{"id":1689640,"date":"2022-10-14T18:17:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1689640"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:55:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:55:56","slug":"his-new-film-may-be-a-mystery-but-jon-voights-longevity-in-hollywood-is-no-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/his-new-film-may-be-a-mystery-but-jon-voights-longevity-in-hollywood-is-no-secret\/","title":{"rendered":"His New Film May Be A Mystery, But Jon Voight\u2019s Longevity In Hollywood Is No Secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhis-new-film-may-be-a-mystery-but-jon-voights-longevity-in-hollywood-is-no-secret%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1689640&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Audiences have been watching <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-rare-academy-award-winner-who-isnt-afraid-to-call-out-woke-hollywood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jon Voight\u2019s<\/a> performances for decades, but the actor credits one particular role for the second half of his legendary career.<\/p>\n<p>Voight says few thought he could convey the gritty antihero in 1985\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0089941\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Runaway Train,<\/a>\u201d the tale of two convicts who break out of jail only to wind up on the titular train.<\/p>\n<p>His screen image up until then lacked that brand of dangerous persona.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-con character of Oscar \u201cManny\u201d Manheim was the toughest guy in a tough prison, Voight explains. The Academy Award winner for \u201cComing Home,\u201d renowned for his delicate features and gentle characterizations, seemed a longshot for the film.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one would have chosen me for that part. It came to me in a magical way, in a sense,\u201d Voight tells The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p>The role earned him critical honors \u2014 an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe win \u2014 and a career rebirth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout that performance, I probably wouldn\u2019t have done \u2018Heat,\u2019 \u2018Anaconda\u2019 and \u2018Ray Donovan,\u2019\u201d he says, ticking off three tough guy gigs in his career. \u201cThat\u2019s what contributed to my longevity, being able to play the villain and the tough guys \u2026 I broke the mold.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Voight, an icon who humbly calls himself a \u201ccharacter actor,\u201d plays a curious chap in his latest project. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt16375952\/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dangerous Game: The Legacy Murders<\/a>\u201d finds him anchoring an ensemble of bickering family members in a life or death struggle.<\/p>\n<p>Voight plays Ellison Betts, an eccentric millionaire celebrating his birthday with his extended brood. Tensions are high as the siblings reunite in Ellison\u2019s sprawling mansion, but that\u2019s nothing compared to the threat awaiting them.<\/p>\n<p>A hidden voice demands they play an immersion-style whodunnit game, one with a shockingly high body count.<\/p>\n<p>Voight reunites with director Sean McNamara for the film. The duo recently completed work on \u201cReagan,\u201d the 2023 eagerly biopic of the nation\u2019s 40th president. The actor wasn\u2019t sold initially on \u201cDangerous Game,\u201d but McNamara coaxed him to come aboard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe found this so delicious, the way he spoke about it, I thought, \u2018this is gonna be good,\u201d Voight says, adding the veteran director makes coming to the set a joy. \u201cHe\u2019s very positive \u2026 he always says, \u2018that\u2019s genius,\u2019 at the end of every take, and he means it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For \u201cDangerous Game,\u201d McNamara had multiple cameras shooting at the same time, with the director orchestrating from his booth in the back of the set, the actor explains.<\/p>\n<p>The film arrives during a mini crush of murder mysteries, from the emerging \u201cKnives Out\u201d franchise to twin Agatha Christie remakes \u2013 with a third film, \u201cA Haunting in Venice,\u201d recently greenlit. Plus, Steve Martin\u2019s \u201cOnly Murders in the Building\u201d Hulu series keeps audiences guessing with a dash of humor.<\/p>\n<p>Those projects aren\u2019t as dark as \u201cDangerous Game, though, which veers from mystery to horror long before the end credits.<\/p>\n<p>Voight\u2019s career began with a pair of little-seen roles (\u201cFearless Frank,\u201d \u201cHour of the Gun\u201d), but his breakout performance in 1969\u2019s \u201cMidnight Cowboy\u201d changed everything for him. The X-rated smash garnered Voight his first Oscar nomination, paving the way for follow-up movies like \u201cCatch 22,\u201d \u201cDeliverance\u201d and \u201cComing Home.\u201d The latter earned him a Best Actor trophy, cementing his status as one of Hollywood\u2019s most gifted stars.<\/p>\n<p>His \u201cRunaway Train\u201d performance ensured he\u2019d stay busy for as long as his creative fires burned. Even his willingness to express his conservative views, something most right-leaning stars keep to themselves, haven\u2019t dimmed his Hollywood stardom.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s actively supported President Donald Trump and slammed President Barack Obama during the latter\u2019s two terms in office.<\/p>\n<p>You won\u2019t hear him getting political on a film or TV set, though. He famously agreed to disagree with his longtime \u201cRay Donovan\u201d colleague Liev Schreiber, a policy he maintains in other work environments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolitics is not to be dealt with on a set. You\u2019re there for the work, not there to proselytize anything. That\u2019s the way I am,\u201d he says. \u201cOther people will try to get me into saying something, and I say, \u2018hey, let\u2019s do our work, fellas.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His remarkable, seven-plus season run on Showtime\u2019s \u201cRay Donovan\u201d gave Voight the chance to do something he couldn\u2019t for much of his career \u2013 stick with a character and watch him grow.<\/p>\n<p>Mickey Donovan, a loving father to Schreiber\u2019s Ray and an unrepentant killer, gave Voight one of his best roles yet. \u201cIt\u2019s the first time I\u2019ve ever done that kind of a lengthy series. It was a lot of responsibility for me to craft it \u2026 we had to protect [the characters],\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Voight\u2019s next major project after \u201cReagan,\u201d in which he plays a retired KBG agent, is co-starring in Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s comeback vehicle, \u201cMegalopolis.\u201d The highly anticipated film features a who\u2019s who of Hollywood stars, past and present, including Adam Driver, Laurence Fishburne, Dustin Hoffman, Talia Shire, Forest Whitaker and D.B. Sweeney.<\/p>\n<p>The craft of acting still casts a spell over Voight, much like his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Audiences have been watching Jon Voight\u2019s performances for decades, but the actor credits one particular role for the second half of his legendary career. Voight says few thought he could convey the gritty antihero in 1985\u2019s \u201cRunaway Train,\u201d the tale of two convicts who break out of jail only to wind up on the titular &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1890329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"His New Film May Be A Mystery, But Jon Voight\u2019s Longevity In Hollywood Is No Secret","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1689640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"His New Film May Be A Mystery, But Jon Voight\u2019s Longevity In Hollywood Is No Secret","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/his-new-film-may-be-a-mystery-but-jon-voights-longevity-in-hollywood-is-no-secret","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1689640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1689640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1689640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1689640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}