Forest Whitaker

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q182763: 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: Panic Room (2002); Lady in the Water (2006). Count them as director (2 films), actor (18 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.

Fight Club (1999): 3 lines

  1. career (career) · through Panic Room (2002), which they were tied to as offered the script to direct before Fincher came on: Fight Club ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). Panic Room read as a small antidote to the response to Fight Club.
    “This seemed like a little bit of an antidote to that because what's panic room about.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:19:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft) · through Panic Room (2002), which they were tied to as offered the script to direct before Fincher came on: Fight Club ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). The inside-the-house camera moves Fincher started in Fight Club are fully developed in Panic Room.
    “And there's a lot of like stuff that he had started to do a little bit with Fight Club is like really like fleshed out in panic room”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:20:53 · Chris Ryan (0.45 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (response to) · through Panic Room (2002), which they were tied to as offered the script to direct before Fincher came on: Fight Club ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). A host says Panic Room is a conscious response to Fight Club, which flopped and tried to be about everything.
    “Yes. And I feel like it's a very conscious response to fight club.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:24:52 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Fargo (1996): 1 line

  1. unmapped (model for the villains) · through Panic Room (2002), which they were tied to as offered the script to direct before Fincher came on: Fargo ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). A host feels Panic Room's funny villain and scary villain pair uses the Buscemi and Stormare model from Fargo.
    “But I'm realizing how much wisely it does feel like they're sort of using the model of Bushemi and Stoneman.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 2:20:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Jodie Foster: 1 line

  1. unmapped (led to) · through Panic Room (2002), which they were tied to as offered the script to direct before Fincher came on: Jodie Foster ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). The Game casting fell through, and Panic Room happened because she still wanted to work with Fincher.
    “Panic room ends up happening because of how badly she still wanted to work with Venture”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:56:56 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Rear Window (1954): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Panic Room (2002), which they were tied to as offered the script to direct before Fincher came on: Rear Window ⇒ Panic Room (the maker said so: Fincher's quotes the host reads). Fincher saw it as a cross between Rear Window and Straw Dogs.
    “So Fitcher saw panic group as a cross between rear window and straw dogs.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Sling Blade (1996): 1 line

  1. people (led to casting) · through Panic Room (2002), which they were tied to as offered the script to direct before Fincher came on: Sling Blade ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). A host says Yoakam was cast in Panic Room off of Sling Blade.
    “That was kind of what he got cast off over.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:02:00 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Straw Dogs (1971): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Panic Room (2002), which they were tied to as offered the script to direct before Fincher came on: Straw Dogs ⇒ Panic Room (the maker said so: Fincher's quotes the host reads). Fincher saw it as a cross between Rear Window and Straw Dogs (Peckinpah).
    “So Fitcher saw panic group as a cross between rear window and straw dogs.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

The Silence of the Lambs (1991): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Panic Room (2002), which they were tied to as offered the script to direct before Fincher came on: The Silence of the Lambs ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). The switcheroo with the dad and Raoul is a little Silence of the Lambs homage.
    “A little silence of lambs homage.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:53:47 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Thief (1981): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Panic Room (2002), which they were tied to as offered the script to direct before Fincher came on: Thief ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). Fincher may have watched Thief before Panic Room.
    “Fincher does panic room and he probably saw Thief like 2 weeks before he started filming”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:40:36 · Bill Simmons (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.

Flight Plan: 1 line

  1. unmapped (template for) · through Panic Room (2002), which they were tied to as offered the script to direct before Fincher came on: Panic Room ⇒ Flight Plan (the host's read). A host says Panic Room set the template for what looked like Foster's next phase of adult thrillers.
    “And I do think it's sort of set a template for what felt like, oh, this is Jody Foster's next phase that then went sort of died prematurely.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:01:44 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018): 1 line

  1. unmapped (set the template for) · through Panic Room (2002), which they were tied to as offered the script to direct before Fincher came on: Panic Room ⇒ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (the host's read). A host says Fincher's all-previs approach on this film created the pipeline for how blockbusters are made.
    “But that disc 2 is so much about that he basically created the pipeline for how all fucking blockbusters are made on this movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:31:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (2) everyone in directing

