Eric Roberts

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q207969: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Star 80, which Star 80 with Julie Klausner credits them on.

No film of theirs is counted: acting and studio count only when asked for, so what they drew on and who drew on them comes only from the lines with them at one end. Count them as actor (11 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says they, or a film of theirs, drew on anything.

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Mickey Rourke: 1 line

  1. unmapped (advocacy) · them, directly: Eric Roberts ⇒ Mickey Rourke (the host's read). Rourke repeatedly urged Hollywood to give Roberts another chance in awards speeches, which got Stallone to hire him.
    “Mickey Rourke, when he was winning all his fucking wrestler awards, kept on being like, do you remember this in all of his speeches”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 0:10:54 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (11) everyone in acting

Other (2) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (3)

  1. career (career arc): Eric Roberts → Mickey Rourke. Roberts's trajectory from hot talent to unemployable-then-prolific mirrors Rourke's.
    “It's a very similar arc to Mickey Rourke, I think.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 0:09:39 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. career (comeback attempt): Eric Roberts → Christopher Nolan. Nolan's Dark Knight casting was meant as an Eric Roberts reclamation project that did not go anywhere.
    “you had like Christopher Nolan giving him a good little supporting part in Dark Knight and being like, Eric Roberts reclamation project.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 0:10:42 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. career (career type): Malcolm McDowell → Eric Roberts. McDowell's IMDb is compared to Eric Roberts: endless work, still capable of a real performance.
    “he is in that weird Eric Roberts zone where it's like, he does so much schlock.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:24:32 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (character lineage): Eric Roberts → The King of Comedy. Roberts's Snyder is seen as another version of what Rupert Pupkin could have been.
    “I also think a group for Pupkin is another version of who this character could have been, but he was just following orders.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 0:02:19 · Julie Klausner (0.50 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (performance model): Eric Roberts → Taxi Driver. A speaker thinks the Snyder performance would have been more interesting if influenced by Travis Bickle.
    “It would have been interesting if this was sort of like more influenced by Travis Bickle as a performance.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 0:01:37 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (advocacy): Eric Roberts → Mickey Rourke. Rourke repeatedly urged Hollywood to give Roberts another chance in awards speeches, which got Stallone to hire him.
    “Mickey Rourke, when he was winning all his fucking wrestler awards, kept on being like, do you remember this in all of his speeches”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 0:10:54 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Eric Roberts: Roberts was only about three films in and was persuaded into Star 80; after it he never gave another memorable performance until villain parts in The Specialist and Heaven's Prisoners.
    “He had to be persuaded to take this role.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 0:01:22 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Eric Roberts: Roberts is Julia Roberts's brother and Emma Roberts's father; hosts joke that Julia was the annoying kid sister on his sets.
    “And like, Julia Roberts was like his annoying kid sister who would be on set and people, ugh, Eric Roberts' sister is here.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 0:10:24 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)