Referring to Actors by a Movie/Character

gluppers

Do you refer to actors/actresses to anything else but their real name? For example, I refer to Leonardo Dicaprio as 'Titanic'. I refer to Aidan Gillen as 'Carcetti' from the Wire

For example if I've seen Aidan Gillen in town, I would say to a mate 'I seen 'Carcetti' the other day'

When talking about the Wolf of Wall Street, I'd call Dicaprio's character 'Titanic'.

Other examples....

James Gandolfini - Tony
Kate Winslet - Titanic
Larry David - Curb
Al Pacino - Scarface

etc

I can't help it

Bubbaclaus

No. Weirdo.

gluppers

Right. Probably the worse post ever on boards. It is After Hours though

The Master

I always think it makes people look a bit dense if they can't remember an actors name.
I heard someone say last week "Did you see the state of yer man Home Alone on de telly?"...

jimgoose

No, but there's a fella in the office who looks very nearly exactly like Sam Worthington. Sometimes I have a fierce urge to chain him to an old car-axle and suspend it over a pit.

GrezzC

gluppers wrote: »

Right. Probably the worse post ever on boards. It is After Hours though

Seen this done a bit, particularly the Larry David one.

Nailz

gluppers wrote: »

Do you refer to actors/actresses to anything else but their real name? For example, I refer to Leonardo Dicaprio as 'Titanic'. I refer to Aidan Gillen as 'Carcetti' from the Wire

For example if I've seen Aidan Gillen in town, I would say to a mate 'I seen 'Carcetti' the other day'

When talking about the Wolf of Wall Street, I'd call Dicaprio's character 'Titanic'.

Other examples....

James Gandolfini - Tony
Kate Winslet - Titanic
Larry David - Curb
Al Pacino - Scarface

etc

I can't help it

I have never heard anyone refer to Al Pacino as Scarface, he's always been Al Pacino.

But I remember when my brother and I when on a really cool Sopranos location tour through New York City and New Jersey, and the tour guide who was said to be involved in some form to the shows' production said that whoever bumped into James Gandolfini in person and referred to him as Toni, James would turn around and start acting like Toni Soprano, acting like he was trying to intimidate the person. Thought that was fairly interesting!

Agent Smith

gluppers wrote: »

Do you refer to actors/actresses to anything else but their real name? For example, I refer to Leonardo Dicaprio as 'Titanic'. I refer to Aidan Gillen as 'Carcetti' from the Wire

For example if I've seen Aidan Gillen in town, I would say to a mate 'I seen 'Carcetti' the other day'

When talking about the Wolf of Wall Street, I'd call Dicaprio's character 'Titanic'.

Other examples....

James Gandolfini - Tony
Kate Winslet - Titanic
Larry David - Curb
Al Pacino - Scarface

etc

I can't help it

Bit Cruel. Kate Winslet is lovely, you shouldn't call her the Titanic!

Hotale.com

Agent Smith wrote: »

Bit Cruel. Kate Winslet is lovely, you shouldn't call her the Titanic!

We'd all like to see her "go down" though

EDIT: Or at least we would have 20 years ago :pac:

JohnFalstaff

How do people know if you're talking about Leonardo DiCaprio or Kate Winslet?

gramar

I never refer to actors as the film they are in but if I can't remember the name I might say something like 'yer man out of that film...what's his name......'

jimgoose

gramar wrote: »

I never to actors as the film they are in but if I can't remember the name I might say something like 'yer man out of that film...what's his name......'

"Not yer man ya eejit, d'other fella!!" :pac::pac::pac:

imitation

My parents dropped me on my head a few times as well op, but I fined out turn.

Maximus Alexander

gluppers wrote: »

For example if I've seen Aidan Gillen in town, I would say to a mate 'I seen 'Carcetti' the other day'

When talking about the Wolf of Wall Street, I'd call Dicaprio's character 'Titanic'.

...

Kate Winslet - Titanic

So how do people distinguish whether you saw Leonardo or Kate Winslet in town?

Aphex

I refare to Home Alone as Home Alone.

gluppers

Aphex wrote: »

I refare to Home Alone as Home Alone.

Me too

force eleven

Harry Potter. Err, what's his real name again?

AnonoBoy

gluppers wrote: »

For example, I refer to Leonardo Dicaprio as 'Titanic'.

Kate Winslet - Titanic

Surely you should refer to DiCaprio as Titanic and Winslet as Titanice because when used to refer to her it would be a feminine noun?

amorphous

no

BlimpyBoy

Dear Die Hard,

You rock!

Especially when that guy was on the roof.

PS: Do you know Mad Max?

The One Doctor

I do this sometimes for one-time actors in Doctor Who - Timothy Dalton, John Simm etc.

Birneybau

No, I tend to know what I'm talking about ; D

phasers

Hey does Scrubs work here? I love that guy, I want to meet Scrubs... Oh and I want to meet black Scrubs too

Birneybau

A bag of Taytos please, no not Taytos, the other Taytos.

jimgoose

Birneybau wrote: »

A bag of Taytos please, no not Taytos, the other Taytos.

Yeah. And one of those floor-cleaning things named after the fella who invented the FBI, for some reason.

Welsh Megaman

It's always tough for an actor to break away from a role that made them huge, no matter what they do. Examples...

Christopher Mintz-Plasse - McLovin'
Jon Heder (?) - Napoleon Dynamite
Sherman from American Pie
Stifler from American Pie
Pie Guy from American Pie

cactuspaw

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

It's always tough for an actor to break away from a role that made them huge, no matter what they do. Examples...


Pie Guy from American Pie

Have you seen him in jay and silent bob strike back?

Me, I always refer to James Marsdon as Cyclops, tWas quiet entertaining while watching him in the notebook.

Sunglasses Ron

gluppers wrote: »

James Gandolfini - Tony

it's mad that in the first pilot episode, although JG was a new jersey Italian, he wasn't as working class as the character demanded and sounds vastly different to the later episodes when he had to hone the accent.