Where did Sam worthington Come from?

ziedth

It occured to me the other day that Sam worthington really has gone from 0-100 overnight.

Like terminator could have been a blockbuster (even though it sadly wasn't) and then you have him staring in Avatar and the impressive looking clash of the titans remake.

Given how close the three films mentioned will be released I'm going to assume that he pretty much filmed them back to back. Before his fame basically!

Now, don't get me wrong I like him as a lead it's just to my knowledge it's the first time a complete unknown (in that I have never heard of him) has become such a leading man so fast.

Liam O

ziedth wrote: »

It occured to me the other day that Dan worthington really has gone from 0-100 overnight.

Like terminator could have been a blockbuster (even though it sadly wasn't) and then you have him staring in Avatar and the impressive looking clash of the titans remake.

Given how close the three films mentioned will be released I'm going to assume that he pretty much filmed them back to back. Before his fame basically!

Now, don't get me wrong I like him as a lead it's just to my knowledge it's the first time a complete unknown (in that I have never heard of him) has become such a leading man so fast.

lol, it's Sam :P

Anyway, he was in the most expensive movie ever that pretty much everyone has seen. That is incredible exposure.

ziedth

My bad,

getting used to typing on the iPhone is a bitch.

Kess73

Yeah he made a big jump from getting out acted by an animatronic/CGI croc in Rogue to getting out acted by CGI elongated smurfs in Avatar.:D


He has been fast tracked in a massive way though. I think it was a case of right place, right time for him.

robby^5

If I had to guess it'd be that people heard he was the star of the next big James Cameron project. Remember Avatar was years in the making so there would have been a bit of buzz about him in Hollywood for a few years which probably led to him being casted in Terminator and Clash of the Titans. They also had his previous films and his work in Australia to go by, so I'd say they put faith him because James Cameron did.

ziedth

Hmmm,

I never actually thought of the fact Avatar took so long to make. Good point!

TheIrishGrover

I don't know but I'm still pretty unimpressed. He's very bland. As a matter of fact I thought he was a VERY bad choice for Avatar. The trailers ya saw with him in avatar form made the effects look pretty poor, he was that...... ahem, unanimated. I mean compare his avatar to any of the others.

Fysh

TheIrishGrover wrote: »

I don't know but I'm still pretty unimpressed. He's very bland. As a matter of fact I thought he was a VERY bad choice for Avatar. The trailers ya saw with him in avatar form made the effects look pretty poor, he was that...... ahem, unanimated. I mean compare his avatar to any of the others.

Yeah, he was pretty darn bland in Avatar and Terminator both. It didn't help either film, but particularly not the telegraphed "reveal" around his character in T4.

lizardfudge

I believe Cameron recommended him for the roll in Terminator.

Don't see the appeal myself... but pretty much every woman I know goes moist for him anyway.

kraggy

Fast tracked me hole. He's been around for a good few years. And he's not that young in terms of actors breaking through. He's 34. Most break through when they are in their 20's.

Did loads of tv stuff in Australia over the last 15 years.

Put in one of the best performances I've seen in recent years in Somersault in 2003 (one of my favourite films).

Handsome Bob

He has a great presence about him on screen, he's got this every man quality about him too, but my god man sort out that American accent. :pac:

Kess73

kraggy wrote: »

Fast tracked me hole. He's been around for a good few years. And he's not that young in terms of actors breaking through. He's 34. Most break through when they are in their 20's.

Did loads of tv stuff in Australia over the last 15 years.

Put in one of the best performances I've seen in recent years in Somersault in 2003 (one of my favourite films).

He has been fast tracked to a degree though. He was slogging away not really going anywhere with Rogue pretty much being the best level he could look at. Then bang, he is gone from that league to starring in Terminator Salvation and Avatar.

Granted he had been around for a bit before, but it was not until he hooked up with Cameron that things took off, and boy did they take off at pace.

missingtime

LZ5by5 wrote: »

He has a great presence about him on screen, he's got this every man quality about him too,

Nail on head.

Reminds me a bit of that part in Family Guy where they comment on jon favreau staring in films he directs but that people dont mind because he seems like the kinda guy who would help you move if you asked him

expectationlost

he was in the australia drama written by yer one from the sercret life of us

faceman

Two words: James Cameron.

I dont think he's the worse action star but he is still average. He's better than John Cena FWIW...

