This has bugged me on and off for a while now and it may very well be a common knowledge that I missed some how. One of the most important if not the most important quality needed in a movie star next to Charisma is Empathy. This has traditionally differentiated action stars from movie stars. On one hand you have bruce willis, arnold, stallone. On the other hand you have Tom Hanks,Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Matt Damon. I honestly believe that it is this lack of empathy that prevents action stars from working with Top Directors.
Audience somehow need to feel sorry for movie stars when they see them in roles in movies. It is this fine line between ability to generate empathy or not that is kinda hurting lot of actors careers to varying degrees.
A prime example is Jude law. He looks like a movie star, he talks like a movie star but he never has been a movie star because you never feel empathy for him in any role. Thoughts ?
Audience somehow need to feel sorry for movie stars when they see them in roles in movies. It is this fine line between ability to generate empathy or not that is kinda hurting lot of actors careers to varying degrees.
A prime example is Jude law. He looks like a movie star, he talks like a movie star but he never has been a movie star because you never feel empathy for him in any role. Thoughts ?