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10 Actors Who Are Masters At Swearing

There’s an art to cursing. When done well, it can provide dialogue with added emphasis, intensity, aggression, or rebelliousness. Pop culture seems to have transitioned relatively quickly from foul language being seen as taboo and worthy of censorship to its use being seen as an effective tool and worthy of praise for its level of creativity. There are certain writers and directors that seem to throw caution regarding censorship to the wind and become known for their expletive-heavy films. But the performers who we get to see and hear using this colorful language possess the voices that we typically associate with our favorite movie curse words, and scenes that employ said curse words. Those who exercise this theatrical muscle the best are unsurprisingly some of the most widely appreciated performers in the business.

4) Susie Essman

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Curb Your Enthusiasm

Her movie and television roles are limited (apparently she is “known” for voicing “Mittens” in the movie Bolt), but Susie Essman deserves to be mentioned alongside these prime pottymouths for her work on Curb Your Enthusiasm. In fact, it wouldn’t be that bold to consider her the MVFP of that show, because it’s often her hostile candor and angry chastisements that provide the most humorous contrast to Larry David’s lackadaisical yet neurotic, dare I say solipsistic anti-hero, along with Jeff Garlin’s loud but generally good-natured friend.

The series has relied on the necessity of someone offering up a scathing critique of Larry’s behavior, and no one does that better than Essman. As a result, on equal footing with “prettay, prettay…prettay good” as a signature catchphrase is either “fat fuck” or “four-eyed fuck,” depending on which of the two nincompoop compadres she is addressing. She ties Curb together in that every time she gets to speak she blows everything up.