Wood Harris (Avon Barksdale) in Ant-Man
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Saturday, 20 February 2016 15:17 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFkVsiDYI3c&spf
― Sharia Law and Lambchop (The Yellow Kid), Tuesday, 23 February 2016 02:22 (eight years ago) link
Stew mentions the Avon Barksdale as Hendrix movie upthread, but the youtube was grayed out.
Had no idea.
http://i.imgur.com/DF4oVeM.jpg
― pplains, Sunday, 12 March 2017 05:05 (seven years ago) link
maybe mentioned but goddamn if im not blown away by lester freamon being the bass voice in love and affection
― spud called maris (darraghmac), Monday, 8 May 2017 00:14 (seven years ago) link
Idris Elba was in the 2017/07/21 NY Times crossword (57 Across).
― Germ Leee Adolescents (Leee), Thursday, 7 September 2017 18:17 (six years ago) link
This a strange career move...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tgFHpWEUXU
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Friday, 8 September 2017 12:33 (six years ago) link
bunny colvin and frank sobotka are in face off
― sktsh, Sunday, 24 September 2017 19:59 (six years ago) link
http://deadline.com/2018/02/comedy-central-corporate-season-two-renewal-1202302983/
lance reddick does comedy (straight man role presumably)
― j., Tuesday, 27 February 2018 03:16 (six years ago) link
https://shadowandact.com/idris-elba-in-the-long-run-comedy-sky-first-look
idris elba does comedy
― j., Tuesday, 27 February 2018 06:47 (six years ago) link
Clark Johnson:
as "Black Gang Leader" in Adventures in Babysitting
https://cdn.torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/2016_10_25clarkjohnson2.jpg
as "Jefferson" in the '80s Canadian cop show "Night Heat"
http://www.rickstv.com/midsouth/6.jpg
― omar little, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 07:57 (six years ago) link
wallace is in black panther
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 12 March 2018 23:56 (six years ago) link
avon in blade runner 2049
― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 00:18 (six years ago) link
mcnutly in the square
― Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 01:25 (six years ago) link
https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/931720/in-the-long-run-sky1-idris-elba-comedy-release-date-trailer-cast-plot-jimmy-akingbola
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Thursday, 15 March 2018 22:12 (six years ago) link
a comedy created by and starring Idris Elba
nah you're alright
― Number None, Thursday, 15 March 2018 22:31 (six years ago) link
Is it just me or is Dominic West's English accent getting better?
― MarmiteGrrrl (Leee), Friday, 16 March 2018 00:46 (six years ago) link
ok, I've been obsessed with Graham Nash's Innocent Eyes music video from 1986 this week. This won't be the last time I bring it up on ilx either. And I might be wrong about this, but the actor playing the boy here - is that Carcetti? Especially look at his facial expression around 0:37.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KwQORT1T6k
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 14 February 2019 19:22 (five years ago) link
The actor, Aidan Gillen, would have been 18 at the time. I can't find anything on his wikipedia page that would support him being in a (presumably) L.A.-based music video shoot.
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 14 February 2019 19:27 (five years ago) link
also, he doesn't look anything like Aiden Gillen, and even looks more like the other main Queer As Folk dudes
https://contentforyoublog.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/queer-as-folk-biography-nathan-maloney-charlie-hunnam3.jpg
Sonja Sohn is great in High Flying Bird, though
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Thursday, 14 February 2019 19:34 (five years ago) link
I dunno. Maybe it was just the beady eyes and cheekbones. But he displays a couple of Carcetti-like (and even Littlefinger-like) facial expressions. Especially in those first 40 seconds during the living room sequence. The hair's obviously different, but it was the 80s and people did all kinds of shit with hair. I've never seen Queer as Folk, but I don't think he looks remotely like either of those two other dudes.
And you're probably right that it's not him, but I'd watched the video a few dozen times and every time his face came up, I was like "who the fuck is that?" And suddenly something about the look he gives around 0:37 really said Carcetti to me.
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 14 February 2019 20:09 (five years ago) link
I didn’t watch the whole thing, just skipped to 0:37 tbh
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Thursday, 14 February 2019 20:41 (five years ago) link
Carcetti is Irish? That's almost more surprising than Stringer or McNutty being British.
