POLL: Elias Koteas vs. Christopher Meloni

for me its Koteas in a walk, but I know there's a lot of SVU fans in this piece

Chris Keller - never forget

Koteas for his awe-inspiring star turn as Casey Jones in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

http://www.hotflick.net/flicks/2001_Wet_Hot_American_Summer/001WHS_A_D__Miles_001.jpg

"I said stick team"

Ha! I'd forgotten Miles (now Jimmy Fallon's head writer) was in WHAS.

I am an SVU/Meloni fan but between these two it's Koteas all the way for me.

i got a vague feeling of 'hey that guy - i like that guy' when i googled Koteas but looking over his resume i have absolutely no idea what that's based on given the small number of unmmemorable films i've seen him in.

x-posts - re: WHAS Meloni - ppl who knew that I love him on SVU kept telling me I had to see WHAS and esp for his character. Was pretty excited to finally get around to watching it and hated it. Meloni is OK but I just thought it was annoying and dumb. I know everybody else seems to love it and people are always O_O when I tell them I didn't like it but I just couldn't get into it.

Also x-post - Koteas has been in a lot of really memorable movies! >:O

i'm not saying he hasn't been in good movies, just that the ones i've seen either haven't been good or i don't remember much about them

like, i've seen The Killer Inside Me, The Big Empty and Skinwalkers, but not Thin Red Line or Crash, etc.

what about TMNT

yeah!

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/muppet/images/b/b0/Eliaskoteas.jpg

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I've never seen any of the TMNT movies. I mostly know him from Some Kind of Wonderful, The Prophecy and that episode of House. But he was excellent in all three!

i saw TMNT back in the day and while it's been almost 20 years, i'm fairly certain that The Killer Inside Me, The Big Empty and Skinwalkers are all worse movies

You know how on the other thread I said the guest start last night reminded me of a cross between Meloni and Koteas? I'd actually completely forgotten that Koteas was actually on House until I looked him up on IMDB last night.

I was sort of obsessed with TMNT when I was little although not as much as my best friend who somehow managed to see the first movie SEVEN TIMES in the theater.

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shocked that svu nerds did not dominate this poll

Lol ENBB the TMNT movie is one of my favorite movies of the 90s

:)

btw GOOD ANSWER *family fued voice* folks!

http://www.avclub.com/articles/elias-koteas,53775/

Aw man, he seems like the best guy.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)—“Casey Jones”
EK: Ah, 1989, the summer of, 28-years-old, hair was flowing. I felt healthy, strong.

AVC: You did have awesome hair in that movie.

EK: Awesome hair. I don’t know what happened. You just felt alive. My one attempt at being a hero—a vigilante in the park, looking for bad guys. It was fun. Especially with Jim Henson and the puppets. It was cutting-edge technology at the time. It was a magical summer in Wilmington, North Carolina. I get stopped by kids—not kids anymore; they’re 25, 30—saying, “There’s Casey Jones!” There are worse things in the world. It brings a smile to my face.

AVC: I’m glad to hear you say that. I’m 32, so when I told my friends who I was talking to today, I had to say, “You know: Casey Jones.” But then I mentioned you were in Crash—

EK: And they’re like, “It’s that same guy? What the heck?!”

AVC: Yep. I think a lot of my friends learned for the first time that it was the same guy.

EK: Man, right now while we’re talking I’ve got a huge smile on my face. Casey Jones just was what he was. There was no gray, and I loved that about him. So I’m very gracious about it. It was a beautiful time. It was surreal working with puppets.

The first part of this quote = adorable the second part = LOL

Shutter Island (2010)—“Laeddis”
EK: God, man! I was working with Marty Scorsese! It was the quietest set I’ve ever been on. It was almost reverential. I felt like I went home. He made me feel like I belonged. It was a magical time. It was only a week of my life in Boston. I grew up watching stuff that he did. Suddenly, to be on set with him, working together, you gotta pinch yourself. It was very intimidating and nervous. Suddenly you’re there, in the middle of the scene. You gotta make it happen. You hope to God that you’re present enough to try a lot of different things.

Oh, and I remember one day, I was sitting in a trailer putting on the makeup, and in comes Max von Sydow. And on my cell phone, my ringtone is “Tubular Bells” [“Theme From The Exorcist”]. Here comes this very elegant, quiet gentleman, and he comes in and he sits right next to me so he could have his makeup put on. We say hello to each other, and it’s all very nice. Then it occurred to me, if someone were to call me, there would be “Tubular Bells” ringing, and I thought that would be a great icebreaker. But nobody called! [Laughs.] It didn’t occur to me to call up my girlfriend and say, “Hey, babe, could you call me right now?” I would have had her call me, and I would have let it ring. It would have cracked everybody up. [Laughs.]

Koteas is awesome!

I know, right? I mean not that I had any reason to expect otherwise but throughout that interview he just comes off so genuine, laid-back and sweet. Like, I want to hang out with him now.

last weekend i saw Koteas on TV twice in one day (watched The Prophecy and later stumbled upon TMNT while channel flipping)

ilx's love of jobbing character actors is one of the best things about this place

i was thinking of doing daniel stern vs. chris elliott next, but im afraid i might be the only person who gets them mixed up periodically

Just got "Fallen" in the Leonard Maltin game on Doug Loves Movies in NO NAMES and was saying how awesome Elias is and then Doug Benson said the same and it's true, really, everyone loves him.