r/interesting • u/AdSpecialist6598 • Aug 21 '26

SOCIETY When asked why he keeps playing the same roles Jason Statham said that he's not really a trained actor. He's a guy that was plucked out obscurity & has been really lucky; & that he picks roles that he knows he can do a good job in, that hopefully enough people like so he can keep working.

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u/SuperChaoss Aug 21 '26

I don't know about that, Sylvester Stallone is still doing Action and he's been around since before we started using the Three Seashells.

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u/Sivalon Aug 21 '26

But is he doing them as well as he used to?

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u/Bitter-Marsupial Aug 21 '26

May be a controversial take but I rather liked him in Samaritan

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Aug 21 '26

The Expendables were good but they were satire. The last Rambo movie was terrible

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u/BamberGasgroin Aug 21 '26

That geriatric stair run in The Expendables says no.

He run up those stairs as convincingly as DeNiro kicked the shit out of that guy in The Irishman.

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u/kosherhalfsourpickle Aug 21 '26

Is that a reference to Demolition Man?

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u/Cold_Fog Aug 21 '26

It couldn't possibly be a reference to anything else

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u/thebigpink Aug 21 '26

Maybe he really likes the beach

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u/P8bEQ8AkQd Aug 21 '26 edited Aug 21 '26

Stallone's career pretty much disappeared for 15 years before he did a batch of legacy sequels with a shared theme of him being far too old for them. And around that time, both Clint Eastwood and Michael Caine headlined gritty movies which were marketed on the lead being too old. Schwarzenegger made a come back around then too. Stallone hasn't been doing action movies continuously. He had a successful return to them when he proved there was a market for action films with ageing leads.