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Actors/Actresses who took roles that surprised you
Posted on 12/15/20 at 3:23 pm
Posted on 12/15/20 at 3:23 pm
They can be both good and bad.
An example which surprises me, even 25 years later, Tommy Lee Jones as Harvey Dent/Two-Face. He seems like such a no-nonsense guy, hence it's surprising that he'd take such a campy role in such a campy-ish film.
An example which surprises me, even 25 years later, Tommy Lee Jones as Harvey Dent/Two-Face. He seems like such a no-nonsense guy, hence it's surprising that he'd take such a campy role in such a campy-ish film.
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Posted on 12/15/20 at 3:25 pm to RollTide1987
I was going to say Nicholas Cage but I couldn't figure out which role to begin with so I'll say Ghost Rider
I'll also add Jim Carrey with "The Truman Show"
I'll also add Jim Carrey with "The Truman Show"
This post was edited on 12/15/20 at 3:27 pm
Posted on 12/15/20 at 3:25 pm to RollTide1987
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An example which surprises me, even 25 years later, Tommy Lee Jones as Harvey Dent/Two-Face. He seems like such a no-nonsense guy, hence it's surprising that he'd take such a campy role in such a campy-ish film.
I cannot sanction your buffoonery
Posted on 12/15/20 at 3:27 pm to RollTide1987
Joaquin Phoenix - Joker. I didn't think he'd do it. I guess you can add Ledger as well. Nicholsons Joker was beloved. It was considered suicide to try and take on that role.
Posted on 12/15/20 at 3:32 pm to RLDSC FAN
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It was considered suicide to try and take on that role.
By who exactly? Seems like they got a big name actor each time they decided to use that IP so not sure where that comes from.
Posted on 12/15/20 at 3:34 pm to RollTide1987
Jessie Spano - Showgirls
Posted on 12/15/20 at 3:35 pm to RLDSC FAN
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It was considered suicide to try and take on that role.
Was it though? Every actor who has taken on that role has either been an Oscar winner or an Oscar nominee.
Posted on 12/15/20 at 3:37 pm to RollTide1987
Matthew Broderick playing Robert Gould Shaw in Glory, had only seen him in comedies then that role. He looked very close to the real Shaw and did ok in the role.
Posted on 12/15/20 at 3:39 pm to RollTide1987
Michael Keaton as Batman - dude was pretty much only known for being in comedies to that point.
RDJ as Tony Stark / Iron Man - last I knew of him prior to that was being in rehab. So glad he got clean and became one of the most memorable characters ever.
Robert Pattinson as Batman - Because I only knew him from those god awful Twilight movies.
RDJ as Tony Stark / Iron Man - last I knew of him prior to that was being in rehab. So glad he got clean and became one of the most memorable characters ever.
Robert Pattinson as Batman - Because I only knew him from those god awful Twilight movies.
Posted on 12/15/20 at 3:39 pm to RollTide1987
Sure, nowadays. I'm talking before Nolan revived the batman world. Ledger himself said he only accepted because he saw batman begins and decided that he could do something different in this world. If it were more camp, he would've declined.
Posted on 12/15/20 at 3:45 pm to RLDSC FAN
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Ledger himself said he only accepted because he saw batman begins and decided that he could do something different in this world. I
I mean, actors say this kind of shite when they get cast in the latest fast and furious movies
Posted on 12/15/20 at 3:48 pm to wildtigercat93
It's easy to look at it now as a role everyone wants. But before Nolan, Nicholsons performance was considered untouchable. It's pretty funny looking back on it now, because he's probably only better than Leto
Posted on 12/15/20 at 3:54 pm to RollTide1987
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Actors/Actresses who took roles that surprised you
Looking back, Robert DeNiro in Midnight Run was a strange choice. Don't think he'd done a comedy up until that point, but he absolutely destroys in that role.
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Posted on 12/15/20 at 4:13 pm to RLDSC FAN
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Nicholsons performance was considered untouchable. It's pretty funny looking back on it now, because he's probably only better than Leto
Posted on 12/15/20 at 4:14 pm to RollTide1987
Michael Douglas as Liberace.
Posted on 12/15/20 at 4:32 pm to RollTide1987
quote:I was more surprised he was in a Steven Seaagal movie. I mean, he went to Harvard.
Tommy Lee Jones
quote:Another really good one. Guy is considered the most talented actor in his generation.I blame him for other established, respected, actors doing comic book roles.
RDJ as Tony Stark / Iron Man
This post was edited on 12/15/20 at 4:43 pm
Posted on 12/15/20 at 4:34 pm to RollTide1987
Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder
Posted on 12/15/20 at 4:41 pm to RollTide1987
Adam West in The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood.
Sir Alec Guinness in Star Wars.
James Whitmore in Planet of the Apes.
Sir Alec Guinness in Star Wars.
James Whitmore in Planet of the Apes.
Posted on 12/15/20 at 4:53 pm to Fewer Kilometers
Marky Mark - The Happening.
Scratch that...surprised a studio even took the role to release that garbage.
Scratch that...surprised a studio even took the role to release that garbage.
Posted on 12/15/20 at 5:01 pm to RollTide1987
Bill Murray in The Razor's Edge
Even more surprised when I learned later than he only agreed to do Ghostbusters if the studio would finance him to make The Razor's Edge
Really good movie BTW
ETA:
Robin Williams in One Hour Photo
Robert De Niro as a cross dressing pirate in Stardust
Sean Connery in Zardoz
Even more surprised when I learned later than he only agreed to do Ghostbusters if the studio would finance him to make The Razor's Edge
Really good movie BTW
ETA:
Robin Williams in One Hour Photo
Robert De Niro as a cross dressing pirate in Stardust
Sean Connery in Zardoz
This post was edited on 12/15/20 at 5:11 pm
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