Neil Jordan - FishbowlLA http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla LA Media News, Unspooled Copyright 2013 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:52:02 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Whatever Happened to Jaye Davidson, Star of 1992′s The Crying Game? Remember Jaye Davidson? Twenty years ago, the Riverside, CA native was front and center in the 1992 Oscar race, nominated as Best Supporting Actor for the role of Dil in Neil Jordan’s The Crying Game. He wound up losing to Gene Hackman’s evil Unforgiven sheriff.

The bulk of Awards Line managing editor Anthony D’Alessandro’s 20th anniversary look-back is about how producer Stephen Woolley and Miramax’s Harvey Weinstein miraculously managed to get the press to keep the film’s gender-bending plot twist a secret. But there’s also this tidbit:

Davidson never plotted an acting career in the first place. A prolific role as the sun god Ra in MGM’s scifi film Stargate followed. At one point during Cannes 1998, it was announced Davidson was attached to a Steven Seagal action title Cousin Joey opposite Mickey Rourke (which was never made).

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]]> Richard Horgan http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/jaye-davidson-crying-0game-stephen-woolley-harvey-weinstein-neil-jordan_b76328#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/jaye-davidson-crying-0game-stephen-woolley-harvey-weinstein-neil-jordan_b76328 http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/?p=76328 Mon, 26 Nov 2012 09:15:34 +0000