Christian Slater

I’m his age

I had a SUPER crush on him. I find him a good actor still.

was his character on Interview with the Vampire gay?

That’s an old picture.

He’s a right winger.

I hate his voice. It’s very hard to not see the actor in his every role since his voice and face are so distinctive.

Christian and Drew

I didn't give two shits about him until watching him on Mr Robot and then playing gay in King Cobra. I got a new appreciation of him after those roles.

50?? no fucking way he is at least 55.

I found him amusing when he would guest co-host on the today show.

R6, nope, he's fifty, just like me.

When was he a right Winger?

Did he ever get over the need to imitate Jack Nicholson?

He was super popular when he started to make movies and was being touted as the new Jack Nicholson - but when the smoke cleared he was seen as just another B Actor and his once promising career started to fall apart.

Christian Slater in the popular movie Heathers when he was becoming all the rage.

I never understood how he was able to do that nude scene in Name Of The Rose when he was underage. I guess it was another era.

Bump

He dated Christy Turlington during her peak supermodel days.

Botox

Fuck HEathers for popularizing the blowing up a school and shooting the people and all that.

He was hot when he was younger but now he looks so fucking old like Jack Nicholson.

He got fuckin OLd. Old is a State of mind!

It was funny when he was on Conan rambling about jumping a parachute and landing in cindy crawfords speedboat.

He... doesn't look like this anymore.

He.... looks like this.

I'd still hook up with Jack Nicholson over him.

Here's a Hollywood Reporter story describing Slater as the "former chair of the Florida Republican Party."

......

At one time, he was the epitomy of young white guy coolness.

I liked when he was a bleached blonde in Legend of Billy Jean.

Watching him now in the new Betty Broderick series.

R4 Jesus what was Drew thinking with that awful hair color? Drew still can't style herself to save her life.

"I've gotten to know myself over the years, I realized I'm kind of a sweet, sensitive guy, a shy guy"

RED FLAG

Does he still hit on young studs when he's drunk?

I love him, but now that I know he's a Republicunt, I don't like her anymore.

[quote]At one time, he was the epitomy of young white guy coolness.

Oh, DEAR.

Bitch stole my act.

Gap model in 2002!

Love him and kind of forgot about him. Sorry C.

[quote]Slater was born in New York City in 1969, the son of Michael Hawkins (born Thomas Knight Slater), an actor also known as Michael Gainsborough, and Mary Jo Slater (née Lawton), an acting agent turned casting executive and producer. He has a maternal half-brother, Ryan Slater, who also became an actor. His great-uncle was radio personality Bill Slater.

Without his connections, particularly his mother, this clown would have NO career to speak of. A very limited talent who lucked out early on.

I'm not at all surprised to hear of his Repug leanings, like so many other products of extreme privilege who talk of "individual achievement."

How did that pervy director get away with showing his underage bare ass in Name of the Rose?

^There was also a brief shot of his peen shown in that film ad well.

[quote]"I've gotten to know myself over the years, I realized I'm kind of a sweet, sensitive guy, a shy guy"

Not to mention humble!

[quote]Without his connections, particularly his mother, this clown would have NO career to speak of. A very limited talent who lucked out early on.

True. His mother was a big casting agent back in the day, very well-known in the industry.

So no casting couch necessary for Mr. Slater then?

Yeah, he needs to stop with the botox.

Otherwise, he's holding up nicely enough.

Always a good actor and I loved “Pump up the volume”.

I always thought Christy Turlington was slumming with Christian Slater when she could have had any guy, but then she ends up with the very average, boring Guy Ritchie-esque Ed Burns.

I don't know about the Republican connection, but I do know he voted for Obama in 2012.

Hes like a piece of buttered toast that fell on the floor butter side down.

They didn't identify Slater as the former chair of the Florida Republican Party.. The HR was explaining why the waits were so long and quoted a former chair of the Florida Republican Party and gave a link that doesn't work. No mention of Slater's affiliation at all. He's not a Republican.

R28 I love that DL story, it’s one my favourite of the classics. WHET to that twink he was buying drinks and groping at that beach house?

My five-year old self was in love with Will Scarlett in PRINCE OF THIEVES. In love.

Slates is one of my problematic biases. My childhood self has a soft spot for his silly affectations and earnest underacting, though of course my adult self disdains him for throwing women around and acting like an embarrassing closet case.

R40 He does look pretty good for his age. He needs to get himself a decent shaver though

In more candid shots (during live interviews or when not edited for film), he’s got pretty out mannerisms.

R2 the main text of INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE concerns mortality grief and the collapse of the family structure, more than the homoerotic plot everyone bangs on about that was at the most tertiary (especially in the book).

There is undeniably a subtle gay subtext, thought, particularly in the case of Lestat (Cruise’s character) & Daniel Molloy (Slater’s character). Lestat could have chosen anyone for a protégé and a life partner, man or woman; he chose Louis (Brad Pitt’s character), the most beautiful man he could find in all of the country and one who also happened to be grieving a beautiful dead wife and their child (I.e., not actively seeking heterosexual love or family, as he is mourning one already lost). Lestat is shown several time to have demonstrably sexual or romantic feelings toward Louis, trying constantly to draw him in to seductions and peccadilloes and at the same anxious to make the younger vampire happy.

