Vin Diesel’s favorite movie? The Fast & Furious actor is a big sentimentalist!

Stars love to reminisce about their favorite movies. And it’s not always heritage films. Some choices are even rather surprising! Proof by ten.

Among the questions to which the stars gladly answer is that of their favorite films. And we are not talking here about their favorite films within their own respective filmographies. One or more favorite films for obviously very different reasons: works that were revelations for them; because they marked their childhood, because they had an important influence in their careers…

Here are ten talents and their favorite films!

Vin Diesel

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Vin Diesel may play biceps and be a fan of tuning in the indestructible Fast & Furious saga, when he’s not playing the nyctalope anti-hero Riddick, he’s ultimately a tough guy with a very tender heart. He told author Cindy Pearlman in her book You Gotta See Thisthat his favorite movie is Gone with the Wind.

“Gone with the Wind is truly the first action film… It was also shot long before the days of CGI. You can still watch the Atlanta fire today and marvel at the brilliance technique of this film” he comments.

And to add: “I love epic romance. Has there ever been a better love story on the big screen? I have to tell you, I was so in love with Vivien Leigh. She was so beautiful. So perfect. That delicate little face. Beautiful.”. Vin also knows how to be a poet.

Leonardo DiCaprio

King Leo was already a teenager with a very curious nature. So when you have the chance to work with great directors renowned for their cinephiles, it also helps a lot. “The only person who knows as much as Martin Scorsese on movies, it’s Steven Spielberg” confided the actor in last February, during the Golden Globes. “I went from Gangs of New York with Marty at Stop me if you can with Steve”.

Rather than delivering his favorite film, Leonardo DiCaprio preferred to provide the list of his favorite films: 8 1/2 by Fellini, Taxi Driver, The Bicycle Thief, East of Eden, Princess Mononoke. And in number 1? 2001, Stanley Kubrick’s space odyssey. “It’s a spiritual experience. You have to go into it with the idea that Kubrick’s intention was to make us understand our relationship with the universe. The more you look at it, the more questions it asks.” Sharp, but we expected no less from him.

Emma Stone

“You absolutely have to see city lights” confided Emma Stone to Entertainment Weekly in 2016citing the movies that had a big impact on his life. “It’s my favorite movie of all time. The last five minutes of this movie will change your life. It changed mine. I realized where every rom-com comes from – what everyone tries to realize It’s the most romantic, the most touching… […] If I think about it for too long, I’m going to cry.” It is true that the end of the film carries an emotional charge to split the stones in two.

Robert de Niro

We no longer present, for a long time, one of the greatest actors of his generation. Absolute icon of cinema, totemic figure of the Actors Studio, Robert de Niro lines up a number of absolute masterpieces in his filmography.

In fact, it is not very surprising to find in the top 3 of his favorite movies the enormous influence of the Actors Studio and its famous Method Acting. East of Eden and La fureur de vivre, two films with James Dean, completed by his No. 1 film, Sur les quais d’Elia Kazan, with Marlon Brando.

“When you saw James Dean do ‘East of Eden’ he was great, but you can’t do what he could do. Brando with ‘On the Docks’ or ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ are considered the greatest performances of the time, and still are”.

Emily Blunt

Emily Blunt, who is for the record starring in Christopher Nolan’s long-awaited Oppenheimer, has very sure taste in film. In any case regarding his favorite film: the indestructible Jaws by Steven Spielberg, which is nothing less than “a perfect film”.

“I’ve seen it about 30 times. Even though there’s an absurd backdrop of the characters trying to find this great white shark, I think it’s a movie about individuals and human relationships, and I think that the performances are absolutely fantastic”.

Morgan Freeman

Considering the already venerable age of Morgan Freeman, one would have thought that his favorite film appeared rather in the radius of heritage films. However, this is not exactly the case. In an interview given in 2012 at the IGN website, he confided that his favorite film was Moulin Rouge! by Baz Luhrman.

“I just think this movie is fabulous. What Baz Luhrmann has done is really amazing. I mean, it’s all just amazing: the dancing, the wardrobe, the music. […] Some people really like it and some don’t. I think when you have such divided opinions like that, it’s a sign of a work of art. […] I like the way Moulin Rouge is mounted. He has frenetic energy.”

Idris Elba

The actor revealed by his role as Russell ‘Stringer’ Bell in the fabulous series The Wire had revealed in 2009 at the microphone of host Oprah Winfrey the list of films that had the strongest impact on him. For a long time, his No. 1 film was Goodfellas by Martin Scorsese, before coming across a 1931 film.

“For a long time it was Freedmen by Martin Scorsese, and then I saw a movie called The Champ,” Elba explained. “It’s a teary movie, man. It’s really old. There’s this little boy, and he’s shouting, ‘Come on, champ! You can get back in the ring, champ!” That’s a good [film]”.

Directed by King Vidor, this great film stars Wallace Beery in the role of a boxer, former world champion, fighting against alcoholism. But only his son believes in him. Wallace Beery won an Oscar for his performance, which is one of the first melodramas about boxing. A classic, indeed.

Terrence Malick

The red line director’s favorite film, Badlands or A Hidden Life, really sounds like a gag. And yet. During the SXSW Festival in 2017, Terrence Malick recalled that his favorite film was… Zoolander! It’s not the first film that would come to mind when we take a look at his filmography, and yet Terrence Malick likes to talk about pop culture and toss out quotes from Ben Stiller’s film as reported IndieWire.

This information had also gone up to the ears of Ben Stiller who had recorded a video in the costume of Derek Zoolander to wish a happy birthday to Terrence Malick a few years ago. Another favorite film of the filmmaker: Blue Scare, Renny Harlin’s shark film. Oh yes ! You can make very contemplative and ultra-serious films, and knowing how to have a little fun is not incompatible.

Natalie Portman

In April 2020, when the world was in the midst of a pandemic and confined, you had to occupy your time at home. And nothing better than some viewing recommendations. The AFI Movie Club, initiative of theAmerican Film Institutehad asked Hollywood talents to present a film to see and therefore a favorite film of the actor or actress making the presentation.

We thus discovered the devouring passion of Natalie Portman for Dirty Dancing. “It’s one of my favorite movies of all time” she comments in his presentation. “It’s definitely the movie I’ve watched the most in my life… It’s just one of the best, best movies.”

Good. Cult film, certainly. One of the best films of all time, we can always discuss it.