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Why Hollywood won't cast Warren Beatty anymore

posted 6 years ago by TMC-4 (19411)
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Warren Beatty is among the handful of living actors we could call a screen legend. The man born Henry Beaty (and the younger brother of Shirley MacLaine) has been a silver-screen idol for more than 50 years, starring in classic movies such as Bonnie and Clyde, Shampoo, Bugsy, Heaven Can Wait, Dick Tracy, and more. He's also a writer, director, and producer, notably wearing all of those hats to make the 1981 epic Reds, which somehow won a slew of Oscars despite being a sympathetic story about Communism released at the peak of the Cold War.

Beatty consistently made and starred in films up through the late '90s, but his output started to slow a bit after the 1998 release of Bulworth. He's a family man now, putting aside his legendary showbiz Casanova status in 1992 to marry Annette Bening and raise four kids. (Although perhaps you saw Beatty at the 2017 Academy Awards accidentally awarding best picture to La La Land.) Here are a few reasons why it seems like Hollywood won't cast Warren Beatty anymore.

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[–] bigbadwolf666 (4707) 6 years ago

Thats stupid. They still cast him. If he isnt casted is because he damn well doesnt want to!

[–] TMC-4 (19411) 4 years ago

https://www.datalounge.com/thread/25820084-warren-beatty-shirley-maclaine

I enjoy Shirley much more, far better actor. I find that Warren ruins movies for me, he's so sleazy. He has the most stereotypical Baby Boomer-esque “I own the world, I want pussy” attitude. Bulworth and Bonnie & Clyde are the only things I ever enjoyed him in. He has a rather unimpressive filmography, he was the type who’s ego was too big and he only took on “passion projects” and made a film every 4-8 years. Town & Country is an abomination and still one of the biggest box office bombs of all time. Shirley has Steel Magnolias and I love The Evening Star.

—Anonymous
reply 17 03/28/2020

[–] slimone (7996) 5 years ago

He was great in Bonnie and Clyde and Splendor in the Grass.

[–] TMC-4 (19411) 4 years ago

https://www.datalounge.com/thread/17914881-warren-beatty-s-comeback-film-sucks

He was very pretty in his youth, but he could never act for shit. He was the pre-Clooney George Clooney, better known as a powerful player with a well-publicized "love" life than as an actor.

It's true if you look at his old films, which were so praised at the time, most of them were shit and are unwatchable today.

—Anonymous
reply 32 11/20/2016

Clooney is a much better actor.

His acting in Shamppo was the same in Heaven Can Wait: a pretty boy who mumbles and fumbles.

—Anonymous
reply 35 11/20/2016

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Maybe because he's in his 80s and doesn't feel like acting anymore...?

[–] TMC-4 (19411) 4 years ago

https://www.datalounge.com/thread/26705464-why-did-warren-beatty%E2%80%98s-career-go-right-down-the-shitter-

Beatty was never very productive, and even in his peak years during the seventies he only did seven films. His dithering over projects only got worse as he got older, so he was never going to let himself be rediscovered by audiences. Even Redford did a Marvel movie, so it could have happened.

In comparison, his sister never really left the public eye. In Her Shoes and Bernie weren’t classics, but they were at least something (both have strangely devoted followings, which I don’t quite understand even though I like both films). And even though no one liked her on Downton Abbey, it was still a star turn on a popular show,

—Anonymous
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