@lkayh

7 months ago

Eli is an incredible vocalist, voice actor, and also just plain actor. Watch him in the videos where they’re putting on a play as well as singing. The subtle differences between his Vikings, gangsters, and pirates make them each entirely different. And watch his face in Enemy—in less than a second at one point his demeanor goes from fairly benign to downright menacing. These guys are all great actors but Eli has that ability to totally transform himself by subtle changes in his expression and body language. Think Matt Damon—wonderful actor and I love every movie he’s been in, but he’s always Matt Damon in different circumstances, vs. Gary Oldman, who is all but unrecognizable from role to role. Or Denzel Washington, who in most movies is pretty much Denzel in different situations, vs. Denzel in Training Day, where for most of the movie he seems a lot like Denzel but as time goes on you can see that just under the surface there’s a monster—that got him a well-deserved Oscar. I’m a huge fan of Eli’s. Cesar shows signs of being that kind of actor as well—and he can change the timbre of his voice in the middle of a phrase in a song. Wow. Not saying ANY of the others aren’t wonderful in the acting department. There’s just a very unique something with Eli.

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