Jennifer Tilly has turn out to be fairly a daily on the poker desk over the past 20 years, and appears to have impressed a fellow actor. After doing appreciable analysis into the sport earlier than showing within the latest poker film Dead Money, actor Emile Hirsch unveiled a big portray of Tilly on the poker desk on Twitter on Friday.
In a photograph with the work, the portray seems virtually as tall as Hirsch, who checks in at 5 ft, 7 inches tall. Tilly appeared flattered by the trouble.
“This is very cool!” she stated on Twitter. “I didn’t know you were a painter also!”
In getting ready for Dead Money, Hirsch hung out testing Las Vegas money video games and talking with high-stakes reside stream regulars like Alan Keating and Nikhil ‘Airball’ Arcott. He even made an look on the Hustler Casino Live money recreation stream.
“It was an incredible experience diving into the world of poker and gambling,” the actor stated. “I got so obsessed with the game that I regularly found myself googling ‘gambling addiction.’ I’ve partaken in many vices in my day – and that one has easily the strongest pull!”
Tilly, who just lately gained an enormous pot on High Stakes Poker after a dream arrange, grew up taking part in poker. Her father was a gambler and taught her the sport. She jumped into the motion extra throughout the poker growth of the 2000s when she started relationship poker professional Phil Laak and after she gained the 2005 WSOP Ladies Championship.
Tilly wasn’t the one participant Hirsch delivered to life on canvas. He confirmed off one other work impressed by high-stakes professional Tom Dwan over the weekend and requested Twitter followers what he ought to paint subsequent.
Hirsch, 39, is greatest recognized for his movies Into The Wild, Speed Racer, The Girl Next Door, Milk, and Alpha Dog.
What are some issues that may very well be cool I may try to paint subsequent? Or attention-grabbing individuals
— Emile Hirsch (@EmileHirsch) October 27, 2024
*Photos from Emile Hirsch on X (@EmileHirsch)