Should you think, during the WGA strike, "I might as well go way out there in the search for new media", might I recommend Dutch actor Pierre Bokma, please and thank you?
But Fantine, whoever is Pierre Bokma?
Pierre Bokma would have been as big as Pacino and De Niro, had he been American. Would have been one of Coppola and Scorcese's leading men. Hell, in a parallel universe, he could have been Ice Pick Joe in Goncharov but didn't find the part particularly interesting. He probably turned down Gangs of New York or something. Too much hooha, sets too big, he dislikes flying, I don't know but the man is phenomenal. He is so good that the Emmys noticed even though it was some Dutch no budget television film. I don't know who paid him to go pick it up, that's how much he didn't care.
He's remarkably like De Niro in that he can't live without acting, because, I think, that's the only way he can relate to the world. He is unlike De Niro in that he doesn't seem to give a rat's ass about money, only the meatiness of the part, but if there's no part to be had he literally does improv and sketches, the way McKellen does panto when he feels like it.
If you want to be the biggest snob in film school, going on about the "greatest actor the world has never seen", whatever - except of course for Dutch people, we absolutely know the guy - watch Cloaca, or Tonio or The Resistance Banker on Netflix or the one Dalziel and Pascoe one he's in, or learn Dutch and come see a play of his but to miss out on an actor absolutely on par with the American greats just because his English is accented and he couldn't be arsed to work on that is a crying shame. Man, he's going to be in a series about the Jewish Council, (Joodse Raad), the Nazi instated council of Jewish men who were trying to save their people's lives but were forced to organise the Holocaust while doing it - a topic so painful and controversial no one has wanted to touch it for decades - and I absolutely know he'll kill it.
I don't normally gush about Dutch series too much, because I feel that our actors sometimes take themselves too seriously.
But this guy, people.
This guy is great.
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apparently google shows pictures along with translations now-
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rough cross-over sketch:
Lenny becomes a lawyer! Unravel the mysteries behind the Blackwater massacre.
I genuinely hate posting messy art like this but I've just been so drained and depressed, I just want the idea out of my head at this point.
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Hosea and Dutch did good by saving John and Arthur, but that doesn't automatically make them faultless parents.
They molded Arthur and John into ideal outlaws who obeyed them (intentional or not). So much so that BOTH Arthur and John ended up prioritizing the gang over their literal children + the mothers of their children.
Arthur never actually made it out of the outlaw life. John struggled for 8 years trying to leave behind old habits. You cannot tell me that wasn't a direct product of Dutch and Hosea raising them.
I doubt they had any malicious intent, but that doesn't absolve them of everything. I think a big thing rdr fans tend to do is favor intent over the actual results of a character's actions.
It's explicitly clear that the cycle of violence didn't begin with John and proceed with Jack, it began with Hosea and Dutch.
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More vandermatthews and dutch content!! the middle one is old
also the last one I forgot that I had doodled dutch on my canvas and cropped him on accident.. oops
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