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The only person who doesn\u2019t seem to realise, or appreciate, that John Goodman<\/a> is one of the modern era\u2019s greatest character actors is John Goodman, with the star having always been incredibly critical of his work.<\/p>\n Obviously, he\u2019s not the first performer to enjoy a successful career in the face of relentless self-doubt, and the widespread acclaim he\u2019s been gathering for the last four decades and change should be more than enough to convince him of what everyone already knows: he\u2019s pretty damn good at the whole acting thing.<\/p>\n Despite all of the scene-stealing supporting roles and cameos he\u2019s contributed to film and television over the years, Goodman called The Big Lebowski the only one of his performances that he can rewatch<\/a> without being overcome by a sense of dissatisfaction that he could do it better. It\u2019s one of his best, but he\u2019s delivered plenty of turns that pass the test.<\/p>\n On one occasion, though, it didn\u2019t sound like he knew what the hell he was doing, which is fair enough. He\u2019d been in a few blockbusters, but at no point had he ever worked on anything like the Wachowskis\u2019 Speed Racer, a dayglo-drenched fantasy that was overflowing with garish and kitschy visual effects.<\/p>\n He was aware of the animated source material, not that it gave him any pointers on how to get to grips with the characters, structure or story when he didn\u2019t get it at all. \u201cMan, I didn\u2019t understand Speed Racer the first time around, and I don\u2019t get it now,\u201d he admitted. \u201cDoes this chimp talk in the back of this racing car? I don\u2019t understand what this is?\u201d<\/p>\n Even with those misgivings, not to mention feeling \u201cisolated\u201d on a cavernous Berlin soundstage, Goodman found the positives in the freedom he was afforded in having to act against nothing for much of his time on set. Even though he \u201cshot a lot of green screen stuff\u201d that wasn\u2019t his forte, it \u201ckind of threw me back to when I was doing community theatre in a church basement, where you have to imagine where you are.\u201d<\/p>\n Unfortunately, the Wachowskis\u2019 first non-Matrix movie in over a decade was a total bust that failed to recoup its budget at the box office and notched a Razzie nomination for \u2018Worst Remake, Ripoff or Sequel\u2019. Still, with the benefit of hindsight, Goodman thinks it may have been too far in front of the curve.<\/p>\n \u201cIt might have been a little ahead of its time,\u201d he mused to The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>. \u201cIt didn\u2019t feel like that when it sank, but that\u2019s one thing about film: It\u2019s there forever. If people dig it now, that\u2019s just great and means the Wachowskis knew what they were doing.\u201d<\/p>\n He wasn\u2019t sure what they were doing at the time, and a lot of audience members didn\u2019t have a clue either, but Speed Racer has gradually grown more popular with time. Is it a good movie? Not particularly, but the directorial siblings definitely take some wild swings, and those kinds of candy-coloured epics that are so incessantly dumb from start to finish<\/a> always have a funny way of sneaking toward cult status eventually.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Related Topics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credits: Far Out \/ YouTube Still) Wed 27 August 2025 18:45, UK The only person who doesn\u2019t seem…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,23523,2839,56,54,55,47956],"class_list":{"0":"post-97588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-john-goodman","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom","14":"tag-wachowski-sisters"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}