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| Fran |
Date: Friday, 22-Aug-14, 10:34 AM | Message # 361 |
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I've got a bit of a soft spot for both Paul Newman & Robert Redford, love 'The Sting' and also 'Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid'. I've read articles where Simon's looks have been compared to Steve McQueen, but I've always thought he looked more similar to Robert Redford, particularly the boyish cheeky look. |
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| AgentM |
Date: Friday, 22-Aug-14, 11:40 AM | Message # 362 |
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Quote Fran (  ) I've always thought he looked more similar to Robert Redford, particularly the boyish cheeky look.
I've often made the same connection, Fran. They do have a lot of expressions in common sometimes. lol, I've often thought about what it would be like if they were in a movie together - maybe a comedy of sorts as father and son! Maybe I should get writing...  |
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| Hayseed |
Date: Friday, 22-Aug-14, 4:42 PM | Message # 363 |
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Oh, please don't get me started on Redford - I can't stop. So many movies I love. Jeremiah Johnson is my absolute favorite of his as an actor, but The Sting and Butch Cassidy and Brubaker and All the President's Men and The Way We Were....oh, and another one that really floats my boat, The Electric Horseman. I enjoyed All is Lost recently - a movie that did not get promoted but should have landed Redford an Oscar nomination, IMO. Not many people can hold the screen for that long. The showing I saw, you could have heard a pin drop.
Not only do Redford and Baker have similar "coloring" but they both have an understated style, which I love, and yeah, that mischievous grin. No scenery chewing. I do think Baker is perhaps the better actor, although Redford achieved more box office success. That may have been more due to the era than anything else - there were many more feature film dramas made back in the 70's and 80's.
As much as I love Redford on screen, I think he really found his calling as a director. Ordinary People is one of the best movies ever, IMO, and Quiz Show and River Runs Through It were excellent also. Perhaps Baker will do so as well. They're both intelligent, thoughtful men who have their ducks in a row.
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| kim |
Date: Friday, 22-Aug-14, 4:59 PM | Message # 364 |
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I looked in the gallery and this is the photo that reminds me the most of Redford. http://thebakerboy.ucoz.com/photo....-0-1524
I did have the pleasure once of meeting Mr. Redford when he spent some time in Nebraska with his son. He was a consummate gentleman. |
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| June |
Date: Friday, 22-Aug-14, 5:16 PM | Message # 365 |
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Yes, Simon has been also compared with Steve McQueen. I like McQueen, he was a very good actor but he represented a sort of tough guy, without the vulnerability, complexity that Simon is able to show in his works. And he didn't have the adorable childish charm that Simon has. If I had to compare him with any other actor, it would be with Paul Newman or Robert Redford, and Cary Grant. I saw recently "Charade" and I could see easily Patrick Jane. |
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| Hayseed |
Date: Friday, 22-Aug-14, 6:11 PM | Message # 366 |
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Lucky you, kim!
This scene in Flame Red was always one where I thought Baker looked a lot like Redford. The plaid shirt helped, no doubt.
http://tvscreencaps.smallvilleph.com/display....y_media |
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| AgentM |
Date: Friday, 22-Aug-14, 9:54 PM | Message # 367 |
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Yeah, Hayseed, that's exactly the scene I was thinking of when comparing the two of them.  |
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| DS_Pallas |
Date: Monday, 25-Aug-14, 10:29 PM | Message # 368 |
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That is funny 
"The Mentalist 's secret to success: Simon Baker blesses the actors before each take."
#BTS #RedMoon
Source: https://twitter.com/simonbakersmile/status/503999453360295936/photo/1 |
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| syriana13 |
Date: Monday, 25-Aug-14, 11:13 PM | Message # 369 |
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The photo is already in the gallery with the comment thanks to Fran
but this by the same source I didn't see
source https://www.facebook.com/richard....&type=3
thanks https://twitter.com/simonbakersmile/status/504000078072537088 |
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| Ivana |
Date: Tuesday, 26-Aug-14, 0:05 AM | Message # 370 |
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Forbes - The Highest-Paid TV Actors Of 2014
http://www.forbes.com/picture....=social
Simon Baker
$13 million
We should have seen this one coming: The Australian actor is back on FORBES’ list this year for his work on The Mentalist, while securing lucrative endorsement deals with luxury brands like Givenchy and Longines. |
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| beautyfulbabyboy |
Date: Tuesday, 26-Aug-14, 10:42 PM | Message # 371 |
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found these BTS-pics with Simon on twitter, different sources:
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| kim |
Date: Wednesday, 27-Aug-14, 3:47 AM | Message # 372 |
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Is the second BTS picture from season 7? I don't recognize it. I love the one with Malcom Mcdowell. They had some great scenes together. Too bad his character can't come back. |
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| ryohei |
Date: Wednesday, 27-Aug-14, 4:23 AM | Message # 373 |
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the second picture feels like his Samsung advertisment? |
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| AgentM |
Date: Wednesday, 27-Aug-14, 9:15 AM | Message # 374 |
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Samsung yeah. It's from the Turn on Tomorrow commercial that he did and that I made my students analyse for a media and persuasive writing task! So of course, we saw it a million times as I kept pointing things out to them...even after they didn't need to see it anymore! It was classwork! That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it lol. |
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| Ivana |
Date: Wednesday, 27-Aug-14, 9:20 AM | Message # 375 |
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Télé DH - 23-08-2014
here is the link to read online the whole magazine for free http://issuu.com/saipm/docs/tvdh_20140823_dht_full
source and translation http://the-woman-in-12b.tumblr.com/post....tele-dh
I tried my best to translate it for you, sorry about any mistakes
The sixth season of The Mentalist starts this week on our Tv. A crucial season for the fan because they’re going to discover Red John’s ID Meeting with the one who assure the success of the series: Simon Baker, AKA Patrick Jane.
