Last night on Jimmy Kimmel, Gary Oldman — who once performed a dramatic recounting of Snooki’s urinary tract infection on the show — had a very special message for athletes turned actors:
“Stay the F–K OUT OF MOVIES. WHO THE HELL TOLD YOU THAT YOU COULD ACT?”
Well said, Gary. Roll video:
Now, that’s good acting.
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BLUE CHIPS WAS THE BOMB, GARY
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Hey Gary – Alex Karas, Fred Dryer, Bubba Smith, Chuck Connors, Cam Neely and Bob Eucker (okay, maybe not Eucker) would like a word with you… outside.
so would Dennis Rodman from Double Team
Along with Fred the Hammer Williamson in From Dusk Till Dawn, and, of course, Bernie Casey, whom you might remember from such films as Hitman and Never Say Never Again.
By which I mean of course the 1972 blaxploitation film Hitman, which featured Pam Grier, and not the 2007 abomination that marked what we can only hope was the nadir of Timothy Olyphant’s career.
To be fair, he did only address basketball players. The only basketball player you listed was Chuck Connors, who only played basketball back when the main requirement was being freaking tall.
But Duke players are great actors! They can flop and fake fouls with the best of them.
*Liz Lemon self high-five*
Can actors please stay out of singing? Can singers also stay out of acting? If there are so many jobs to fill in the entertainment industry, couldn’t they select some people from the ever growing segment of unemployed rather than giving them to people who already get paid really well to do something else?
I liked it better when Gary Oldman pleads with actors to stop.
Merlin Olsen, denied!
…. so, doesn’t this kind of not bode well for Dark Knight Rises?
That was a nice palette cleanser.
Gary Oldman knows a thing or two about trying to do something you absolutely shouldn’t as he played a fucking midget in Tiptoes. I believe he cast off all artistic integrity at that point.
Truck Turner says otherwise, sir.
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Kevin Durant is just happy that Gary was talking about all of those other athletes and not him