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.

Counted as other. The films the hosts said they were tied to, which the two lists below run through too: The Last Temptation of Christ (1988). 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.

Barbara Hershey: 1 line

  1. lineage (origin of project) · through The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), which they were tied to as turned down Jesus: Barbara Hershey ⇒ The Last Temptation of Christ (the host's read). Hershey also planted the book in Scorsese's head and told him to let her audition as Mary Magdalene.
    “But it's planted in his head by her.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Last Temptation of Christ with Jamelle Bouie · 0:44:30 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Ben-Hur (1959): 1 line

  1. unmapped (accent convention) · through The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), which they were tied to as turned down Jesus: Ben-Hur ⇒ The Last Temptation of Christ (the host's read). Scorsese made the Romans British, as in Ben-Hur, with everyone else American.
    “He said the big thing was to give let the Romans be British.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Last Temptation of Christ with Jamelle Bouie · 1:02:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Boxcar Bertha (1972): 1 line

  1. unmapped (production method) · through The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), which they were tied to as turned down Jesus: Boxcar Bertha ⇒ The Last Temptation of Christ (the maker said so). Scorsese's Corman-style Boxcar Bertha experience let him storyboard and time every shot to make Last Temptation cheaply.
    “I never would have been able to make this movie if I didn't have my Corman background and experience a boxcar Bertha specifically”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Last Temptation of Christ with Jamelle Bouie · 0:54:52 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

The Color of Money (1986): 1 line

  1. career (career enabler) · through The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), which they were tied to as turned down Jesus: The Color of Money ⇒ The Last Temptation of Christ (the host's read). The paycheck-gig hit stabilizes Scorsese's career and makes Last Temptation and Goodfellas possible.
    “Must admit though, it is the guarantor that allows him to immediately then make. Last temptation of Christ in Goodfellas.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 0:17:57 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

The Robe (1953): 1 line

  1. lineage (influence) · through The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), which they were tied to as turned down Jesus: The Robe ⇒ The Last Temptation of Christ (the host's read). The Robe is the first Christ movie Scorsese remembers seeing.
    “The 1st Christ movie he remembers seeing is the robe.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Last Temptation of Christ with Jamelle Bouie · 0:45:07 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

After Hours (1985): 3 lines

  1. career (personal projection) · through The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), which they were tied to as turned down Jesus: The Last Temptation of Christ ⇒ After Hours (the maker said so: Scorsese quoted in an oral history). Scorsese worked Kafka's Before the Law into the club doorman scene to reflect his frustration over Last Temptation.
    “inspired by Franz Kafka's before the law. And Scorsese said the short story reflected his frustration toward the production of the Last Temptation of Christ.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:23:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (cause) · through The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), which they were tied to as turned down Jesus: The Last Temptation of Christ ⇒ After Hours (the maker said so: a Scorsese quote on After Hours being a reaction to the Last Temptation ordeal). After Paramount collapsed Last Temptation, Scorsese wanted a cheap, personal film; After Hours is his reaction to the Hollywood ordeal.
    “it's a reaction against my year and a half into Hollywood trying to get last temptation to Christ made.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · After Hours with Alison Sivitz · 0:50:49 · unknown host (quoting Scorsese) (0.35 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (sliding door) · through The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), which they were tied to as turned down Jesus: The Last Temptation of Christ ⇒ After Hours (the host's read). Paramount cancelling Last Temptation sent Scorsese to a small fast job; one of movie history's sliding doors.
    “it is one of the massive sliding doors in movie history because him not making it leads to him making this movie”
    The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Cape Fear (1991): 1 line

  1. industry (business deal) · through The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), which they were tied to as turned down Jesus: The Last Temptation of Christ ⇒ Cape Fear (the host's read). Universal's deal to make Last Temptation obliged a bigger film later, resulting in the Spielberg swap and Cape Fear.
    “it gets fear is a direct result of his deal with Universal for this month.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Last Temptation of Christ with Jamelle Bouie · 2:00:50 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

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)