That’s because Ironside was one of the first actors to make me realise that this loser could still win, dammit, and that I didn’t have to worry about male pattern baldness when it was possible to be a male pattern badass. This has been the case throughout each of their careers, and were any of them in their prime today, Jason Statham might just be looking a little less cocky.Īs I grew into adulthood, Michael Ironside began to edge ahead of my other two favourites when I began to lose the soft, luxuriant mane of hair that had once seen me compared to Nick Berry in his Every Loser Wins heyday. In films like Scanners (Ironside), Hard Target (Henriksen) and The Grand Silence (Kinski), each of them played utterly ruthless villains with barely a shred of humanity between them, and yet it is their performances that captivate and remain longest in the memory.
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