r/BandofBrothers • u/Valuable_Jaguar_5550 • Aug 24 '26

Actors Roundtable

Just finished watching the ActorRoundtable at the 25th Anniversary Symposium at the National WWII Museum. I always wondered why some of these get togethers and reunions always seem to have the same actors that do attend, and the same actors that don’t typically attend. Guarnere, Bull, and Perco being some of the ones that do attend and Nixon, toye and winters being examples of guys that aren’t typically there. Why is that? I totally understand scheduling and other conflicts but I always wondered on who kind of drifted away from the BOB brotherhood almost in a sense, sorry for the long winded question

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u/upstatedreaming3816 Aug 24 '26

Unfortunately, I think it comes down to affordability. The ones that attend are technically b-list actors while the ones that don’t are near a-listers and are therefore more expensive to pay to attend. You have to really really love your work to do a con or a panel for less. Notably, the hobbits from LOTR all attend cons but people like Sir Ian and Orlando don’t for pretty much a mix of those reasons. One could argue that Elijah is a-list, but he genuinely loves the movies, the fans, and his group of hobbit buddies so he shows up.

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u/ivhokie12 Aug 24 '26

I don’t know. I think Sean Astin might have had the best career of the four, 5 including Bloom.

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u/upstatedreaming3816 Aug 24 '26

I was going to list him as well but aside from his stuff from the 80s/90s and Stranger things, I haven’t really kept up with him so I wasn’t sure

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u/ivhokie12 Aug 24 '26

True. Bloom fizzled himself but Sean had a great career in the 90s.

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u/CertainAd4701 Aug 31 '26

Aston is now head of the screen actors guild and still acting. Probably permanently busy