{"id":3206,"date":"2025-09-19T02:25:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T02:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=3206"},"modified":"2025-09-19T02:25:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T02:25:39","slug":"vince-vaughn-reveals-hidden-talent-for-crooning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=3206","title":{"rendered":"Vince Vaughn Reveals Hidden Talent for Crooning"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n Who knew Vince Vaughn<\/a> could carry a tune? Turns out, the actor\u2019s been singing right under our noses for years, from the ironic Alanis Morissette cover he delivered in \u201cThe Internship\u201d to his cringy rendition of \u201cAll the Gold in California\u201d in the movie \u201cArkansas,\u201d but it wasn\u2019t until \u201cEasy\u2019s Waltz\u201d that it became clear Vaughn could\u2019ve been a crooner in another life.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cEasy\u2019s Waltz\u201d is like a window into that life, and maybe a sigh of relief that the \u201cSwingers\u201d star took a different path \u2014 since he\u2019s certainly had it easier than his character does trying to sustain his career as a cabaret act. Vaughn plays Lew Evans, whose friends call him \u201cEasy.\u201d He\u2019s like a laidback Dean Martin who never got discovered, despite regular appearances at one of Las Vegas\u2019 decaying older venues, where he sexily saunters his way through unconventional \u201980s standards like \u201cAgainst All Odds\u201d and \u201cI Wanna Dance With Somebody,\u201d before blowing the roof off with his take on Ultravox\u2019s \u201cVienna.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n There\u2019s a version of this guy who could easily support another one of Vaughn\u2019s brash bro comedies. Instead, as \u201cTrue Detective\u201d creator Nic Pizzolatto<\/a> sees Easy in his beautifully written feature directing debut, he serves as more of a tragic figure: Grounded, loyal and honorable to a fault, the man\u2019s got talent, as well as a tendency to self-sabotage. How else to describe the way he\u2019s been dragging along his no-good younger sibling Sam (Simon Rex), who pawns Easy\u2019s prized ring behind his back and siphons off his brother\u2019s success?<\/p>\n

\n A low-key cousin to \u201980s movies like \u201cTender Mercies\u201d and \u201cThe Fabulous Baker Boys,\u201d in which pathetic middle-aged musicians circle the drain of their own existence, \u201cEasy\u2019s Waltz\u201d is a character-driven indie drama of the kind that launched Vaughn\u2019s acting career. Watching Vaughn embody Easy during a precarious late-career moment of opportunity, I was also reminded of \u201cBob le Flambeur,\u201d in which the incorrigible French gambler stumbles home from the backroom poker games at dawn and drops a coin into the slot machine behind the door of his own apartment. In Easy\u2019s case, he never risks enough to win big \u2014 but that also protects him from losing everything.<\/p>\n

\n Movies like this don\u2019t exactly light up the box office, but they stick with the folks fortunate enough to see them. Years earlier, Easy made that kind of impression on Al Pacino\u2019s Mickey Albano, a louche local personality who books talent for the Wynn casino. Mickey has power, but more importantly, he has taste, and when he happens to catch one of Easy\u2019s performances at a moment when the singer is pouring just a little too much of his soul into the show, he calls Easy over and offers his a chance the singer never thought would come: How would he like to play the Wynn?<\/p>\n

\n By this point, we\u2019ve already seen what bad news his brother Sam can be, via one of those smart Pizzolatto-classic scenes \u2014 this one set at a seedy pawn shop off the Strip \u2014 that reveal volumes about his characters\u2019 personality and past relationships. Now Sam steps in as Easy\u2019s manager, jeopardizing the deal even before it\u2019s signed (in a weird coincidence, Sam had hit it off a few nights earlier with Lucy, the same young woman Mickey brought to his brother\u2019s show, played by Kate Mara). Easy has secrets of his own, as when he runs the contract by an old acquaintance (Cobie Smulders), a lawyer who might have been his life partner had things turned out differently \u2014 though most of those details are nestled between the lines.<\/p>\n

\n The arrangement between Mickey and Easy suits them both, and we sense that the older man is living out some kind of vicarious thrill opening doors for his grateful new act. Easy belongs to an earlier time (just don\u2019t call him a Boomer) and honestly doesn\u2019t realize what a viral moment he\u2019s having when someone records his version of Mike and the Mechanics\u2019 \u201cSilent Running\u201d and posts it online. Suddenly, Mickey is offering him a chance to play the main stage, which sets Sam\u2019s greedier instincts into overdrive. Not only is he playing with fire by seeing Lucy behind Mickey\u2019s back, but he hatches a scheme to steal and resell the QR codes off casino vouchers.<\/p>\n

\n The pieces of Pizzolatto\u2019s script don\u2019t quite fit together, but the overall shape is clear. He has mapped a Faustian dilemma on top of a modern-day Greek tragedy, in which Easy must choose between the two things he wants most: a singing career and saving his brother, the latter being a responsibility no one ever asked him to shoulder. Pizzolatto turns out to be strong with actors, getting great performances from everybody, even Rex, a loose cannon whose role in \u201cRed Rocket\u201d created opportunities far beyond his abilities. Pacino hasn\u2019t been this good since \u201cOnce Upon a Time in Hollywood.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n As the film winds down, Pizzolatto reveals some tough existential insights personal enough to cut past the hard-boiled shorthand such movies so often serve up. It feels like an indulgence to give Easy a climactic concert in which nearly every significant person in his life is present \u2014 all but his mother, who makes an earlier appearance in a devastating single-scene cameo by Mary Steenburgen. Still, there\u2019s something touching in the man\u2019s belief that music can bring people together.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Who knew Vince Vaughn could carry a tune? Turns out, the actor\u2019s been singing right under our noses for years, from the ironic Alanis Morissette cover he delivered in \u201cThe Internship\u201d to his cringy rendition of \u201cAll the Gold in California\u201d in the movie \u201cArkansas,\u201d but it wasn\u2019t until \u201cEasy\u2019s Waltz\u201d that it became clear …