- If you've seen any of the best picture nominees for 2018,
you might have noticed something unusual.
A lot of the actors cross over into some of the other films.
Some of them are very obvious
and some of them are a little more obscure.
So this got us thinking.
How deep does this go?
There are nine nominees for best picture in 2018.
We connected each best picture nominee
with the actors they have in common.
Here's how we did it.
Now warning, some spoilers
if you haven't seen these movies yet.
Let's start with the obvious ones.
Timothee Chalamet appears in Lady Bird
as Saoirse Ronan's love interest, Kyle.
He also stars in Call Me By Your Name, as Elio.
- Call me by your name and I'll call you by mine.
- [Chris] In Call Me By Your Name,
Michael Stuhlbarg plays Elio's father.
Stuhlbarg is also in two other best picture nominees.
He plays Doctor Robert Hoffstetler in The Shape of Water.
- This creature is intelligent, capable of language.
- [Chris] And he is New York Times Editor
Abe Rosenthal in The Post.
Through those two alone, we have four of the films covered.
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Now let's take another look at Lady Bird.
Lady Bird's father, Larry, is played be Tracy Letts,
who also plays Fritz Beebe in The Post.
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Lady Bird's other lover interest, Danny,
is played by Lucas Hedges.
- Lady Bird always says that she goes
on the wrong side of the tracks,
but I always thought that that was like a metaphor.
- [Chris] Hedges also stars
in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri,
as Mildred's son, Robbie.
Kathryn Newton plays Mildred's dead daughter, Angela.
She also happens to be in Lady Bird,
playing the minor role of Darlene.
Also in Three Billboards is Caleb Landry Jones,
who plays Red Welby.
He's the guy who Mildred pays to put up the billboards.
- I guess you're Angela Hayes' mother.
- That's right.
I'm Angela Hayes' mother.
- [Chris] He might look familiar
because he's also in Get Out,
where he plays Rose's violent brother, Jeremy.
- Is everything okay?
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- Also in Get Out, is Bradley Whitford.
He appears in The Post as a fictional character
named Arthur Parsons.
All right, so now we have six of the films on the board.
That just leaves Dunkirk, Darkest Hour, and Phantom Thread.
And this is where things get a little tricky.
An actor named Davey Jones plays a soldier
in both Dunkirk and Darkest Hour.
Yeah, it's a small role, but it's still a connection.
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Also in Darkest Hour is an actor named Chris Harris,
who plays a Downing Street KB.
Chris Harris also happens to play
a musician in Phantom Thread.
So now we connected those three films together,
but we're still missing a connection to the first six.
This is where things get even trickier.
We combed through IMDb, searching for any actor
that might be the missing link.
Just when we thought it wasn't possible,
we found her, Tracey Ruggiero.
- Whenever your on sets like that,
you definitely have a feeling
that it's going to be something big.
- Tracey is a stunt performer
who had roles in both Dunkirk and The Post.
Yes, there were stunts in The Post.
- So in The Post, there was a protest scene.
I was running behind the car.
I know that Meryl was in the car and she was looking
out the back as Tom Hanks was walking down the street.
And so, I know I was running through that scene a bunch.
In Dunkirk, I played a nurse in the big boat scene.
And actually, "stunt nurse" was what she was called
because it's a stunt performer.
Literally, you felt like you were drowning.
It really felt like the boat was getting bombed.
It's quite an honor to just have been,
just to even work a day on any those movies,
a movie that Steven Spielberg directs
or Christopher Nolan directs.
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- So there you go.
All nine films connected, Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon style,
minus Kevin Bacon.