FUNKY LOVER

he was living in his car until he went for auditions in avatar,\nd he got it and then was recommended for terminator salvation.

james cameron always goes for unknown actors in his films,but i like that michaewl biehn is a great example.

conorhal

...James Cameron grew his pretty ass like a Na'vi from the DNA of Matthew McConahey, Jean Claude Van Damme and Jessica Simpson, but as is always the case with most frankenstien experiments, he escaped into the wild....

He's the latest in a long line of 'Generic Leading Man' that Hollywood that pushed to the head of the queue and demanded that we love them, simply because they are suffering a bit of a leading man defecit at the moment and they are in a panic that the have no blockbuster replacements for the aging Pitt's, Clooney's, Ford's and Depp's waiting in the wings.
The just don't realize that you can't manufacture or mass produce charisma and popular appeal, they failed with McConahey and as far as I'm concerned Efron, Lautner and Pattinson can all sod off and die.

speedboatchase

conorhal wrote: »

...James Cameron grew his pretty ass like a Na'vi from the DNA of Matthew McConahey, Jean Claude Van Damme and Jessica Simpson, but as is always the case with most frankenstien experiments, he escaped into the wild....

He's the latest in a long line of 'Generic Leading Man' that Hollywood that pushed to the head of the queue and demanded that we love them, simply because they are suffering a bit of a leading man defecit at the moment and they are in a panic that the have no blockbuster replacements for the aging Pitt's, Clooney's, Ford's and Depp's waiting in the wings.
The just don't realize that you can't manufacture or mass produce charisma and popular appeal, they failed with McConahey and as far as I'm concerned Efron, Lautner and Pattinson can all sod off and die.

I think Efron has a bright future ahead of him, he seems a likable guy and has genuine talent. I think we are seeing a younger generation of leading man finally starting to break through and I'm personally a fan of Chris Pine, Sam Worthington, Bradley Cooper, Garrett Hedlund and Ryan Reynolds. Lautner and Pattinson on the other hand... :rolleyes:

ziedth

Patterson was always going to be the next big thing due to his involvement in twlight. As crap an actor as he is though!

I like Ryan reynolds too, jury is very much out on chis pine.

Interesting point about being forced to accept a new leading man.

conorhal

ziedth wrote: »

Patterson was always going to be the next big thing due to his involvement in twlight. As crap an actor as he is though!

I like Ryan reynolds too, jury is very much out on chis pine.

Interesting point about being forced to accept a new leading man.

Hollywood has always been at it in fairness, ever since the 'studio system' was developed to nurture talent, fame been manufactured according to industrial principles by people with very little understanding of what talent is, otherwise why else would they need a ‘system’?
The problem is that those in charge of that system have it backwards, it’s not the system that throws up a star but rather it’s the odds that eventually discovers a talent with a certain ‘x-factor’ that appeals to the public. Producers are like bad gamblers with a mis-placed faith in ‘a system’ failing to realize how long the odds actually are.

Show's like Pop Idol or (the ironically titled) The X-Factor as symptoms of this backwards thinking with their ‘battery pop-stars’ that have been stripped of anything baring a resemblance to a ‘unique’ talent, and it’s why we have to suffer the Chris O’Donnell’s or Matthew McConahey’s (and I’m sorry, but also the entirely charisma free Sam Worthington) , because of the misplaced faith on the part of producers that talent can be made. It can’t, it can only be uncovered, or perhaps polished but the only person that can actually manufacture talent is the artist themselves.
And things are gotting worse, perhaps as a result of the increasingly pervasive ‘everybody’s a star’, instant fame ethos that has corroded our culture and the our concept of talent to the point that those that run the business balk at anything unique and thus we have manufactured, not stars, but a mediocrity by media-ocracy. Ironically, this trend has had the opposite to the desired effect, where talent is actually ignored if not actively dissuaded all because it may not fit a certian pre-packaged notion of what the audience wants. In other words the system has no intrest in talent at all, it's sole intrest is in creating product. And make no mistake about it, Worthington is not talent, he’s product.

JP Liz V1

He was in Somersault an Oz film that also launched Abbie Cornish's career which did well in the awards in Oz

kraggy

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

He was in Somersault an Oz film that also launched Abbie Cornish's career which did well in the awards in Oz

Yeah I metioned that earlier. It cleaned up in the AFI's.

Worthington's performance in that was absolutely brilliant. Fantastic film. Actually took over 7 years to make.

I strongly recommend it.

Sideshow Mark

Australia?

I don't get him either. Terminator was terrible, the acting in Avatar was horrible. He does seem to be very bland.