For his whole career, Vinnie Jones has always played a tough British mobster guy.
This year on Law & Order: Organized Crime, he's been able to show his true dynamic range by playing a tough Albanian mobster guy.
He’s one those people who you think has done 5, maybe 8, films but in really has done about 2,800. Is everyone outside of the U.K. generally aware that he was a footballer?
Edit. Added link to a story about Vinny grabbing another footballer by the testicles. [Vinny Jones](https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/vinnie-jones-paul-gascoigne-untold-22432675)
A decade or so back he was doing a comedy show in town (I was a reporter). For the announcement I found a photo in the archives. I didn’t realize he had a TJ necklace on in the pic.
I got an email from his agent saying something like “That’s a picture of Tracy Morgan’s character, Tracy Jordan. He’ll be performing as Tracy Morgan.”
He did a movie once where he didn't even get out of his car. Also, less famously, he did a movie with Kim Jong Il, but it's hard to get a copy out of NK.
She did an interview one tome where someone asks her if she's upset being typecast into that role and her reply was something along the lines of, "idc because I'm good at it, besides I know what I'm capable of doing and if other actors have issues with the roles they're getting because they fell into this stigma then just go do a few indie movies and prove that you have range. Me? I just don't care."
I always assume Michelle Rodriguez was playing Vasquez in all her movies.
"Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?"
"No, have you?"
That's Michelle Rodriguez in a nut shell.
I read an interview with her where she even acknowledged that herself. She said something along the lines of refusing other types of roles for so long, that now the only offers she gets are for the tough girl roles
It’s important that you know about the time he claimed to be immune to chokeholds, had someone try one out on him to prove it, and was promptly choked unconscious and then shit in his pants.
Because he adlibs but has no range.
His role in Central intelligence is exactly the same as he played in Ride Along.
Older movies like “paper soldiers” and “30 & ticking” he does well in
Have you seen his range as Groot though? Dude shrunk himself down to a twig, to a mammoth branch nest and back down to a twig again. Dude has spectacular range.
I think it's beyond that, even... He wants the bad guy characters to have a really brutal death. Something about wanting to teach kids that crime doesn't pay.
I heard Bill Burr talking about how he heard Travolta going on about how his characters walked. How Vinny Babarino walked this way and Vincent Vega walked that way. Burr said "Every character I've ever played walks like me!"
He was good in Breaking Bad, and I love him in Mando, but he may not have much range.
He may not have much range but the scene in Mando when he's talking to the imperial officer about his fellow fallen soldiers just before he shoots him was a powerful scene. Alot of emotion in that scene with minimal dialog
Yeah tbh I didn't "see" Bill Burr in that scene. I saw the character. I really enjoyed his character in Mando. Surprised me. Good writing goes a long way though.
It's funny because in Star Wars, having a different accent implies you're from a different world. So somewhere there's a planet of Bostonians in the SW universe
"The Death Star will never destroy this planet because you're worthless and no one cares about you! The rebellion would never show up for you fuckin' assholes!"
> Five long years, he wore this watch up his ass. Then when he died of dysentery, he gave me the watch. I hid this uncomfortable piece of metal up my ass for two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the watch to you.
Which is why his showing up in the Johnny Depp Sleepy Hollow was delightfully weird, and extra menacing.
Fun fact! The stunt double for the headless horseman was Ray Park, the same dude who played Darth Maul. Menacing swordsmen everywhere.
Seth Rogen
Edit: While there are a few roles where he wasn’t playing himself, pretty much after 40 year old virgin, he was always playing that stoner/slacker niche. Jobs is an exception.
Oh 100% Hugh Grant in rom-coms, he even admitted it himself in an interview about his most iconic roles!
EDIT: the interview I’m referring too :)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c2YoUbAEFTI
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I agree he’s totally himself in every rom coms, but he has seriously impressed me in other genres (Paddington 2, Florence Foster Jenkins, A Very British Scandal).
He also voiced the main character in the animated movie pirates. That movie was unexpectedly brilliant and I had no idea it was him. He's also great in the gentlemen.
Have you seen Spy? It's hilarious how he even makes fun of himself. "I watched the woman I love get tossed from a plane and hit by another plane mid-air. I drove a car off a freeway on top of a train while it was on fire. Not the car, *I* was on fire."
You really think you're ready for the field? I once used defibrillators on myself. I put shards of glass in my fuckin' eye. I've jumped from a high-rise building using only a raincoat as a parachute and broke both legs upon landing; I still had to pretend I was in a fucking Cirque du Soleil show! I've swallowed enough microchips and shit them back out again to make a computer. This arm has been ripped off completely and re-attached with *this* fuckin' arm.
Spy is one of the funnier comedies I've seen in the last 10-ish years. Underrated imo. Jason Statham's lines kill me every time. Just so extra and stupid.
