Paul Newman became an ice-cool antihero across five decades. On his centenary, we look at the star’s longevity and power.
The Actors Studio product became an ice-cool antihero across five decades. On his centenary, we look at the star’s longevity and power.
Hollywood saw in Newman, early on at least, a physical resemblance to Brando, which no doubt made Newman even more attractive to filmmakers at a time when a Brando type could be a hot property. In 1953, Kazan, was “just as good looking as Brando,” though “not as good an actor yet…probably never will be.
In the 1960s, Newman became an icon of cinematic cool, matched in that department only by his box office rival Steve McQueen. And yet, all of Newman’s best characters were only ever superficially cool. Beneath the façade, there could be enormous complexity and feeling, in Newman’s seductive and self-defeating pool shark “Fast Eddie” Felson in. Audiences loved Newman because he could, through his style of underacting, make seemingly any character cool—even a complete bastard like Hud Bannon.
In 1956, the year after Dean was killed in a car accident, Montgomery Clift had his matinee idol looks walloped in a car crash, and he subsequently began aco-star Marilyn Monroe, meanwhile, met her early end from a barbiturate overdose in 1962.
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