News culture At 74, he challenges Sylvester Stallone and Vin Diesel: nobody sees him as a hero of action film and yet it is one of the best …
When we quote particularly famous action film actors, we think mainly of Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Statham and Company. But there is indeed an actor who has proven himself for decades and that we tend to forget when he played alongside the older ones …
We don’t often think of him, and yet his career is impressive
If you like Hollywood action movies, you necessarily have your favorite actor in this genre. If the most classic will certainly go to Sylvester Stallone or Arnold Schwarzenegger, others will prefer Bruce Willis, Jason Statham or even Keanu Reeves. But unless you really want to go against it, there are few who would quote Kurt Russel To play in this category. However, they would be wrong to underestimate it.
Now 74 years old, Kurt Russel is clearly one of the actors to the most prolific career in Hollywood. It must be said that he worked with very big names, starting with John Carpenter. It was indeed by his side that he was able to perform Elvis in 1979 in the TV movie Elvis’ novelbefore finally embodying the famous Snake Plissken in New York 1997. He will also follow Carpenter to one of his best known films: the famous The Thing From 1982. So certainly, he did not only do action films, far from it. But we could still find him in front of the objective of Quentin Tarantino 3 times thanks to Death boulevard, The eight bastards et Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. And recently, he even joined two particularly popular cinematographic universes…
He has nothing to envy to Sylvester Stallone and Vin Diesel!
If you are rather young or you only watch superhero films, you may have known Kurt Russel thanks to one of his most recent roles: the antagonist Ego In The Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2. Indeed, he joined the MCU thanks to this role when he was 66 years old. He then played the biological father of Starlord, interpreted by Chris Pratt in the film. And besides, even if they had no scene together, it was also in this film that another classic actor appeared: Sylvester Stallone. The opportunity for the two actors to meet 28 years after Tango et Crashwhere they shared the main roles.
And if you prefer cars and family stories, Kurt Russel has also joined another hyper popular action saga in recent years: the famous saga Fast and Furious. He played there indeed Mr. Nobody Alongside Vin Diesel since Fast and Furious 7 in 2015 and camped this role until Fast and Furious 9 In 2021. No doubt, even if we tend to forget it, Kurt Russel is therefore one of the greatest actors in Hollywood and is not afraid to diversify genres, from action to horror through romantic comedy.
