After a stint in the merchant navy, then the navy, Steve McQueen turned to drama. In 1956, the aspiring actor made his first film, Marked with Hate, under the direction of Robert Wise, even if he was not credited as a pool player.
Brash and self-absorbed, sometimes aggressive, Steve McQueen was long convicted of excesses until he played the role of bounty hunter Josh Randall in the TV series The Law (1958-1961). Raised to stardom, he quickly became one of the most sought-after actors of his generation.
In 1966, Steve McQueen found Robert Wise, who offered him the lead role in the film La Canonnière du Yang-Tse. In this thinly veiled condemnation of the Vietnam conflict, the actor plays the chief engineer of a gunboat who finds himself at the center of China’s civil war between the Nationalists and the Communists.
In this way, he makes good use of his experience in the army, as well as his charisma and instinctive acting (he himself changes the text to emphasize certain lines) in the service of a precocious anti-hero who announces a wave of protest icons. 1970s. His performance earned him his only Academy Award nomination for Best Actor – an award he would never win.
Robert Wise’s La Gunnière du Yang-Tse with Steve McQueen, Candice Bergen, Richard Attenborough…
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Source: Allocine
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