Greg Kinnear

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q269869: 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 (15 films) instead.

Draws on

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

Drawn on by

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

What the speakers said they did

Acting (19) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

career (8)

  1. career (career): Greg Kinnear → Sabrina. Kinnear went from Talk Soup to Sabrina, a disappointing prestige remake.
    “Sidney Pollock, Academy Award winner plucks him to start on a remake of Sabrina”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard · 0:45:09 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Greg Kinnear → Dear God. A second disappointing Kinnear vehicle that followed Sabrina.
    “Yes, and then there's also Dear God, a Gary Marshall movie.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard · 0:45:38 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Greg Kinnear → You've Got Mail. After the film Kinnear keeps being the obstacle in someone else's romance.
    “He plays the Baxter in that.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard · 0:46:45 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Greg Kinnear → Nurse Betty. Kinnear is again the unwanted man, here scalped.
    “He gets his head, his scalp cut off.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard · 0:46:58 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): Greg Kinnear → Loser. Cast as a creepy professor sleeping with a student.
    “Loser, he plays creepy college professor.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard · 0:47:06 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  6. career (career): Greg Kinnear → Auto Focus. In 2002 he made an Oscar-style movie about a porn-filming Hogan's Heroes actor.
    “he makes autofocus, which everyone's like, oh, here's an Oscar, Oscar movie”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard · 0:47:27 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  7. career (career): Greg Kinnear → Mystery Men. Kinnear's next year he plays the Baxter of superheroes, continuing the guy-who-gets-dumped type.
    “The next year is mystery men where he's like the Baxter of superheroes.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:31:09 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  8. career (career): Greg Kinnear → As Good as It Gets. Ephron and Delia wanted the actor after his As Good as It Gets notices and he was about to blow up.
    “Uh, it's Delia Nora Efron, go see as good as it gets.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:31:44 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Cuba Gooding Jr. → Greg Kinnear. Gooding is big; Kinnear plays a sensitive shrinking violet.
    “Because Kuneer can, he's so good at playing such like a sensitive shrinking violet.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard · 1:10:28 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (industry): Greg Kinnear → You've Got Mail. Kinnear agreed to take the part on condition that his character's exit be the softer restaurant scene.
    “Kinnear said, I'll do the movie if this is how my character line ends.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:32:47 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

  1. verdict (verdict): As Good as It Gets → Greg Kinnear. Chris asks if the film is Kinnear's career peak.
    “as good as it gets, is it peak Kaneer?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard · 0:45:55 · Chris Gethard (0.80 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if): Greg Kinnear → Breaking Away. A host quips Greg Kinnear (from Indiana) could have been in Breaking Away.
    “Greg Kinnear could have been in that.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard · 1:49:49 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Greg Kinnear: Kinnear's pitch gave the restaurant breakup scene its soft ending.
    “Kinnear said, I'll do the movie if this is how my character line ends.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:32:47 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)