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Isaac Cates @drisaac.bsky.social

What do these four actors have in common? #FourActorFactor

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jan 10, 2025, 4:50 am • 0 0

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Isaac Cates @drisaac.bsky.social

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...

jan 10, 2025, 1:01 pm • 1 0 • view
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Isaac Cates @drisaac.bsky.social

Moving on in my chain of association, what do these six actors have in common? (I think this is a tricky one.) #FourActorFactor

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jan 10, 2025, 1:04 pm • 1 1 • view
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Julie Hwang @moviejulie.bsky.social

I didn’t solve this one but I’ve got to say this one has been one of favorites!

jan 11, 2025, 7:02 pm • 2 0 • view
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Isaac Cates @drisaac.bsky.social

I suspected that one would be up your alley.

jan 11, 2025, 7:33 pm • 0 0 • view
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Isaac Cates @drisaac.bsky.social

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...

jan 10, 2025, 8:30 pm • 0 0 • view
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Isaac Cates @drisaac.bsky.social

What do these four actors have in common? #FourActorFactor

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jan 10, 2025, 8:31 pm • 0 0 • view
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Isaac Cates @drisaac.bsky.social

Louis has got this one: All these actors are playing a character named Michael. bsky.app/profile/loui...

jan 10, 2025, 11:06 pm • 0 0 • view
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Isaac Cates @drisaac.bsky.social

What do these four actors have in common? #FourActorFactor

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jan 10, 2025, 11:07 pm • 2 1 • view
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MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social

They've all played detectives? (Hamish Macbeth, Mycroft Holmes in the Sherlock Holmes sequel, Arthur Conan Doyle in Arthur and George, Father Brown)

jan 11, 2025, 12:41 am • 1 0 • view
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Isaac Cates @drisaac.bsky.social

Is Doyle really a detective? I haven’t seen the show. Or, for that matter, is Mycroft a detective? The thing I have in mind is a little more specific, and does actually involve two of the roles you’ve picked out.

jan 11, 2025, 2:01 am • 1 0 • view
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Isaac Cates @drisaac.bsky.social

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...

jan 12, 2025, 6:38 pm • 2 0 • view
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Isaac Cates @drisaac.bsky.social

Inside you there are #FourActorFactor What do these four actors have in common?

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jan 12, 2025, 6:38 pm • 1 1 • view
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Julie Hwang @moviejulie.bsky.social

jan 13, 2025, 8:12 am • 1 0 • view
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Isaac Cates @drisaac.bsky.social

Very nice!

jan 13, 2025, 12:37 pm • 0 0 • view
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Isaac Cates @drisaac.bsky.social

Julie’s got this: Four werewolves: the lycanthrope protagonists of The Wolf Man, Teen Wolf, I Was a Teenage Werewolf, and Werewolf by Night. bsky.app/profile/movi...

jan 13, 2025, 12:40 pm • 2 0 • view
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Isaac Cates @drisaac.bsky.social

What do these four actors have in common? #FourActorFactor

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jan 13, 2025, 12:42 pm • 1 0 • view
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ericnewsom.bsky.social @ericnewsom.bsky.social

All of these people live in the afterlife (massive spoilers for the big groundbreaking twist of Spin City).

jan 12, 2025, 6:52 pm • 1 0 • view
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Isaac Cates @drisaac.bsky.social

You had me going for a second there. It’s simpler than that, I promise.

jan 12, 2025, 6:54 pm • 1 0 • view
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ericnewsom.bsky.social @ericnewsom.bsky.social

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.

jan 12, 2025, 1:59 am • 1 0 • view
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Isaac Cates @drisaac.bsky.social

None of that sounds like a factor for all four actors, though …

jan 12, 2025, 2:38 am • 0 0 • view
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ericnewsom.bsky.social @ericnewsom.bsky.social

Nope, just weird coincidences! One of the wiki visits was your fault, I just realized—Carlyle was in the World is Not Enough, which I was considering revisiting after the last round of FAF.

jan 12, 2025, 2:46 am • 1 0 • view
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Isaac Cates @drisaac.bsky.social

Now I want you to actually find the thing they’ve got in common, though

jan 12, 2025, 3:48 am • 0 0 • view
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Louis Strong @louisdstrong.bsky.social

They're all Michael

jan 10, 2025, 9:31 pm • 1 0 • view
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Isaac Cates @drisaac.bsky.social

Sure enough!

jan 10, 2025, 11:08 pm • 0 0 • view
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ericnewsom.bsky.social @ericnewsom.bsky.social

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:

Poster for Swordfish (which references the password scene from Horse Feathers). The World is Not Enough, which takes its name from the Bond family crest (as seen in On Her Majesty's Secret Service). Usual Suspects, which takes its name from a line in Casablanca. O Brother Where Art Thou, which takes its name from the film Sullivan wants to make in Sullivan's Travels.
jan 10, 2025, 8:20 pm • 3 0 • view
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Isaac Cates @drisaac.bsky.social

This is precisely what I was going for!

jan 10, 2025, 8:28 pm • 1 0 • view
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ericnewsom.bsky.social @ericnewsom.bsky.social

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!

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jan 10, 2025, 8:21 pm • 0 0 • view
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Leia Scofield @leiascofield.com

Swordfish
jan 10, 2025, 7:44 am • 2 0 • view
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Isaac Cates @drisaac.bsky.social

That’s it!

jan 10, 2025, 12:56 pm • 0 0 • view
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Danielle Anne Baum and waiting for JKR to fuck off @dabaum.bsky.social

they all...sing...in a movie?

jan 10, 2025, 6:01 am • 0 0 • view
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Isaac Cates @drisaac.bsky.social

Does Vinnie Jones sing in anything? Anyway, I promise the uniting factor is much more specific than that.

jan 10, 2025, 6:12 am • 0 0 • view