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TheCowSaysMoooo
reliablydefiant
GravyEducation
And yet twas Gary Oldman all along
nutmegonyourdoodle
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FisheswithDynamite
...my fantasy is that 10 years from now, Gary Oldman shows up at a con, and tells Giancarlo that 10 years ago, and 10 before that, he had pictures taken with a banana as a gun. Would Giancarlo go with it, or call him out? I want to know.
Poppypoppoppop
She looks familiar... oh there it is
Gaelwyn
I have trouble recognizing faces. Is that really the same person?
Poppypoppoppop
Melanie Bracewell is her name, written #1 . Do internet search about her and compare for yourself
Gaelwyn
I'm going to assume that's meant to be a yes answer. (Comparing other pictures won't help me at all, I have issues with faces.)
Poppypoppoppop
Yes. And I do apologise.
Higure
I hate vertical crops so fucking much. And this isn't even a good one.
eromitlab
shit he's a good actor
CausticCake
Her acting has gone down. She really looks threatened the first time around, but now she's just smiling. Also, are we not going to talk about how she found a banana outside?
malbec
Nah. It’s just a pleasure and an honor to have him point a gun at your head.
nutmegonyourdoodle
That’s where you find them at times.
They are giving us handy measurements for free.
mafiacarstarter
Banana? That's a gun.
thatauzzieguy
That's Gary Oldman playing Giancarlo Esposito. That's how good an actor he is.
DataDewDrop
If Giancarlo Esposito is being played by Gary Oldman, who’s playing Gary Oldman?
TheIronPenguin
Its like two sets of babushka dolls mixed together in alternating pattern all the way down to the subatomic level but we, the observers, never know the correct order of them. This was the real problem that Schrödinger was attempting to solve.
frozenlake247
Giancarlo Esposito.
(Seems like it would be kinda funny to have a con where all the actors were given name badges at random and played another actor for the day.)
nutmegonyourdoodle
Giancarlo Esposito . The only one that could pull that off. Meryl Streep could do it as stated here already⬇️. Hey that banana is in great shape after all these years!
dalaiyoda
Meryl Streep.
DataDewDrop
If Gary Oldman is being played by Meryl Streep, who is playing Meryl Streep?
dalaiyoda
Time share arrangement with the Baldwin brothers. Yep, more talented than you thought!
mikeatike
Shit this is a good post.
Wapusk
I liked the part in MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE (TRUCKS) when the video game fried him.
frozensoul94
Finally got the chance to see the Captain America, he was great in it.
ADMNtek
He is always great.
friendsofsandwiches
hope he's around in another 10 years for another banana.
Problem is, that banana is gonna cost as much as a gun, by then, the way things are going.
GoodChange
In ten years it might be a different kind of banana; Cavendish is still in trouble.
madeejit
You can you use a banana/gun to obtain more bananas. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/14/americas/colombia-chiquita-banana-intl-latam
CeoHuntingSeason
t9dawg
the way things are going, bananas banned for being woke and turning boys into trans females or some other nonsense
friendsofsandwiches
MrGrundySmash
Gasp!.....Breaking Banana.
nutmegonyourdoodle
:)
marsilies
It's only a banana, how much can it cost? 10 dollars?
awildcharmander
hmm, will banana prices go up or will gun prices go down? I'm not sure which is worse
nutmegonyourdoodle
Pretty sure all the microplastics in my brain will make me not even remember a banana in ten yrs.
IHateToTurnUpTheVolumeOfMyTvBecauseMyCatIsSnoring
*in the US. There's a world outside of that
kaarbaakimgr
The world banana market is bound to crash when the us market stops buying
IHateToTurnUpTheVolumeOfMyTvBecauseMyCatIsSnoring
Which means they'll get cheaper for us. Cool
archon325
Plot twist, same bannana
rletterly
shit, you're cute
RexLibris
That's not Gus Fring, that's Buggin' Out!
