Left Wing UK Actors

[Wilf]

Michael Caine, Vince Vaughn, James Woods, Jon Voigt, Schwarzenegger, Mel Gibson, Charlton Heston all have right wing tendencies - not sure I'd avoid watching any films of theirs.

I couldn't watch Mel Gibson off that list, but for me it's as much about whether they are twats/entitled twats/abusive twats or twats plain and simple.

 

[belboid]

I also wouldn't be interested in something which i'd regard has shit politics. Then of course one can argue where the line between "challenging" and "shit" lies.

I completely agree. No fight there at all.

what has happened to us?

 

[rekil]

Davos from game of thrones endorsed Solidarity, their PBP candidates anyway - little bit sectarianism. The WSM got a flurry of tweets out of their failure to spell 'education' correctly in their vid.

Spoiler

 

[tim]

Charlie Chaplin

 

[butchersapron]

Davos from game of thrones endorsed Solidarity, their PBP candidates anyway - little bit sectarianism. The WSM got a flurry of tweets out of their failure to spell 'education' correctly in their vid.

Spoiler

He is also a denier as regards chemical attacks in Syria. In that camp.

 

[redsquirrel]

I was even a bit disappointed to find that Welsh actor who plays the dwarf in Lord of the Rings is a headbanger and I wasn't that into the film.

Originally on the left I think but then went hard-right

He is also a denier as regards chemical attacks in Syria. In that camp.

Ah fuck.

 

[rekil]

He is also a denier as regards chemical attacks in Syria. In that camp.

I hadn't seen any of that. At the same time as being an advocate for refugees makes it a whole lot worse than standard Daly/Wallace loonery.

 

[Reno]

Northern working class background, son of a trade unionist, identifies as a socialist.



Doesn't like the Tories at least since his LGBT activism starting with section 28. When Michael Howard asked for an autograph for his children, McKellen wrote "Fuck off, I'm gay" instead.

 

[platinumsage]

I was even a bit disappointed to find that Welsh actor who plays the dwarf in Lord of the Rings is a headbanger and I wasn't that into the film.

I just looked him up and the most shocking thing I discovered is that he’s actually 6’1”

 

[RedRedRose]

That's all well and good but once actor X becomes a powerful multi millionaire saying I wrote an essay once as a student doesn't really cut it for me. To quote Eddie Murphy: What have. You done. For me. Lately.

His thesis seems to be about the implicit lefty message in Star Trek, and he's now writing for the films.

Also, recently slated for asking for demanding rich pay more taxes

 

[Lord Camomile]

I just looked him up and the most shocking thing I discovered is that he’s actually 6’1”

Dorky film fact: originally they were planning to film the hobbits, the dwarf and the humans in three separate shots and then digitally scale them together so the sizes of the races worked. However, the height difference between JRD and the actors playing the hobbits matched the dwarf:hobbit ratio, so they filmed them as one group and only did the humans separately.

/tangent

 

[Reno]

Dorky film fact: originally they were planning to film the hobbits, the dwarf and the humans in three separate shots and then digitally scale them together so the sizes of the races worked. However, the height difference between JRD and the actors playing the hobbits matched the dwarf:hobbit ratio, so they filmed them as one group and only did the humans separately.

/tangent

Double dorky film fact: Most of the time they used forced perspective instead of digital effects to scale actors:

 

[steveo87]

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Northern working class background, son of a trade unionist, identifies as a socialist.

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Doesn't like the Tories at least since his LGBT activism starting with section 28. When Michael Howard asked for an autograph for his children, McKellen wrote "Fuck off, I'm gay" instead.

As a Northerner, it annoys me greatly that neither of them (well I suppose Patrick Stewart gets a pass) have their northern accents anymore.

Even if it is Yorkshire.

 

[Reno]

As a Northerner, it annoys me greatly that neither of them (well I suppose Patrick Stewart gets a pass) have their northern accents anymore.

Even if it is Yorkshire.

As classical stage actors, who started when they did, their careers would probably have been non-starters with a Northern accent.

 

[Orang Utan]

People also lose their accents when they move away

 

[RedRedRose]

Patrick Stewart often talks about how PTSD fucked up his dad and how his mother suffered years of domestic abuse as a result.

Big kudos to the guy.

 

[Dr. Furface]

Robert Lindsay, who appropriately enough is famous for this character

 

[Orang Utan]

Apparently Kevin Sorbo, who played Hercules, is a bit of an alt-right Xtian type. Starred in this last year:
The Reliant (2019) - IMDb - looks awful.

I would have thought someone who plays Hercules would be pro-labour though

 

[imposs1904]

I used to see David Calder at left-wing meetings and demos in South London back in the day. Funnily enough, he was always good at playing the bad guy or establishment type in various British dramas on TV or film.

Playing a Nazi:

 

[Fedayn]

As a Northerner, it annoys me greatly that neither of them (well I suppose Patrick Stewart gets a pass) have their northern accents anymore.

Even if it is Yorkshire.

I hav lived in Scotland near 26 years, I haven't lost my accent.
Though let's be fair, if you were from that shithole that is Yorkshire, you would want to lose that accent as soon as humanly possible.

 

[Orang Utan]

I hav lived in Scotland near 26 years, I haven't lost my accent.
Though let's be fair, if you were from that shithole that is Yorkshire, you would want to lose that accent as soon as humanly possible.

How very dare you

 

[Fedayn]

How very dare you

 

[Sweet FA]

I used to see David Calder at left-wing meetings and demos in South London back in the day. Funnily enough, he was always good at playing the bad guy or establishment type in various British dramas on TV or film.

Playing a Nazi:

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* squints *
Is that Barrymore?