As we all know, Marvel's casting system has always been accurate and interesting, from the once-popular "Iron Man" Robert Downey Jr., the half-red "Captain America" Chris Evans, the unassuming "Hulk" Mark Ruffalo, to the low-profile "Star Lord" Chris Pratt, they can always choose the most suitable actor with a unique vision. So, when Paul Luther, an old man born in 1969, snatched the male protagonist of "Ant-Man" from "Lutherf", people were no longer surprised.
Stills from Ant-Man. Image from the web
This superhero that is the least like a superhero in history is a thief who robs the rich and the poor, he does not have the super ability to crush vigorously, he can only wear a tight suit and fight with the bad guys with small and broad wits, while not forgetting to ridicule the Titanic, iPhone Siri and other familiar things, like a funny friend who can talk and laugh with you. No wonder many people shout: I have never seen such a contrasting superhero!
Paul Luther, who can produce such comedic energy, comes from the former Hollywood bad boys and has been mixed up in various comedies for many years, and even he himself joked: I walk on the street, and I never have to worry about getting sauce on my body when eating hot dogs, because no one recognizes me at all. 」 But paul is afraid that he will never eat a hot dog on the street again.
A handsome face is always buried by "sloppiness"
Many people go to the theater to see "Ant-Man" and exclaim that Paul Luther is so handsome! Yes, Paul, who has been buried in Hollywood for many years, in order to create comedic effects, often stands up with a big belly, sticks to a beard, and appears in front of the audience sloppily, burying a handsome face. In fact, in addition to his height of 175cm, which is a bit short in Hollywood where macho men gather, he is really a beautiful man with a pair of aqua blue eyes.
Stills from "Ace Announcer". Image from the web
Elizabeth Banks, a good friend who has worked with Paul many times, said: "From the day we met, I thought dear Paul could only eat by the face. "The Ace Announcer" actor Will Farrell also did not like Paul because he was too handsome, "Paul's appearance is actually not suitable for comedy, so we specially added a funny beard to him to make him look less stereotypical." As for "Friends" "Phoebe" Lisa Cudjo, she has repeatedly "regretted" claiming: "If only Paul looked a little more ugly!" However, Paul, who has a well-behaved male face with more than enough Peugeot and insufficient characteristics, is not very conspicuous in hollywood, but he has cultivated a unique skill over the years.
High-energy school bullies have also "hated" Hollywood
The high-value Paul is actually still a bully, and he is an authentic class in acting, and has never experienced the bitter past of many stars who went to New York to rent a house to audition alone. Because he was a cute and well-behaved boy with blue eyes and handsome eyes, and even a few points better looking than his sister, he naturally embarked on the path of acting: first at the University of Kansas, then at the American Academy of Performing Arts in Los Angeles, and then at the British Academy of Drama at Oxford University.
Paul Luther. Image from the web
However, the actor from the academy did not like Hollywood at first, "Here, no one cares about your acting skills, and those who do not have the skills of drama are inexplicably popular." Like many high-calibre British actors, he dedicated his most tender years to the tall British theatre stage: the poet Shelley in The Universal Theatre's Poem of Weeping Blood, and Hamlet in Oscar-winning Ben Kingsley's Revenge of the Prince. After returning to the United States, it is still a combination of film and television drama and stage performance. In 1997, Broadway brought Alfred Yuri's "The Last Night of Balihu" to the stage, and Paul successfully starred in the play. In 1998, he collaborated with Helen Hunt on Shakespeare's Twelve Nights, starring in the main role of the Duke of Ossino, whose performance was recognized by critics.
There is no bottom line for letting go of the "fall" of the body
If you search for "Paul Luther" on Google, you will instantly get a bunch of unruly funny pictures that make people subvert the three views. Paul, who is proud on the theatrical stage, may not have thought that he would "degenerate" to mix with Hollywood bad boys in the future, but once he made up his mind, Paul could immediately put down his body and "degenerate" completely. Beginning in 2008, Paul starred in various unbridled sitcoms on Saturday Night Live, the longest-lived show in the United States (which aired in October 1975). The show has come out of the big names like Will Farrell, Adam Sandler, Eddie Murphy, and almost all the stars you know or don't know have shown the lower limit here... Paul even hosted three episodes of "Saturday Night Live", and he followed the style of the show with dedication, and the scene was full of wild and undisciplined exercises.
Jack Blake, a pie-faced man, once said at the Oscars, "The greatest tragedy of a comedian is that no matter how much you toss and turn, you can't get into the room." Paul, who is at ease between comedy and drama, is an exception. Over the years, not only has his theatrical stage prowess proven him to be a "high-class" comedian, but Golden Raspberry has never troubled Paul. In 2011, he starred as an isolated forest worker in David Gordon Green's "The Avalanche Prince," which made it to the main competition section of the Berlin International Film Festival, which the Berlin magazine commented: "The film is funny enough, but it is definitely not a popular comedy, and Paul's theatrical talent has been shown like never before." In 2012, he starred in the comedy "Forty and Confused", which also earned him a nomination for Best Actor in a Comedy at the American Critics' Choice Film Award.
