Has she gone into semi-retirement or something? Some of the roles she will play this year which look really interesting
-
Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Dominique Swain
bootblack987 — 10 years ago(July 16, 2015 02:12 PM)
Has she gone into semi-retirement or something? Some of the roles she will play this year which look really interesting:
The Suited Woman (The Mourning)
Girl in Bar (No Deposit)
Woman in the Long Dress (Embers)
I can see her just nailing each of these challenging roles. -
CCRider01 — 9 years ago(April 28, 2016 01:50 AM)
Damn, she has gone down the Eric Roberts "quantity over quality" career path.
She still has a long way to go though to equal Roberts, who has about 60 acting credits listed for 2016 alone (more credits than most top tier actors have over their entire careers). -
Coolestmovies — 9 years ago(July 26, 2016 09:52 AM)
In a "making of" for some movie he was in with Wes Bentley during that guy's downturn, Roberts said he loves making these kinds of movies because he really believes in supporting people trying to make something anything without a lot of money. Presumably he knows his name still carries marquee value at this level of filmmaking, and the filmmakers are grateful to have actors like him on board. He's comfortable that his leading man days are long behind him, just as he knows he has the cache to still pull the occasional bit role in a major studio film, so he's quite content to keep plying his trade with people who just want to make movies, regardless of the quality of the finished product. There are a LOT of actors in those trenches with him, many of whom enjoyed former status in Hollywood once upon a time: Swain, Michael Pare, Michael Madsen, Daniel Baldwin, James Caan, Paul Sorvino, Martin Landau, Peter Coyote, and tons more. Nearly all of them are better actors than the films they're in, and they elevate those films even the crappiest ones with their skills, and in the end these types of pictures hardly threaten careers that have already been in the low-budget trenches for years anyway.
-
CCRider01 — 9 years ago(July 30, 2016 03:11 AM)
This is a fairly new phenomenon, where actors with name brand recognition are pimping themselves out in a larger and larger steam of crappy projects. These films are almost always dreck and seldom elevated much beyond that even with these big name actors lending their "acting talents". Eric Roberts is the absolute KING of this new "quantity over quality" trend, the dude already has about 125 film credits for 2015-2017, almost all of them low budget crap. The rest of the names on your list will struggle to reach that epic number combined, even if you add Tom Sizemore into the mix.
You are correct about one thing, these low budget films will not threaten many careers, as very few people have even seen them to pass judgement one way or the other. A common motivator for many of this new breed of "quantity over quality" actors seems to financial problems, and no doubt lending their name for 1-2 days work will pay a few bills.