Retired actors that should get the Joe Pesci in The Irishman comeback.

[Himmel]

Originally Posted by Cremildo

I didn't know Connery had a tattoo.

Yes, he has two small tattoos on his right arm. One says “Scotland forever”, the other “Mum and Dad.”

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I'd love to see Sean Connery make a cameo appearance in a new Bond film. Maybe even as a villain character.

I'd also love to see Clint Eastwood in 1 last western movie.

Jack Nicholson would be my third choice for a comeback.

[moviflicilm]

Originally Posted by 78deluxe

I mean I'm thinkign about Robert Downy Jr. (who is it almost hard to think about him falling from grace after his massive non-stop successfull comeback).

Or Keanu Reeves who ended up creating one of the greatest series of action films of all time.

Both actors were working constantly in films, they just a role that made them huge attractions again. Downey was already clear and sober when he transferred into a mega-blockbuster role that has come to define the industry today. Reeves just got adored by audiences again after years of criticism of his acting skills. What I meant in my OP was actors who have exited the industry through various means, either becoming a parent, disillusion with the industry, or became too old for the roles in a creative world that is obsessed with youth.


Jason Bailey wrote an article about eight years back which gives some suggestions for the thread. Be warned, it's dated as a few actors have sadly passed away: https://www.flavorwire.com/297868/10...rve-a-comeback

Warren Beatty and Rick Moranis have made their comebacks already so crossed them off. Sidney Poitier is another Hollywood legend who has been off the screen for years longer than I felt. Maybe some black filmmaker could give a small supporting role that prompts him out of retirement. On the younger side there's Bridget Fonda and Phoebe Cates who are both 56 who have been off the screen for the same amount of time. Cameron Crowe or some other filmmaker could just bring the two together for a film, likely a buddy picture with Jennifer Jason Leigh.

[Bolty]

Whatever happened to Ryan O'Neal?

Or Tatum O'Neal for that matter?

[DR Herbert West]

Originally Posted by Cremildo

I didn't know Connery had a tattoo.

They covered it up for the Bond films. You can see the makeup start to run whenever he's in the water.

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Linda Manz.




Frederic Forrest and Teri Garr ( I know Teri Garr is ill, this is just a fantasy list)







Liv Ullmann





Maggie Cheung





Jean-Paul Belmondo







Olivia De Havilland. I know she's 103, but she's still quite with it apparently and hasn't appeared in a film in 41 years.

[TheWildWhelk]

I accepted years ago that Connery was done and dusted with acting. Shame that his final film was the mediocre fantasy adventure LXG. Connery as leading man in Julie Tamor's 'Titus' adapted from Shakespeare's Titus Andronicous would have been legendary!

[CyberpunkCentral]

Originally Posted by TheWildWhelk

I accepted years ago that Connery was done and dusted with acting. Shame that his final film was the mediocre fantasy adventure LXG.

I've seen that movie too in the theater. I don't remember much about it, but I do remember it being bad though. After we came out of the movie we spotted some friends and we were like, yeah it's not good. They were like, but Sean Connery is in it.

[RCRochester]

Originally Posted by 78deluxe

Jack Nicholson - can't really say much about a comeback he has been consistantly making movies for decades now. It isn't like he has taken a break. He already had his comeback. The Departed (finally getting another good film since As Good as it Gets).

Jack Nicholson hasn't been in a movie since his supporting turn in How Do You Know in 2010.

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Originally Posted by Bolty

Connery and Hackman are both 90. Saying you want to see them in the movie again is pretty much the same thing as saying you want to see them young again. And let's be honest their health probably isn't awesome.
And there aren't a ton of roles for 90 year old actors besides the kind of stuff that Christopher Plummer is feasting on.
I'm thinking that if the movie is a flashback where the older actor appears in the prologue in the epilogue like James Garner did in that one movie. That might work. But then it's almost gimmicky you to find a younger actor that remind you of the older actor.
How about actors who are in their 60s and 70s?

Harvey Keitel, who is 81 tomorrow, May 13, has a new film like that. He will play the older Meyer Lansky in a wraparound prologue/epilogue in the new film, "Lansky". But the rest of the film will be flashbacks to the old days when he was young, and they used a younger actor. Just like Garner did with "The Notebook".

[dkelly26666]

Originally Posted by RCRochester

Jack Nicholson hasn't been in a movie since his supporting turn in How Do You Know in 2010.

Yes, and "The Departed" wasn't a comeback, either, as he had been in good work since "As Good As It Gets". He had been in the extremely acclaimed and award winning "About Schmidt" and the criminally underrated "The Pledge" between "Good" and "Departed". Plus, while his Adam Sandler movie wasn't acclaimed, it was still a pretty big box office hit, too.

And he hasn't worked at all since "How Do You Know?". Like someone else said, I loathe that his last two roles were in "The Bucket List" and "How Do You Know?". Both were very forgettable, mediocre films. After such a long, distinguished career, I had hoped that he will be in at least one more good film. Could be a brief cameo or something, but in a great film by a noted director or something, just so his last role isn't "How Do You Know?". But, it's not looking good for that to ever happen. I think we've seen all we're going to see from Jack, unfortunately.

Same with Gene Hackman, and his last role was in the utterly forgettable, "Welcome to Mooseport". I remember that Scorsese wanted Hackman to be the voice of the Stratton/Oakmont commercial at the beginning of "The Wolf of Wall Street", but Hackman declined, and Edward Hermann did it, instead. I believe that was Hermann's last 'role'.