He's one of the most unpleasant human beings I've ever met in my life..."This is my character, not me". He was really abusive to me and everybody on that movie, and his official explanation was that his character didn't like me, but it was a dreadful experience. I spent my salary on time with my shrink just for helping me get through it.
A fair case can be made that part of the dip in reputation the Pertwee era suffered in the 90s came down to Pertwee's somewhat stiff and rehearsed manner at conventions as he appeared 'in character' as the Doctor. Certainly the degree to which Pertwee simply handled almost all interviews with a set of rehearsed lines ('Yeti-in-the-loo' and all) and vaguely in character is somewhat oddly alienating to watch, even decades later.
Old wrestlers are grown-up versions of those kids from junior school who went on holiday to Florida and saw Ghostbusters 3 and 4, and whose dad was in the SAS and let them shoot his government-issue Uzi in the garden at weekends. But when you went over to their house for tea, the jet-bike they kept bragging about was always suspiciously missing because it was “getting repaired.”
Prior to his arrival, WCW couldn't hype up Warrior's return like they probably wanted to because they were tied up in a legal battle over what they could call him. It was pretty clear that "Ultimate Warrior" was out of the question, since the WWF had that one trademarked (and you should have seen Eric's face when, on the August 24 Nitro, Hogan accidentally said "Ultimate Warrior"). Just plain old "Warrior" seemed to be OK, though, mostly because that's what Jim Hellwig, the man who played the Warrior character, had legally changed his name to.
Jesse Ventura, a former Navy SEAL and professional “wrestler”, probably reached the peak of his political career when he played a prominent role in the masterpiece Predator. He later went on to become governor of Minnesota, a role in which he was known as crazy but with a few, intermittent flashes of brilliance...That was back then, when he still had the mental acumen necessary to manage to categorize Predator as fiction.
Maybe it's only my imagination, but in the background of all of Steven Seagal's songs I swear I hear paramedics. My theory is that he forgets which job he's at sometimes and jams a pair of scissors into the bass player. For Steven Seagal, killing the bass player is a 'blooper.' He is Above The Law.
Seagal apparently began to believe his own press. On the set of one movie, he challenged a stuntman, who was a black belt in judo, to try to choke him out...Seagal claimed to be impervious to the technique. He was wrong. The producers of the film became frantic when they saw their NBA-sized star lying unconscious on the ground. While Seagal professed to be a man of eastern spirituality, he was starting to behave like the tough guys he played. He applied for a permit to carry a concealed weapon and even had a tuxedo tailored to accommodate two handguns. As his popularity grew, so did his paranoia. He spoke of people who were out to get him, and according to Vanity Fair, on one occasion he offered an ex-CIA operative named Robert Strickland $50,000 in cash to eliminate a former colleague. Strickland had been working with Seagal on an original film project, which never got off the ground. Strickland later sued Seagal for co-opting aspects of his life story and passing them off as his own.
—Crime Library, "Steven Seagal and the Mob"
Someone asked me the other day if I ever planned to move back to NYC and I said I'd think about it if my mom agreed to move and if they FINALLY got an In-N-Out. Well, if Marky Mark gets a police badge from the LAPD, I’ll bribe my mom into moving with promises of meeting Dr Oz and I'll chain an In-N-Out to my car before hitting the gas hard and never looking back...The world never needs Officer Marky Mark in it, but right now it really doesn’t need Officer Marky Mark. Shit is bad enough. But on one hand, if Mark Mark became a reservist, he’d have less time to spend on making crap movies that terrorize humanity. On the other hand, the thought of Officer Marky Mark patrolling the streets with a baton in one hand and a gun in the other makes me want to invest in a bulletproof armored helmet.
—Michael K., "Marky Mark Wants To Be A Cop"
, "Marky Mark Wants To Be A Cop"Suicide Squad's marketing wants more than anything to tell us how brooding and method Jared Leto's Joker is, as if being an insufferable wad to your friends and mail carriers guarantees a good performance. They made sure to have multiple actors tell the press about how they never really met the "real" Jared Leto, like he's some kind of acting magician. It became so transparent that the internet turned it into a meme. Eventually the folks at WB did a complete 180 on this brooding tone — realizing that either no one cared or that Leto probably wasn't going to die tragically to boost their ticket sales.
—David Christopher Bell, 6 Reasons Heath Ledger's Joker Ruined Comic Book Movies. Cracked.
. Cracked.I'll be Queen Victoria, but I don't know how to be me.
