{"id":13863,"date":"2011-12-27T20:55:03","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T20:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=13863"},"modified":"2011-12-27T20:55:03","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T20:55:03","slug":"the-hollywood-reporters-actors-roundtable-2011-oldman-clooney-brooks-plummer-waltz-nolt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/12\/27\/the-hollywood-reporters-actors-roundtable-2011-oldman-clooney-brooks-plummer-waltz-nolt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hollywood Reporter&#8217;s Actor&#8217;s Roundtable 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-Hollywood-Reporter-Actors-Roundtable.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13864\" title=\"The Hollywood Reporter Actors Roundtable\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/The-Hollywood-Reporter-Actors-Roundtable.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Hollywood Reporter have posted the full video of their awards season round table with various actors in this year&#8217;s Oscar race.<\/p>\n<p>It includes <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Clooney\">George Clooney<\/a> (The Descendants and The Ides of March), <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christopher_Plummer\">Christopher Plummer<\/a> (Beginners), <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gary_Oldman\">Gary Oldman<\/a> (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christoph_Waltz\">Christoph Waltz<\/a> (Carnage), <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Albert_Brooks\">Albert Brooks<\/a> (Drive) and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nick_Nolte\">Nick Nolte<\/a> (Warrior).<\/p>\n<p>As you can imagine this kind of gathering makes for a pretty fascinating discussion, especially as it\u00a0lasts just over an hour:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2AdcUdpCKn4\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It zig and zags across various issues but here&#8217;s a mini-breakdown of the highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Oldman on being asked to play <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Manson\">Charles Manson<\/a>, the influence of his mother and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bryan_Forbes\">Bryan Forbes<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Raging_Moon\">film<\/a> that inspired a<\/li>\n<li>Plummer on playing King Lear on stage, the most challenging role he&#8217;s played, being 80 and what makes actors great.<\/li>\n<li>Clooney on becoming an actor, the career of his aunt <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rosemary_Clooney\">Rosemary Clooney<\/a> and making challenging films.<\/li>\n<li>Nolte on getting old, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/48_Hrs.\">48 Hours<\/a>, not finding work, repertory theatre companies and a great story about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barry_Lyndon\">Barry Lyndon<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Brooks on the psychology of stardom, why <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jack_Benny\">Jack Benny<\/a> was his idol and the overall social value of acting.<\/li>\n<li>Waltz on finding success relatively late in his career, his roles after\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Inglourious_Basterds\">Inglourious\u00a0Basterds<\/a> and the nature of acting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; Latest on the awards season at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.awardsdaily.com\/\">Awardsdaily<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hitfix.com\/blogs\/in-contention\">In Contention<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s Hollywood Reporter round table chat with George Clooney, Christopher Plummer, Gary Oldman, Christoph Waltz, Albert Brooks and Nick Nolte<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,16],"tags":[2382,2384,2383,948,1165,2385],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13863"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}