Good question. Something made the LotR filmmakers think of him, and I'm guessing it wasn't The Prophecy. (Although, given Jackson's proclivities, maybe it was.)
I wonder. He's such a restrained performer that it's hard to know what's going on internally with his characters. That's great when he's playing characters who play it close to the vest and might actually be insane (I'm thinking of Indian Runner and the otherwise dreadful A Perfect Murder), but there were a couple of things about Hidalgo that didn't sit right with me. However, I think those things were issues I had with the scriptwriting and the direction, not the actor. There was a lot of solo introspective time in Dances with Wolves. Not that I thought Costner was all that great; I was mostly sitting there going, "What a pretty landscape."
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Re: Not quite where I was going
Date: 2004-09-29 12:37 pm (UTC)I wonder. He's such a restrained performer that it's hard to know what's going on internally with his characters. That's great when he's playing characters who play it close to the vest and might actually be insane (I'm thinking of Indian Runner and the otherwise dreadful A Perfect Murder), but there were a couple of things about Hidalgo that didn't sit right with me. However, I think those things were issues I had with the scriptwriting and the direction, not the actor. There was a lot of solo introspective time in Dances with Wolves. Not that I thought Costner was all that great; I was mostly sitting there going, "What a pretty landscape."
Hrm.