Is there any question that Steve McQueen is the King of coolness?
Take any actor of nowadays and compare them to McQueen, i meant ACTORS, no sleezy wannabes like Cruise or Pitt.
In my opinion none of those hype stars have the potential to act like McQueen: as a serious actor on one side in Papillon and on the other site just be cool as in The Getaway by Sam Pekinpah.
Rudy Butler: That’s a walk-in bank. You don’t have to be Dillinger for this one.
Carter ‘Doc’ McCoy: Dillinger got killed.
Rudy Butler: Not in a bank.
The smile, the eyes, the body, the angles - they were McQueen’s tools. If they were all he’d had at his disposal, he might still have become a leading actor, maybe even a star. That he became an icon stemmed in part from his understanding of acting in general and screen acting in particular.
Artwork created by using two of the official Getaway film posters, my imagination and Photoshop.
