Marisa Tomei

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q191828: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as other. The films the hosts said they were tied to, which the two lists below run through too: Working Girl (1988). Count them as actor (3 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.

An Officer and a Gentleman (1982): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Working Girl (1988), which they were tied to as what-if for Doreen DiMucci: An Officer and a Gentleman ⇒ Working Girl (the host's read). The kiss-and-secretaries-cheer moment is an Officer and a Gentleman homage.
    “And then I had the officer and a gentleman homage when they're kissing and one of the secretaries says, way to go.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 1:13:08 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

Pretty Woman (1990): 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Working Girl (1988), which they were tied to as what-if for Doreen DiMucci: Working Girl ⇒ Pretty Woman (the host's read). Pretty Woman borrows openly from Working Girl's Cinderella story.
    “It openly steal shit from this movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:08:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. programming (programming) · through Working Girl (1988), which they were tied to as what-if for Doreen DiMucci: Working Girl ⇒ Pretty Woman (the host's read). Pairing Working Girl and Pretty Woman as a Cinderella double feature to see what Pretty Woman took.
    “It double Cinderella and then you're watching Purdue Woman seeing all the things they took.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 2:05:09 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Debi Mazar: 1 line

  1. career (career) · them, directly: Marisa Tomei ⇒ Debi Mazar (the host's read). Mazar's career looks like an impersonation of Tomei's Mona Lisa.
    “Debbie Mazar's career seemed to be like a Marissa Tomay impersonation.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Wesley Morris · 0:19:43 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

The Devil Wears Prada (2006): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Working Girl (1988), which they were tied to as what-if for Doreen DiMucci: Working Girl ⇒ The Devil Wears Prada (the host's read). Working Girl sprinkled its DNA over later beloved movies, Pretty Woman and Devil Wears Prada chief among them.
    “And it's just sprinkling DNA over all these beloved movies over the next 40 years, but those were Pretty Woman and Devil wears Prada were the 2 that I was like, oh, yeah.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:13:35 · Joanna Robinson (0.40 sure it was them)

The Nanny: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · them, directly: Marisa Tomei ⇒ The Nanny (the host's read). The Nanny came a year later and Fran Drescher is basically doing Mona Lisa Vito.
    “Fran Dresher. Basically doing Mona Lisa Vito in my cousin Vinny.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Wesley Morris · 0:46:17 · Wesley Morris (0.90 sure it was them)

Working Girl (1990 NBC series): 1 line

  1. programming (programming) · through Working Girl (1988), which they were tied to as what-if for Doreen DiMucci: Working Girl ⇒ Working Girl (1990 NBC series) (the host's read). Working Girl became a 1990 NBC series, with Sandra Bullock as Tess.
    “Working Girl became an NBC series in 1990”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 1:11:10 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (4) everyone in acting

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (5)

  1. career (career): Marisa Tomei → Untamed Heart. After her Oscar she made Equinox, Chaplin, Untamed Heart and others, but the moment faded by 1996.
    “Equinox, she's in Chaplin, Untamed Heart.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Wesley Morris · 0:12:57 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Marisa Tomei → Before the Devil Knows You're Dead. Her later work vindicated the win; fearless in the Hoffman movie.
    “Pretty fearless actor.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Wesley Morris · 0:18:11 · Wesley Morris (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Debi Mazar → Marisa Tomei. Mazar's career looks like an impersonation of Tomei's Mona Lisa.
    “Debbie Mazar's career seemed to be like a Marissa Tomay impersonation.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Wesley Morris · 0:19:43 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Marisa Tomei → Rosie Perez. Both risk being pigeonholed by one defining ethnic character: Mona Lisa for Tomei, White Men Can't Jump for Perez.
    “that happened with Rosie with white men can't jump, but definitely Marissa”
    The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Wesley Morris · 0:21:38 · Wesley Morris (0.60 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): Marisa Tomei → In the Bedroom. The slap scene from Sissy Spacek earned her a later nomination.
    “Her reaction to being slapped like that is what gets her that Oscar nomination.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Wesley Morris · 0:22:05 · Wesley Morris (0.50 sure it was them)

industry (4)

  1. industry (industry): Marisa Tomei → Howards End. Her category was four British ladies; Alfre Woodard and Helena Bonham Carter were missing, and the nominees canceled each other out.
    “I think they canceled each other out.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Wesley Morris · 0:14:30 · Wesley Morris (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. industry (industry): Marisa Tomei → La La Land. Her surprise win was doubted as something that would never happen, then Moonlight/La La Land happened 25 years later.
    “And then it fucking happens 25 years later.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Wesley Morris · 0:16:22 · Wesley Morris (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. industry (industry): Marisa Tomei → Jack Palance. Conspiracy theory that Palance misread the Oscar envelope; Simmons believes the frozen-envelope story more.
    “I believe the David Stern thing, the frozen envelope way more than the Jack Palance.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Wesley Morris · 0:17:18 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  4. industry (industry): Marisa Tomei → Annabella Sciorra. The two may have competed for the same parts and canceled each other out.
    “might have been competing for the same parts and canceling each other out.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Wesley Morris · 0:24:26 · Wesley Morris (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Marisa Tomei → The Nanny. The Nanny came a year later and Fran Drescher is basically doing Mona Lisa Vito.
    “Fran Dresher. Basically doing Mona Lisa Vito in my cousin Vinny.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Wesley Morris · 0:46:17 · Wesley Morris (0.90 sure it was them)

people (3)

  1. people (people): Joe Pesci → Marisa Tomei. On set Pesci monopolized Tomei's time and lived the relationship, per Bruce McGill's oral history.
    “Joe Pesci pretty much monopolized Marissa's time offset.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Wesley Morris · 0:56:27 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): My Cousin Vinny → Marisa Tomei. Tomei is the rare woman who gets to do something in these movies.
    “the only time, God bless Marissa Tome, that a woman gets to do anything”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:21:12 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55 sure it was them)
  3. people (people): Marisa Tomei → Robert Downey Jr.. Downey has done several films with Tomei, so he may have pushed for her as Aunt May.
    “And Donnie Jr.'s done a bunch of movies with her before.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:55:10 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

what-if (3)

  1. what-if (what-if): Marisa Tomei → Working Girl. Doreen DiMucci could have been a young Marisa Tomei instead of an unknown.
    “Could we have gotten, could we have snuck, uh, like a young Marissa Tome in that part or could we have like an actual famous actress?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 1:35:23 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (what-if): Marisa Tomei → Godfather 3. Would have been a great Sofia Coppola.
    “I think she would have been a great, Sophia Coppola, for Godfather 3.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Wesley Morris · 0:20:12 · Wesley Morris (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. what-if (what-if): Marisa Tomei → Backdraft. She could be recast into any early-90s movie, such as Backdraft.
    “we could recast movies with her all day long.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Wesley Morris · 0:20:41 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Marisa Tomei: Her Oscar-winning courtroom scene is so good it reads like choreographed silent-movie dance with the sound off.
    “It looks like a dance sequence.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Wesley Morris · 0:41:21 · Wesley Morris (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Marisa Tomei: The clothes aged best: jumpsuit in the biological clock scene, shoulder pads, no-makeup wet-hair moments.
    “Just the clothes in this movie, I think, have aged the best.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Wesley Morris · 0:47:08 · Wesley Morris (0.90 sure it was them)