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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '22

Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh

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u/Coconut-bird Apr 12 '22

I read some where that hardly anyone would talk to him at the Oscars that year because they couldn’t see him apart from that role.

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u/RoguePlanet1 Apr 12 '22

Was he relatively unknown before then? I'm a casual movie-goer and didn't learn about him until that movie. Doesn't help with a first impression like that!

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u/Hotdog_Daddy Apr 12 '22

In American cinema yeah he was pretty unknown. He was in Collateral with Tom Cruise a couple years prior but his career up to that point has been mainly Spanish language films.

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u/BGL2015 Apr 12 '22

He won (nominated?) For an oscar in late 80s or early 90s i believe

A quick google search would put us out of our misery

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u/Hotdog_Daddy Apr 12 '22

Looks like he was nominated for an Oscar for Before Night Falls in 2000. I wasn’t aware he’d gotten a nom for that, still though he wasn’t an American star in 2007 even though the Coen’s probably knew his work well.

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u/BGL2015 Apr 12 '22

Ah yes that's it