Male Celebrities - Benicio Del Toro #1 [ Traffic - Usual Suspects - Sin City - The Wolfman]

TheMovieGrrl · 09-22-2007, 02:08 AM

Some of you may know of Benicio Del Toro from Traffic or Usual Suspects. He is not conventional in his appearance. He's no Brad Pitt but what he lacks in superfical beauty he makes up for in charisma. I have always found his work, personality, and approach to film compelling. Hope to find other fans of his work! I can't wait to watch his upcoming films as well.

Upcoming Projects:

# The Wolf Man (2008) (pre-production) .... Lawrence Talbot
# Guerrilla (2008) (filming) .... Ernesto 'Che' Guevara de la Serna
# The Argentine (2008) (filming) .... Ernesto 'Che' Guevara de la Serna
# Things We Lost in the Fire (2007) (completed) .... Jerry Sunborne

Personal Quotes

"Before I was ever in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes. The rumor was I was a junkie. I have dark circles under my eyes, deal with it."

"My career went into the hole after Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998). People might have seen what they saw on screen and subconsciously, people in the business might have taken what they saw literally. I think people thought, 'He got fat. He got weird. His mumbling increased tenfold.' I was trying to do an interpretation of a masterpiece of a book, and that's what the character was - an animal!"

"I like anything that's three-dimensional, anything I can believe in -even if it's fantastic, surreal or from another planet."

"I like to keep growing. I haven't gotten anywhere, as far as I'm concerned."

"I'd like to do completely different roles - a romantic lead, for example. I'd like to be dressed up in a suit and get the girl at the end of the movie."

"I see The Usual Suspects (1995) as the time where I was, quote unquote, discovered. It took me six, seven years to get to that place. And it was not easy. You're fighting with people who doubt you and your choice of career. There are a lot of doubts - and you have to stay focused with what you want. I never put a time limit on me being successful or not. I just cared about the work as an actor. But it wasn't easy because there were a lot of ups and downs. I don't know if you know much about baseball, but baseball is the game of failure. You deal with failure - strike, strike, strike - all the time. Acting is like that. You have to have a very thick skin in a way - your hair is too dark, you're too ugly for the part, your audition wasn't good."

"I do get more recognized now. If I go to dinner, people look at me more now and whisper. But as an actor I would be no one without the people who come and see me. So it would be ridiculous for it to bother me. It just bothers me when I'm intoxicated."

Photographs

**ROCKSTAR** · 09-22-2007, 05:15 PM

Thank you, thank you, thank you for opening this!

I have the biggest crush on Benicio.

He's an amazing actor with a great face.

**Enigma** · 09-22-2007, 06:11 PM

Thanks for the thread.

Love him.

I recently saw the trailor for Things We Lost in the Fire. I'll be checking it out.

TheMovieGrrl · 09-22-2007, 07:09 PM

Oooh I love him

He's soo great as an actor and everything he does on screen is soo compelling! I"l be back to post some scans from Esquire!

TheMovieGrrl · 09-24-2007, 06:21 AM

There's an ADROABLE pic someone scanned at the LJ Community Benicio Del Toro Daily's Journal

He's soo cute with his doggie

Gonna make me an icon now

Actually I'm working on a set of icons

If anyone has banner or art requests, let me know

**ROCKSTAR** · 09-24-2007, 01:38 PM

Beautiful scans!

I love his quote about dogs, especially because it's true.

**Enigma** · 09-24-2007, 03:16 PM

Such a cute pic.

Can't wait to see your avies.

TheMovieGrrl · 09-24-2007, 05:55 PM

Is it wrong to be unusually obsessed with him lately? I think the movie The Wolfman will be absolutely amazing! I mean it's such a classic horror movie

Hehe. Just smitten with him! There's a creepy scan of him recreating I guess a wolfman type of scene and I thought. OMG that's it. That's the beast

Ooh but he's still hot in his own way. lol.

Let me see if I can find it

Psycho Flower Child · 09-24-2007, 06:25 PM

Benicio's such an amazing actor! I loved him in Sin City and The Usual Suspects.

TheMovieGrrl · 09-24-2007, 06:33 PM

Isn't? I mean I know he's not Brad Pitt or even Johnny Depp but he's sexy in the way that is not just looks. I guess each person is different but I love his acting and the way he does his roles really brings out something all together different

I know I keep saying stuff about looks but soo many people who don't know his work often go..."him?" Ummmm okay. But there's just something about him that is awesome!

I can't wait to watch Things We Lost in the Fire. The site for the movie is great

THINGS WE LOST IN THE FIRE Movie | Halle Berry, Benicio del Toro, David Duchovny, Alison Lohman | Official Movie Site

DefLeppardFan · 09-24-2007, 11:11 PM

It's great that there is a thread for this amazing actor

I first had the biggest crush on Benicio when I saw him in Excess Bagagge when it first came out, then I saw License To Kill, a much younger Benicio. Some of my favorite movies of his is of course the 2 I mentioned above, Way of the Gun, The Hunted, Traffic, The Fan, 21 Grams, Sin City, and Snatch.

I'm excited that he is playing The Wolfman, he is prefect for the role.

TheMovieGrrl · 09-25-2007, 03:08 PM

Oh definitely! You know...I thought his supporting role in the movie The Funeral was hot, actually. He gets to play a 20s-30s gangster...so that whole attire and feel was classic BDT

**Enigma** · 09-25-2007, 04:47 PM

Quote:

but he's sexy in the way that is not just looks. I guess each person is different but I love his acting and the way he does his roles really brings out something all together different

I agree.

He's perfect for Wolfman.

DefLeppardFan · 09-25-2007, 10:30 PM

Here's some pics of our man Benicio

The Wolfman, here ya go, this is supposed to be from the filming.

TheMovieGrrl · 09-26-2007, 05:04 PM

aww I don't care he's all fuzzed

He's still BDT! BTW there's this funny article about poor Benicio getting stopped recently at an airport for being thought of as a terrorist? WTF? LOL. It's his beard - something he's grown for the role of Che Guevera...anyhow, I guess police thought he looked "dangerous" or whatever.

For me I thought it was funny because well...I dunno...judging from articles and the interviews he's done...he like the least likely terrorist. Wolfman. Yes. terrorist? Nahhh.

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