Stephen got this: After my “defenses” characters and “fences” movies, these actors were all the heroes of fencing movies. Or, at least, they all did some notable sword-dueling in those roles. (Zorro, Scaramouche, Dread Pirate Roberts, and Captain Blood) bsky.app/profile/spik...
In a slightly related question, what very specific thing do these four actors have in common? #FourActorFactor
They all wield flaming swords!
yes! Yes indeed!
Julie’s got this one: These actors, in these roles, all wield flaming swords. Pretty rad. bsky.app/profile/movi...
Leia’s got it: About five years before three of them were in the third X-Men movie, all four of these actors were in a computer heist movie called Swordfish. bsky.app/profile/leia...
Moving on in my chain of association, what do these six actors have in common? (I think this is a tricky one.) #FourActorFactor
I didn’t solve this one but I’ve got to say this one has been one of favorites!
I suspected that one would be up your alley.
Eric gets my tricky question, and even gives the details of the answer: These actors are all in movie scenes that provide the titles of other unrelated movies. bsky.app/profile/eric...
Louis has got this one: All these actors are playing a character named Michael. bsky.app/profile/loui...
They've all played detectives? (Hamish Macbeth, Mycroft Holmes in the Sherlock Holmes sequel, Arthur Conan Doyle in Arthur and George, Father Brown)
Eric got this one, and so did Louis: All these actors have played eponymous protagonists in British provincial ensemble dramas. (Hamish Macbeth, Doc Martin, Kingdom, and Father Brown.) bsky.app/profile/eric...
Strangely enough, three out of four of them are people whose Wikipedia pages I've consulted in the last 24 hours. Probably not the answer you're looking for, but now I've looked at Mark Williams' too. Because of that, I know that three out of four were professors in the TV adaptation of Gormenghast.
They're all Michael
Sure enough!
OK, this is a tricky one. I got 3/4 but honestly wouldn't have gotten the last one without the questions that led into it and actually watching the scene from Horse Feathers, but let me suggest a possibility:
This is precisely what I was going for!
For the sake of honesty, I originally had this one and some qualms about the line not actually having been said, but then I remembered you'd focused on Claude Rains!
That’s it!
they all...sing...in a movie?
Does Vinnie Jones sing in anything? Anyway, I promise the uniting factor is much more specific than that.
