The late Hollywood icon James Dean He would have turned 94 on Saturday, February 8, if his life had not been cut tragically short.
Dean became an icon of the teenage rebellion of the 1950s because of his electric but sensitive portrait of problematic young man Jim Stark in 1955. Rebelwho was nominated for the best cinema story of next year (but lost to Love me or leave me). The actor appeared in only eight films before his tragic death at the age of 24 in 1955, after his Porsche 550 Spyder was involved in a front collision near Cholame, California. Layer and often touching Dean acting Rebel and East of edema He continues to inspire stars from the shorter generations, with the two aforementioned films, along with the posthumously released 1956. GiantTo be introduced into the National Film Register from the Congress Library.
As we celebrate Dean on this main date, continue to scroll to see the legendary actors he continues to inspire nearly a century after his birth.
Leonardo DiCaprio
Thehe Titanist star said Deadline In 2016, he feels “incredibly excited by Jimmy Dean” in East of edemaThe drama of World War I, in which Dean plays a disgruntled teenager Caleb Trask.
“There was something so harsh and powerful in this performance. His vulnerability … his confusion about his whole story, his identity, his despair to be loved. This performance just broke my heart, ”DiCaprio said.
DiCaprio was attached to play Dean in a biography of Heat Director Michael Man In the 1990s, but the project never came off the ground.
“We have seen videos of GiantAnd then (Mann) put me in the back of the car with this cowboy hat, “he confirmed in 2016.” But I was a very young looking child, even when I was young. He decided to wait a few years, but I … looked really young. “
Johnny Depp
Depp often credits Dean to Dean as a “catalyst” for refusing his music career to become an actor. He became fascinated by the late teenager idol after being given a copy of the dean biography The mutant king from a roommate in the 1980s.
“As I read the book, I watched RebelAnd I thought “wow, this man really has something” and I was hooked, “Depp said in 2005 BBC Radio 2 Documentary FilmS
The future Edward ScissorHands Star found Dean is an adopter of Acting Method, where he uses a set of physical and sociological techniques developed by the Russian actor Konstantin Stanislavski and promoted by teachers Lee Strasberg., Stella Adler and Sanford Maysner in the United States.
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“I wasn’t really doing at the time, but as I was reading the dean book. I also took on Actor is preparing From Stanislavski and is fascinated by the whole concept of the “method”, said Depp. “When I read that Dean was also from the Method School, everything came together for me. So it was a really important period for me, about three or four years before I decided to become an actor – and James Dean was the catalyst. “
Robert Pattinson
Thehe Batman The actor participated in the biography in 2015. Lifewhere he played the best friend of Dean Dennis stock oppositely Dane Dehaan as Giant Star.
Pattinson touched his personal feelings for Dean while promoting Life at the 2015 International Film Festival where he mentioned Feeling kinship with the screen legend at the beginning of your career.
“I think many (young) actors have their own, James Dean Phase, where every audition, no matter what the part is, they come in and make an impression on James Dean. I definitely had one of them, “he joked. “He is definitely emblematic.”
Thehe Dusk Later the star admitted Guardian that he never lobbies to play Dean in Life Because he “didn’t even know where to start” to prepare for the role. Pattinson said he admitted that there were similarities in the way both actors avoid intrusive reflection in the press.
“(When) the first Dusk I went out, I would definitely say dumb things just so I don’t sound a cookie cutter or part of the machine, “Pattinson admitted.
Dane Dehaan
Pattinson Life Kostar confirmed during the release of the biography that Dean “has always been a role model for him. Dehaan played Dean near the end of his life in the 2015 drama while traveling through the United States with his photographer Pal Dennis Stock (Pattinson).
“(Dean) has always been one of my favorite actors, so when I was in an acting school, I would watch his movies. He was incredible, “Dehaan said in an interview with Sail when Life He was released. “It was always for me, acting.”
Dehaan pointed East of edema as his favorite performance of deans but confessed that Rebel and Giant Also important influences on his style of acting. He has worked with both a dialect coach and a makeup artist in the construction of his Life Performance, in addition to wearing a wig and fake ear to match Dean’s physicality.
“The physicality of (presentation) comes most of the attempts to understand who he is as a person,” Dehaan explained. “If I have a strong and specific inner life, I think the next physicality follows.”
Robert de Niro
Twice Oscar The winner de Niro separated Dean, along with Montgomery Clift and Marlon BrandoIn an interview for 2015 with Amateur cigar As three actors, he was “affected” as he grew up.
Thehe Taxi driver Star even studied the “method” in Stella Adler’s studio from acting and studio of Lee Strasberg’s actors, where Dean perfected his craft in the early 1950s.
In a Interview from 1994De Niro suggested that Dean’s performances were especially spectacular for young actors because they looked completely incomparable from anyone else.
“When you saw James Dean doing it East of edemaHe was great, but you can’t do what he could do, “De Niro argued.
Nicholas Cage
Like Decap, Cage often cites Dean as a decisive early influence, helping him decide to continue to act. Cage comes from an excellent Hollywood family – copolas – but to say 60 minutes This Dean’s work inspired him most.
“It was about the desire to be James Dean in Rebel And he wore this red jacket, ”Cage said of his teenage ambitions.
Time East of edema as particularly significant to him.
“I started acting because I wanted to be James Dean. I have seen it in Rebel., East of edema“, Cage repeated. “Nothing influenced me – no rock song, no classical music – the way Dean influenced me EdemaS This blown my mind. I was like, “That’s what I want to do.”
Martin Sheen
The three -time Emmy win West wing The actor was a leading speaker of the James Dean Dean Global Media Event event in 2007, where he offered The Giant The star “exceeds” the art of acting.
“(In 1955) I went to see a movie called East of edemaAnd I didn’t realize he was already killed, “Sheen rememberedS “I have been deeply affected by his performance since then. … All three films have had a deep influence on my life, on my work and on my generation. “
Sheen shared his belief that the “nucleus of the influence of (Dean)” is that it is “no longer working, it is behavior” in his projects.
“(His acting) was deeply, deeply personal. I liked it and everyone who was influenced by him, “Sheen added. “(He had) this deep, deeply personal involvement in what he did, and that made us … really understand (yes) that if it is not personal, it is impersonal and if it is impersonal, no one really cares . “
