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| 6 | ->''"I was a teen star. That's disgusting enough."'' |
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| 8 | John Paul Cusack (born June 28, 1966 in Evanston, Illinois) is an American actor and the brother of actors Creator/JoanCusack and Creator/AnnCusack. He started off as a teen idol in TheEighties before he progressed into playing quirky offbeat characters in various films, including broader comedy roles. |
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| 10 | He has appeared in such films as ''Film/GrossePointeBlank'', ''Film/BeingJohnMalkovich'', and ''Film/FourteenOhEight''. |
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| 12 | He’s also the one Creator/DannyTrejo said he was [[BewareTheNiceOnes the most afraid of]] on the set of ''Film/ConAir.'' (Down to his [[Film/SayAnything kickboxing training]]?) Although given his [[OldShame refusal to discuss it in interviews]], JC apparently wishes he wasn't in the film. |
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| 15 | !!Filmography |
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| 17 | * ''Film/{{Class|1983}}'' (1983) -- Roscoe |
| 18 | * ''Film/SixteenCandles'' (1984) -- Bryce |
| 19 | * ''Film/BetterOffDead'' (1985) -- Lane Myer |
| 20 | * ''Film/TheJourneyOfNattyGann'' (1985) -- Harry |
| 21 | * ''Film/OneCrazySummer'' (1985) -- [[IronicNickname Hoops McCann]] |
| 22 | * ''Film/TheSureThing'' (1985) -- Walter "Gib" Gibson |
| 23 | * ''Film/StandByMe'' (1986) -- Denny Lachance |
| 24 | * ''Hot Pursuit'' (1987) -- Danny Bartlett |
| 25 | * ''Film/BroadcastNews'' (1987) -- Angry Messenger |
| 26 | * ''Film/{{Tapeheads}}'' (1988) -- Ivan Alexeev |
| 27 | * ''Film/EightMenOut'' (1988) -- Buck Weaver |
| 28 | * ''Film/SayAnything'' (1989) -- Lloyd Dobler |
| 29 | * ''Film/TheGrifters'' (1990) -- Roy Dillon |
| 30 | * ''Film/ShadowsAndFog'' (1992) -- Student Jack |
| 31 | * ''Film/BobRoberts'' (1992) -- Cutting Edge Host |
| 32 | * ''Film/BulletsOverBroadway'' (1994) -- JC |
| 33 | * ''Film/CityHall'' (1996) -- Kevin Calhoun |
| 34 | * ''Film/GrossePointeBlank'' (1997) -- Martin Q. Blank |
| 35 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'' (1997) -- Dimitri (voice) |
| 36 | * ''Film/ConAir'' (1997) -- Vince Larkin |
| 37 | * ''Film/MidnightInTheGardenOfGoodAndEvil'' (1997) -- John Kelso |
| 38 | * ''Film/TheThinRedLine'' (1998) -- Capt. John Gaff |
| 39 | * ''Film/PushingTin'' (1999) -- Nick "The Zone" Falcone |
| 40 | * ''Film/BeingJohnMalkovich'' (1999) -- Craig Schwartz |
| 41 | * ''Film/HighFidelity'' (2000) -- Rob Gordon |
| 42 | * ''Film/{{Serendipity}}'' (2001) -- Jonathan Trager |
| 43 | * ''Film/{{Max|2002}}'' (2002) -- Max Rothman |
| 44 | * ''Film/{{Identity}}'' (2003) -- Ed Dakota |
| 45 | * ''Film/RunawayJury'' (2003) -- Nicholas Easter |
| 46 | * ''Film/MustLoveDogs'' (2005) -- Jake Anderson |
| 47 | * ''Film/TheIceHarvest'' (2005) -- Charlie Arglist |
| 48 | * ''Film/FourteenOhEight'' (2007) -- Mike Enslin |
| 49 | * ''Film/MartianChild'' (2007) -- David Gordon |
| 50 | * ''Film/WarInc'' (2008) -- Hauser |
| 51 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Igor}}'' (2008) -- Igor (voice) |
| 52 | * ''Film/TwoThousandTwelve'' (2009) -- Jackson Curtis |
| 53 | * ''Film/HotTubTimeMachine'' (2010) -- Adam Yates |
| 54 | * ''Film/{{The Raven|2012}}'' (2012) -- Edgar Allen Poe |
| 55 | * ''Film/AdultWorld'' (2013) -- Rat Billings |
| 56 | * ''Film/TheButler'' (2013) -- UsefulNotes/RichardNixon |
| 57 | * ''Film/TheNumbersStation'' (2013) -- Emerson Kent |
| 58 | * ''Film/TheFrozenGround'' (2013)-- Robert Hansen. |
| 59 | * ''Film/MapsToTheStars'' (2014) -- Stafford Weiss |
| 60 | * ''Film/LoveAndMercy'' (2015) -- Music/BrianWilson (old) |
| 61 | * ''Film/NeverGrowOld'' (2019) -- Dutch Albert |
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| 64 | !!John Cusack's roles provide examples of the following tropes: |
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| 66 | * AuthorAppeal: Cusack is a big fan of Music/TheClash, and often sports a Clash t-shirt, especially in his earlier films. |
| 67 | * TheCastShowoff: Averted. He has trained in Ukidokan Kickboxing since the early 90's and holds a sixth level black belt but refuses to use it in a film and has said he prefers to keep the two parts of his life separate. |
| 68 | * DeadpanSnarker: His characters almost always have a very dry and cynical sense of humor. |
| 69 | * OneForTheMoneyOneForTheArt: He's openly admitted that a lot of his higher-profile roles were taken specifically so he could then help finance some small arthouse picture being made by a non-famous friend or acquaintance that would never have been made without his financial assistance. |
| 70 | * ProductionPosse: Cusack has appeared in eleven films each with his sister Creator/{{Joan|Cusack}} and Jeremy Piven (not all the same films), plus nine with Creator/TimRobbins and four with Creator/JackBlack. (To date, no one film has featured all five of them.) |
| 71 | * TallDarkAndHandsome: He's 6'2 with dark hair and is good-looking. |
| 72 | * TallDarkAndSnarky: Many of his roles are this trope incarnate. |
| 73 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: |
| 74 | ** He was approached by AMC to take the role of Walter White, the protagonist of ''Series/BreakingBad'', but declined, leaving the role to Creator/BryanCranston. |
| 75 | ** He auditioned to play Marty [=McFly=] in ''Film/BackToTheFuture1''. |
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