Robin Wright
Made films the shows talk about.
Wikidata Q272972: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Moneyball, which The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ credits them on.
Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: The Princess Bride (1987); Moneyball (2011); The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011). Count them as director (1 film) 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.
Blue Velvet (1986): 1 line
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unmapped (quoted line) · through The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), which they acted in:
Blue Velvet ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the host's read).
The fuck-you-you-fucking-fuck shirt is believed to originate from Dennis Hopper's line in Blue Velvet.
“Hopper says that in blue velvet.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:24:04 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
Friday Night Lights (2004 film) (2004): 1 line
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industry (industry) · through Moneyball (2011), which they acted in:
Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ⇒ Moneyball (the host's read).
The film points toward the next wave of dramas that happen to be about sports.
“And Friday Night Lights is moving us toward this kind of next iteration of whatever that was, and it's leading to stuff like money ball and win-win and like dramas that also happen to be about sports.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:16:15 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
Stieg Larsson: 1 line
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lineage (adaptation) · through The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), which they acted in:
Stieg Larsson ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the host's read).
The film is Zaillian's abridged adaptation of Larsson's novel, which loses nothing major.
“I think this is an excellent piece of adaptation that does not really, like, skip anything major.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:49:09 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
Sven Nykvist: 1 line
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craft (visual reference) · through The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), which they acted in:
Sven Nykvist ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the maker said so).
Someone on the shoot (Fincher, or the DP by the garbled name) wanted a Sven Nykvist look: warm fires, cold rooms.
“I wanted to do a whole Sven Nikfist thing”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:11:05 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish, 2009) (2009): 1 line
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lineage (remake) · through The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), which they acted in:
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish, 2009) ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the host's read).
The Fincher film is the American remake of the Swedish original; its director says he was not worried.
“Everyone who loves film will go see the original.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:54:19 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
The Social Network (2010): 1 line
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people (casting led to) · through The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), which they acted in:
The Social Network ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the host's read).
Pascal saw the dailies from The Social Network and picked Rooney Mara for Lisbeth Salander.
“Pascal basically sees the dailies from this movie and is like, Rooney Morris, Elizabeth Salander.”
Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network (Ad-Free) · 0:59:02 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
Drawn on by
What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.
Gone Girl (2014): 1 line
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people (casting approach) · through The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), which they acted in:
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ⇒ Gone Girl (the host's read).
The speaker thinks Fincher's exhaustive casting search on Dragon Tattoo informed how he cast Amy with someone new to the audience.
“that exhaustive casting search, which I do think informs the way he approaches Amy going into this movie as well”
Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 0:55:22 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
What the speakers said they did
Directing (1) everyone in directing
- director and star (directorial debut), Land (The Big Picture, Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag)
Acting (4) everyone in acting
- actor, The Princess Bride (The Rewatchables, ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt)
- actor, Moneyball (The Big Picture, The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’)
- Erika Berger, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Blank Check — Patreon, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free))
- Buttercup (analogy for Gamora), The Princess Bride (Blank Check — Patreon, Guardians of the Galaxy)
Other (1) everyone in other
- auditioned for Lisa, Weird Science (The Rewatchables, ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt)
What was said about them, by kind
what-if (1)
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what-if (what-if):
Robin Wright → Weird Science.
Robin Wright, a soap actress, auditioned for Lisa and did not get it.
“Well, the other one was Robin Wright, who would go on to become the most beautiful woman in the world and Princess Bride.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 1:17:18 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
Fun items about them
None.