Happy Birthday to Patrick Wilson

Best wishes to you, Patrick. May you and your family continue to be blessed with good health, great happiness and continued success.

Now, when are you coming back to Broadway?

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Updated On: 7/3/09 at 08:29 AM

My birthday gift to Mr. Wilson. Hope it helps.

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Just my opinion that he's a cipher.

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Exactly!

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Loved Patrick as Billy Bigelow in the National Tour of "Carousel" back in 1996. He was riveting!

Had "The Producers" not come out in 2001, perhaps "The Full Monty" would have played longer and won some Tony Awards. Patrick was wonderful in the show.

If you're referring to him in the film version of "Phantom," everyone in the film was on 1 level - except Minnie Driver's Carlotta. That had nothing to do with Patrick. That was the director's choice, not his.

So, what am I missing here regarding Patrick? What do you know that the rest of us don't?

Glad to hear that you'd never blame an actor for the director, directing them to do the character that way. That says a lot about you...not like most people on this board. :)

Yes, Patrick was wonderful in "All My Sons." It was a very powerful performance.

No, I couldn't force myself to that production of All My Sons. Not with that cast. Maybe if somebody paid me to go.

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I wasn't commenting on his performance (though I have no difficulty imagining it). I was merely explaining why Dollypop was correct in his assumption that I hadn't seen it.

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Life is too short.

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Here's the thing. I know that some people cause physical reactions in others. There are definitely actors who arouse my interest with their physical appearance and it clouds my assessment of their abilities.

Dollypop, you have been unabashedly in lust with Patrick Wilson since you first encountered him in the half-assed Oklablowme! revival. I recall you completely overlooking that production's prodigious shortcomings because you only had eyes for PW on these boards.

Personally, I don't get any sort of sex vibe off Wilson, because I don't think he has any. But none of us has any control over who turns us on and why.

Perhaps because he strikes me as neuter, I don't think it's a surprise each of the performances I've seen from him have been of milquetoast nothings who are ineffectual at best and pathetic victims at worst. Hey, he's working. Good for him! Some people somehow find him sexy. (Ugh. That mouth.) Even better!

But I can't convince myself he's got anything but average talent as I did for a long time with Jason Statham, for example. Eventually I had to admit he physically turned me on but there was no there there.

Maybe Wilson will develop some new tricks and skills as he ages and he can play interesting old men. But I predict it'll be more milquetoast nothings.

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Literally neutered. It's all he does.

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Oh man, can you ever say that again, sticktopriest. When I consider that if anybody else on the planet known as Earth had played Wilson's role in Watchmen, the execrable performance of Matthew Goode as Ozymandias would forever be one of the cinematic nadirs of all time. But Patrick Wilson even managed to be worse than that. Again, Wilson called on simply for his ability to be impotent and he even mucked that up.

I wonder what a talented actor might have done?

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