Probably it's age-related. Some people my age would have said "The Return of the Seacaucus Seven" or many other John Sayles movies. Or "League of Their Own," 15 years later.
It's related to my not seeing all that many movies growing up and to the nature of character actors. I almost certainly saw Strathairn for the first time in The Brother from Another Planet (1984) when I was quite small, but I didn't pay attention to the actors playing the Men in Black: my takeaway from that film was Joe Morton. I remember when A League of Their Own (1992) came out and kids around me were talking about it, but I was introduced to it by a friend in grad school, quite possibly after we saw Good Night, and Good Luck. I saw Eight Men Out (1988) with my mother in 2010. I saw The Secret of Roan Inish (1994) in theaters—and I got John Lynch out of it—but it doesn't have David Strathairn. Once I noticed him, of course, like any good character actor he was everywhere: The Notorious Bettie Page (2005) in theaters, The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer on TV (2009), a bunch of films including the abovementioned in hindsight. But first I had to see him in a role where he stood out for me, and the rare lead of Good Night, and Good Luck was it. It was the same with Denholm Elliott in Patrick Garland's A Doll's House (1973) in 2008 and Ralph Richardson in The Fallen Idol (1948) in 2012. It is a little difficult for me when you frequently attribute so much of my history with movies to age, because I am an outlier in my age group. Any apparent expertise I have with film formed in the last ten to eleven years, fourteen to fifteen at maximum. I missed most of the pop culture of my childhood at the time.
One of the prompts was to ask the women to pick a sexy actor, and after some discussion, they came up with DS. And then were ashamed of themselves for objectifying people, and changed the subject.
Re: David Strathairn
It's related to my not seeing all that many movies growing up and to the nature of character actors. I almost certainly saw Strathairn for the first time in The Brother from Another Planet (1984) when I was quite small, but I didn't pay attention to the actors playing the Men in Black: my takeaway from that film was Joe Morton. I remember when A League of Their Own (1992) came out and kids around me were talking about it, but I was introduced to it by a friend in grad school, quite possibly after we saw Good Night, and Good Luck. I saw Eight Men Out (1988) with my mother in 2010. I saw The Secret of Roan Inish (1994) in theaters—and I got John Lynch out of it—but it doesn't have David Strathairn. Once I noticed him, of course, like any good character actor he was everywhere: The Notorious Bettie Page (2005) in theaters, The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer on TV (2009), a bunch of films including the abovementioned in hindsight. But first I had to see him in a role where he stood out for me, and the rare lead of Good Night, and Good Luck was it. It was the same with Denholm Elliott in Patrick Garland's A Doll's House (1973) in 2008 and Ralph Richardson in The Fallen Idol (1948) in 2012. It is a little difficult for me when you frequently attribute so much of my history with movies to age, because I am an outlier in my age group. Any apparent expertise I have with film formed in the last ten to eleven years, fourteen to fifteen at maximum. I missed most of the pop culture of my childhood at the time.
One of the prompts was to ask the women to pick a sexy actor, and after some discussion, they came up with DS. And then were ashamed of themselves for objectifying people, and changed the subject.
He has got a great face.