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I was watching a video on Willem Dafoe on his iconic roles, and his passion to craft and life, and positivity, exudes from him immensely. In that video, I am surprised he remembers from which of his movies the lines came from. It made me love him more as an actor because he loves life and his job.

But then during the interview, I remembered too when I watched Kevin Spacey's interview before, admiring him and it turned out he is a creep. I was telling to myself about Willem Dafoe "please don't be a creep, please don't be a creep."

Willem seems like a genuinely nice guy though but I hope I don't get proven wrong!

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I have a lot of criticism for most kinds of celebrity worship threads, but I'll just throw my hat in for Jack Black. He seems like a good guy who likes making people laugh (myself included).

[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It’s obvious Jack Black has maxed out his Charisma stat.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

And his mom was a NASA engineer who worked on an issue with the abort guidance system while in labor with Jack. (See Judith Cohen)

[–] [email protected] 67 points 8 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago

Came in to say this. If Keanu gets convincingly metoo-d or something I will die a little inside.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

I still recall a story on Reddit where someone claimed to have stumbled upon his house while hiking and Keanu offered to give him a ride.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Only partially an actor, but I sincerely hope Weird Al Yankovic keeps being as awesome as he is.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They made a real life documentary about his life a couple years back. Squeaky clean.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I dunno, he was involved in some really shady polka parties.

[–] sh00g 45 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I'm gonna have to go with Adam Savage. I loved Mythbusters and continue to watch his Tested one day build videos today and view him as something of a role model from a creative standpoint.

Also to chime in about your mentioning of Kevin Spacey, the guy is definitely a weirdo and has done some really tone deaf things (coming out as gay in the midst of being involved in sexual abuse accusations, posting videos of himself as Frank Underwood denying charges levied against him on YouTube, etc.), but wasn't he acquitted of or found not guilty in literally every sexual abuse charge that was brought against him? And in both the US and the UK?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I have bad news. Adam Savage cohorted with a sealife impersonator and mafia hitman who goes by Jamie Hyneman

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Goo goo g'joob!

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I don't know about the other cases, but one of Kevin Spacey's case ended up in a settlement.

However, the fact that so many came out accusing him of sexual misconduct and how Kevin Spacey reacted after being questioned is itself a charge of guilt. Once or twicely accused is questionable. But I am a firm believer that "where there is smoke, there is fire". A genuinely nice person would not be defamed by so many just like that, especially with serious allegations. Neil DeGrasse Tyson was accused once, but the charges were dropped when the accuser proved to have made false allegations. We haven't heard anything egregious about Neil before and after that scandal.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I can tell you that Neil is at the very least insufferable to be around.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

I'm with you about Adam Savage. His philosophies about many aspects of life just resonate a lot with me and he is always so passionate about the things he's discussing or working on.

His view on organization being a continuous process finally clicked with me and got me to start putting my workshop in order.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

A jury being unable to be sure of guilt beyond reasonable doubt does not mean he is innocent beyond all reasonable doubt.

How many people do you need to come forward before you believe them? Is the number of men required more or less than the number of women required? Do teenagers count double or not at all? Or does the number depend entirely on the quality of their legal defence and the amount of physical evidence they left behind?

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

Nathan Fillion, Christopher Walken, Tom Hanks

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Alan Tudyk right up there with Nathan Fillion

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Hummm… maybe don’t read up on Christopher Walken and Natalie Woods…

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The #1 thing to know about Willem Dafoe is apparently he has a monster cock.

One film, he had a nude scene, and they had to set him up with a body double because his own was too distracting.

https://www.ladbible.com/news/willem-dafoe-once-used-a-stunt-penis-20220722

Von Trier replied: “We had to [have a stand-in d**k], because Will’s was too big.”

Journalist Peter Keough then asked Von Trier: “To fit on screen?” to which he replied: “No, too big because everybody got very confused when they saw it.”

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Tha is for this, Jordan. This is really what my day needed 😊

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Dick Van Dyke comes from an era where it would be real easy to do a lot of bad shit without anyone ever knowing, and I hope he never did.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Geena Davis

Dolly Parton

Jennifer Connelly

Gary Oldman

J. K. Simmons

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I've got my fingers crossed that Tony Shalhoub doesn't have any skeletons in his closet.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

....all of them? Why would I want any artist I admire to be a scumbag?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I enjoy actors for their work as actors not for them being good people.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (13 children)

Kevin Spacey probably wasn't acting as he often portrayed psychopathic characters in TV and films.

Same with Danny Masterson and Wilmer Valderrama as they played as creepy guys in "That 70s Show".

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm worried if I actually answer this I'm going to get replies like "Haha yeah they seem so nice right? Anyway here's a video of them kicking a cat while bragging about all the assaults they've gotten away with"

Anyway John Cena seems so genuinely kind I'd be crushed to find out otherwise. Weird Al, too, always seems like he's just a really friendly weirdo trying to bring joy to everyone

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

John Cena claimed Taiwan was a country, then had to make an apology video - in Chinese - for referring to Taiwan as an independent nation. I hope he was just forced to say that under contract, but it's kind of shitty he had to apologize to China. I'd respect him more if he stuck to his guns and stood up for Taiwan.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Samuel Jackson.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

David Tennant

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (8 children)

I am also including people who was in cameos.

William dafoe

Keanu reaves

John cena

Cillian murphy

M night shyamalan

Stan lee

RDJ

Christian bale

Robert pattinson

Emma stone

Emma watson

Danial radcliff

Tom holland

Andrew garfield

Quinten tarantino

Samuel jackson

Brad pitt

Leonardo decaprio

Edward norton

Margott robbie

Ryan gosling

I will update the list as i remember .I used to think highly about Arnold Schwarzenegger but turns out he is a republican and that is enough for me to take him out of the list. Also if anyone on my list is a republican do tell me

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Arnold has had his problems but he isn't MAGA and he really, REALLY doesn't like Nazis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsETTn7DehI

Edit: (Additional context) IIRC this is the video he released after Charlottesville. Absolutely worth 12 minutes of your life.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've long said that Arnold is my favorite Republican. It's a low, low, bar, but still...

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

When I was a kid, I thought Fat Albert reruns were awesome...Yeesh.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

When I was pretty young I was a little reflexively racist, didn't trust the black kids in my class kind of thing.

Bill Cosby's comedy got through to me. I'll be damned if he's gonna take back from me the good he gave me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Fresh Prince also helped. Carlton showed everyone that black people could be white as fuck 😂

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

David Attenborough and Joseph Garrett even though they aren't really actors.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Jennifer Lawrence is so hilarious and seems so down to earth. But then rumors came out that she was getting handsy with Liam Hemsworth. She apparently denied it but who knows. I really hope they aren't true.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Is she not allowed to have relationships or am I missing something?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

I admire Ed Harris as an actor. Worst I've heard about him is that he can be "serious" on sets (and I believe it, look at The Rock's outtakes), but that's just fine with me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My bunny Ben does great impressions of Joe Pesci, just masterful performances. Most of Ben's scandals are actually normal for a bunny, like pooping on the floor. I hope he keeps it that way.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

I refuse to say! You'll ruin it!

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