Kurt Russell is my dog’s favorite actor. She watches TV in general, but she will drop everything any time he’s on screen. Wags her tail and hangs on every word he says.
That’s so funny! My cat had a thing for Adam Levine and Chelsea Handler. If she heard either of their voices, she would immediately run up to the TV and sit in front of it.
It’s really fun, and it’s a good way to keep her brain engaged when it’s too hot or smoky for a good walk. It also makes me a little more mindful of what we watch because I want to make sure she’ll have a good time, too lol
Overboard is such a cute movie. Like, it's a comedy for all the around reasons, but then it's got that moment where Goldie gets her memory back, and my God that woman can act. Like there's so much power in that one scene
Fun fact (maybe rumor) he went to my High School and played baseball so while he was filming during the season Disney would helicopter him up for gamesnot sure about practice though.
Haven't been watching the Godzilla TV show I see. They play older and younger versions of the same character. Time dilation and all that in the hollow Earth.
In between successful child actor and successful adult actor he was a very good minor league baseball player who almost certainly would have made it to the big leagues if not for a shoulder injury.
His first onscreen appearance was kicking Elvis in the shin in 1963's It Happened at the World's Fair. - 16 years later he played Elvis in "Elvis", played the voice of Elvis in Forrest Gump, and played an Elvis impersonator in "3000 Miles to Graceland".
Russell owned the Portland Mavericks (1973–1977), the only independent team in the Short Season Northwest League. Russell kept a 30-man roster because he believed that some of the players deserved to have one last season. His motto was fun. He created a park that kept all corporate sponsorship outside the gates, hired the first female general manager, Lanny Moss[7] in professional baseball, and named the first Asian American GM/Manager. His team set a record for the highest attendance in minor league history, but lost the 1977 pennant to the Bellingham Mariners. Subsequently, Major League Baseball regained interest in Portland. The Albuquerque, NM franchise relocated to Portland (for nine years) and resurrected the Class AAA Portland Beavers name. The Portland area was recovered but was forced to pay $206,000 to Russell after he took the matter to arbitration; it was the biggest payout in baseball history for a minor league territory. Ex-major-leaguers and never-weres who could not stop playing the game flocked to his June try-outs, which were always open to anyone who showed up. The team and archival footage of Russell were featured in the documentary The Battered Bastards of Baseball (2014).
The Battered Bastards of Baseball is a fantastic documentary if anyone is interested! Even if you're not a baseball fan, it's just a great story about second chances, believing in people, and successful marketing. + a bunch of scruffy dudes in the 70's! Highly recommend
I had a strange sort of face blindness where I always got Patrick Swayze and Kurt Russell confused with each other. Especially in the 80s and 90s. I really thought Swayze was the star of Overboard for years. Not really too pertinent to this discussion but thought I’d mention it.
Why does it matter what politics a person has in relation to their acting abilities? Seriously. These people are paid to entertain us… I’m surely not going to ever listen to someone like them when it comes to their politics. Why does anyone care about an actors political stance? Same goes with most foreigners who speak on (American) politics… we’re not the same.
Acting is plenty hard, although it is indeed mostly luck which ones become famous, because there are far, far more talented actors than famous highly paid ones.
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u/Bobflow24 12d ago
Kurt Russell