Of course, this is an unrequited and thwarted gay relationship, culminating in wastage and a miserable lonely old age for Lestat. In the final scene of the film, after Louis refuses to turn a depressed and possibly sexually-conflicted Daniel into a vampire, a withered and ill but still desirous Lestat who has been stalking their meetings gladly steps in to do the honours instead (and it’s a very gay scene indeed). Our closing minutes show two men locked in a rapturous embrace flying the sky, connecting in an intimate visceral way (Lestat bites him, and it looks like a savage kiss on the neck).

Bear in mind too that, originally, Slater’s role as Daniel was intended to go to first choice River Phoenix (who sadly died before shooting began), an actor well-beloved by the gay community for his commitment to a role in Gus Van Sant’s MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO and now thought to be bisexual.

I used to beat off all the time to his nude scene in The Name of the Rose. The movie was a bore but he was in his prime.

Was he related to Helen Slater? WHET her?

No relation to Helen.

I'm his age and yes, he was the GenX crush we all had

Yes.

R54 me too, I'm a little older but not by much

His scenes in KING COBRA - even the sexual ones - were all just miserable, cold, and a little bit heart-breaking. It's a hard film to watch.

The moment with the face-mask makes me think of Datalounge, every time.

Apparently Christian was in mind of Mama Rose while he played his role in KING COBRA. Would a straight man do that?

[quote] An unexpected reference point was in the actor’s head while on the set. “Always in the back of my mind, there was Gypsy,” Slater says of the 1959 musical about a striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee and her show business mother, immortalized by Ethel Merman’s performance in the lead role and her famous rendition of the production’s most well-known tune, Everything’s Coming Up Roses. “My mother was a huge fan of Ethel Merman and that musical especially — and so I kept that as an underlying theme in my head,” Slater says. “And it slipped out a couple of times. I just found out that there’s an outtake now where I did a full-on Ethel Merman impression.” “We had to swap it out,” director Kelly adds, “because the song rights were out of our reach.” “Maybe it’ll be on the bonus reel,” Slater says. “That was full-on improv. It was during a take that wasn’t really meant to be used, but when we were doing one of the driving scenes, Garrett and I were just goofing around in the car. And I had that song somewhere, easily accessible, in my brain. And really, I felt like Mama Rose and he felt like Gypsy Rose Lee. And I was excited and he was my star. So I was just like, oh well, “You’ll be swell, you’ll be great! Gonna have the whole world on a plate!”

I’m his age and never understood why he was considered so hot. He did some interesting work but kind of always played the same character. Hence the Nicholson comparisons.

Strange that after he finished filming "The Name of the Rose" - he would accept a 4 episode day player part on "All My Children"

He has some homoerotic scenes with Peter Bergman as they have to "hold" one another as Christian's character is getting sicker and sicker

[quote]Helen Slater...what happened to her?

I just created a thread about her.

[quote]Strange that after he finished filming "The Name of the Rose" - he would accept a 4 episode day player part on "All My Children"

I believe that his mother, famed casting director Mary Jo Slater, used to cast for AMC. She probably helped him land the gig.

R49 examples?

[quote]Here's a Hollywood Reporter story describing Slater as the "former chair of the Florida Republican Party."

Jeez, R22, you have a problem reading for content. The story quotes the former chair when talking about the Repugs decreasing the advance voting period to suppress votes, it doesn't at all say Slater was the former chair.

[quote]Strange that after he finished filming "The Name of the Rose" - he would accept a 4 episode day player part on "All My Children"

He was an actor and needed the job. What, he's supposed to sit around hoping another movie was coming?

His mother did the casting on AMC.

If my memory serves he did date someone Asian for over 10 years....you know what that means on DL!

He was very sexy back in the day.

meh...

[quote]His mother did the casting on AMC.

Exactly but R60 was saying he was slumming already after making just one movie.

His character on AMC was alleged to have a cyst on the lung, but the way it was handled implied it was pleurisy. I didn’t get that.

Anyone else notice Slater delivers all his lines the same way in everything, and always uses the same accent and verbal tics? He always tacks “uh?” on the end of his sentences. Does anyone else speak like that? It’s not a typical NYC accent.

R67 I don’t know what you mean by that.

Christian Slater is from Manhattan and grew up affluent. So he doesn't have an NYC accent which is traditionally working class or first- to second-generation immigrant thing. He speaks in an overly stylized way probably to make himself stick out. He said to have been influenced by Jack Nicholson.

I was just going to say that he does his best Nicholson in every role, which he did to most notable effect in Heathers.

Christian's mother (Mary Jo Slater) was the casting director for One Life To Live

At the time Christian was on All My Children, the casting director was Joan D'Incecco

He is not a Republican and never was.

James Franco acted on General Hospital as a regular character 2009-2012 years after he was well-known and had a successful film career.

who. r77?

^^It may be winter outside, but it's now a hundred degrees in the shade where R77 is standing...

R79 what?

I remember he dated Tamara Mellon for a while. They likely had some habits in common.

[quote]James Franco

He used to be a DL fave.... oh James, you big dumbass. : (