...took even one acting class before he started filming this movie.
Get the facts first - you can distort them later!share
I don't know, but he was fine in this. Reminds me of Neil Diamond in The Jazz Singer. Good enough. Besides, as long as I can look at George I don't care if he's not Laurence Olivier.
shareHe did alright. Great picture.
shareI think he did all right. But I think the movie would have been better if it had started Steve Kanaly from Dallas, and had him lip sync the music of George Strait. George would have still made a ton of money from his music being used.
shareHe played it pretty straight *ba dum tish*
Seriously, though, he was quite wooden where a bit more expression was needed, and stiff where a little more facial fluidity could have been used. His vocal tone was also rather sonorous when delivering his lines where a bit more intonation or inflection could have been used, but overall he really fit the theme of the movie. I think an acting coach could have done wonders because he looked great on-screen and despite his somewhat small stature he had a larger than life personality to make up for it in the movie.
Certainly not one of my favorites, but he was a serviceable, masculine lead for the film. It's interesting because we don't really get personalities like him on the big-screen anymore.