If you should make assessment of your Mentalist year…
“The Mentalist changed my life in a thousand ways! But at the same time, it didn’t change the nature of who I am as a person. I’m fighting in fact to be the same guy! In order to not change this side! Now, what have fundamentally changed is my work opportunities et the among of money at the bank! It’s crazy how my banker loves me now. (laughs)”
What made you able to keep your feet on the ground?
“My wife! (laughs) Whatever if I want it or not, she is the one keeping me floating! But my children too who always supported me, who never judged me, who never reproached me for my repeated absences! You know it doesn’t look like that but I’m not someone very sociable in life! I’m even a little wild sometimes. When I find myself in the bowl we called Hollywood, I don’t feel very at ease! Proof, I often begin to drink and very quickly, I’m ridiculed myself!”
To this point?
Enter a bar and talk to a plumber, it’s way more easier for me than talking with a productor or someone from the movie business. (laughs) I’m going to make you a confidence: I’m the happiest man when people don’t recognize me. The only advantage is when you’re from Hollywood, I can go diner in a great restaurant et my wife push me in front of the line whispering in my ear ‘Come on darling, get us a table’. Only because we forgot to make a reservation!
It must be difficult to protect your couple. Most of all at Hollywood where the temptations are big!
In any relationship, whatever you are under the spotlights or not, there are highs and lows! I’m glad and very proud my couple is mentioned as an example but on the other side, I hate it too for the pressure it put on us! Simply, because we’re like everyone else. We don’t have a miracle recipe to cultivate the love, if it isn’t live at 100% the day-to-day life. My wife and I work both hard. We have kids and like every parents, we’re trying to give them the best without isolate them from reality! The problem of a lot of Hollywood couple is that they bring too often strass and sparkles home! They don’t compartmentalize it. So, they begin to play comedy inside their own home. Our chance, of my wife and I, is that we’ve never let the narcissism and the perverse effects of the notoriety eat us!
If you had the possibility to change one thing in the series, what would that be?
The creative aspect is always a challenge when you turn in a police series. They must follow a lot of rules and factors that you have to respect if you don’t want the spectators to get lost and finally switching channel! You must follow the common thread, especially how the case is led. Therefore, it’s very difficult as an actor to renew. To let our imagination go wild. The setting is to frozen ! I would like that Patrick Jane messes a little around sometimes. Make jokes…
Particularly as the show is demanding
You have no idea! Everything is going so fast on The Mentalist set. We’re filming around 22 episode per season, we even filmed 24. To give you some idea of what I feel sometime, it’s like we were driving very fast in a truck and then suddenly I saw someone opening the truck’s door and emptying the shipment. You work consists then to avoid something which could get you off the road!
How do you see your future once the series will be over?
I had strong relationships during the series, with Robin Tunney (Agent Teresa Lisbon) who I considered like one of my best friends, also Bruno Heller who I will have contact with till the end of my days. I worked with the whole crew not only as a n actor but also as a director on a few episodes. That allowed me have some self-confidence, notably in my capacity of not stagnate in the work! With Robin, we very often asked ourselves bout the end of The Mentalist. We jokes. We told each other that maybe when we’ll be 70, we will animate celebrity cruise!
Not very joyful perspective…
Who know, with Robin, we will walk with our safety jacket on the deck! And in order to stay on board we’ll sign autographed for 5 dollars each. To survive!
More seriously?
I don’t know! What I know for sure is whatever I do now, I’m marked The Mentalist and to the end of my life people will call me Patrick Jane! Anyway, I don’t really know what I will do personnaly. I was on the phone with my wife today, I told her I would like to by a Volkswagen car to bring the boy camp on the East coast of Australia. And for a good monh, camp, cook, surf, etc…
Do you have any professional project in mind?
Yes, there are some I’ll develop, but the most important for me when this series will be over is to take some times for recharge my battery. I need to calm down and enjoy a little my life because I never stopped filming those past years. I was really in an infernal spiral. Anyway, I have to revitalise before getting in another project! Don’t worry, it won’t take long, I’m easily bored if my mind isn’t busy!
Used Simon?
You know, I’m in my forty and I know my body won’t stay in shape long ad visitam aeternam! There will be a lot of thing I couldn’t do anymore. Simply because one day I’m going to break something. I’m by the way convinced of that. It’s sure. This day, I won’t have any other choice than sitting down.
What advice would you give to a young actor who wished start in a TV Show like The Mentalist?
The first advice I would give him is to not make overambitious plans. Make television today is an amazing chance, a great springboard. But, it cans also turn into diving board! I feel lucky because there’s only a few series that get over 6 years. I noticed people have an attention shorter and shorter. I don’t blame them! There so much today on tv, so much news series. They get bored more easily. Look with Homeland. The two first seasons, it was THE series, everybody loved it and then the phenomenon winded. When you know the cost of a series you think twice before beginning the production. Nowaday, we’re even talking of season of 13 episodes and not 24. To come back at the Mentalist , it’s very difficult to stay on a good level. A true challenge! I think however we made it, through the years even if there were unequal episodes and even if I can tell you precisely which episode I loved or not, generate so much volume and staying at a quality level, it’s a real exploit.
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