The Untold Truth Of Christopher Plummer

christopher plummer was an academy award-winning actor with a long and storied career but while he was best known for playing captain von trapp and the sound of music there was much more to the canadian porn star this is the untold truth of christopher plummer christopher plummer's grand stage presence might give the impression that he was from the sort of family that got dressed up for dinner and had entire rooms at their home dedicated to entertaining and he absolutely was according to the washington post plumber's family was established by john abbott a lawyer and canadian prime minister who was given a knighthood in 1892 plummer was born just a few decades later on december 13 1929 and was always frank about the advantages he had as a child he credited his love of theater to the many evenings his family would spend reading aloud to one another since his love of theater was deep plummer was initially dismissive of film acting writing in his memoir i harbored the old-fashioned stage actor's snobism toward movie-making furthermore plumber's upbringing was the sort that made him consider a career as a classical pianist first he would later tell vanity pair that he thought acting was very similar to playing classical music since quote you make your own symphony out of words christopher plummer once described his family as belonging to the quote fading social aristocracy but his early life wasn't entirely consumed with playing tennis and learning the piano even though both were part of it plumber's parents split not long after he was born and his father had nothing to do with him until he was a teenager in fact plummer never even met his father until he was 17 when his father showed up at a play he was in plummer later recalled that he and his father would meet a few more times throughout his life but the actor also admitted to never having any kind of relationship with his dad plummer also remembered that while his teachers called him gifted he had somewhat of a rebellious side recalling his wild early years plummer wrote in his memoir how often is a mere teenager tanked to the gills on cheap rye whiskey and molson chasers did i stagger home in the blinding cold to say that christopher plummer hated the sound of music is putting it very very lightly according to the new york times he wasn't even fond of referring to the film by the proper name and instead called it the sound of mucus in an interview with the irish times plummer explained why he loaded the film he's best remembered for because it was so awful and sentimental and gooey he had to work terribly hard to try and infuse some minuscule bit of humor into it how did he cope with it plummer told vanity pair that he was only on set for a surprising 11 days but filled all of his downtime drinking and eating all the pastries he could find plummer recalled i got so fat when i got to shooting director robert wise said my god you look like orson welles we had to redo the costume he didn't just casually drink during his downtime either plummer later admitted that during the famous music festival scene he was completely drunk his dislike for the movie stayed with him for a long time in an interview with collider plumber revealed that it irked him to no end when someone wanted to only talk about the sound of music with him plumber told the outlet i don't understand it you want to say excuse me haven't you seen other films as well in 2018 christopher plummer spoke with the guardian about his new film boundaries and predictably the conversation turned to the sound of music and it was wonderful to be in a great big hollywood musical he said that by that point he'd found peace with it and noted that the only reason he agreed to take the job in the first place was because he'd been working on a singing voice and wanted the opportunity to sing in a film it didn't happen though because that's not him singing like no i never frequently sing really what much you want a tony for singing yes i don't know why because it's a sort of voice that's like a crocodile in heat when npr interviewed him in 2012 and asked if he occasionally broken a song plummer responded with quote of course not he went on to explain that the entrances and exits from the songs were him but the majority of it was not the reason was fairly simple julie andrews was a phenomenal singer and plumber was not so he didn't want to try and compete with her obvious talents everyone can agree that there's no shame in that so the filmmakers dubbed most of his singing when plummer spoke to the daily mail in 2015 he had this to say about women oh i adore women they're not nearly as emotional as men in a funny way men are silly romantic creatures whereas women when they have the responsibility of running things make marvelous leaders plummer found his marvelous match on his third try at the time of the daily mail interview he and his third wife had been married for 45 years his first two marriages had lasted just a few years each but he said that he had no doubts qualms or hesitations when it came to the third time he had met elaine taylor just three years after the sound of music and said that at that point he knew that he was lonely and thus needed someone in his life it's one of those stories that's great on the surface but hints at a much bigger problem christopher plummer told the daily mail that in the 1950s he and fellow actor jason robarts were drinking in new york city when they got the attention of a cop instead of keeping it down they promised to buy the cop a drink but on one condition the cop's horse also had to join him the cop agreed and shortly after the horse was brought into the bar and jason bought everybody a triple tequila's and gave the horse