Wesley Morris
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 5 Jun
Wesley Morris’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's very Billy Wilder of him, the approach he takes in The Birdcage. Michael Nichols directed it, so it's not a crazy thing to have a smart performance stay in a lane because the director knows the payoff will be there at the end.
He couldn't have done it.
He doesn't burn slow like that. He's eruptive. He's eruptive.
Yes.
The the thing. Well, he would have been the president of the network, right?
Nicholson was the anchor. But what I'm saying is Hackman, you would have more believed him as the president.
He would not have made sense as any of he wouldn't have made sense as William Hurt or Albert Brooks. But, you know, that same era of Hackman, he has a he has a cameo appearance in Postcards from the Edge. Do you remember this scene?
He's the director of the movie Meryl Streep is fucking up in. And the Meryl Streep character, this is based on the Carrie Fisher memoir. Um, she's playing this, this, this drug addicted actress who bottoms out and she goes through rehab and she, her redemption essentially is going back into this, into the post-production studio to do voiceovers. And Gene Hackman's her director. Yeah.
And he, the thing that we're talking about with this mentorship is, I think a version of what it looks like is this director telling this Meryl Streep character to get her life together. And, you know, giving her this, I mean, it's not another chance. The movie still needs to be looped. Um, and she's there to do her, do her voiceovers.
And it's just this wonderful sequence where you learn something about the movies. I didn't know what that process was until this, until Postcards from the Edge, another, another Mike Nichols movie. But he's so warm and firm and clear about what it is that he needs. But he's also got a sense of humor. Um, that, and he's not, I don't know who this character is. He's Gene Hackman. Yeah.
Whatever that means. Um, like, but, but, but fatherly and in a, in a really like touching way.
No, that's doctor nomination for him in that movie, by the way.
uh, Royal Tenenbaums. Uh, I would say the last great Hackman performance was close to the end.
Yeah. And one, I mean, the thing that you love about, that's the one performance. I think anybody's given in a Wes Anderson movie where it felt like Wes Anderson, which is giving him, giving the enterprise over to this actor. I don't know anything about anything with that movie.
I just know how I feel watching it versus watching him in it versus watching anybody else in any other Wes Anderson movie. That's the one where I felt like Gene Hackman just one overrode the vision. And, you know, most people, a lot of people think that that's their favorite Wes Anderson movie.
I think in part because Gene Hackman is the one person who's one of the rare people to act in a Wes Anderson movie who feels differently alive than From the sort of dioramic project of the film. And he frequently exists on the streets of that city, right? He does not exist. He's not in the houses that much. He doesn't live in my memory as being an indoor cat. He's an outdoor cat in that movie.
And like anything outside, Wes Anderson just seems to have less control.
He's such a soundstage, interior design-oriented person. And something about Gene Hackman out in those streets is just classic. It's very on-brand for Hackman and very disorienting for Wes Anderson. And the Tenenbaums is greater for it because there's a tension there that exists between his energy and the movie at large's energy.
Sally Field. Am I missing a very obvious one? Because like the two of them seem like they just feel it just should have worked. He did a movie with Barbra Streisand. Oh, that underrated, by the way. All night long. All night long.
But he and Sally Field seem like they would have had a really good connection.
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