Did this egomaniac write his own biography?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Scott Caan
kolybear70 — 15 years ago(June 07, 2010 03:38 PM)
.or was it his publicist? No way you can take it seriously when it starts, "Muscular, swaggering and tough."
A friend of a friend said she met him at a film festival in '08, and no one in Hollywood or anywhere else could possibly be as talented, as masculine or as desirable as this guy seems to think he is.
He also has a reputation for "overdoing it" in action and/or fight scenes just to show how tough he is. Apparently he had to do a scene in the movie "Novocaine" (2001) where he broke a glass over a bartender's head from behind and then proceeded to beat the guy up. The story is that he almost got himself fired from the movie for beating too hard on some poor actor who had a walk-on. He's either overcompensating for his lack of physical stature, or he wants to be a Joe Pesci gangster character in real life. He may be trying to follow in daddy's tough-guy footsteps, but one of these days he's just going to wind up in jail or defending himself against a multi-million dollar lawsuit.
It's a shame, because he may have some talent, but if his muscle and swagger and toughness are more important to him, he'll just get thrown on the trash pile with all the other tough, swaggering actors who got tough with the wrong producer, studio exec or powerful agent.
Grow up, Mr. Caan, and change that exceedingly stupid opening to your IMDB biography. -
belo-casting — 15 years ago(August 23, 2010 08:25 PM)
I do know of some actors who write their own bios, but it seems like this "Kelly Ward" has also written bios for other people too. So either Scott likes to write bios of himself and other people, orKelly Ward is a real person.
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RKO401 — 15 years ago(September 19, 2010 09:09 PM)
I don't see what's wrong with writing that he's muscular, swaggering & tough. If you've seen a lot of his movies, that pretty much sums up his characters. There's no ego to it. It sounds like you're only saying that because he's 5'5". And, judging someone based on their height is238n't really fair or cool. He doesn't have to overcompensate, and his height has nothing to do with his acting. He's not the only actor to have "overdone" it in a movie. That constantly happens in fight scenes when actors/actresses are caught up in their character. Unless you have personally met Scott Caan, I would say your opinion is based on lack on knowledge more than anything else.
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karlkuffs1975 — 12 years ago(March 03, 2014 01:56 PM)
Except that just because he plays CHARACTERS that are "swaggering and tough", does not make him so.
Can Harrison Ford put in his bio that he was president of the United States just because he played a president in a movie? -
bzane2003-1 — 14 years ago(June 24, 2011 02:36 PM)
Geez, come on, poor guy HAD to write his own biographical notes for this website! Have you ever read the original bio of him, before they replaced it with the current one?
"Short, angry, and overcompensating, Little Scotty Cann (son of JAMES CAAN) shows every promise of being short, developing a Napoleon complex, and becoming some day as big a star as JAMES CAAN, his FATHER, the guy who was in THE GODFATHER. Short and slighted as a youth, Scotty Caan grew up to be very short. Coming up short on roles early on in his 'acting' career, Scotty Caan turned to nepotism and name-dropping, aided by his father JAMES CAAN who was not exactly tall but not really short himself. Before making it in films Scotty Caan supported himself as a midget wrestler in which endeavor his shortness was viewed as an asset rather than a liability. His first on-screen (uncredited) appearance was in the film LEPRECHAUN, where he won fans as the Third Leprechaun from the Left. He then made a name for himself in a number of movie shorts. Today, as a big (if short) star of the wretched remake of HAWAII 5-0, Scotty Caan makes it a point to thank his father JAMES CAAN for making sure he never came up short in his acting career. Off-camera, Scotty Cann enjoys assaulting taller people to show tough he is even if short, and has championed t7eche cause of obliterating every existing copy of Randy Newman's cruel song "Short People"- a tall order, but Scotty "Son of JAMES" Caan, is UP to the task!"
I mean, woah! What would you have done? -
kathydumonde — 13 years ago(October 23, 2012 01:07 AM)
I agree, I think he IS Kelly Ward. Did you read his personal quotes? When did anyone ever interview him long enough to listen to him expound all that crap?!
'Scott benefited from his father's hands-on approach to child rearing; the elder Caan reportedly took a five-year hiatus to coach all of his son's little league teams.'
uh, yeah! Like 5 years because he couldn't get hired because he was a prick5b4. Hands on child rearing? You mean hands on the Nanny when he came for his visitation? -
di1an — 15 years ago(June 07, 2010 03:38 PM)
There was an interview with Scott Caan in The Metro in London a couple of years back. He himself says "I'm alpha," in response to a question. Any guy that has to say, in an interview no less, that he's an alpha male, really isn't one and he did come across as some overcompensating douche. It really wouldn't surprise me if he approved his bio.
