Huh. I feel so left out -- to me, Clive Owen is so visually unmemorable as to be instantly forgettable. He does nothing for me on a scale that would be epic if it weren't so epically nothing. All this rampant Clive-oost is utterly bewildering to me.
I feel especially bad about this because I know I've seen him in several films and that his performances always astounded and riveted me; the actor-appreciation part of my brain hears his name and says "Oooh, yeah, SO VERY GOOD -- who is he again?" I have a vague impression of sorta-tallness and sorta-thinness and a vaguely British gaunt blondness that is slightly like the
Memento
guy but not really exactly.
I've resigned myself to the fact that for the entire rest of my life, every single time I'm watching a movie and sit back astounded and saying, "Wow, who the hell is that actor? He's terrific!" Hec will heave a put-upon sigh and say, "It's Clive Owen. Again."
to me, Clive Owen is so visually unmemorable as to be instantly forgettable.
I have no idea who he is. None.
Not blonde--dark. Lovely and kinda beaten-up face.
DX, have you heard the Thunderbirds scuttlebutt?
JZ -- this might be an example of you forgetting, but Clive's not gaunt, especially not compared to Guy Pearce who could give S6 Spike a run for his money. Well, a sit-down-and-ingest-fluids for his money. Also only blond for part of one movie.
He is in all of these short films, if that helps.
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Clive, Steph.
Gosford Park, Bourne Identity, Croupier, Beyond Borders, Greenfingers,
the Second Sight series,
King Arthur,
and some other stuff.
Wasn't he blond-ish in the first
Bourne
movie? Or was that only because he was being German, and he isn't usually? Or was that some other actor?
Wasn't he blond-ish in the first Bourne movie?
No, that was the guy who attacked
Bourne in the Paris apartment. Clive is the one out in the field with a rifle.
No, that was the guy I meant. I vaguely remember him being less brown-haired than Matt Damon.
