Actors and actresses who are too intense

coco peru

Joan Crawford

You Rang.

Vanessa Redgrave

Tilda Swinton

Rod Fucking Steiger

Jack Fucking Palance

Fucking Anne Fucking Baxter

Larry "Mannered And Proud Beyond The Orbit Of Uranus" Olivier

Kirk Douglas

Jack Black is always way over the top.

Lowkey Robin Williams. (RIP miss his talent like crazy)

Angela Bassett owns this thread.!

Al Pacino

Christian Bale

Zero Mostel

Paul Giamatti

Richard Harris

Will Smith

Kenneth Branaugh

CNN's Clarissa Ward

Melania Trump

Viola turns a simple greeting in a scene into Ophelia's mad scene playing to the highest rafters.

Mary Stuart Masterson

Judd Hirsch

I don’t think of Vanessa Redgrave or Miranda Richardson as overly intense. In fact, they’ve both done lovely subtle roles (Howard’s End, Enchanted April).

Sterling K. Brown. Just saw AMERICAN FICTION and he's on 100 decibels while everyone else is more relaxed inhabiting their roles. He's one of those actors who has to "win" every scene he's in.

I find Andrew Scott a bit much sometimes, but that's mostly when he does stage work (his performance in Noel Coward's PRESENT LAUGHTER was overly neurotic and completely unfunny).

Raul Esparza is another.

Andrew Scott, David Tennant, and Michael Sheen

Helena Bonham Carter. Gary Oldman. Tim Roth. Denzel (sometimes).

Carol Channing

Ethel Merman

Judith Light should lighten up.

Marlee Matlin. It’s like she just doesn’t hear the director or something.

Alan Kim

Mark Ruffalo has his moments.

Mel Gibson

[quote]Kirk Douglas

Yes, R5!

Just yesterday I watched him in [italic]Detective Story,[/italic] and he was absolutely fucking terrifying. Normally I don't say or think this, but I felt that performance was a little too real to be just acting.

Avery Brooks may well be too intense on a personal level and in interviews, but he was fantastic in DS9, so who the fuck cares?

I couldn't watch DS9 because Avery Brooks was just much too much as Commander Sisko. He was as psycho-intensive nattering endlessly about baseball as he was talking about his wife dying. He had no "down" mode.

Glenn Close

Nicol Williamson.

Joaquin.

R36 lol 😂 Watching Napoleon at this very moment. His performance is giving me 21st scene chewing Mommy Dearest vibes.

Jeremy Strong.

No other actors can even stand to work with him.

r36, I'm watching "Napoleon" right now and I agree with you 100% about Joaquin. He gets no joy from anything, even crowning himself emperor of the French. It's just all crazy concentration and intensity. he even inspires Vanesa Kirby to be joyless as Josephine.

Tommy Lee Jones.

Michael Sheen? I don’t get that at all.

R41 really?

Ok, I’ll give you that, R42.

Timothee. Too intensely bland and ugly.

R8=JLC polishing her Oscar

Angela Lansbury

Peter Falk

Jane Fonda

Leslie Jordan

Tom

Muthafuckin

Cruise

Samuel L. Jackson. At least he *used* to be (haven't seen the Marvel stuff) but he seems to have mellowed with age. Guy built an entire career out of screaming over a cheeseburger.

Also, David Caruso.