I find it has more to do with my age than the name of the celebrity. The older I get, the more I'm like, "You know...that guy...in that movie...with the woman from that TV show we always watch? We like the show, but hated the movie, but thought she was funny in it? YOU KNOW WHO I MEAN!"
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
True age matters, I think maybe it has something to do with people with three names, my mind is lazy. I'm trying to think of the guy who played Gabe for a while, he's a big star, no idea.
I struggle with 3 names period. It's particularly challenging for me to remember the names of men who hyphenate their and their wives' last names these days like a few colleagues. However, for some reason I have no problem recalling any mono-named z-lister. I remember watching a Project Runway finale a few years ago and going "wow, there's Zendaya", long before she was known worldwide as a fashion plate. Brian D'Arcy James and Jonathan Rhys Meyers are two names that almost never stick with me but I still remember Vivica Fox billed as Vivica A. Fox.
Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise etc sure got it right with their 'stage name'.
If I were heading into the entertainment industry I sure wouldn't use my difficult to say last name--I would want something easy to pronounce/remember and look great up in lights !
Hey, the name Saoirse Ronan didn’t stop her from getting an Oscar nomination. But I did feel badly that the majority or all her interviews were about “Saoirse, like inertia!” and games like making her pronounce other oddly spelled/pronounced Irish names. I don’t mind names that are different. What’s lousy is people having to change names to convenience the public.
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What is the name of the guy who has been in everything, like Shrek, N2N, a hundred other things? Just saw him on TV, what's his name? Brian D'Arcy James, sorry.
South Florida said: "What is the name of the guy who has been in everything, like Shrek, N2N, a hundred other things? Just saw him on TV, what's his name? Brian D'Arcy James, sorry.
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What's hard to remember about Brian D'Arcy James? By your own comment, casting directors don't seem to have any trouble remembering his name. His career in TV and film is taking off but he should change his name cause you have, as you yourself put it, a lazy mind?