Jeff Goldblum
This is one of the few that’s correct but also completely fine, IMO.
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The Rock
hes too lazy to act in anything else. he just wants to be a movie star. bautista and cena is trying to become an actor. apparently DWAYNE behind the scences thats his contracts and it rubbed people the wrong way.
I honestly really enjoy cena in the stuff he’s in
Peacemaker had no right to be as good as it was.
Cena’s been surprisingly skilled. From psych to peacemaker he’s been bringing it.
one of his first roles was in psych, he played the part. but he probably got better since then.
He was great in Pluribus
yeah what I have seen has been fun.
“I dislike that you enjoy someone else’s work” - Somebody else on Lemmy
His hands are hilariously huge. I watched that forest firefighter movie he was in and laughed every time he used a cellphone.
Everyone sleeping on Vacation Friends. A fun movie
… who’s contract? You just mentioned 3 people.
Less than a year ago, he starred in a Safdie-directed, A24-produced biopic which earned him a couple of acting award noms, including a Golden Globe. Granted, it was the biggest flop of his career (so far), but from what I understand his acting chops were not the movie’s problem.
Counterexample:
Pain & GainI feel like he was himself but dumber in that movie lol
Yeah, but he took steroids in that movie, and The Rock says he is natty 🤡
I have a love hate relationship with that movie for an interesting reason (IMO). There is not a sympathetic or likeable character in the whole thing.
The only person who isnt actively dislikeable is Ed Harris and he barely qualifies as a character.
I liked Rebel Wilson’s character.
Sean Connery is not an actor, he’s a movie star.
Yesh, I am a British shecret agent. Bond, Jamesh Bond.
Yesh, I am a Shoviet Shubmarine captain. my name is Ramiush. Marco Ramiush.
I mustache you a question but I’m shaving it for later
I’m not shpanish i’m egyptian
Don’t forget Zardoc!
One of my favorite fan theory’s is that Sean was 007 left to rot by MI6 in The Rock.
Jamesh Bond sounds like a bollywood version. Would watch
How do we even tell between actors that only get casted for one type of role, actors who only apply for one type of role, and actors who just can’t play anything else well?
Thats kinda hard to say tbh…
I think Adam Sandler is a good example of an actor who CAN play more than one role (Uncut Gems as an example) but mostly only does movies that are all the same role.
Yeah, that’s the other-side-of-the-coin of your question but much more interesting. For instance, there’s a list of examples on the wiki page for typecast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typecasting#Playing_against_type
Sandler does whatever he likes and has turned moviemaking into a system to finance people in need and even though i think his movies are dogshit i respect the hell outta him for that
I read an interview where he was talking about giving all his friends jobs and getting paid to travel and make movies with them and it made me like him as a person quite a bit.
Still not a fan of his movies but I can’t fault his logic.
He’s also known for hiring people so they can keep their SAG insurance (especially a key grip or similar who was dying of cancer) and …well, read up on the jack and jill escape theory
Everyone pisses on Sandler, but he’s got range and variety in his roles. Studios pay him to be silly so he can take chances on other roles.
When you see them as themselves, then you know.
Tom cruise for example, he isn’t any superhero at all but he always wants to play that role (and probably always wanted ever since he was that kid who was always much smaller than the others).
But Tom Cruise does have some range as well.
People hate on him but he hasn’t been an A-list celebrity since he was 18 because he’s talentless.
Not even a fan of his but he’s got some chops when he can use it.
And he absolutely CAN act! As soon as you hide his “Tom Cruise”-ness behind enough makeup or preferably a mask he can let loose of his “must be that specific cool guy”-syndrome and becomes a decent actor.
But when it’s his own face, he has 3 expressions and MUST be that specific cool guy.
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This is why I’m hesitant to say Adam Baldwin. He’s always the same basic character, but I think there are enough subtle differences between them to not count.
Jack Black.
I didn’t know, he did a really good job as playing a teenage girl in Jumanji.
