Tom Arnold Award: Did the Second Guy Steal the Movie?
Benicio del Toro
The panel proposes a new category here.
In the discussion (5)
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- A Who Stole the Movie category, long discussed as an alternative to the Waiters award and Who Won the Movie, is floated with Pollak, Baldwin, del Toro, Redfoot and others as candidates.
- Benicio nearly gets out the door with the movie but dies too early; viewers are sad because they wanted him in the rest of the film.
- One host narrows it to Baldwin or del Toro; del Toro is then chosen as the obvious star to emerge from a nothing part.
- According to research, del Toro disliked the part because his character dies first, so he developed the mumble to stand out, and other actors often could not understand him in takes that were kept.
- The casting is described as a Moneyball approach using slightly older actors; del Toro had been in The Indian Runner and was not yet famous.