Superman Returns Brandon Routh the Bartender

[Brainiac 2009]

I just saw this old interview with Brandon Routh hanging out at his old bartending job at Lucky Strike Lanes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79MCraczhbc&NR

And I realized how random it was for someone to go from a job like that to playing the most iconic American hero.

It's crazy.

This has to be the biggest leap from being a nobody to being someone important I've never seen in the motion picture business. Even Reeve was a broadway actor but Brandon literally went from nothing to the leading role in a 200 million dollar movie.

This has to be some kind of record.

 

[KalMart]

Harrison Ford....from carpenter for hire to Han Solo in one year.

 

[matrix_ghost]

I just saw this old interview with Brandon Routh hanging out at his old bartending job at Lucky Strike Lanes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79MCraczhbc&NR

And I realized how random it was for someone to go from a job like that to playing the most iconic American hero.

It's crazy.

This has to be the biggest leap from being a nobody to being someone important I've never seen in the motion picture business. Even Reeve was a broadway actor but Brandon literally went from nothing to the leading role in a 200 million dollar movie.

This has to be some kind of record.

Well he did some acting. I mean it's not he was literally picked from a bar just cause he looked like Supes and then cast.
If i remember correcly the Bar job was just something he did besides the acting.
Didn't he even play in WIll and Grace

 

[Brainiac 2009]

Just as an extra with one line.

 

[lexlives]

Well he did some acting. I mean it's not he was literally picked from a bar just cause he looked like Supes and then cast.
If i remember correcly the Bar job was just something he did besides the acting.
Didn't he even play in WIll and Grace

He spent a year or so on daytime's OLTL as Seth a few years back.

 

[super_fan]

This has to be the biggest leap from being a nobody to being someone important I've never seen in the motion picture business. Even Reeve was a broadway actor but Brandon literally went from nothing to the leading role in a 200 million dollar movie.

This has to be some kind of record.

Nope.


There was a bigger leap from unknown to major movie role than Brandon Routh. Model/car salesman George Lazenby was cast as James Bond in the 1969 James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service. He wasn't an actor, never acted before but got the role of Bond. And Bond was absolutely huge in the 1960s, up there with the Beatles in terms of world popularity. Lazenby quit the role after one film but he was a good Bond. I think Lazenby was a better replacement for Connery's Bond than Routh was for Reeve's Superman. OHMSS is a classic Bond film too.

George Lazenby as James Bond:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWaNdo4gVsU

Classic stuff.

 

[matrix_ghost]

He spent a year or so on daytime's OLTL as Seth a few years back.

 

[Brainiac 2009]

One Life to Live as Seth Anderson

 

[KalMart]

Boy, he looked like Reeve even back then.

 

[Excel]

lazenby was a model making lots of money routh was a bartender...not even a real job...ditto ford...carpenters a legit job.

 

[lexlives]

lazenby was a model making lots of money routh was a bartender...not even a real job...ditto ford...carpenters a legit job.

But Routh had a year's gig on OLTL and made 1 film - Syriana (sp?). I believe he did some cable stuff too as well as the guest spots - Cold case and Will & Grace for two. Lazenby had not acted before and neither had Harrison.

 

[Brainiac 2009]

lol

Did anyone catch the part in the interview where SuChin tells Kal Penn she 'sucks so hard'?

Freudian slip?

 

[Kevin Roegele]

Harrison Ford....from carpenter for hire to Han Solo in one year.

Harrison Ford had already been in a George Lucas movie, American Graffitti.

 

[Freddy_Krueger]

Harrison Ford had already been in a George Lucas movie, American Graffitti.

It was a bit part, however. He was still a full time carpenter at that point. It wasn't until Star Wars that he acted full time.

 

[Showtime]

But Routh had a year's gig on OLTL and made 1 film - Syriana (sp?). I believe he did some cable stuff too as well as the guest spots - Cold case and Will & Grace for two. Lazenby had not acted before and neither had Harrison.

Routh was in Syriana?

 

[lexlives]

Routh was in Syriana?

No, my mistake. It was a Canadian indy film. Serena or something like that. The BRouth site has the info.

 

[KalMart]

Harrison Ford had already been in a George Lucas movie, American Graffitti.

I know that (Bob Falfa), but he was dead in the water, as far as the acting gig when Star Wars came around. It's still a big jump.

 

[IT is Batgirl]

"Karla" but the role was quite small.

 

[matthooper]

It was a bit part, however. He was still a full time carpenter at that point. It wasn't until Star Wars that he acted full time.

Harrison Ford worked in show business regularly from his first part in 1966 up until Star Wars.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000148/

 

[Retroman]

There are many stories of actors who struggled to make a living whilst trying to pursue their hollywood dream.Brad Pitt used drive around strippers in a limo for example.

 

[Brainiac 2009]

Did any of them get their first big break in a 200mil movie?

 

[dark_b]

Did any of them get their first big break in a 200mil movie?

brandon acted very good for a movie that size.

 

[supesfan80]

On a side note, for all those of you who constantly wish to see a larger shield on Routh's body....the T-shirt he's wearing is pretty much it. (Not too bad in my opinion, although the cape attachment is all I really had a problem with.)

Anyway, if someone gets screen caps it'd probably be a good source for manips.

just a thought totally random to the conversation and I apologize.

 

[KalMart]

Did any of them get their first big break in a 200mil movie?

I believe Star Wars did rather well in the box office.

 

[Freddy_Krueger]

Harrison Ford worked in show business regularly from his first part in 1966 up until Star Wars.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000148/

Yes, but they were bit parts. It wasn't until Star Wars that acting paid the bills and he could nix being a carpenter.