And as a nervous high school student in Northern Exposure. Or in high fidelity.
I think his problem is that overwhelmingly people cast him because they want the bombastic hairball. It’s not lack of skill, it’s typecasting
Jack Black is a teenage girl IRL
No, he was a different guy in “the big year” and also different in that movie where he’s a funeral home director or something? He was southern? Based on a true story I think?
Also a gunsmith in the jackal.
Owen “Wow” Wilson
First one who came to my mind. Not sure Luke Wilson is very much better.
Against type in the big year imo
The rock “the rock” the rock johnson
But you must admit that he’s hilarious at it.
His whole deal was pretty funny for a few weeks in the early 2000s.
He used to do this eyebrow thing that killed it back in the second week of March, 2001.
Can you smell what The Rock is cooking?!
Not even a little
Christopher Walken. The exception would be maybe Sleepy Hollow, but only because he didn’t have any lines.
Watch Severance. He’s a very different Christopher Walken.
Thats the same Christopher Walken as in Catch Me if you Can. Maybe Seven Psychopaths?
Watch “Deer Hunter”. Young Christopher Walken will blow you away.
He did a good job with the (admittedly small) part of the emperor in Dune.
Ryan Reynolds. There were some other movies but once he was in Deadpool, I feel like his whole personality was sarcastic mean funny guy
He was him even back in Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place.
And waiting
He was already kind of heading that way before Deadpool. I rewatched Buried and he was still doing that, just with less references so he didn’t sound like Gex.
Waiting (2005) was him as himself as a waiter
he was in wolverine the 2009 one as wade. hes pretty much the same thing as in deadpool just slighty less loudmouth. he did play that wierd schizophrenic character in the one movie that nobody remembers.
The Voices. And that movie is fantastic.
It is, but he’s still him, just with more mental health issues.
Van Wilder?
He did a weird indie film called “The Nines” he can turn the chops on when he wants to. I find it hard to criticise those people because “Hey, want to earn millions of dollars doing this the easy way? Or you can go do some passion projects to prove a point and make less.” Is a damn awkward spot to be in.
Im sure we all like to think we would take the route of Sandler doing Uncut Gems, I love to think that was him just telling his haters to go fuck themselves. “Just because I dont, doesnt mean I cant”
Seth Rogan. Worst Donkey Kong possible.
hyukhyuhkyuhk
Is it? I mean who even would be a good donkey kong?
nobody mentioned, but Chris pratt, originally he was being casted in EVERYTHING. after parks and recs he has no range, hes just a sad moody pos irl too, supporting a alt-right church, and his sudden switch to evangelicalism. anne farris in an interview said he changed to a gymbo the moment he got buff for marvel/JP movies.
The past participle of “cast” is “cast”.
Whomstedestesteries’
Has Steve Buscemi ever not been Steve Buscemi? Even as a hitman, he’s Steve Buscemi.
Watch The Death of Stalin and then Fargo and then The Big Lebowski. Dude has range.
Fargo was the hitman role I was thinking of!
Oh, he absolutely has range! But, he’s like a guitar, it’s great and has all sorts of range but it’s never going to be a piano.
Like, in Fargo I see him as Buscemi with nervousness lower authority high. As Donny, nervousness high, authority low. In Russia, nervousness high, authority high.
ya know, just kinda funny lookin’
What about actors who can’t play themselves like Peter Sellers.
I see your Peter Sellers and I raise with Gary Oldman.
I feel like nowadays Jackson Lamb is probably pretty close
I love that show because of him. If greasy competence had a patron saint, it would be Lamb. If he could be arsed to take the job.
The writers on Slow Horses aren’t too shabby either, but the delivery, man. Remember the “call this number” scene? I was in stitches.
I think Sellers said that Chauncey Gardiner was the closest he ever came to being himself.
Jennifer Coolidge, and I love her for it.
Ryan Reynolds.
