Jeremy Davies

[Freckles Juice]

I'm digging his character but I can't help relate to his character in Saving Private Ryan. They are both cowards and meek. Actually coward might be going over board a bit when referring to Dan, but he is definitely meek.

http://www.rzm.com/pvt.ryan/production/cast/davies.jpg

I keep picturing that horrific scene where he lets the guy get killed by the German soldier. It was a such a great scene.

http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/070925/saving_l.jpg

I'm hoping he bucks up a bit and shows that he has a bit more spunk than what he has demonstrated so far. Then again not everyone can be Sayid.

At least o' Danny boy seems to have the ladies on his side. :p

On another note I thought it was funny that both my wife and my best friend were convinced that he was the guy that played Doogie Howser, Neil Patrick Harris. :D

http://www.22dakika.org/imaj/artieksibir/285-davies-jeremy-082207.jpghttp://www.ichatgay.com/img_blog/521.jpg

[southernlove]

Did you guys see him play Charles Manson in Helter Skelter? He was pretty terrifying in that movie. He does this creepy thing with his voice sometimes.

[rosegeorge]

He is gorgeousssssss. I'm like a little school girl. :love:

But in all seriousness, his acting is pretty good. Helter Skelter is a prime example of that.

[ilsa lund]

I think Jeremy was in "Rescue Dawn"; he was also in "Twister" which is getting a a HD release: http://www.cinemablend.com/dvdnews/Twister-Heads-For-High-Definition-Formats-9709.html

Also, Jeremy will be honored: The Vail Film Festival’s 2008 tribute award recipients - http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20080328/AE/240509948

[Erinti]

If we're listing his oeuvre now, Solaris is another good one for the Davies-appreciator. An appealing character (if the fidgeting and flailing and the constant disfluencies in his speech don't get on your nerves; I don't mind them any, but others may have different views), and some (http://outnow.ch/Media/Img/2002/Solaris/movie.fs/101) lovely (http://outnow.ch/Media/Img/2002/Solaris/movie.fs/91) shots (http://outnow.ch/Media/Img/2002/Solaris/movie.p/04) of him. (That last one in particular's a favorite of mine.) And I hear he was in The Laramie Project with Michael Emerson and Nestor Carbonell.

(And really, the other guys on the show can go be Rambo; sweet little Daniel can stay as he is until he just as meekly and just as nervously betrays his employers and throws his lot in with the Losties. Just watch. I'd be willing to bet good money it goes this way—but that's perhaps another thread.)

Finally, seriously, it's awesome to see our boy being recognized.

[UnaLovesU2]

Watch the Million Dollar Hotel, Tom Tom=Faraday :D

[Exie]

Moving my post from the Faraday thread. :)
From IMDB: It's from a movie called "CQ."

How cute is that!! :love:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v80/kat9375/1-1.jpg

[Caroo]

veeeery cute ;)

[Brea]

But in all seriousness, his acting is pretty good. Helter Skelter is a prime example of that.

Yeah, I thought he did a good job copying Manson's mannerisms and speech patterns. Here's a clip of Jeremy as Manson for anyone who hasn't seen the film: Helter Skelter (http://youtube.com/watch?v=_typtV2Sip4)


On a lighter note, I found this old Subaru commercial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7pmvP-PXTU) featuring Jeremy. It says it's from 1992, so he would've been in his early 20s. Cute.

[Erinti]

I'd say "new respect for Mr. Davies" after watching that clip, but I already had it, so it's kind of not new. Definite respect, though.

And that commercial? Hee. You know, I feel something of a disconnect from fellow fans who talk about him now, at 38, in terms of young or immature things and go on about how they want to pinch his cheek and feed him cookies or something. Then I watch this commercial, and I think that, with what I see here, I can relate, in a way, to what those fans see in the Mr. Davies of today.

[SKaN0n56]

I have found a new reason to watch this show. The amazingly adorable Jeremy Davies! :w00t: I actually watched Saving Private Ryan last night just so I could see him in it. :p I haven't gushed this way about a guy in a while.....:giggle:

[Brea]

And that commercial? Hee. You know, I feel something of a disconnect from fellow fans who talk about him now, at 38, in terms of young or immature things and go on about how they want to pinch his cheek and feed him cookies or something. Then I watch this commercial, and I think that, with what I see here, I can relate, in a way, to what those fans see in the Mr. Davies of today.

Lol. I must confess that I'm one of those guilty of engaging in unabashed fangirliness. :o


I haven't gushed this way about a guy in a while.

In that case, here's a fan vid (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5YHskaZnsk) you may enjoy. I don't care for the music at all, but the pics are quite nice.

[Erinti]

Oh, I'm probably almost as fangirly over him as you are, if not more so, but, well, I'd rather rip the guy's clothes off than feed him cookies (or at least the cookies can wait); I just think that common preconceptions about delicacy and innocence (qualities he brings in spades to the character of Daniel) cause some fans to lose sight of the fact that this is a grown-ass man we're dealing with here, and it's really kind of interesting.

