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Jean-Luc Garbo wrote: Fri Sep 28, 2012 12:41 am Or Eigeman's attempts to get Ted laid.

Eigeman remains a criminally underutilized (comedic?) actor. I can't think of anything he wasn't hilarious in. "He'd already rather be bowhunting."

untitled wrote: Sun Sep 29, 2024 2:51 am

Jean-Luc Garbo wrote: Fri Sep 28, 2012 12:41 am Or Eigeman's attempts to get Ted laid.

Eigeman remains a criminally underutilized (comedic?) actor. I can't think of anything he wasn't hilarious in. "He'd already rather be bowhunting."

One of my favorite post-discussion Q&A's was for an anniversary screening of Kicking and Screaming with Noah Baumbach, Eigeman, Parker Posey and Josh Hamilton present (I think that was it), and they were all hilarious. Afterwards I thought the same about all of them - why aren't they cast more often in good stuff?

A few years later, I met a friend who is a huge Whit Stillman fan for lunch, and a man and woman next to us were having a fraught discussion. He sounded like an actor and she was probably his agent or manager, and he was clearly upset about some project he was on that wasn't living up to what it promised - I got the impression it hadn't happened yet and he basically wanted out rather than get dragged down by whatever was happening with it. We made eye contact at one point and I didn't think I knew who he was. (I was already discussing whatever craziness was happening at my job, and he probably heard some of that.) When they left 20 minutes later, my friend goes "holy shit, I've been biting my tongue for half an hour, but do you know what that was?!" It was Eigeman.

Sorry I missed this--thanks for posting. I've been kind of covered for a few months. Time to watch K&S again!