#80: What's a performance you love in a movie you suspect the actor might like stricken from their résumé?
We had a ball last week blasting bad moms across Hollywood history. Terri Mauro took the prize with The Parent Trap, earning the right to ask this week’s question:
What's a performance you love in a movie you suspect the actor might like stricken from their résumé? Not necessarily a bad movie; maybe an odd fit, or a movie that was received or understood poorly, or hasn't aged well.
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I don't know how Tom Hulce feels about this but if he respects history he should have problems with his most famous work: Amadeus. The film is excellent, and his performance is first-rate, but historically it's pure fiction from start to finish. I still recommend everyone watch it, but hopefully he realizes how much it got wrong about one of history's greatest composers.
Interesting side note: The post thumbnail is from Romeo and Juliet (1968). In 2023 the lead actors Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting filed a lawsuit against Paramount alledging child abuse. They were both underage when director Franco Zeffirelli pressured them into doing the famous nude scene - the one our high school English teachers wouldn't let the class watch. This would be considered child pornograpy now and should have been then.