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andy-hughes | 09:17 Wed 20th Jan 2016 | Film, Media & TV
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As the BBC trumpets about the re-tread of its Cold Feet series, does anyone agree with me that James Nesbitt is a titanically lousy actor with the range of a paper clip?
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I agree with you andy, he's right up there next to Sean Bean ;)

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//he's right up there next to Sean Bean //

Sean Bean is fine - as long as the part he's playing is "man from sheffield"...
Some mistake surely?
Cold feet was ITV
Count me as a fan of James as much as anything because I was at school with him :-)
Lol mushroom!....bang on there ;)

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There's nowt wrong with men from Sheffield :-)
I think both him and Sean Bean are good actors.
I like James Nesbitt. My lousy actor award goes to Stephen Tomkinson, sounds the same whatever the role calls for and has a very limited range of facial expressions, a frown to show he's angry and a smile to show he's not.
I like him.
//a very limited range of facial expressions, a frown to show he's angry and a smile to show he's not. //

as limited as Jimmy Nail?

Mr Nail's character is happy. Baleful glare.
Mr Nail's character is sad. Baleful glare
Mr Nail's character is perplexed. Baleful glare.
etc.....
I think Jimmy Naill is a good actor too, if you want a bad actor, look no further than Ken Barlow in Corrie !!
James Nesbitt always plays James Nesbitt.
Two other actors with zero powers of transformation: the Scottish actor Bill Paterson - he's always just Bill Paterson, as is the Yorkshire actor Paul Copley, but they both gets lots of work! Neither can do any accent that is not their own.
There are many actors who only appear in one sort of role.
All it means is that they are not Laurence Oliver.
There is a lot more to acting than being able to adopt different persona.
I can do the latter but I could never act :-)
Maybe those actors can play totally different roles but are never given the chance to - typecast.
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hc4361 - //Maybe those actors can play totally different roles but are never given the chance to - typecast. //

I don't think that's true.

Look at the undisputed emperor of one-dimensional acting, Sean Connery, and the variety of roles he has played - a secret agent, a medieval king, a dragon, an Irish cop (he got an Oscar for that!), a Russian submarine captain ... and he is exactly and precisely the same in every single one of them!
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ichkeria - //There is a lot more to acting than being able to adopt different persona. //

There is, but it is still a fundamental principle of the craft.

Acting - by definition, means playing a part, and if you are playing yourself, you are not playing a part.

So at one extreme you have Nesbitt, Caine and Connery, and at the other you have people like Johnny Depp and Leonardo Dicaprio, and let's never underestimate Paul Whithouse - whom Johnny Depp rates as one of the best character actors in the world - and he would know.
What is particularly annoying about James Nesbitt is how fantastically pleased with himself he is - especially since he had his hair transplant!
there is another bread dead character in Casualty is it "Charlie" - Derek Thompson think is is real name. Just stares into space - he is the last man standing in Casualty too.
I liked Nesbitt in Murphy's Law
How do you know James Nesbitt is playing himself?
Just because you always seem to see him in the same role?
Like I say, Laurence Olivier he is not, but he is still acting.

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