Heroic Inspiration: an acting thread

[ThaOGDreamWeaver]

So: the great heroes and villains of our time tend to have something - or someone - that their performers use as a handle or key to get into the role.

For Hannibal Lecter, Tony Hopkins used lizards and one of his beloved pet cats. (Note how rarely he blinks in the prison scenes.)

Chadwick drew on assorted Shakespearean kings and their actors for the gentle gravitas of T'Challa.

And then... well, there's this guy.

 

Any others that would be good to know about?

[InvaderStych]

Might be more long-form than you're looking for ....

 

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/10/1085780962/patrick-stewart-on-star-trek-picard

 

 

[TheOtherTed]

 

I'm sorry to have posted this barely tangential thing, but I had to get it out of my system.

If it helps, though, Tom Waits is one of my all-time favorite entertainers.  He's the archetype we never knew we needed.

Edited October 17, 2022 by TheOtherTed

[Sakura Tenshi]

Not as sophisticated as the inspirationals you all posted, but I did throw this together based on a character inspiration chart from the FFXIV community.

 

 

And here's a blank version if anyone wants to mess with it themselves.