Pete Postlethwaite

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q217137: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

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 (10 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.

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

What the speakers said they did

Acting (14) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (late career): Pete Postlethwaite → Inception. Hosts say he was good in Inception and The Town near the end of his career, after being wasted in the post-90s years.
    “And he is good in inception in the town right at the very end there.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:58:47 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

unmapped (4)

  1. unmapped (praise): Pete Postlethwaite → Steven Spielberg. Spielberg reportedly called Postlethwaite one of the best actors he had worked with; they also worked together on Amistad.
    “Spielberg said after, I guess, during the making of this film, Pipostle Fate was one of, if not the best actors he'd ever worked with.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:56:26 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (childhood memory): Pete Postlethwaite → James and the Giant Peach. A host remembers him as the man who gives James the bag of magic worms and narrates the film.
    “He's the guy who gives James, the bag of magic worms, and James and the giant P.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:58:08 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (only arc): Pete Postlethwaite → The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Tembo's turn from hunter to awed protector is the only character arc in the film and suggests the poachers' viewpoint as a better sequel angle.
    “If this movie has any arc at all. it's his”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:59:12 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. unmapped (praise): Pete Postlethwaite → Steven Spielberg. Spielberg reportedly called Postlethwaite the best actor in the world around The Lost World and Amistad.
    “Spielberg called Postlethwaite, the best actor working”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:52:50 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Pete Postlethwaite: Actors on AV Club roles features said he understood the camera so well that what felt too big in the scene looked perfectly measured on screen.
    “So thoroughly understood the camera and the actor's relationship to the camera”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:57:40 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Pete Postlethwaite: Joke that he should have had a Liam Neeson-style action comeback with the tagline The Apostle.
    “I always wanted him to do like a Liam Neeson, like action movie comeback and the tagline could be the apostle.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:58:59 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Pete Postlethwaite: Spielberg reportedly called him the best actor in the world.
    “I believe he called him the best actor on the planet.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:53:00 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)