Game of Thrones begins....

[grumbler]

Sean Bean, I don't know if I'd say he was A-list in 2010 either. He had a supporting role in Fellowship and had played the villain in a few fairly big movies from 15-20 years earlier.

As for the major cast members, they're getting rather nice money right now, but I haven't seen any breakout movie roles. To become one of Hollywood's elite, they'll need to get casting directors to see them as somebody other than the character they played for 8 years on GoT.

A-list TV is different than A-list "Hollywood."  I'd agree that none of the actors are A-list movie types.  The key cast members are paid in the top tier for TV, though, and that accounts for most of the growth in episode costs.

[Berkut]

Yeah, aren't the five primaries getting 300k each per episode now? That is $1.5M per episode just for them alone. And the shows have huge casts for TV shows.

[Razgovory]

Sean Bean, I don't know if I'd say he was A-list in 2010 either. He had a supporting role in Fellowship and had played the villain in a few fairly big movies from 15-20 years earlier.

As for the major cast members, they're getting rather nice money right now, but I haven't seen any breakout movie roles. To become one of Hollywood's elite, they'll need to get casting directors to see them as somebody other than the character they played for 8 years on GoT.

Sean Bean stared in "Sharpes Rifles".

[The Brain]

Sean Bean, I don't know if I'd say he was A-list in 2010 either. He had a supporting role in Fellowship and had played the villain in a few fairly big movies from 15-20 years earlier.

As for the major cast members, they're getting rather nice money right now, but I haven't seen any breakout movie roles. To become one of Hollywood's elite, they'll need to get casting directors to see them as somebody other than the character they played for 8 years on GoT.

Sean Bean stared in "Sharpes Rifles".

Which scene are you thinking of?

[grumbler]

Sean Bean, I don't know if I'd say he was A-list in 2010 either. He had a supporting role in Fellowship and had played the villain in a few fairly big movies from 15-20 years earlier.

As for the major cast members, they're getting rather nice money right now, but I haven't seen any breakout movie roles. To become one of Hollywood's elite, they'll need to get casting directors to see them as somebody other than the character they played for 8 years on GoT.

Sean Bean stared in "Sharpes Rifles".

Which scene are you thinking of?

I think it was the staring one.

[Jaron]

Sean Bean was also in GoldenEye. You don't get more A list than Bond.

[Zanza]

Sean Bean was also in GoldenEye. You don't get more A list than Bond.

The Bond girls almost never become A-listers, it's hit and miss for the Bond actors, and the villains are often established actors, but not A-listers.

[Admiral Yi]

I wonder if Bean's career has suffered because he can't do an American accent?

[Zanza]

[Eddie Teach]

Sean Bean was also in GoldenEye. You don't get more A list than Bond.

You get a fair amount of foreigners we've never heard of, though I could see making this argument for Bean in the late 90s. But when he did Game of Thrones, he'd been doing lower profile work for the past decade.

[Josquius]

To me a list is only the true big super stars.
Tom cruise and Brad Pitt and the like.
Sean Bean.... b at best. Maybe c.

[Berkut]

That whooshing sound is the point rushing over your heads.

[grumbler]

That whooshing sound is the point rushing over your heads.

[Eddie Teach]

That whooshing sound is the point rushing over your heads.

We get that the shows have become more expensive to make; discussing who's on the A-List still passes the time.

[grumbler]

That whooshing sound is the point rushing over your heads.

We get that the shows have become more expensive to make; discussing who's on the A-List still passes the time.

Ironically, if you actually look up "A List" at The Hollywood Reporter, sort of the arbiter of these things, the lead article is "'Game of Thrones' Star Emilia Clarke Leads Hollywood's New Actor A-List."

Not sure what purpose is served by debating among yourselves who you think is A List, when none of you actually have a voice in that.  Whatever.