[Brea]

Oh, I'm probably almost as fangirly over him as you are, if not more so, but, well, I'd rather rip the guy's clothes off than feed him cookies (or at least the cookies can wait); I just think that common preconceptions about delicacy and innocence (qualities he brings in spades to the character of Daniel) cause some fans to lose sight of the fact that this is a grown-ass man we're dealing with here, and it's really kind of interesting.

Lol. Well, feeding him cookies isn't something I envision either. But yeah, it does seem that many fans tend to view him as more of a boy than a grown man. It is a bit strange considering that he's close to 40 years old. Although, it's great that he is still able to so convincingly portray the sort of boyish innocence that makes people just want to hug him. With many actors, it would come off as insincere.

[Erinti]

Oh, I definitely agree there.

[ilsa lund]

Scroll for a review of Jeremy in "Rescue Dawn": http://www.411mania.com/movies/columns/75439

[Erinti]

Rescue Dawn is definitely in my queue.

[YouAreAHero]

I saw Saving Private Ryan!
He's a very good actor, but his character in that movie was such a wimp, haha.

[SKaN0n56]

I saw Saving Private Ryan!
He's a very good actor, but his character in that movie was such a wimp, haha.

Lol. Jus a bit. Watching him cry in that staircase was heartbreaking but he managed to make it look adorable, oddly enough. :p Plus he was speaking French...or was it German? :rolleyes:

[YouAreAHero]

Lol. Jus a bit. Watching him cry in that staircase was heartbreaking but he managed to make it look adorable, oddly enough. :p Plus he was speaking French...or was it German? :rolleyes:


I felt sorry for his character..he was just a translator and not meant to be in such intense battle..
I think he was speaking German!

[ilsa lund]

Excerpt:

But then there are the movies made about Charles Manson — the documentaries, the novelty re-enactments of what really went on within “The Family” (like 2005’s The Manson Family), and a bookend pair of CBS television dramatizations. In 1976, Steve Railsback drew raves for playing Manson in a two-part TV-movie adaptation of Helter Skelter, and Railsback was extraordinarily good — feral, scary, intense. But I’d like to draw your attention to a version of the Manson saga that never won the acclaim, or the prominence, it deserved. Five years ago, Jeremy Davies played Manson in a 2004 TV remake of Helter Skelter that was bolder, scarier, and even more unsettlingly authentic than the 1976 version. Davies first won the role by making his own audition tape, which became a widely circulated industry bootleg, and the producers allowed him to rewrite his lines. His performance is a revelation. If you want to know what Charles Manson is all about, then this is the movie to see.

Davies is best known for roles in which he palpitates with anxiety. He was the pathological-dweeb hero of David O. Russell’s 1994 Spanking the Monkey, and (most memorably) the cowardly Corporal Upham in Saving Private Ryan, where his milk-pale face and squinty eyes became an indelible, trembling image of the primal terror of war. In Helter Skelter, Davies freezes that fear and flips it inside out. He’s the first actor to capture Manson’s danger, his sociopathic ice-gleam stare, and he also gets Manson the wackadoo hipster, snaky and jaunty, hypnotized by the beatnik flow of his own words, which is how he could use them to hypnotize others. Leaning in close to the girls in his flock, he wraps a whispery drawl around lines like “How long you gonna keep playing your part in their game — your disposable role in the game they keep playin’ with your mind?” He seethes like a wasp with a broken stinger.

Davies’ Manson is an antsy varmint, like Kris Kristofferson on some very bad drugs. With eyebrows lowered, permanently, into his face, everything he says is a sneaky threat; there’s violence in his twirly hand gestures, his crooked, swaying walk. Yet even when Davies is going off into one of Charlie’s crackpot, shaman-of-the-’60s rants, he shows you that secret part of Manson whose mind is always calculating. More than just street-smart, he’s a politician, a born delegator, which is how he gets others to commit unspeakable crimes for him.

Of course, the fact that Charles Manson himself never killed anyone — at least, not on Aug. 9 or 10 — is part of what’s so chilling about his saga. The murderous Manson girls were smiling middle-class achievers and homecoming queens. The fact that they could have been turned into such barbaric monsters is the real mystery at the heart of those events. The standard explanation is, “They were brainwashed by Charlie,” but the darker half of the explanation — and it’s captured deftly by the 2004 Helter Skelter — is that they were willing, on some level, to be brainwashed. Their identities were that fragile and malleable. And that, more than anything, is what still haunts us, 40 years later, about the Manson murders — that they tapped and brought to the surface the demons that lived inside “ordinary” people. That was Charles Manson’s sick way of changing the world, and it worked.

http://movie-critics.ew.com/2009/08/09/charles-manson-40-years-later-the-movie-about-him-you-have-to-see/

Also from EW:

Geeky = Sexy? 12 High-IQ TV/Movie Hunks

1. JEREMY DAVIES
Daniel Faraday on Lost

We may never entirely understand the physics behind Faraday's time travel shenanigans in Lost. But we entirely understand why the producers signed up the believably professorial yet intriguingly intense Davies to play him.

http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20153312_20153315_20297403,00.html