{"id":10427,"date":"2014-08-01T05:23:37","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T09:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=10427"},"modified":"2021-03-22T11:28:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T15:28:58","slug":"hollywoods-10-toughest-tough-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=10427","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood’s 10 Toughest Tough Guys"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Empire Magazine<\/b><\/a> asked Frank Grillo<\/strong>, the star of The Purge: Anarchy<\/strong><\/em> to pick his Ten Toughest Hollywood Tough Guys<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I love Grillo’s<\/strong> picks and the rationale for them. \u00a0Here’s a taste:<\/p>\n

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Jimmy Cagney<\/strong>: …Jimmy Cagney was tiny \u2013 the size of my wife. But when you think about Jimmy Cagney, he owned it. It\u2019s one thing to be\u00a0The Rock and the biggest guy on the planet and knock people around, but to be Jimmy Cagney and have people believe that you\u00a0<\/span>are\u00a0<\/em>that guy? That\u2019s a task…<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Tom Hardy<\/strong>: …Tommy, like Cagney, has got this inner rage and this believability about him…<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Tom Laughlin<\/strong>: …\u00a0Tom Laughlin who played this (Navajo and ex-Green Beret<\/em>) character was a small guy, but he just took care of business…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Lee Marvin<\/strong>: …To me, he might be\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/em>guy. I love The Dirty Dozen. He\u2019s not quintessentially handsome, he\u2019s tall but he\u2019s lanky, but you want to be that guy…\u00a0The Lee Marvins, the guys who fought in World War II or Korea and became actors, they\u2019re men…<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Charles Bronson<\/strong>: …I love Charles Bronson. He didn\u2019t have a lot of range and he wasn\u2019t a great actor, but you couldn\u2019t take your eyes off him… \u00a0He\u2019s not likeable and he doesn\u2019t apologise. I\u2019m attracted to that because I\u2019ve been raised in a movie world where men have become emasculated…<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Steve McQueen<\/strong>: …He\u2019s one of my favourite actors. Again, not a great actor \u2013 in fact, maybe not even a good actor \u2013 but when he\u2019s on screen you don\u2019t take your eyes off the guy…<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Jason Statham<\/strong>: …Who\u2019s the toughest guy I\u2019ve worked with? Statham. He\u2019s a great athlete; a great drinker. He\u2019s not a big guy \u2013 he\u2019s smaller than me \u2013 but he\u2019s physically imposing…<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Clint Eastwood<\/strong>: …Clint Eastwood is in a category all by himself…<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Kurt Russell<\/strong>: …Snake Plissken and John Carpenter…<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Sylvester Stallone<\/strong>: …I gotta throw in Stallone \u2013 he\u2019s been a badass for a long time…<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I suppose Bruce Lee<\/strong> didn’t make the list because he wasn’t considered Hollywood?<\/p>\n

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