Spielberg rarely works with the same actors
It's something I've noticed about him.
Unlike Paul Thomas Anderson or David O. Russell or Garry Marshall or Tim Burton, Spielberg tends to use different actors for his many films.
Tom Hanks (Saving Private Ryan, Catch Me If You Can, The Terminal, Bridge of Spies) & Harrison Ford (the Indiana Jones quadrilogy) are tied with the most Spielberg collaborations with four each.
Richard Dreyfuss (Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Always) comes in second with three Spielberg collaborations.
While...
-Karen Allen (Raiders of the Lost Ark & Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls)
-Richard Attenborough (Jurassic Park & The Lost World: Jurassic Park 2)
-Daniel Craig (Munich & The Adventures of Tintin)
-Tom Cruise (Minority Report & War of the Worlds)
-Denholm Elliott (Raiders of the Lost Ark & Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade)
-Jeff Goldblum (Jurassic Park & The Lost World: Jurassic Park 2)
-Lorraine Gray (Jaws & 1941)
-Pete Postlethwaite (The Lost World: Jurassic Park 2 & Amistad)
-John Rhys-Davies (Raiders of the Lost Ark & Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade)
-Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies & The BFG)
...all have worked with Spielberg only twice (excluding the cameo appearances by Dan Aykroyd, Morgan Freeman, and Amy Ryan)
By the way, this isn't at all a complaint. It's just an observation I'm sharing.
Note: Spielberg does tend to use the same cinematographers, editors, composers and even producers and screenwriters.
When the stars are the only things we share
Will you be there?
-Benjamin Francis Leftwich