On Wednesday, March 4th, actor Vince Vaughn received one of Hollywood’s highest accolades, his handprints and footprints in cement in the forecourt of the TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX®, as the 280th star to be so honored.
Unlike any other award in Hollywood, be it an Oscar® or a sidewalk ceremony, The TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX® handprints-footprints tribute is the most selective of all, since over the course of nine decades, only 280 such honors have been presented.
Since emerging on the scene, Vince Vaughn solidified himself as a bona fide talent earning him accolades and industry recognition with prominent roles in high-profile megahits that began with Steven Spielberg’s “The Lost World: Jurassic Park.” In 2003, Vaughn’s popularity skyrocketed with the release of “Old School” starring alongside Will Ferrell and Luke Wilson.
In his latest film, “Unfinished Business” (March 6th), Vaughn portrays a hard-working small business owner and his two associates (Tom Wilkinson, Dave Franco) travel to Europe to close the most important deal of their lives. But what began as a routine business trip goes off the rails in every imaginable – and unimaginable – way, including unplanned stops at a massive sex fetish event and a global economic summit.
Vaughn made his cinematic debut in the 1993 underdog film “Rudy,” where he also became friends with fellow actor, Jon Favreau and forged a symbiotic creative partnership that led to his break-out role in Favreau’s 1996 film-turned-cult-classic “Swingers.”
Over the next sixteen years, a dynamic collaboration ensued between these two comical virtuosos that would have them reunite for several projects beginning with the mob farce “Made,” followed by “The Break-up” with Jennifer Aniston playing opposite of Vaughn, “Four Christmases” co-starring Reese Witherspoon, and “Couples Retreat.”
Following this pivotal performance, Vaughn proved to be a comedic tour de force with a succession of hit comedies including the seventies television show remake, “Starsky & Hutch,” “Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story,” both with Ben Stiller; reuniting with Will Ferrell in “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy;” “Be Cool,” opposite John Travolta and Uma Thurman; “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie; and “Fred Claus”, alongside Paul Giamatti, Kathy Bates and Rachel Weisz.
In 2005, Vaughn’s soaring comic trajectory culminated with the highest-grossing comedy of the year, “Wedding Crashers.”
