I have a couple of problems with Sam Worthington. I won’t bore you with the full list but, broadly speaking, his interviews and the way he communicates can be entirely jarring. No, I don’t mean his accent or his patter. I mean what he is actually trying to communicate in interviews. I’ve said before that he tries too hard to be the man’s man/ everyman. And his insistence that he’s down-to-earth, true as it may be, gets old really quick. The actor also seems very vacant in photos. Like, dead-eyed. I can’t think of a better way to describe it, but he just looks like he’s staring into the light in wonder. Or like his attempts at thought during the day have burnt him out and now he can do little more in every picture than give a glassy-eyed, thoughtless stare. I mean it. Look at just about any picture, there’s always a gormless look on his face. This has, however, been cunningly rectified by the use of glasses. You see… Worthington is, like, totally smart now. Look at these pictures. He totally comes off as WAY smart.
Homer celebrates smarties everywhere with the S-M-A-R-T dance @ 12-seconds.
I keed about him looking any smarter. Psyche. He’s said in numerous interviews that he has horrible blurred vision without glasses, yet he still refuses to wear them most of the time. He is still pretty to look at. So I’m gonna do just that.
The pictures in the gallery show a bespectacled Sam Worthington as he attends the Clash of the Titans press conference in Tokyo, Japan on April 7, 2010.
Image credit to Barcroft/Fame Pictures.
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I totally agree, I read his Details interview and it was nauseating how much he tries to go for that salt of the earth image. He basically had stardom handed to him on a platter because of his looks, his background doesn’t even sound like he ever even had to try for an audition he just shows up and gets the role.
Yeah… I read the whole interview and he has little to say, in several thousand words of copy, aside from “I’m a bit rugged/ down-to-earth”.
Totally. He admitted in his Details interview that he was coasting and even taking roles just because he fancied his female co-stars. He wasn’t trying at all until Avatar and T4.
OMG, he looks like Ewan in the glasses pics!
Ha ha, yeah, Alki. He looks like the bastard child of Ewan and a bespectacled Justin Timberlake in this picture in particular.
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Why is it that when a celebrity IS down to earth and is not a complete jaded, stuck up, ass-hole people starts questioning him/her. Almost as if they want that celebrity to be a jaded, stuck up, ass-hole. He probably doesn’t know how to pose or something for the camera he’s just getting used to to new found popularity.
He may well be down-to-earth, but he does himself no favours by talking about little else. It makes it look like he has literally nothing else to say. His Details interview was very telling. Several thousand words of copy over 5 pages, and this link shows the only quotes from him. It’s about 1,000 words before he says anything at all. The story is almost all filler with other people’s quotes about him… it struck me that was because he said so little of value, he left them no other choice but to put together the article in this way. Christian Bale, by contrast, is linked in Sam’s interview. Christian’s Details interview is about 80-90% direct quotes. Sam’s is about 10-15%.
He has been around for over a decade, but you are correct about the above.
So, like, we can totally tell from your smug and self righteous comments about Sam Worthington that you’re, like, really petty.
Over the last ten years of seeing Sam Worthington give interviews in Australia, what you see is exactly what you get. He IS down to earth, smart, funny and has a wonderful self deprecating sense of humour.
And how condescending to completely ignore and dismiss his previous body of work in film, theater and tv over a ten year period as though it means nothing and that he has had “everything handed to him on a platter”…..beyond ignorant.
Nope, just being honest.
Good to know – I’ve watched some old interviews of him in Australia and he seems nice enough, I guess.
Not that I expect you to have read the other comments before commenting, but I point that out in the reply directly above.
I know how long he’s been around. I wrote the post above knowing that also. It doesn’t affect my opinion.
Not so. Making assumptions would be part of ignorance. You’re assuming I don’t know he’s been around since his 20s….
You have some serious beef with this guy huh? He seems sound, insistence that he is down-to-earth all the time is because he wants to distance himself from other stars. It depends on what the questions were and whether they need him to really state that that is part of his character.
I am on the same page with the whole, humble, down-to-earth people shouldn’t have to consistently say that they are that way, but in hollywood in the early stages, it pretty much has to be done.
In relation to the glasses thing, chill out, lots of people aren’t comfortable wearing their glasses, so the dudes got some funky glasses and he’s wearing them for once. Give him a break.
You also don’t need to be such a pedant and comment on everyones comments. People views are their own, stop trying to impress yours as the right one.
*Shrugs…* No, I don’t have beef with him. It’s just some points I felt like raising. So I did.
I’m not fussed whether people agree. They may say what they wish, so long as they stay on topic.
It’s my site, and I may reply to whomever I wish. I don’t require anyone’s feedback on that. I don’t do it on every comment/ post, only when I feel like it. If you have a problem with it, you are free to not spend time on the site at all/ go to a site where the owner ignores or doesn’t ever respond for whatever reason.