one in interviews plummer said those days were long past him and was candid about his struggles with alcohol when he met his third wife elaine he said i thought i was devastatingly attractive when i was drunk but elaine soon dissuaded me of that notion plummer admitted that he was usually angry when he was drinking and credited his wife with giving him a reason to stop when he accepted his oscar for best supporting actor in 2012 plummer spoke about how elaine's insistence that he stopped drinking saved his life telling the audience i was really going downhill thank god for that as far as i'm concerned christopher plummer's admiration for his daughter amanda is clear in describing his daughter to the guardian plummer had this to say she has that inner madness and fire that she lets fly where she unleashes that power from i don't know but it's quite natural to her and rather frightening however that's not to say plummer and his daughter always had a close or easy relationship in fact plummer was very much absent throughout much of his daughter's life kind of like his own dad amanda plummer was the product of his first marriage to tammy grimes and she was raised mostly by her mother in the u.s while her father remained largely in europe in an interview with the daily mail plummer was honest about his absentee fatherism telling the outlet i was a lousy husband and an even worse father still amanda plummer went on to follow in her father's footsteps and she's best known for her roles on pulp fiction and hunger games fortunately for both her and her father they did make up for lost time by 2015 christopher plummer was able to describe them as having quote a nice relationship when bethesda announced the release of the video game the elder scrolls 5 skyrim they had no idea what a juggernaut they were going to have according to digital trends it's impossible to say just how many copies have been sold but in 2021 it was still sitting comfortably at number 16 in digital trend's best selling games of all time when the voice cast was announced way back in 2011 christopher plummer headlined as the voice of greybeard's ungear if it seems like a huge leap from the stage to voicing characters in video games it absolutely is which is why collider felt compelled to ask plumber whether or not he himself is a gamer plumber had this short response no that is something that is totally foreign to me these days it's often not enough to watch and enjoy a film many want to pull back the curtain and find out how it all comes together that extends to actors too and learning all about the weird ways they get into character when collider asked plummer about how he prepared for roles on the stage and on film he quickly made it clear that he wasn't going to talk about it after saying that it was essentially none of their business he explained that the world of movie making had pretty much no mystery left to it and that sort of made him sad he continued you don't want the magician to show his tricks or how he did them do you so i do think that is a very private thing that we actors should protect ourselves from he did say that getting ready for roles got easier as time went by and he got more and more experience in other words whatever he did it totally worked for him and everyone should really just sit back and enjoy the show in 2017 it was announced that director ridley scott had cut kevin spacey from a major role in all the money in the world amid accusations of sexual misconduct spacey had already done days of work on the film and they needed someone to not just step in but also prep for reshoots scott headed to new york to catch christopher plummer just before he headed to florida on vacation and according to the guardian it all happened with shocking speed plummer signed on just a few weeks before the film was set to premiere he only had about two days to get to england and learn his lines from start to finish the whole thing was just a few weeks and according to plummer his theater background provided some seriously valuable experience in learning his lines on the fly he told the hollywood reporter that he refused an offer to watch the footage with spacey and just sort of jumped in with both feet plummer added that while he had met the real-life version of his character jay paul getty at parties a few times in the 60s and 70s most of what you see on screen was still quote imagination of what the man must have been when christopher plummer agreed to appear in all the money in the world he wasn't the only actor needed on set co-stars michelle williams and mark wahlberg also had to return for reshoots according to the hollywood reporter plummer had nothing but accolades for both of them he was a quote enormous fan of william's work and lauded wahlberg as being quote so good he called both actors delightful to work with and that's incredibly high praise because plummer isn't head over heels for this next generation of actors after being lauded for the on-screen chemistry he had with helen mirren in the last station he told boston.com that he basically got along with everyone he worked with because if he didn't respect them he wasn't going to work with them and as far as the 20-something accuracy was dealing with in 2010 well plumber had this to say they are a problematic bunch these young actors are not trained enough they jump into television and want to be stars without doing any work check out one of our newest videos right here plus even more grunge videos about your favorite celebrities are coming soon subscribe to our youtube channel and hit the bell so you don't miss a single one you

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Length: 9min 26sec (566 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 20 2021