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01. Emma D’Arcy (Rhaenyra)
02. Paddy Considine (Viserys)
03. Matt Smith (Daemon)
04. Rhys Ifans (Otto)
05. Eve Best (Rhaenys)
06. Milly Alcock (Young Rhaenyra)
07. Sian Brooke (Aemma)
08. Steve Toussaint (Corlys)
09. Olivia Cooke (Alicent)
10. Wil Johnson (Vaemond)
11. Matthew Needham (Larys)
12. Ewan Mitchell (Aemond)
13. Leo Ashton (Young Aemond)
14. Tom Glynn-Carney (Aegon II)
15. John MacMillan (Laenor)
16. Phia Saban (Helaena)
17. Ty Tennant (Young Aegon II)
18. Emily Carey (Young Alicent)
19. Fabian Frankel (Cristin)
20. Nanna Blondell (Laena)
21. Sonoya Mizuno (Mysaria)

I tried to grab anyone who had any kind of significant screen presence or scenes.

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I dunno, I’m not writing Driver off after one festival. Especially when half of the handful of reviews cited him quite positively. The Fall movie festival season has just begun. I just have a feeling about WN for him. We’ll see. I ain’t ready to write this one off yet. :shrugs:

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SarahvsAwards wrote:

I’ve seen several say he didn’t quite work. IndieWire was pretty underwhelmed for one. He’s definitely not being given the type of praise that transcends a mediocre response to a film.

I’ve read all 16 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. IW wasn’t a fan, no. As well one other was so-so on both him and Greta Gerwig’s delivery of the arch dialogue. On the other hand, seven didn’t specifically mention acting, but the remaining seven of the 16 expressly pointed out Driver and praised him specifically, some to a high degree.

The IndieWire is literally the only review I saw that said he was miscast and that “he didn’t quite work.” If there are several others, I don’t know where you’ve seen them.

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I’ve read every review of White Noise so far and most of them — even the few negative, and middle-of-the-road ones — highlight Driver. Just because a film doesn’t get a glowing review doesn’t mean the actor won’t. In this case, Driver is getting the kudos in the reviews.

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Demi Lovato’s album was #1 on both the Rock and Alternative charts, #7 on Billboard. Is it possible she could nominations in those categories for “Holy Fvck?” The reviews are also across the board very favorable with a 78 on Metacritic.

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RIDLEY SCOTT wrote:

He is a Method actor. He was a Method student so he loves and It Seems He Prefers All Of The Old Legends

He’s not a method actor. And, yeah, I would like it if he worked with a female director in film, but he DID work with Lena Dunham for six years, under her direction, which people love to conveniently forget. It was mentioned in that very post above in small print like it doesn’t count. It DOES count. He was directed by a woman for six years.

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SaulAtreides wrote:

Adam Driver has been very average in the two movies of his I’ve seen this year, so I suspect he’s not in upper echelon of actors working today. He’s still pretty good, but not some inevitable Oscar winner as his stans are painting him as.

And what do the two films (that are much better known about) he did this year have in common that NONE of his other films where every single one of his performances have been WIDELY praised have? The same director. Isn’t that an interesting coincidence?

I agree with you in that I wasn’t as impressed with either of Adam’s performances in The Last Duel or House of Gucci. Now, if you’re talking about Annette, then we are not on the same wavelength because he was absolutely brilliant in that, and, oh, look different director. Leos Carax instead of Ridley Scott.

Ridley Scott has done some great work, absolutely, but I pray that Adam Driver never does another film with him again because I am not a fan of his direction of Driver… at all.

As for my unpopular opinion… I think that Annette got completely hosed this award season. I thought the film was misunderstood by many critics and was one of the most brilliant, and absolute greatest films I’ve ever seen. I would have liked to see it nominated for film, director, script, score, original song, best actor (Driver), and supporting actor (Simon Helberg). The film was a masterpiece.

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Did some Oscar movie potential watching today.

Still frustrated that Adam Driver is not even in the running for Annette. The film was a masterpiece, one of the best I’ve ever seen and I’m embarrassed by the many American critics who did not get the point of the puppet… among so many other things, but I digress. Driver was absolutely brilliant in it, and it’s easily one of his best performances, even better than Marriage Story. Alas, again, he’s not even in the running despite a few noms here and there. (RE: Driver, I’m not even touching The Last Duel or The House of Gucci. I’ll just say that may Driver never work in another film directed by Ridley Scott again and leave it at that.)

Leonardo DiCaprio was good in Don’t Look Up (great film, by the way, I loved it), but if he gets a nomination, I think it will be taken from someone more worthy. He’s definitely given Oscar-nom worthy performances before, and win-worthy ones. I don’t think this is one of them. If anyone deserves a nom from this film, it’s Jennifer Lawrence but I think that everyone still inexplicably hates her so…..