Stills from Forty and Confused. Image from the web
What you don't know about Paul Luther
1) Paul's parents were both English Jews and of Polish and French descent. The family moved frequently because of his father's aviation-related job (who later became a tour guide), paul was born in New Jersey, USA, and has a three-year-old younger sister.
2, "Friends" Phoebe's boyfriend Mike, in fact, Paul's true color starring, he is also a cute guy in life, the American magazine "Entertainment Weekly" even once voted Paul "the cutest movie male star on the planet".
Stills from Friends. Image from the web
3) Jennifer Aniston is not only a noble person in Paul's acting career, but also once his girlfriend. In 2011 Jennifer revealed the incident they had dated.
4) Paul married his girlfriend of five years, Julie Yag, in 2003, and now they have two babies, the eldest son Jack and the youngest daughter Darby. Jack, now ten years old, said after learning that his father would become "Ant-Man": "I am looking forward to seeing how stupid the movie will be!" ”
5. Paul participated in "SWAT New Humanity 2" directed by Chen Musheng in 2000 and starring Chen Guanxi, Feng Delun and Li Canchen, and he and Maggie Q played FBI agents, do you still have an impression of this "black history"?
Stills from SWAT New Humans 2. Image from the web
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Jennifer Aniston
Paul, who has been tepid in Hollywood for many years, has long been a familiar face in China. The "Mike" in "Friends" has a good family, a sense of humor, and plays a good game of table tennis, which not only wins the admiration of Phoebe, who has no certainty and often travels to other planets, but also is rated as "Friends Good Man No.1" by domestic fans. In fact, Paul was fortunate enough to play the role thanks to Jennifer Aniston's recommendation.
Paul, who broke into Hollywood in early 1992, met Aniston, who had not yet become "Rachel", during an audition. The two of them quickly mingled, and Paul also starred in "Sisters" on his suggestion to enter the television industry. However, in the next three years, Aniston became popular with "Friends", and Paul turned to the big screen but suffered three consecutive defeats in "Moonlight, Panic 6", "Passion Black Widow" and "Wok Wok Love", and was completely confused about the future development. In 1997, the enthusiastic Aniston pulled Paul, who was hiding on Broadway, into the set of "Want to Catch the Truth", making him play the cute and funny crooked man George, and also making him an "actor who played against Aniston", in the narrow studio of "Friends" in 2002, Paul felt that "the laughter and whistles of the audience were very terrible, but it deeply stimulated me, which was more exciting than the applause off the stage", and since then he has been determined to take the comedy route.
Judd Apato
In 2003, Paul, who had gained some fame for his cameo appearance in Friends, was photographed by Adam McKay's Ace Announcer. Since then, Paul, a mild-mannered handsome guy, has "hooked up" with the Bad Boys and Judd Apato. In the following decade, Paul starred in a lot of comedies such as "Forty-Year-Old Maid", "One Night Belly", "Forget Sarah Marshall" and so on, but with the comedy stars with Apato as the core, they galloped the comedy world with a terrible frequency of one film and one person, Seth Logan and Jonah Hill have ushered in their own eras, and the more handsome Paul has always been gaging.
In 2009, Paul took on "Looking for the Best Man," which was rumored to have been picked up by Matt Damon, which had a 87 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, far exceeding Luther's expectations and really winning him Apato's attention. The latter then took out his own pressure box bottom script "Forty and Confused" to Paul, in this more despicable comedy than "Looking for the Best Man", not only the lines are unobstructed, but the scale also challenges Luther's psychological bottom line. After the film's release, the film critics of USA Today said: When Ben Stiller went to the museum to play, Paul Luther finally became the most amusing. ”
Edgar Wright
In 2013, as the primary actor of "Ant-Man" that concluded the second phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Ivan McGregor and Paul Luther appeared in front of Edgar Wright at the same time, and Wright did not hesitate to choose the least famous latter: "Paul is more interesting, people need to be happy." Even though Wright later left the group angrily because of "creative disagreements," producer Kevin Feige didn't get angry at Paul at all: "It was a relief for Me to have Paul Luther play Ant-Man. ”
Luther said when signing the film contract: "I seem to see a large group of people approaching me, saying that I am not suitable for Playing Ant-Man, but who is afraid of whom, no one knows how cute this role will be." 」 In order to withstand this kind of fanaticism, he stumbled on the script for several months with Wright and later with the director Peyton Reed, and was so crazy that the costume he had made was too thin to fit his muscles.
Written by Meng Tianxiang
Beijing News Editor Wu Dongni Xu Meilin Proofreader Fu Chunyi
The original report was published in the Beijing News on November 2, 2015