Perhaps Cusack just hasn't read the right comic books? Before he went into films at the ripe old age of 16 , John Cusack studied theater at the Piven Theater Workshop, taught by the parents of actor Jeremy Piven, whom Cusack has shared the screen with many times since. Since then, there's almost never been a year without a John Cusack picture. That's a difficult pace to keep up, and doing the same job since you were 16 might get a little tiring. At the very least, it isn't difficult to understand why John Cusack might no longer have the same drive he once did — once you've been in a number of huge hits and cult classics, the temptation to take it easy or start looking for roles in more esoteric fringe fare can be difficult to resist.
Not content to coast on his acting abilities, John Cusack has also co-written a few of his most popular films, like High Fidelity and Grosse Pointe Blank , proving his mastery of dark comedy and complicated characters. More recently, he co-wrote the political film War, Inc. Though it doesn't look like any of his screenplays are in the works at the moment, his forays into screenwriting offer further proof that he doesn't need to be in front of a camera to bring compelling characters to life.
We wouldn't be surprised if Cusack has been using some of his time away from the cineplex to work on his next screenplay — or series of screenplays. John Cusack isn't your typical actor interested in the political world. His politics are strong, and he does a lot more than retweet a trending hashtag to make himself heard.
The fact that major payment organizations could deal such a blow to Wikileaks as a way to silence an unfavorable arm of the press didn't sit well with a number of people, including Cusack. So they set up the Freedom of the Press Foundation in response. The Foundation's main goal is to keep hard-hitting journalism alive and protect the privacy of the journalists willing to deal with potentially dangerous subjects.
Through crowdfunding, they help different press organizations stay afloat regardless of outside pressures. Cusack has written articles for the site and is clearly passionate about the issue of freedom of speech. The Freedom of the Press Foundation isn't Cusack's only political activity. Cusack is still devoted to activism and it's obvious he's not happy just resting on his celebrity; he wants to make a real difference.
John Cusack is an outspoken social and political activist, so it should be no surprise that he's had a few opinions about the current political climate. And like many celebrities who voice support or opposition to a politician, Cusack's amateur punditry doesn't usually make waves. Cusack quickly deleted the tweet and reposted the photo with the caption "Message to GOP rob health care give tax breaks to rich bill -from "sweet smell of success yr soon out of power " He also clarified that he was using a quote from the film Sweet Smell of Success , but some detractors weren't buying it.
Fox Nation contributor Todd Starnes posted a screencap of the original tweet and likened it to "faux jihadist Kathy Griffin" and her ill-advised Trump decapitation photo.
Cusack's Twitter mentions filled up with folks who took offense. Whether John Cusack alienated enough fans to have an impact on his box office returns and therefore become a significant studio liability remains to be seen, but it's clear that for at least some of his followers on Twitter, his anti-Trump rhetoric was a bridge too far. John Cusack started out as a teenage heartthrob, playing the sweet, slightly nerdy guy who'd do anything for his girl.
But nobody can play the handsome leading man forever. Though Cusack often branched out to do less mainstream work like Being John Malkovich and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil , he kept taking lead roles—and those movies got worse and worse. It seems that mainstream Hollywood wants to put him in leading roles in dull action flicks or rom-coms, whereas Cusack clearly wants to go in a different direction , like the killer roles he played in The Frozen Ground and The Paperboy.
When Hollywood only wants to see you play the same thing over and over again, it's no wonder Cusack is a little shy to keep taking on huge leads. John Cusack may not like Hollywood, but that doesn't mean he feels the same way about his fans. Phoenix Askani of Thought Catalog shared a story about how she met him on an airplane.
A huge fan, Askani was too nervous to talk to him; instead, she tweeted "Oh my god, JohnCusack is on my flight. I should tell him how I almost lost my virginity to Say Anything Who else in the biz comes across so well grounded and down-to-Earth? Though John Cusack hasn't been in as many blockbusters lately, that doesn't mean he's given up acting. In fact, Cusack's been making tons of movies. Between and , he made a whopping 17 films. The reason you might not be aware of his great productivity is that most of them wind up going straight to VOD or DVD—and some have been pretty unimpressive, like Reclaim or the fake-sounding Drive Hard.
He continues to make edgy indies and action thrillers, but none seem to give him the comeback his fans are looking for. John Cusack has dated a lot of women over the course of his career, but as he gets older he gets more and more questions about why he hasn't settled down. In an interview with Elle , Cusack was asked why he never got married. He replied "Society doesn't tell me what to do.
Cusack, you might want to let that dream go — and more importantly, the absence of the type of domestic stability that tends to come with marriage could also be a factor in his recent career trajectory. Without anyone else to support and no spouse putting demands on his time, he's free to do whatever he wants whenever the mood strikes him — and clearly, ending up on the big screen is no longer as much of a priority as it once was. Cusack rubs his eyes again. He smiles. He frowns. A little bit!
Reiner, who also directed The Sure Thing , was a former teen star himself. Cusack remembers the director going out of his way to make him feel welcome in an industry that could be cold and cruel to its young actors. Hollywood can be quite transactional and rough. I was lucky. I was 16, Movies were definitely the Wild West back then. But there were good people, too. What does he remember of his first encounters with the rougher edges of the business?
Cusack looks at the curtained window, holding in a smile, apparently wondering whether to tell the following story or not. And also you could get coke. Not that I was doing it all. Anything goes. After his breakout years in the s he was in and out of work in the early 90s, till Woody Allen cast him in Bullets Over Broadway. Cusack found a cool groove towards the end of that decade, co-writing and starring in the cult comedy Grosse Pointe Blank and appearing alongside John Malkovich in the dementedly silly, but sort of brilliant, action movie Con Air.
That film ended with an aeroplane full of condemned prisoners landing on a fully populated Las Vegas strip. Incredibly, this is not the silliest scene Cusack has ever rendered for the action-movie canon. For that you need to check out the apocalypse movie and a sequence in which he drives a stretch limo through a collapsing Los Angeles skyscraper. In he did Serendipity , which has proved durable, a well-thought-of Christmas romcom.
In he starred in and produced the self-explanatory comedy Hot Tub Time Machine , a silly film that found a cult audience and doubled its money at the box office.
But it was one of the last of his projects to date that Cusack was able to get real money for. Or it could be a function of being cold. And the movie sort of gets butchered in the editing room. He has heard it said he was once considered for the role of Walter White in Breaking Bad. Even, that he was offered the gig and turned it down. The rumour has proved so persistent that Cusack finally had to sidle up to showrunner Vince Gilligan and ask. And so he is waiting.
For the show to come out and maybe warm him up a little. For the presidential election in November, and the chance that Trump and his cronies will be ousted from power. Back in , Cusack was at a boxing match in Las Vegas when he got one of these taps on the shoulder. When our interview is over he will be back online, barracking Trump, expressing his fury and his contempt. Before he goes I suggest to Cusack, gently as I can, that Twitter does not always look the healthiest place for him.
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