{"id":37009,"date":"2013-07-19T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=37009"},"modified":"2014-07-12T09:45:32","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T13:45:32","slug":"whos-your-favorite-paycheck-actor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=37009","title":{"rendered":"Who’s Your Favorite “Paycheck” Actor?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Often referred to as one of the greatest actors of his (or perhaps any) generation, Robert De Niro<\/a> has taken a lot of heat for the kinds of roles he has accepted in the last decade-plus of his career; he is often critically branded now as a “paycheck” actor…industry shorthand typically understood to define a once-great performer who trades on their (faded) prestige to obtain fat salaries for overly commercial and undemanding parts, through which they coast without much effort. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Some actors make no apologies for (at least occasionally) indulging in this approach. Michael Caine<\/a> is well known to pad his filmography with such efforts; Klaus Kinski<\/a> openly bragged about taking wads of money to do trash because his name would mean something at the box office. Charles Bronson<\/a>\u00a0understood that this was\u00a0at least part of his identity in the Hollywood economy and saw no shame in it whatsoever…and many of his fans would stick up for Bronson’s self-knowledge and work ethic.<\/p>\n

Irv has his own favorite “paycheck” actor. Who is it…and what movie does he use to justify his pick? The\u00a0choice of actor\u00a0I totally get; the movie? Hoo-boy, I did not see this one coming:<\/p>\n