― pplains, Friday, 15 February 2019 02:33 (five years ago) link
Waiting for someone to tell me Lt. Daniels is from Dunfermline.
― pplains, Friday, 15 February 2019 02:35 (five years ago) link
Guess you've never watched Game of Thrones
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 15 February 2019 04:00 (five years ago) link
can’t believe someone named AIDAN GILLEN turns out to be Irish
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Friday, 15 February 2019 04:11 (five years ago) link
I never got into Goblets of Fire or whatever.
― pplains, Friday, 15 February 2019 04:22 (five years ago) link
and of course the guy on the right would grow up to have his ass aestheticized regularly on Sons of Anarchy
― sarahell, Friday, 15 February 2019 05:00 (five years ago) link
Leo Fitzpatrick plays in Maniac. One of the reasons I wanna see it.
― nathom, Friday, 15 February 2019 07:14 (five years ago) link
Has Dominic West as Jean Valjean been deliberately ignored? Thought it was a BBC flagship production thing.
― Stevolende, Friday, 15 February 2019 09:54 (five years ago) link
I believe the intent of this thread was to highlight Wire actors popping up unexpectedly in older stuff
Not noting that fairly famous actor Dominic West is still working
― Number None, Friday, 15 February 2019 10:12 (five years ago) link
Clarke Peters is in the new BBC adaptation of His Dark Materia! 😮
― Gaseous Clay (Leee), Sunday, 24 February 2019 17:34 (five years ago) link
Whoa, didn't know this was coming. Hope it's an improvement over the terrible Golden Compass film.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 24 February 2019 22:41 (five years ago) link
Same, and same.
― Gaseous Clay (Leee), Sunday, 24 February 2019 23:05 (five years ago) link
http://i63.tinypic.com/1ny0rl.png
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 21 April 2019 21:46 (five years ago) link
(michael kostroff in liar liar, typecast as a Partner)
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 21 April 2019 21:50 (five years ago) link
I was a little wtf at Idris Elba being interviewed about his Coachella DJ set
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 21 April 2019 22:56 (five years ago) link
Hasn't he been a DJ for a long time?
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 21 April 2019 23:20 (five years ago) link
Indeed, it seems
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 21 April 2019 23:37 (five years ago) link
Chris Bauer (Frank Sobotka with lots more hair) gets beaten up and kicked in the balls by Nic Cage minutes after the latter enters prison with John Travolta's skull under his face
meanwhile Travolta's FBI partner Robert Wisdom (Bunny Colvin but skinnier) is getting burnt to death at the Face/Off:Institute by Nic Cage with Travolta's face on his skull
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Monday, 14 October 2019 05:51 (four years ago) link
nice
― j., Monday, 14 October 2019 06:17 (four years ago) link
Couldn't find any previous mention of Burrell as the guard in the psychiatric prison in Silence of the Lambs.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 14 October 2019 08:35 (four years ago) link
No one seems to have mentioned Chad "Cutty" Coleman in The Expanse.
― chap, Monday, 14 October 2019 13:12 (four years ago) link
Bubbles in the Charlize Theron beer commercial
― Gukbe, Friday, 25 October 2019 14:16 (four years ago) link
Most beer commercials have bubbles, tbrr
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 25 October 2019 14:34 (four years ago) link
Clarke Peters rocking a not entirely unconvincing English accent in His Dark Materials.
― chap, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 15:01 (four years ago) link
Peters actually lived in London in the 70s and 80s, and in 1986 played a pretty despicable (but mostly silent!) pimp in Neil Jordan’s Bob Hoskins-classic Mona Lisa
― Mule, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 15:08 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1swlUtEkXZ0
― adam, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 15:20 (four years ago) link
I just saw Wendel Pierce as Willy Loman on the West End stage in London - in a production that did nothing to change my opinion on the hokey 'Why you I oughta' qualities of that particular play and of stage acting in general. Still it was either that or pay 70 friggin' quid to watch West Ham play Leicester City.
― Soup on my lanyard (Tom D.), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 13:32 (four years ago) link
wire actors in the wire: thx to a canny xmas present from my sister's boyf i am just abt to start watching the wire for the first time!!
― mark s, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 14:19 (four years ago) link
ex editor of the wire watches the wire while listening to wire
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 14:21 (four years ago) link