Cusack has been nominated for several awards, including a Golden Globe for his role starring in High Fidelity. He won the 2014 Canadian Screen Awards for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in Maps to the Stars. He is a son of filmmaker Dick Cusack and the younger brother of actresses Joan and Ann Cusack.
In 2012, Cusack was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Cusack began acting in films in the early 1980s. His first on screen appearances was in minor roles, Class (1983) and John Hughes directorial debut film Sixteen Candles (1984).[12] On the set of Grandview, U.S.A. (1984), his co-star Jamie Lee Curtis gifted Cusack with his first car, a 1974 Chevrolet Impala, which she had named 'La Bamba'.[13] 16-year-old Cusack made his breakthrough performance in Rob Reiner's teen comedy The Sure Thing (1985). It was a critical success, but has since become an underrated film.[14][15]
He then took on the small-town teen dark comedy film Better Off Dead (1985). Cusack was initially embarrassed and disappointed by the film, describing it as the "worst thing he had ever seen" on his first watch.[16] The film had a budget of $3 million and grossed $10.3 million at the box office, but the studio still considered it a failure. Cusack also worked with the director Savage Steve Holland on One Crazy Summer (1986).[17]
Cusack then had a brief appearance in Rob Reiner's Stand by Me (1986) as the older brother of Gordie, a film based on Stephen King's The Body. On the film, co-star Kiefer Sutherland recalled, "John Cusack was on the film for at least a week. I admired what he was doing and thought he was an actor I wanted to emulate." [18] In 1988, Cusack went on and starred in the Independent film Eight Men Out (1988), about Major League Baseball's Black Sox Scandal during the 1919 World Series.[19] He also appeared in the cult comedy Tapeheads (1988), a film by executive producer Michael Nesmith.[20][21]
In the late 1980s, Cusack starred in Cameron Crowe's directorial debut film, Say Anything... (1989). He starred opposite actress Ione Skye, playing the title character Lloyd Dobler who experiences a romance with Diane Court (Skye). Cusack was reluctant to do the film at first, but he gave his character dimension through referencing the English punk band The Clash, and The Replacements.[22] In the film, Cusack became known for the infamous boombox scene, in which his character Lloyd stands near Diane’s bedroom window, and wordlessly holds up a cassette player above his head, blasting Peter Gabriel's 1986 song "In Your Eyes".[23] His character Lloyd Dobler had since inspired popular culture, such as the band Lloyd Dobler Effect,[24] and Frank Iero's band Pencey Prep with their misspelled song "Lloyd Dobbler".[25]
After establishing New Crime Productions, Cusack co-wrote the screenplay for and starred in George Armitage's crime film Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), in which he played an assassin who goes to his 10-year high school reunion to win back his high school sweetheart.[28] Released in the same year, Cusack also starred in the Nicolas Cage film Con Air (1997) as the FBI agent Vince Larkin,[29] and in Clint Eastwood's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997).[30] He also voiced Dimitri in the animated film Anastasia (1997).
In 2009, Cusack starred as Jackson Curtis in Roland Emmerich's epic disaster film 2012 (2009), a struggling novelist who attempts to save his family during a global cataclysm.[38] Throughout his career, Cusack tends to be typecast in the roles of writers, such as Martian Child (2007) and 1408 (2007).
In 2012, Cusack played Edgar Allan Poe in James McTeigue's biopic film The Raven (2012).[41] On acting in a real life role, Cusack said, "You have to get yourself as close to insanity as you can, but yet, be able to not go insane." He referred to the source of Poe's letters and writing, and used it material for his role.[42] Cusack then starred in another real life role as Richard Nixon in Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013). Lee: "I love working with John Cusack. He’s terrifying, he’s electrifying, and he inspires me to be a better director. He’s a fiery, intense presence on set. We never, ever rub up against each other but he fuels me."[43]
In 2014, Cusack appeared in another biopic film Love & Mercy (2014), on Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys. He was cast in the role of older Brian Wilson, and worked closely with Wilson himself, during the making of the film.[44] In the same year, Cusack also starred in David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars (2014).[45] He won a Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Maps to the Stars (2014).[46] This era was a new peak in his career,[47] however, in 2014, Cusack infamously criticized Hollywood saying the mega-corporations have stepped in with 50-producer movies, franchises are king, and stars are used as leverage. He noted Hollywood is "a whorehouse and people go mad."[48]
Cusack starred in the 2020 TV series Utopia.[47] In a 2020 interview with The Guardian, Cusack had admitted to the decline of his acting career. "In the last few years, I haven’t been able to get projects financed. That could be a function of getting older. Or it could be a function of being cold." [39] Cusack had since directed his attention to politics and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict on Twitter (now known as X).
