Good Actor or not?

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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Aaron Paul
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spike wrote:Aaron Paul
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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spike wrote:Aaron Paul
He gives a great performance as Jesse but has he ever been good in anything else? I dunno
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Ben Foster
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bada wrote:Ben Foster
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Jorge wrote:
spike wrote:Aaron Paul
He gives a great performance as Jesse but has he ever been good in anything else? I dunno
was he good in west world?
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I haven't watched that and will never watch it
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lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
bada wrote:Ben Foster
Yes.
He’s a bit of an over actor sometimes.
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bada wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
bada wrote:Ben Foster
Yes.
He’s a bit of an over actor sometimes.
That doesn’t make him….not good. I am taking good literally here as well.
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