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EekumBokumEekumBokum
It doesn't get anymore glorious than this
ILikeFood2000
Shit that’s funny
OMGamIImguringCorrectly
Went from goth phase to archaeologist looking for the ark phase.
SunofAbyss
That's the guy from the arcade in Maximum Overdrive!
L4dead2
Met David Yost at comicon and then saw him again at another one. He recognized me the second time. Met him a third time but he didnt recognize me because I had gotten out of the military and grew a goatee
briham86
You guys seen The Residence? Great series. Giancarlo Esposito does an excellent job in it.
nutmegonyourdoodle
Yes , enjoyed it! Read the actor for this role was slated to be Andre Braugher at first.
99!
Hashbrown123
Just remember this is where he started. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EfivdLP0pgM
SergeyPrkl
That is his eigth full length movie. For me personally, he was that random thug in Miami Vice. Also, not his first or second TV appearance ;)
TheRealSauceBoss
The man is living proof, that when you love your job, you don't work a day in your life.
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CorGoBrrrr
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PorterPickUp
He's well adjusted because he struggled in Hollywood for decades and only 'made it' later in life.
mrsircaptainrich
I love not working. But I have worked a day in my life.
aslum
Nah, even when you love your job work is still often work.
senekis
And when your job loves you back.
For every actor living a comfortable life by doing what they love, there's thousands living day to day and praying to get a role that will likely go to a nepo baby.
shammael
Let's remember that Giancarlo was completely broke and contemplating suicide so that his family would get his life insurance money. IIRC, that was shortly before Breaking Bad, so that love might come after decades of hardships... Por not come at all.
senekis
Yes, my comment wasn't about him - I'm very happy for him.
But I want a world where people don't need to suffer for decades on and then maybe -just maybe- get lucky. Joy and peace should be a given in everybody's life, not feel like winning the lottery after losing an arm and a leg to buy the ticket.
Random side note - some years ago somebody posted a picture of him at a psytrance event. He's a real one:
shammael
I was agreeing with you, telling his story as an example and I'd want the same thing you do for everyone.
For every person like Giancarlo, how many end up giving up their dreams, living an unhappy life or worse; not living at all
GiganticBaby
I’ve gotten back into movies in the past few years. I spend a lot of time on imdb and what have you. They’re mostly babies of the nepo or trust fund kind. It’s crazy. You have to be really incredible (and lucky) to truly bootstrap your way into Hollywood.
LuLuPennyAndOdium44
Sometimes those nepo babies pick their friends to be stars
Tahroo
Still convinced Gus was the good guy in Breaking Bad, he took all the dangers out of their criminal empire for them and was paying them $500k a month. But no... we did math and only calculated three people in this enormous operation and we're getting screwed! Ignore all those packers, distributors, dealers, the tuff guys guarding things etc.. it's just Gus, and Us.. only three people.
doodlydoofus
Well that was the point of the show. You're supposed to root for Walt until he starts "breaking bad" and then they use Mike to constantly spell out everything Walt was fucking up and how half the people who die would still be alive if Walt wasn't letting the power go to his head.
I mean, Gus ain't the good guy but Walt fucked up.
wadatahmydamie
My favorite Breaking Bad myth is that Walter did it for his family, at least at first. Even though he explicitly says he did it for himself in the last episode.
Usually it’s the kind of people who think Skyler is the devil for feeding him a healthy breakfast in her very first scene
TheZonker
I think it had a lot to do with how you watched Breaking Bad.
The first time I watched it was when it first aired, so one episode per week and time between seasons. It was really easy to give Skylar the "annoying, nagging wife" label in the beginning of the show which kind of stuck, even later.
On my first rewatch on DVDs, episodes back-to-back, and knowing what I knew, Walter's manipulations and monstrous ego became much clearer much earlier. And I felt much more sympathetic towards Skylar.
wadatahmydamie
I think the biggest red flag is in episode one, he tells her he’ll help paint Holly’s room, because he doesn’t want Skyler on the stepladder. Episode two, he’s off cooking meth, and she’s on the stepladder because it still needs to get done