Waltz's maternal grandfather, Rudolf von Urban, was a psychiatrist of Slovene descent and a student of Sigmund Freud. Waltz comes from a family of theatrical heritage: his maternal grandmother was Burgtheater and silent film actress Maria Mayen, and his step-grandfather, Emmerich Reimers, and his great-grandfather, Georg Reimers, were both stage actors who also appeared in silent films. Waltz was born on 4 October 1956 in Vienna, the son of Johannes Waltz, a German set designer, and Elisabeth Urbancic, an Austrian costume designer of Slovenian descent. He also provided the voice of Mandrake in Epic (2013) and is set to voice the Fox and the Cat in Guillermo del Toro's upcoming Pinocchio adaptation (2022).
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In 2020, he starred in the web series Most Dangerous Game, receiving his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series. Waltz also gained acclaim for his performance as James Bond's nemesis Ernst Stavro Blofeld in Sam Mendes' Spectre (2015), a role which he reprised in Cary Joji Fukunaga's No Time to Die (2021). Waltz has also starred in Roman Polanski's dark comedy Carnage (2011), Terry Gilliam's science fiction film The Zero Theorem (2013), Tim Burton's biographical film Big Eyes (2014), for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award, Alexander Payne's satire Downsizing (2017), Woody Allen's comedy Rifkin's Festival (2020), and Wes Anderson's comedy-drama The French Dispatch (2021). He also received the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival and a Screen Actors Guild Award for his portrayal of Landa. For each performance, he earned an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. He collaborated with Tarantino again in 2012, when he played bounty hunter Dr. Waltz' American breakthrough role came in Quentin Tarantino's 2009 film Inglourious Basterds, in which he played SS officer Hans Landa. Since 2009, he has been primarily active in the United States. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards.
I don’t understand how so many read that meme so wrong.Christoph Waltz ( German pronunciation: born 4 October 1956 in Vienna) is a German and Austrian actor. For those of you who are wondering why I bothered to write the blindingly obvious, again, please know that I am with you in my puzzlement. Notice how the word hate does not inspire any feelings of pity from the hated for the hater? Notice how it places the treatment of the action squarely where it belongs? The use of the word homophobia derails the struggle by mislabeling it and misappropriating sentiments that should not belong to it. Notice that the heinous mistreatment of women is not referred to as gynophobia (though that word does exist with a very different meaning). It taps into that paradigm we encapsulate with the word phobia and weakens our resolve by introducing doubt as to the source of the action. The very word we use to describe the hateful, damaging treatment we receive at the hands of those individual is in fact a tool for their side, a weapon against us. The original writer of the statement is pointing out a basic flaw in the way we handle prejudice by pointing out a hidden tool of the opposition, infiltrated across the lines, and set to tick within our own camps. A phobia, we all learn early on, is a fear that cannot be helped, that arrises from a pathological root thus, is to be treated as an illness, and as such, is given a certain amount of understanding and pity. Freeman actually said these words or not, the original writer is making a comment on the word homophobia itself, on the validity of its root construction.
I shake my head in confusion as to how such a clear and direct meme could be so misunderstood, but since that seems to be the case for many within my own community, allow me to delineate the gobsmackingly obvious. The main point of disgruntlement I found across the LGBT sphere against this meme is the feeling that referring to homophobes as “just assholes” diminishes the actual impact homophobes have had and continue to have on our lives. I find it deeply troubling to know how unaware the average Joe/Jane is regarding the power of the word and how words shape thought and vice versa. I came across a few bits of blogging attacking this meme from, of all places, the LGBT community. It has since, given its catchiness, become an oft repeated meme. On August 16, 2012, the following tweet was attributed to the actor, celebrity, and all-around fountain of awesomeness, Morgan Freeman: