Hugo Weaving

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q42204: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Captain America: The First Avenger (2011).

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.

Werner Herzog: 2 lines

  1. craft (craft) · them, directly: Werner Herzog ⇒ Hugo Weaving (the maker said so). Weaving built his Red Skull on a Herzog impression, with the same merciless anthropological view of humanity.
    “I'm gonna do Werner Herzog.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:14:39 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft) · them, directly: Werner Herzog ⇒ Hugo Weaving (the host's read). The Red Skull's grandiose monologue is, in effect, Herzog; Timothy Treadwell is called out as the reference.
    “He is literally doing Werner Herzog.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:52:37 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Aliens (1986): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), which they acted in: Aliens ⇒ Captain America: The First Avenger (the host's read). The frozen-find cold open structurally echoes the discovery sequence that opens Aliens.
    “this is also actually very similar to is the opening of aliens.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:10:43 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Iron Man 2 (2010): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), which they acted in: Iron Man 2 ⇒ Captain America: The First Avenger (the host's read). The Stark Expo of the 1940s is the origin of the Expo seen in Iron Man 2, now as the full World's Fair version.
    “Like what we see in Iron Man 2, but now it's like the full like 40s World Fair version.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:19:47 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Truth: Red, White & Black (comic): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), which they acted in: Truth: Red, White & Black (comic) ⇒ Captain America: The First Avenger (the host's read). The one-off serum process loosely connects to the Truth miniseries retcon about earlier black experimentees.
    “Truth is a book that essentially theorizes that there was like a Tuskegee airman.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:47:45 · 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.

Black Panther (2018): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), which they acted in: Captain America: The First Avenger ⇒ Black Panther (the host's read). Vibranium, the shield metal, leads to Wakanda; adamantium is the X-Men analogue the MCU couldn't use.
    “So instead they use vibranium as their super metal.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:27:32 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), which they acted in: Captain America: The First Avenger ⇒ Captain America: The Winter Soldier (the host's read). Zola surviving and joining the other side is the seed for Winter Soldier.
    “Because you need Zola to join the other side.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:34:27 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Captain Marvel (2019): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), which they acted in: Captain America: The First Avenger ⇒ Captain Marvel (the host's read). The film goes back to the Steve Rogers style of origin story.
    “here's how Steve Rogers became a super soldier style of storytelling.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:03:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

Chris Pratt: 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · through Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), which they acted in: Captain America: The First Avenger ⇒ Chris Pratt (the host's read). The beefcake shot of Pratt echoes Chris Evans out of the tank, and Marvel now puts one in every trailer.
    “It's Chris Evans coming out of the tank, Captain America.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:37:48 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Ross Marquand: 1 line

  1. career (career) · them, directly: Hugo Weaving ⇒ Ross Marquand (the host's read). Marquand later plays Red Skull as an impression of Weaving's Herzog impression.
    “And Ross Marquand does a good impression of Hugo Weaving doing a good impression of Werner Herzog.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:16:25 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (2) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

career (2)

  1. career (career): Hugo Weaving → Captain America: The First Avenger. Weaving hated the Red Skull makeup, so Marvel never asked him back even for a CGI cameo.
    “And for him, it really boiled down to he hated the makeup.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:48:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Hugo Weaving → Ross Marquand. Marquand later plays Red Skull as an impression of Weaving's Herzog impression.
    “And Ross Marquand does a good impression of Hugo Weaving doing a good impression of Werner Herzog.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:16:25 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

craft (2)

  1. craft (craft): Hugo Weaving → Werner Herzog. Weaving built his Red Skull on a Herzog impression, with the same merciless anthropological view of humanity.
    “I'm gonna do Werner Herzog.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:14:39 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Hugo Weaving → Werner Herzog. The Red Skull's grandiose monologue is, in effect, Herzog; Timothy Treadwell is called out as the reference.
    “He is literally doing Werner Herzog.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:52:37 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Hugo Weaving: Weaving hated the Red Skull makeup and reportedly was never even asked to return as the CGI Red Skull on Vormir.
    “I just, I have it on good authority that he was never even asked.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:48:41 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)