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According to ComicBookMovie, his character name is Forge Fletcher, and the cast will be joined by I Am Not OK With This actor Sophia Lillis playing a character called Doric.

In recent years, Hugh Grant has played villains in Paddington 2, and The Undoing.

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[Paul Farquhar]

I suspect it's a lazy and half-ass name.

And this is a lazy half-ass insult.

You don't get to be a scriptwriter by being bad at writing. If you are so much better why are you not writing movies?

 

[CapnZapp]

Hugh Grant will be playing the villain in the Chris Pine D&D movie

He can't do worse than Jeremy Irons.

 

[Imaculata]

I'm just saying he's also famous for hiring prostitutes that's all. Nothing more nothing less it's up to you want you think of that.

I'm just saying it is a strange thing to bring up.

 

[Sacrosanct]

Ian McCellen and Christopher Lee were absolutely A-list at the time. John Rhys-Davies was up there. Sean Astin too. Sean Bean, Orlando bloom, and Elijah Wood less so, but they were hardly unknown. Vigo Mortensen was a bit of a left-field pick, but he was also not their first pick (that was Stuart Townsend, who looked like a rising star at the time.)

EDIT: Guess it depends what you mean by “A list.”

No, they weren’t. I’m using the Hollywood definition of A lister (as that’s the only definition I’m aware of). No one in that movie, when it was cast, was considered an A lister. None, simply by virtue of being in that movie, guaranteed a big budget and huge draw just because they were in it. We can look at the work each was in during the previous several years, their roles in that work, and easily verify that.

Again, being a good actor and having been in big movies in the past does not make one an A lister.

 

[Zardnaar]

No, they weren’t. I’m using the Hollywood definition of A lister (as that’s the only definition I’m aware of). No one in that movie, when it was cast, was considered an A lister. None, simply by virtue of being in that movie, guaranteed a big budget and huge draw just because they were in it. We can look at the work each was in during the previous several years, their roles in that work, and easily verify that.

Again, being a good actor and having been in big movies in the past does not make one an A lister.

This when they filmed it they were hanging out in public places.

You could run into Liv Tyler at the beach barefoot or the cast at the local pub. There's even photos of them doing that.

Actual A listers good luck with that.

 

[Imaculata]

No, they weren’t. I’m using the Hollywood definition of A lister (as that’s the only definition I’m aware of). No one in that movie, when it was cast, was considered an A lister. None, simply by virtue of being in that movie, guaranteed a big budget and huge draw just because they were in it. We can look at the work each was in during the previous several years, their roles in that work, and easily verify that.

Again, being a good actor and having been in big movies in the past does not make one an A lister.

Well the Hollywood definition is not the 'true' definition of an A lister.
Yes, I did that on purpose.

Sir Ian McKellen was pretty big at the time. He was Magneto in X-men, which was a pretty big role.
Sir Christopher Lee was already a legend. He was quite famous even before Lord of the Rings.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

This when they filmed it they were hanging out in public places.

You could run into Liv Tyler at the beach barefoot or the cast at the local pub. There's even photos of them doing that.

Actual A listers good luck with that.

It was New Zealand. The is no place on earth more obscure.

 

[Zardnaar]

Well the Hollywood definition is not the 'true' definition of an A lister.
Yes, I did that on purpose.

Sir Ian McKellen was pretty big at the time. He was Magneto in X-men, which was a pretty big role.
Sir Christopher Lee was already a legend. He was quite famous even before Lord of the Rings.

He hasn't been in anything that relevant for years.

You can be famous and not an A lister.

 

[Zardnaar]

It was New Zealand. The is no place on earth more obscure.

Well they film a lot here. It's safe.

When the big stars are here you don't generally meet them in the street though (it happens).

Hugh Jackman fined a scene near my place in Wolverine. He was spotted out and about.

 

[Sacrosanct]

Well the Hollywood definition is not the 'true' definition of an A lister.
Yes, I did that on purpose.

Sir Ian McKellen was pretty big at the time. He was Magneto in X-men, which was a pretty big role.
Sir Christopher Lee was already a legend. He was quite famous even before Lord of the Rings.

Once again, McKellen was cast in LoTR before X-Men was even released. And Christopher Lee was a legend only in certain circles. And again, being famous does not make one an A lister.

I'd even posit that being an A lister doesn't mean squat about acting skills or talent. It's all about who pretty much guarantees the biggest draw and budget just for headlining a movie.