Reply #17: Walken [View All]

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Although he just turned SIXTY!!! Walken is the perfect combination of creepy and cool.

Depp is exquisite, but I've not seen him sing/dance. I'm so damn happy Pirates worked out well for him, because that was such a precious performance - he really should get an Oscar nomination, even though there's no chance he would win; the work's that extrordinary.

I've long wished I had become a successful screenwriter so I could adapt "Man Out Of Time," the biography of Nikolai Tesla (the man who invented, um, the entire damn modern world, really, only to be forgotten, after the government seized all of the papers he wrote in the last years of his life, in order to protect oil companies and military capability). That's my dream role for Depp - Tesla's "inventions" came to him like mental intrusions from another planet. One day he's walking through Central Park with an assistant, and he goes into a near epilpetic seizure, demandng his assistant get him a stick. He then carves the first diagram for an alternating current generator into the dirt, and says plainly, "this will change the world."

Anyway, I vote Walken.