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puttinonthefoil t1_ja3w7c4 wrote

Reply to comment by kleptophobiac in Anna Faris Joins Dave Bautista in ‘My Spy: The Eternal City’ by Bennett1984

Pretty sure no actor can support themselves entirely in the indie/art house realm. How has he not backed up what he said? He’s chosen to work with a ton of interesting directors and takes interesting roles, why does he exclusively have to do that to earn some made up credit?

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-SneakySnake- t1_ja4ilo6 wrote

Even Clooney talked about having to take big product endorsement deals in Europe to support himself working mostly smaller projects.

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symphonix t1_ja4m2gu wrote

He didn’t do Asia?

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-SneakySnake- t1_ja4n4ou wrote

Nah, he's lived primarily in Italy for the last couple decades so that's probably the deciding factor.

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kleptophobiac t1_ja4rgnb wrote

I distinctly remember an espresso machine commercial from Asia with Clooney.

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idreamoffreddy t1_ja5o1wu wrote

George Clooney is a minority owner of Nespresso, so it makes sense he would do global commercials for them.

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SenorArthurVandelay t1_ja4o28s wrote

90’s Parker Posey is imho the one perfect example of someone who was almost entirely an indie lead actor and able to exist as an almost exclusively indie actor for most of their career.

Even when she started really doing Hollywood studio stuff in the 2000’s she’s made most of her career since still doing smaller stuff.

Bautista didn’t so much say he wanted to only do indies, he was more talking about doing dramatic stuff and not getting typecast as just a big muscular action dude.

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