Will Gladiator 2 be his breakout role?
I thought you said Fred Schneider.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 12, 2024 3:48 AM |
Very heterosexual.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 12, 2024 3:50 AM |
I wanted one of the muscly island guys to plow him so bad on White Lotus
by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 12, 2024 3:57 AM |
He looks like he's going full Joaquin Phoenix.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 12, 2024 4:01 AM |
[quote] He looks like he's going full Joaquin Phoenix.
He was apparently directed by Ridley Scott to amp it up beyond what Phoenix did.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 12, 2024 4:03 AM |
Glaaaaaaaaaadiator 2!
by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 12, 2024 4:05 AM |
If he's the emperor Caracalla, and Denzel Washington is his father the previous emperor, Septimius Severus, someone explain to me how someone so dark-skinned could father someone so pale.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | July 12, 2024 4:14 AM |
Costumes and jewellery and Fred were about the only things I liked about that trailer.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | July 12, 2024 4:15 AM |
r7 Have you SEEN Prince Archie of Sussex?!
by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 12, 2024 4:17 AM |
Wait--I got it wrong. Washington is not playing Septimius Severus--he's playing a slave trader.
Never mind.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | July 12, 2024 4:17 AM |
[quote] If he's the emperor Caracalla, and Denzel Washington is his father the previous emperor, Septimius Severus
Denzel doesn't play Septimius Severus.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | July 12, 2024 4:17 AM |
No it won't OP.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | July 12, 2024 4:22 AM |
I was initially bummed out when he replaced Barry Keoghan — who I had just seen and loved in The Banshees of Inisherin.
But Keoghan is so overexposed now, I’m looking forward to seeing Fred’s performance. He was solid in White Lotus.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | July 12, 2024 4:27 AM |
Yes, Barry is everywhere now, let Freddie shine for a bit.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | July 12, 2024 4:28 AM |
No offence to that poster, but it's clear as day from the trailer that Denzel isn't playing the emperor. He would be up there with his sons watching the games if that were the case. And that's just for starters, he definitely wouldn't be speaking to a gladiator the way we see him interacting with Mescal.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | July 12, 2024 4:31 AM |
He has a nice ass.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | July 12, 2024 4:32 AM |
That last name is terrible but heck that didn't stop Glen Powell.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | July 12, 2024 4:32 AM |
Link please, r16.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | July 12, 2024 4:33 AM |
I haven't seen the trailer, r15.
My apologies for the error--I misrread what had been posted on another thread, and thought someone claimed Washington was playing Septimius Severus. But I was wrong.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | July 12, 2024 4:34 AM |
He was just in the June Squibb movie Thelma, playing her grandson. Much like The White Lotus, he has a role that could be really annoying but he makes it work anyway.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | July 12, 2024 4:34 AM |
He's named after his grandfather who was a longtime editor at The New York Times.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | July 12, 2024 4:37 AM |
[quote] He's named after his grandfather who was a longtime editor at The New York Times.
Nepo baby.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | July 12, 2024 4:41 AM |
Are those zits?
by Anonymous | reply 23 | July 12, 2024 4:43 AM |
Fake zits. Roman emperors did not have the healthiest habits.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | July 12, 2024 4:45 AM |
R22: Wow he still hasn't broken out even with the nepo baby privilege.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | July 12, 2024 4:48 AM |
Fred is only 24. He got a lot of praise for White Lotus.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | July 12, 2024 4:49 AM |
[quote] He got a lot of praise for White Lotus.
From whom?
by Anonymous | reply 27 | July 12, 2024 4:51 AM |
He grew up on the Upper West Side and attended Saint Ann's School, where his classmates included fellow actors Lucas Hedges and Maya Hawke. Hechinger was a teen reporter and studied at Upright Citizens Brigade. He is Jewish.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | July 12, 2024 4:53 AM |
Nepo baby!!!
by Anonymous | reply 29 | July 12, 2024 4:53 AM |
Gays noticed him because of his nude scenes.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | July 12, 2024 4:54 AM |
[quote] From whom?
From wikipedia, at least:
[quote] Hechinger's breakout role came in his performance as Quinn Mossbacher in the first season of HBO's The White Lotus, which was released in the same year.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | July 12, 2024 5:09 AM |
If the definition of a nepo baby actor includes someone whose grandpa was the education editor of the New York Times, the term has lost all meaning.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | July 12, 2024 5:18 AM |
Get real R32. The likelihood of someone being an editor at the most prestigious news organization in the country and their spawn becoming an A-list actor is akin to winning the lottery during a full moon while plucking a four-leaf clover.
These people mingle in elite circles and pass their privilege between each other. So go ahead and be naive and pretend there’s zero connection. This kid is a nepo baby as much as Anderson Cooper is.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | July 12, 2024 5:25 AM |
He would not have gotten to where he has without his connections, looking the way he looks. And that's coming from someone who's a fan.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | July 12, 2024 5:49 AM |
Ugly nepo baby.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | July 12, 2024 5:52 AM |
He's better looking than Barry Keoghan.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | July 12, 2024 5:56 AM |
[quote] He's better looking than Barry Keoghan.
