As with Marlon Brando and James Dean, the storied actor embodied a more sensitive kind of masculinity upon coming to fame in the 1950s. Compared to older generations of Hollywood stars, there was a raw nerve energy to guys like him. Newman also didn't care for what he saw as empty praise, particularly from journalists who compared him to Brando as an actor. When Fallaci, at his prompting, confessed that Newman reminded her "a little bit" of Brando, it really set him off. "When journalists tell me, 'Your acting is just like Brando's,' or even 'You look like Marlon Brando,' I stop talking to them.