patient

Peter O'Toole as Lord Sarne in Rebecca's Daughters

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