Not a very high bar.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | July 12, 2024 5:59 AM |
[quote] He's better looking than Barry Keoghan.
A lower bar could not be stated.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | July 12, 2024 6:01 AM |
R37 Ha!
by Anonymous | reply 39 | July 12, 2024 6:01 AM |
We need a Hadrian movie already, Jews be damned.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | July 12, 2024 6:04 AM |
Fred is just as good looking as his co-star Joseph Quinn.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | July 12, 2024 6:09 AM |
Caracalla was likely gay. He preferred spending time with soldiers and let his mother handle the affairs of state. Caracalla often wore a blond wig to emulate Alexander the Great whom he was obsessed with.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | July 12, 2024 6:33 AM |
Nepo babies get in the door but if the public isn’t interested in them then they’re just not interested.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | July 12, 2024 1:36 PM |
I thought this was Cynthia Nixon.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | July 12, 2024 3:12 PM |
He’s ugly and has no talent. No.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | July 12, 2024 3:30 PM |
Hideous!!!
by Anonymous | reply 47 | July 12, 2024 3:38 PM |
[quote] This kid is a nepo baby as much as Anderson Cooper is.
Having a grandfather who was the NY education editor of the Times is nowhere [bold]even close[/bold] to being the son of a Vanderbilt who had been a worldwide celebrity since she was a small girl.
Stop ridiculously exaggerating. I am embarrassed for you.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | July 12, 2024 5:05 PM |
[quote] I thought this was Cynthia Nixon.
I wondered why I was getting moist just looking at that picture!
by Anonymous | reply 49 | July 12, 2024 5:06 PM |
...let’s get rid of this so-called New Hollywood and just let all the folks at home know, if you want to make movies too, you are in. It doesn’t matter if you’re new or old, Hollywood or not. If you wish to be a part of it, then welcome.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | July 12, 2024 6:02 PM |
Pardon me, I was so turned on by that photo at OP I forgot who I was at r49 and misidentified myself!
by Anonymous | reply 51 | July 12, 2024 6:13 PM |
DL loves straight white boys.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | July 12, 2024 11:46 PM |
R52 So do most straight white women, you bitter LSA femcel.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | July 13, 2024 2:01 AM |
GURLEEN
by Anonymous | reply 54 | July 13, 2024 2:10 AM |
I worked with his mother at one time and she was always pleasant and completely professional. I’m guessing he has his head screwed on straight going by what his mom was like.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | July 13, 2024 2:28 AM |
Crazy Roman emperors always worked well for actor. Peter Ustinov won an Oscar as Nero, Jay Robinson won accolades as Caligula and then there are all those others including Joaquin in Gladiator.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | July 13, 2024 2:33 AM |
bump
by Anonymous | reply 57 | July 14, 2024 5:40 AM |
He bears an uncanny resemblance to Chloe Sevigny.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | July 24, 2024 5:57 AM |
NO
by Anonymous | reply 59 | July 24, 2024 6:03 AM |
No on Gladiator 2 being his breakout role, or no on him resembling Chloë Sevigny? Or both?
by Anonymous | reply 60 | July 24, 2024 6:22 AM |
bump
by Anonymous | reply 61 | August 23, 2024 7:33 PM |
Flop.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | August 23, 2024 7:37 PM |
This ordinary schlemiel? Break-out into what?? Not leading-man roles, not stardom.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | August 23, 2024 8:27 PM |
Did people actually look like that back then? It feels like filmmakers are a bit over the top with it. "This person is meant to be weird and evil, so let's make them look really pale and weird so the audience figures it out!"
by Anonymous | reply 64 | August 23, 2024 8:58 PM |
The real Caracalla clearly enjoyed a fixted cheeseburger.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | August 23, 2024 9:03 PM |
"In 202, Caracalla was forced to marry the daughter of Gaius Fulvius Plautianus, Fulvia Plautilla, a woman whom he hated, though for what reason is unknown."
by Anonymous | reply 66 | August 23, 2024 9:04 PM |
[quote] though for what reason is unknown
For reasons well known to her!
by Anonymous | reply 67 | August 23, 2024 9:12 PM |
Caracalla was the original DLer.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | August 23, 2024 9:16 PM |
This movie looks like a hate crime.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | August 23, 2024 9:18 PM |
Elagabalus Was the original DLer. Same dynasty.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | August 23, 2024 9:24 PM |
I didn't think I could like Fred Hechinger anymore after White Lotus but seeing him in the June Squibb movie Thelma, I really fell head over heels in love. I can't imagine anyone not adoring that performance. The movie isn't great, but June and Fred make for a spectacular duo.
He's not a leading man type but he's a wonderful young character actor with a great future. And his quirky sex appeal may not be evident in photos but certainly is on film.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | August 23, 2024 9:35 PM |