Acting (38) everyone in acting

Other (2) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (4)

  1. career (career arc): Forest Whitaker → Bird. Whitaker's Color of Money scene leads to Good Morning Vietnam and then Bird, and his run of Ghost Dog, Last King of Scotland and The Butler as movie-star vehicles.
    “And then the year after that is bird, which is just, I mean, it's one of my favorite Clint Eastwood movies, it's probably my favorite forest, what a performance”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 2:23:51 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Forest Whitaker → Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai. Whitaker spent years playing weird, off-kilter characters, as in Ghost Dog.
    “Like fucking Ghost Dog this, or Asian Harlem, which is a great fucking movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:44:40 · Van Lathan (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Forest Whitaker → The Color of Money. Whitaker went toe to toe with Newman in The Color of Money in the mid-80s.
    “going toe to toe with Newman.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:03:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Forest Whitaker → First Daughter. Whitaker passed on directing Panic Room because he needed to prep First Daughter, though he wanted to act in it.
    “And he passed on panic room.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:03:20 · Bill Simmons (0.45 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Forest Whitaker → Preacher. The Fast Times Whitaker character is the 10/10 benchmark; Preacher is a solid 9.
    “The Forest Whitaker character, just demolishing everybody.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:38:28 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)

people (2)

  1. people (typecasting / trope): Forest Whitaker → Species. He is called a tired cop or hostage in any movie, with Species as the odd example where he is a psychic cop.
    “He's a very effective psychic cop in a species.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 2:24:55 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Forest Whitaker → Jeff Green. Bill compares Whitaker's career to Jeff Green's: always popping up.
    “like the Jeff Green of actors.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:01:28 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)

unmapped (2)

  1. unmapped (re-emergence year): Forest Whitaker → Platoon. 1986 was Whitaker's re-emergence, working with Scorsese and Oliver Stone after pulling out of auditions to study acting.
    “He gets a couple parts early on and he's like, I don't know enough about acting and basically pulls himself out of auditioning and is like, I need to study more seriously.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 2:23:14 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (offered to direct): Forest Whitaker → Panic Room. Whitaker was offered the Panic Room script to direct before Fincher came on.
    “Do you know, at one point, he was offered this script to direct earlier before Fentrick came on?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:10:30 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Forest Whitaker: Whitaker's empath walks into the train car and says something bad happened to you; the panel loves the logic.
    “The Dan walking into the train car, seeing a dead woman in the husk of an alien uterus and saying something bad happened to you.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:40:45 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Forest Whitaker: The empath's powers are inconsistent: he can read feelings but needs somebody to knock at the door.
    “His powers are completely inconsistent in the movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:41:40 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Forest Whitaker: Bill calls him 'the Jeff Green of actors' because of his baffling career: Oscar winner who is also in Taken 3, ER, and a Fast Times linebacker.
    “like the Jeff Green of actors.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:01:28 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Forest Whitaker: He passed on directing Panic Room, wanting to act in it; he was prepping First Daughter, starring Katie Holmes, which he directed.
    “He also directed 1st daughter starring Katie Holmes.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:03:15 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Forest Whitaker: Winner of 'Best That Guy' / scene stealer: Whitaker as Amos takes over the movie for three minutes; Scorsese hands it to him.
    “I need this guy to take over my movie for 3 minutes.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:33:05 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Forest Whitaker: Test audiences felt too sympathetic toward Whitaker, so they cut in alternate takes of him looking less bummed out.
    “What I, maybe my interpretation of this was wrong, that they used alternate takes for the rest of the film to make him less sympathetic up until that point.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:05:30 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Forest Whitaker: Eva was Whitaker's driver for two weeks on a pre-movie turn-off-your-phone commercial in 2006, and the sponsor killed its political speech overnight.
    “But, um, so, but I was his driver and his, like, kind of chaperoned for 2 weeks.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:07:37 · Eva Anderson (0.90 sure it was them)