Jeffrey Wright certainly deserves Best Supporting Actor nod for this performance, his talent has been long overlooked!
shareHe was freaking brilliant in this movie. THAT scene with him and Rockwell (who, coincidentally, are my two favorite working actors) was the highlight of the film for me.
They say his Lear was the toast of Croydon, wherever that is.
I thought he over played it and mumbled too much.
When youre so self-involved in your "acting" that no one can understand you , youre not doing a good job.
I thought he over played it and mumbled too much.
When youre so self-involved in your "acting" that no one can understand you , youre not doing a good job.
I thought that he played the staggering drunk very, very convincing. If you have ever been absolutely drunk this is at least how I would stumble and mumble...
Genius, Jeffrey!
I once drank 24 oz of 65% rum in less than 30 minutes (found out later this is skirting with death for most people)and I still sounded normal. JW over reached with this performance. But maybe lifelong drunks with the liver and brain damage are different than recreational drinkers.
"what is your major malfunction numnuts?"
If you've ever spent time with a chronic alcoholic, it can look (and sound) exactly how Wright played it. His performance brought back a lot of bad memories for me.
shareExactly, @bootblack987
Wright can do well, and I didn't recognize him at first, but he was hard to understand, That one line, "being drunk can make something totally unreasonable seem reasonable at the time.." - something like that - was delivered so well.
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AGREE!
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Wright was better in Sweet Vengance, even Ed Harris was.
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Instead of spending time commenting on this post, you should be adding Jeffrey Wright to the cast of this movie you named called "Sweet Vengance" because as of right now, there is nothing under cast & crew about Jeffrey Wright acting in this film you named.
sharehe obviously meant Jason Isaacs
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he obviously meant Jason Isaacs
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Ted Levine..Jason Isaacs...W.Earl Brown....What a cast!!!!
shareHe was awful.Furthermore,what is a black man doing {way up in the hills..White Man's land} in a film loaded with an enormously talented cast of White character actors.Must they be one in every friggin movie?
Hey,why not put zero talent Morgan Freeman in as the ultimate sharpshooter? Better still..the bloviated,no talent Denzel Washington as the black man who rides in on a white horse and "beats up" ALL the White people in the county at one time.
It makes me sick to my stomach.
I think he was pretty good myself, knowing all of the traits of an alcoholic. What I don't understand is people using IMDB to project their racist attitudes (bear) as if that's the kind of stuff we come on here to read. There are plenty of rightwing fascist websites for people to go on instead of abusing this one with rhetoric. In other words, take your politics off this guy's thread!
shareI come from the school of guys like jeff wright and gary oldman, nothing better than a great chameleon actor. Jeff poured his soul into this and sadly it reminded me of myself in some of my worst drinking spells. he deserved an oscar!
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