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re: Spinoff: Actors with the Most Diverse Career
Posted on 4/27/15 at 9:04 am to NorthShoreTiger44
Posted on 4/27/15 at 9:04 am to NorthShoreTiger44
Robin Williams is up there. Tom Hanks for sure.
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Posted on 4/27/15 at 9:07 am to NorthShoreTiger44
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First actor that comes to mind is Johhny Depp.
Posted on 4/27/15 at 9:10 am to Freauxzen
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First actor that comes to mind is Johhny Depp.
Johnny Depp is a legit choice. I don't know why the banging head.
Posted on 4/27/15 at 9:15 am to LoveThatMoney
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Johnny Depp is a legit choice. I don't know why the banging head.
Just going to agree to disagree, Depp is like many other actors, he just plays a slightly different Depp in every movie. He has few performances outside of this comfort zone.
Being painted white and acting different levels of weird is not diverse.
Posted on 4/27/15 at 9:18 am to NorthShoreTiger44
Dare I say Christian Bale?
Posted on 4/27/15 at 9:27 am to elprez00
Bale is more diverse than some people in this thread, but I'm not sure if he's near the top. Yet. He certainly can be.
Posted on 4/27/15 at 9:30 am to Freauxzen
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Just going to agree to disagree, Depp is like many other actors, he just plays a slightly different Depp in every movie. He has few performances outside of this comfort zone.
Being painted white and acting different levels of weird is not diverse.
Huh. I guess I see it as: This guy has done high drama, comedy (albeit strange comedy), action, musicals, he's played transformative roles, done voice work, and basically made himself into a damn fine actor while overcoming the whole TigerBeat Teen Heartthrob stigma.
To go from 21 Jump Street to Edward Scissorhands, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, and Ed Wood, all in the span of 4 or 5 years, that's diversity, imo.
Posted on 4/27/15 at 9:33 am to Freauxzen
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Bale is more diverse than some people in this thread, but I'm not sure if he's near the top. Yet. He certainly can be.
I just don't think Bale has a whole lot of interest in genres other than drama and/or action. He doesn't seem to like comedies or musicals.
Not that that makes him a bad actor or an actor without range. To say he has no range is a slap in the face of the word "range." But he doesn't appear in two major film genres pretty much ever, unless you count American Psycho as a comedy.
But this reminds me: his career isn't all that old, at least on the really big stage, but Bradley Cooper is up there.
Posted on 4/27/15 at 9:45 am to LoveThatMoney
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Huh. I guess I see it as: This guy has done high drama, comedy (albeit strange comedy), action, musicals, he's played transformative roles, done voice work, and basically made himself into a damn fine actor while overcoming the whole TigerBeat Teen Heartthrob stigma. To go from 21 Jump Street to Edward Scissorhands, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, and Ed Wood, all in the span of 4 or 5 years, that's diversity, imo.
Posted on 4/27/15 at 9:46 am to LoveThatMoney
Posted on 4/27/15 at 10:28 am to Matisyeezy
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Philip Seymour Hoffman
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bullfrickingshit
No? The guy who played Truman Capote, the manager of the Oakland A's, the weird bisexual toady in Boogie Nights, the leader of a Scientology cult, Lester Bangs the rock writer...
Posted on 4/27/15 at 10:41 am to FootballNostradamus
What movie is the Gary Oldman "Meatbag" picture from?
Posted on 4/27/15 at 10:48 am to The Quiet One
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Denzel Washington comes to mind...been a good guy, bad guy, and all things in between.
Agreed -- the two who come to mind for me are Denzel and Matt Damon for the reasons you mentioned above.
Damon has played the bad guy (The Departed), the important secondary character (Saving Private Ryan, Ocean's trilogy), and action hero (Bourne).
Posted on 4/27/15 at 10:52 am to LoveThatMoney
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To go from 21 Jump Street to Edward Scissorhands, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, and Ed Wood, all in the span of 4 or 5 years, that's diversity, imo.
I agree, but he hasn't done this kind of stretch since.
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Huh. I guess I see it as: This guy has done high drama, comedy (albeit strange comedy), action, musicals, he's played transformative roles, done voice work, and basically made himself into a damn fine actor
Eh, this describes quite a few people, still nothing groundbreaking.
Posted on 4/27/15 at 11:14 am to Freauxzen
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Eh, this describes quite a few people, still nothing groundbreaking.
See, here's the problem with threads like these: Who gives a crap if it's groundbreaking? He's still done it. He's still shown an amazingly diverse career.
That's (A).
(B) Name those other people. I'll start: Robin Williams. Tom Hanks? Nope. No musicals. Is there anyone else? Legit question.
Posted on 4/27/15 at 11:22 am to LoveThatMoney
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See, here's the problem with threads like these: Who gives a crap if it's groundbreaking? He's still done it. He's still shown an amazingly diverse career.
That's (A).
I mean that doesn't mean he's diverse, but we're hashing that in the other thread. (Groundbreaking was the wrong road, more along the lines of "a drama and an animated film don't make diversity).
Posted on 4/27/15 at 11:22 am to DosManos
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What movie is the Gary Oldman "Meatbag" picture from?
One of those Hannibal movies.
Posted on 4/27/15 at 11:26 am to Freauxzen
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I mean that doesn't mean he's diverse, but we're hashing that in the other thread. (Groundbreaking was the wrong road, more along the lines of "a drama and an animated film don't make diversity).
... I think I'm just going to pretend these two threads do not exist.
Posted on 4/27/15 at 11:42 am to LoveThatMoney
Somebody mentioned musicals and that made me think of Russel Crowe. He's had a diverse career, from playingin a musical, Les Mis, to being one of the biggest bada$$e$ ever on screen as Maximus in the Gladiator, to a whistle blower in The Insider, to his performance in A Beautiful Mind, to an action sports comedy like Mystery, Alaska. the guy has pretty much done it all.
I'll also offer up a contemporary to Tom Hanks, Micheal Keaton. From Batman to Beetljuice, Keaton has had some serious range too.
I'll also offer up a contemporary to Tom Hanks, Micheal Keaton. From Batman to Beetljuice, Keaton has had some serious range too.
Posted on 4/27/15 at 11:53 am to DosManos
Hannibal
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