I also watched The Power of the Dog. Benedict Cumberbatch was great in it but, for the life of me, I do not understand why he is running away with the wins and the narrative of this magnificent, astounding performance. It was great but, frankly, no better than a handful of great performances I see all the time in film. Sure nom-worthy, but not OH MY GOD! I kept waiting to be: YES!, but it just never happened. (Kodi Smit-McPhee, on the other hand, was phenomenal. Give him all the awards! Oh, wait, they are!)

I watched The Lost Daughter too, but that’s not for this thread. I’ll watch more throughout the week or next weekend. (I do really want to watch King Richard, and the Tragedy of Macbeth, not sure where to find those.)

As for predictions… I’m sure it will be Cumberbatch, likely Will Smith, Denzel Washington (who I’m assuming deserves it just because I’ve never seen Denzel not be brilliant), Andrew Garfield (Tick, Tick… Boom! is the next one I’m going to watch), and I’m hopeful for Dinklage because I love him and Cyrano looks great to me from the trailer.

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I know he’s not going to get one, but I’m really happy seeing some places nominate Adam Driver for Annette, the only film that he deserves the nom for. After seeing both The Last Duel (overrated) and House of Gucci (so bad), lordy, I hope that Driver NEVER acts in another Ridley Scott film again. I mean, he was good, but he was, in my opinion, the least good I’ve ever seen him–in both films. OTOH, he was absolutely brilliant in the criminally misunderstood, critically underrated Annette. That film was a masterpiece, and Adam Driver, like everything else and every other performance in it, was magnificent.

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I’m so bummed (for a few reasons). I was unable to see the advance screening although I really wanted to. On the way there I was in a car accident (I’m fine, but my car is totaled.) Hopefully, I’ll be able to see it after Thanksgiving. I can’t wait. So much real life stuff in the way, but man… I want to see this movie. Love reading all the praise that Adam Driver is getting as more reactions are coming out.

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Bought my ticket for tomorrow.

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a spoonful of sugar wrote:

It’s possible, but critics not mentioning Driver much falls in line with what we’ve seen in the trailer, and what’s reported by people who read the script.

Leto has a twitter acount. So does Lady Gaga. The only main actors involved in the cast who don’t are Driver and Al Pacino. And it’s Lady Gaga and Leto who are getting the most name mentions. Driver and Pacino are getting some, but not nearly as much as Gaga and Leto despite the fact that both Driver and Pacino are highly–much more highly–acclaimed actors than either Gaga and Leto. I’m not saying that Gaga and Leto don’t give great performances, just that it’s very possible that Driver, and Pacino, do as well. It’s just not being reflected in the Twitter reaction reviews because those two don’t have Twitter handles, so, eh, why bother is the thinking of some.

Again, we’ll see on November 22.

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I am admittedly biased as an Adam Driver fan, but I think that it’s possible he’s being slept on just a bit at this point. Right now, we’re only going off of twitter reactions. He’s only been mentioned here and there, sure, but there’s likely a reason for that. These quick write-ups are, yes, to get their reactions out, but they want to be seen, and so they hashtag the actors involved. (It’s one of the reasons you’ve got the hashtag Lady Gaga left and right. EYEBALLS!)

Adam Driver does not have a twitter account, so I could easily see twitter pundits reserving their limited characters for actors who will potentially SEE their reactions.

We’ll know on November 22nd.

BTW: Someone wanted to know if Adam is normally comatose in press runs since fans are saying how lively he is with Gaga…. well, no, it was more of a joke. Adam tends to come off as very nerdy, over-talk-y, ‘why am I even here?’ rambling, ‘where is the nearest exit?’ but in a very polite way during press tours. With Gaga, he just seems a bit more relaxed and having some more fun. That’s all.

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The Atlantic review: “Adam Driver is darkly magnetic as Jacques le Gris, a man whose heroic appeal was supposedly mesmerizing in real life.”

source: https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/10/in-the-last-duel-men-are-unreliable-narrators/620377/

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Yes, he is. The quoted excerpts from reviews aren’t making it here that mention him. And he is mentioned in some tweeted reviews too. Also, I’ve noticed that he’s getting to the phase of his career where he’s such a well-known entity of “great actor” that he’s expected to be great so, eh, what else is new, why bother mentioning the obvious. Literally a few reviews all but say this. (One is like “Driver is, of course, great.” And that is all they wrote about him while putting more detail into other performances and why they liked them. It’s like when people “and it goes without saying” with Driver they are literally not saying it.)