At the moment, a film from the 1990s with Al Pacino is slowly climbing the top Netflix France charts. A very famous actor who starred in a spin-off of NCIS plays one of the main roles. But you might not recognize it!
We sometimes forget that some of our actors also had small jobs and small roles before breaking into successful series. Fans of NCIS : Los Angeles may not have believed their eyes when they saw the star of the show in an old film which is a hit these days on Netflix in France. Chris O’Donnell, the irreplaceable G. Callen in the Californian spin-off of NCIStook his first steps in cinema in the 1990s. In 1992, for his fourth project as an actor, he played Charlie Simms in the film For a weekend…alongside Al Pacino! In this dramatic comedy by Martin Brest, we met Charlie, a young broke student who, to make some money, agreed to look after an apparently bedridden man for Thanksgiving. But the man, Slade (played by Al Pacino), ex-army colonel, blind and unmanageable, rather intended to spend the holidays in New York to pick up women.
Did you recognize Chris O’Donnell in the movie For a weekend sur Netflix ?
For a weekend is currently 7th in the top Netflix in France for the most viewed programs of the moment, just ahead The crazy story of Max and Léon. A comeback for this film released more than 30 years ago and inspired by an Italian book. For a weekend is in fact the adaptation of Women’s perfumewritten by Giovanni Arpino in 1969. In the film, which won three Golden Globes and earned Al Pacino his only Oscar, Chris O’Donnell is unrecognizable. While we have always seen him with an almost shaved head, he sports a very full haircut and an almost childish face. It must be said that he was only 22 years old when he starred in this feature film.
-What has become of Chris O’Donnell since the end of NCIS : Los Angeles ?
From For a weekend, Chris O’Donnell’s career has grown. At the cinema, we were able to applaud him in The legacy of hatred, Max Payne or even Dr Kinsey. On television, NCIS : Los Angeles kept him busy for almost 15 years, between 2009 and 2023. If we have not yet seen him in anything else since the end of this spin-off, it is not impossible that the 54-year-old actor surprise us soon with a new project.
Article written in collaboration with 6Médias.
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