American actor Tom Sizemore, one of the stars of Save Private Ryan (Save Private Ryan), is hospitalized in the intensive care unit of a hospital in Los Angeles, after suffering a brain aneurysmaccording to local media.
Sizemore, 61, suffered the aneurysm around 2 am on Saturday at his home in Los Angeles. He is in critical condition, in a situation where it is necessary to “wait to see” its evolutionhis spokesman, Charles Lago, explained to CNN, adding that “his family is aware of and awaits further news” on the situation.
The actor born in Detroit (Michigan) has been part of the cast of several successful films, some of which are related to the world of crime or war between the 1990s and the beginning of the 21st century.
Among them is, in addition to Save Private Ryan with Tom Hanks Heat, natural born killers (Naturally Killer), Pearl Harbor, The Relic AND Black Hawk Down.
CNN recalled that the actor played tough guys and perhaps his best known role was as Sergeant Mike Horvath in Save Private Ryana war film about the Second World War.
Era nominated for a Golden Globe in 2000 for his role in the miniseries Witness protection and appeared as a secondary in episodes of the television series Twin peaks AND Cobra Kai.
But you can’t go through Sizemore’s filmography without highlighting Taking out the dead (Lives on the edge), the (usually forgotten) film by Martin Scorsese 1999, with Nicolas Cage. In that film there is all the tense and hard madness of a Sizemore always on the verge of exploding.
“One of the toughest, most uncomfortable and most disturbing works by the only American director of his generation who hasn’t lost his coherence and audacity”, defined it by the critic Jordi Costa de The avant-garde.
The actor, who has been involved in numerous controversies and He came to confess his drug addiction on televisionwas convicted in 2003 of assaulting his ex-partner Heidi Fleiss, while in 2009 he was also accused of mistreating his girlfriend.
In an interview with Fox News in 2021, Sizemore shared his intentions to get sober: “I’ve been trying to get sober since 1999… I have had a problem for a long time. I had periods, long periods, of sobriety and ended up relapsing,” she later explained.
Sergeant Horvat
Considered a secondary luxury, Steven Spielberg cast Sizemore in 1998 for the most famous and prestigious role of his career: Sergeant Horvath. From Save Private Ryanthat faithful and charismatic soldier who accompanied Tom Hanks through the vast and dangerous countryside of Nazi-occupied France with the aim of saving a very young boy. Matt Damon.
In a magazine interview GQ Analyzing his career, Damon revealed that he was the deceased robin williams which helped him land that major role in his filmography. And remember that the actor landed an interview for him and his friend Ben Affleck for them to meet Steven Spielberg.
Williams had previously worked with Spielberg on Hook, in 1991 and had a great relationship with the director. According to Damon, “Robin knew he never hurt to meet the greatest director of all time and how much we would appreciate him.”
“I had filmed myself reading part of the script for the film, but they didn’t cast me,” recalls Damon. “When Spielberg met me in person and he said, ‘I think I know you from somewhere,’ and I said, ‘Well, I made a movie called Courage under fire‘. he answered me; ‘Here, I said to my wife, he’s exactly the kind of guy I want to play Private Ryan, but he’s too thin.
And he adds: “That’s it I had lost almost 20 kilosto play a heroin addict Courage under fire“. And it was only because Robin introduced him to me that he said, ‘Oh, okay, you’re not the kind of person I’m looking for that job, but hey.'”
A complicated record
Actor Sizemore pleaded guilty to domestic violence in 2003 against his girlfriend, Heidi Fleiss. In 2006, he pleaded no contest to charges of using methamphetamine outside a motel. Sizemore was arrested in Los Angeles in 2009 for an alleged assault on a former spouse, and again in 2011 for the same crime.
In 2018, a 26-year-old actress filed a lawsuit against Sizemore, claiming he abused her during the film’s production. Natural born killers, when he was 11 years old. Sizemore denied this and the lawsuit was later dropped.
Source: Clarin
