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What The Cast Of L.A. Confidential Looks Like Today

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Regarded as one of the last films of its kind, neo-noir "L.A. Confidential" opened in theatres in 1997 to great acclaim from critics and audiences alike. It received nine Academy Award nominations and took home two of them, including Best Supporting Actress for Kim Basinger and Best Adapted Screenplay for Brian Helgeland and Curtis Hanson. "L.A. Confidential," based on James Ellroy's book of the same name, follows three LAPD detectives with contrasting personalities as they cross paths while looking into a conspiracy set against the backdrop of 1950s Los Angeles: hot-headed Bud White (Russell Crowe), straight-laced Ed Exley (Guy Pearce), and fame-obsessed Jack Vincennes (Kevin Spacey).

The film propelled the careers of Crowe and Pearce – relatively unknown at the time of the film's release — to greater heights. Let's take a look at what the cast had been doing before they were chosen for their respective roles, and what they've been doing in the quarter-century since the film's release.

[–] ecarle (14979) 2 years ago

A nice tidbit deep in there:

Russell Crowe and Kim Basinger -- lovers in LA Confidential(a cop and a heart-of-gold hooker) reunited 19 years later in the modern day buddy action comedy "The Nice Guys" (2017.)

The buddies are Russell Crowe(now much older and beefy on his way to full fat) and Ryan Gosling(mixing cool and goofy in equal measure, young and handsome as Crowe ONCE was, but Crowe still had his macho going on, still kept his charisma.)

Kim Basinger isn't in it much, but when her scenes with Crowe arrive -- the charge is electric in memory but a bit sad in the watching today. Crowe has let him self go and Basinger is simply dealing with an aged face as all beauties do.

The outcome of their relationship in The Nice Guys isn't quite as friendly this time, either.