Political views
Cusack is anti-war, having tweeted, "Being anti-war — is pro-troops — pro-human".[49][50] Between 2005 and 2009, Cusack wrote blogs for The Huffington Post, which included an interview with Naomi Klein. He voiced his opposition to the war in Iraq and Bush's administration, calling the government's worldview "depressing, corrupt, unlawful, and tragically absurd".[51] He also appeared in a June 2008 MoveOn.org advertisement, where he said that George W. Bush and John McCain had the same governing priorities.[52]
In 2015, Cusack, Daniel Ellsberg and Arundhati Roy met Edward Snowden, who had fled the US because of his leaks of classified information surrounding illegal population surveillance, at a Moscow hotel room.[56] This meeting was converted into a book co-authored with Roy titled Things That Can and Cannot Be Said.[57]
During May 2020, Cusack was recording a George Floyd protest in Chicago on social media when he was attacked by police with batons and later pepper-sprayed.[61]
I would love to think about other things—poetry, love, anything else. But that’s just not the times we’re in. And, y’know, not all anger is just sort of somebody stuck in some rut in a basement. If you can’t be outraged on behalf of other people, or express anger at injustice, maybe that is its own rut. Sure, I might go too far sometimes. But I really just want to get across the message: that we’re sleepwalking into an incredibly dark possible future. Maybe being outspoken hurts your career… I’m just aware it helps me sleep better at night, knowing that I wasn’t passive during this time.
In June 2019, Cusack tweeted out image of a large fist with a blue Star of David crushing a small crowd of people next to a quote often misattributed to Voltaire: "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize".[67][68] In the tweet, Cusack added the words "Follow the money." He said that the tweet was meant to criticize Israel's policies against Palestinians but later apologized saying that "antisemitism has no place in any rational political dialogue" and deleted the tweet.[69][70][71][72]
Since the Israel–Hamas war broke out in Gaza in October 2023, Cusack has been relentlessly vocal about the genocide of Palestinians. In January 2024, Cusack was labeled "Antisemite of the Week" by the organization StopAntisemitism, which he rejected.[73]
Personal life
Cusack trained in kickboxing under former world kickboxing champion Benny Urquidez for over 20 years. He began training under Urquidez in preparation for his role in Say Anything... and holds the rank of a level six black belt in Urquidez's Ukidokan Kickboxing system.[74]
In March 2008, police arrested Emily Leatherman outside Cusack's Malibu, California home for stalking him. On October 10, 2008, Leatherman pleaded no contest and received five years' probation and mandatory psychiatric counseling, and was ordered to stay away from Cusack, his home, and business for the next 10 years.[75]
^ abc"Cusack, Richard J.[obituary]". Chicago Tribune. June 3, 2003. Archived from the original on September 29, 2018. Retrieved August 27, 2010. Richard J. Cusack, writer/producer/actor, beloved husband of Nancy, nee Carolan; loving father of Ann, Joan (Richard) Burke, Bill, John and Susie
^Alstead, Robert (December 16, 2003). "John Cusack Takes Five [interview]". UK: iofilm. Archived from the original on October 22, 2018. Retrieved November 27, 2017. Born into an Irish Catholic family in the Chicago suburb of Evanston in 1966, Cusack's father, Dick, was an actor and documentary maker and his mother, Nancy, a teacher. His sisters, Joan and Susie are actors....
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