The late Hollywood icon James Dean It would have returned 94 Saturday, February 8, if his life had not been tragic short.
Dean became an icon of the 1950’s teenage rebellion for its still -sensitive electrical portrayal of the troubled Jim Stark youth in 1955 Rebel without a causewhich was nominated for the best Story Story Story next year (but lost in I love me or leave me). The actor appeared only in eight films before his tragic death at the age of 24 in 1955, after his Porsche 550 Spyder was involved in a head crash near Cholame, California. Dean with layers and often annoying by acting inside Rebel without a cause AND East of Eden It continues to inspire stars from later generations, with the two aforementioned films, along with the post -1956 death release Giganticentering the national film register from the Library of Congress.
As we celebrate Dean on this historic date, you continue to move to see the legendary actors who he continues to inspire almost a century after his birth.
Leonardo Dicaprio
Titanic the star said term In 2016 he felt “overly moved by Jimmy Dean” to East of EdenThe drama of World War I in which Dean played the unhappy teenager Caleb Trask.
“There was something so raw and powerful for that show. His weakness … His confusion about his whole story, his identity, his despair to be loved. This show just broke my heart, ”Dicaprio said.
Dicaprio was attached to play Dean in a biopic from Heat director Michael Mann In the 1990s, but the project never left the ground.
“We saw the clips of GiganticAnd then (Mann) put me in the back of the car with that cowboy hat, “he confirmed in 2016.” But I was a very young child, even when I was young. He decided to wait a couple of years, but I … seemed really young. “
Johnny Depp
Depp has often credited his discovery of Dean as a “catalyst” to give up his music career to become an actor. He was fascinated with the idol of the late teens after being given a copy of the Dean biography King Mutant by a gang friend in the 1980s.
“As I read the book, I saw Rebel without a causeAnd I thought ‘Wow, this guy really has something,’ and I was fixed, “DPP said in a BBC Radio 2 2005 documentary.
Future Edward scissors Star revealed that Dean was a adopter of the method he operated, where he used a number of physical and sociological techniques developed by the Russian actor Konstantin Stanislavski and popular by teachers Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler AND Sanford Meisner in the United States.
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“I wasn’t really acting at the time, but as I was reading the book Dean, I also chose An actor prepares From Stanislavski and was fascinated by the whole concept of ‘method’, DPP said. “When I read that the Dean was also from the ‘Method’ school, everything came together for me. So that was a really important period for me, about three or four years before I decided to become actor – and James Dean was the catalyst. “
Robert Pattinson
Joke The actor played in the 2015 biopics BEwhere he played Dean’s best friend Dennis reverse Dane Dehaan HOW Gigantic STAR
Pattinson touched his personal feelings for Dean while promoting BE At the Berlin International Film Festival, where he mentioned the feeling of a kinship with the screen legend early in his career.
“I think many (young) actors have their own phase, of James Dean’s type where every audition, no matter what the part is, they enter and make an impression of James Dean. No doubt I had one of them,” he did Joke. “He is definitely iconic.”
twilight Star later confessed to The Guardian that he never lobbied to play Dean in BE Because he would not even know where to start “to prepare for the role. Pattinson said he acknowledged that he had similarities in how both actors avoided the intervention of the press.
“(When) the first twilight It turned out, I would definitely say dumb things just not to sound with cookie cutting or part of the car, “Pattinson admitted.
Dane Dehaan
Pattinson’s BE Costar confirmed at the time of the release of the biopik that Dean had “always a role model” for him. Dean played Dean near the end of his life in the 2015 drama as he traveled throughout the United States with his photographer Paul Dennis Stock (Pattinson).
“(Dean) has always been one of my favorite actors, so when I was in acting school, I would watch his movies. He was amazing,” Dehaan said in an interview with Canvas when BE was released. “That’s what he was always for me, an acting inspiration.”
Dehaan East of Eden like his favorite Dean performance but accepted it Rebel without a cause AND Gigantic They were also significant impacts on his acting style. He worked with both a dialectic coach and a cosmetics artist in his construction BE Performance, in addition to wearing a fake wig and ear in order to match Dean’s physics.
“Physicality of (performance) comes mostly from trying to understand who he was as a person,” Dehaan explained. “If I have a strong and specific internal life, I think physics follows.”
Robert de Niro
The Oscar winner twice De Niro singled out Dean, along with Montgomery Clift AND Marlon BrandoIn a 2015 interview with Amateur cigarette As three actors who were “touched” as he grew up.
Taxi The star even studied the ‘method’ in the acting studio and Lee Strasberg, where Dean had honored his craft in the early 50’s.
In a 1994 interview, De Niro suggested that Dean’s shows were particularly magical for young actors because they seemed completely unmatched by anyone else.
“When did you see James Dean do East of EdenHe was great, but you can’t do what he could do, ”De Niro argued.
Nicolas cage
Like Depp, Cage has often quoted Dean as a significant early impact to help him decide to follow acting. The cage comes from a prominent Hollywood family – Coppolas – but was told 60 minutes Dean’s work inspired it most.
“It was to love to be James Dean Rebel without a cause And wearing that red jacket, ”Cage told his teenage ambitions.
During a conversation in SXSW in 2014, Cage singled out Dean’s performance at East of Eden as especially significant to him.
“I started acting because I wanted to be James Dean. I saw it inside Rebel without a cause, East of Eden“Repeated Cage. “Nothing touched me – no rock song, no classical music – the way Dean influenced me in Eden. It broke out my mind. I was like, ‘that’s what I want to do.’ “
Martin Sheen
Three times Emmy-winning Western The actor was the main speaker at the Global Media event of James Dean’s 50th anniversary in 2007, where he suggested Gigantic The star “exceeded” the art of acting.
“(In 1955), I went to see a movie called East of EdenAnd I didn’t realize that he had already been killed, “Sheen remembered.” I was deeply touched by his performance and I have been, since then. … All three of his films had a profound effect on my life, my work and my generation. “
Sheen shared his belief that “the essence of influence (Dean’s)” was that “he was no longer doing, it was behavior” in his projects.
“(His acting) was deeply, deeply personal. This is what appealed me to me, and all those influenced by him,” Sheen added. “(He had) this deeply, deeply personal involvement in what he was doing, and this led us to truly understand (Ing) that if he is not personal, he is impersonal, and if he is non -opensonal, no one really cares.”
