For me, This is the kind of performance that feels less like a script and more like a private piece of real life caught on camera. I keep returning to this clip because the weight of it feels far too real for a scripted performance.This is the peak of absolute acting because it stops being a show and starts being a lived experience.
What is the one performance that made you stop breathing for a second because it felt too honest?
by CaterpillarAgile9370
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Tommy’s eyes as he takes it in also sells the outrage
I love peaky blinders
Matthew McConaughey’s docking scene in Interstellar. Coop was locked in
The Immortal Man was shit. So disappointing.
It was fucking biblical, mate.
Well said Alfie, well said.
Missed the best bit.
This one is right up there for me
Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon
His performance is a work of overpowering, breathtaking genius. He’s electric, a live wire who imbues Sonny with humor, vulnerability, and essential decency. He’s also staggeringly beautiful ..
Tom Hardy sold the show for me xD
I mean all actors did a amazing job, but every single time Tom Hardy was on screen, I was fully locked in because his character was my favorite
…and then after this he says “I did not know about your boy though” and Tommy says “I know… I saw”
10/10 acting
His performance, specifically in the video shown, was partly off-script. It even gave Cillian Murphy a shock as he wasn’t expecting it. I think it’s the part where he said “How many fathers..right.. how many *sons* yeah.. have cut, killed, murdered, butchered..” was entirely off-script.
Peak acting. Can never hate a Tom Hardy film.
Damn…. This is the same guy playing Eddie Brock
I like to imagine that look on Cillians face isn’t just how he’s supposed to act….i feel like it’s him really taking in the moment of how incredibly potent Tom’s emotions and delivery are…like he knows he’s watching a top tier oscar level winning performance right in front of his face. Blown away by it.
Hardy can turn on menacing presence at will
This is the opposite actually but Youtuber Dan Olson has a section in his video about The Angry Video Game Nerd where he talks about how hard it is to get mad on camera, and to make the joke mad he tries to deliver the lines as angry as he can, but even with that shield of irony he *still* pulls the punch, he’s still not fully committing and you can tell, and he knows it. The “instinct of self-preservation” he talks about wins, and he leaves one toe grounded, one part of himself visibly admitting it isn’t real.
It’s worth watching. Excuse the complicated shot that has a more explicable setup than you’d think jumping in like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3gZOt1Lo4A&t=1434s
Point being, getting enraged for a movie is scarcely easier than for a youtube video, and yet, Tom Hardy is showing no inkling of reservation, no hint of hesitation beyond what the character allows. He’s brilliant.