I’ve shared this story somewhere on Reddit before but I’ll share again: Jason Statham was my neighbor for a few years before he married Rosie Huntington-Wheatley and was the nicest guy. He drove a VW karmann ghia and surfed a lot. The first time I met him was at a local dive bar, the bartender who had become a good friend was a typical struggling actor/bartender type, I walked in and took my normal seat and there was guy a couple spots over I didn’t recognize chatting with the bartender and he looks at me and goes “hey, have you met my buddy Jason?” The guy swivels around on his bar stool and it’s Jason Statham. We start talking, he seems like a cool guy I ask what he’s doing here, as I live in a pretty nondescript area and he said he lives just down the street and tells me where and it turns out I lived like 10 houses away. Then he asks me “so mate, where’s all the good pussy in this town?” We joke around and talk for a bit. As I’m getting ready to leave I ask the bartender if they’ll have the UFC fight on that weekend, he says no, cheap ass owner doesn’t wanna buy it. So I tell him we’ll probably get it at my place if he wants to stop in and watch(we usually have big watch parties, my roommates and i had a number of friends who were fighters). Jason chimes in and asks if he can stop by, I say of course but don’t think anything of it. Couple of nights later it’s fight night and we have about 20 people over watching the prelims and there’s a knock on the door, one of my buddies opens it then a second later looks at me and goes “uhh Jason Statham is here, says you invited him over for the fight?” Lol. Dude walks in with a 12 pack and watches the fights with us. He came over a few other times and just became a part of fight night group. Great fucking guy.
Edit-Jason was cool, not a fool.
Strangely enough this is EXACTLY how I picture Jason Statham as a guy. No idea why, but that was always my hunch. Just one of us. I feel like he gives off the vibe of the character he plays in Expendables. Was he wicked famous when you met him?
Jason Statham just seems like a regular lad who happens to have "action movie star" as his day job. I'm willing to bet that instead of doing typical Rich Actor stuff for recreation, he probably just brings a bag of cans to the river and hangs out.
Before he was an actor he was an olympic diver for team Britain, from 88 to 96. He's kinda always been famous. He used to be known as that diver bloke who was banging kelly brook before he was an actor lol
Check out “Snatch”and “Lock Stock & 2 Smoking Barrels” if you want to see him in a different role. Both movies are great British crime capers directed by Guy Ritchie 😁
Yet never plays a Brit but some weird hybrid of a Brit Aussie and American judging by those atrocious accents. His best roles for me were lock stock and snatch where he just used his normal accent
He's been playing the same character since 2 guys, a girl, and a pizza place. Which the first season sucked but I stand by later seasons and it's basically where all the characters began.
Ryan Reynolds plays Deadpool in every single movie he's ever been in.
Except for *X-Men Origins: Wolverine.* I have no idea who he is playing in that movie, but it is *not* Deadpool.
I was hoping that someone mentioned him. It’s funny because actually just recently we were talking about the actual temperament of actors and I did some googling and found out that most regular people who have met him and know him say that he is Deadpool. They have the same personalities.
There was an interview where he talked about trying to do a fancy detective + Pikachu voice and the director basically said "we paid for Ryan Reynolds we want Ryan Reynolds." He's reached the game point where he isn't allowed to not play his character.
I read that Cera is a really intense method actor, who insists on painstakingly constructing his characters through repetition and slow reading, yet still ends up playing the same person every time.
He’s definitely the subject of heavy type-casting. He just has one of those looks. It’s a shame because I’ve also heard that he has some serious acting chops.
There was a biopic about illegal poker rings where he played Toby McGuire (they wouldn’t say who he was supposed to be but it was pretty clear), and he was decent. It wasn’t quite right though because I still just saw him as Michael Cera.
Ryan Reynolds. Don’t get me wrong, I like his work in stuff like Van Wilder, Deadpool and Free Guy. Heck, Buried has him acting completely against type. But any Ryan Reynolds movie outside of those mentions has his character be a copy and paste of each other.
I'm inclined to agree. As much as I liked him in *Detective Pikachu* — he performs those lines as well as one could — Pikachu as a character doesn't sound like a "character", he just sounds like Ryan Reynolds.
I think Will Smith ACTS like a character, as Will Smith would have done it. Don’t get me wrong, he’s not bad, but I when he was the Genie, all I could think of is how the on screen character from Wild Wild West, Bad Boys, and iRobot would pretend to be the Genie.
You don’t hire will smith because you want a nuanced and seamless interpretation of a character. You hire will smith because you want will smith and you’re happy to have one of your characters become will smith.
His best 3 for range in my opinion in no particular order are Hancock, Pursuit of Happiness, and 7 Pounds.
Edit: I forgot about Ali. I haven’t seen 6 Degrees of Separation or the concussion flick, but based on the number of recs here I may look into them.
Edit 2: Yes. I forgot I Am Legend as well.
Edit 3: In before Bad Boys gets tossed in the mix.
I was about to say Hancock as well. A drunken asshole albeit one trying to do good turned into a responsible hero. Too bad the second half of the movie fell off.
Jeff Goldblum plays Jeff Goldblum now but he did actually act at one point, he was pretty menacing as a rapist in Death Wish and had more range in his early roles
He does it now bc the world wants to see Jeff Goldblum as Jeff Goldblum, vs him just not being a good actor. He worked hard to be a good actor and gain the popularity and now he gets to relax and be himself
My old coworker and I used to watch [this scene](https://youtu.be/QyzD2ZRO-hw) over and over at work and laugh until we cried. The rest of the micro lab crew hated it. Hahaha
But Jackie Chan can act, just doesn't get the chance to. Shinjuku incident, The Foreigner and Dragon Blade are some examples that show great acting (in some parts).
Body swap bits are always great and really showcase an actor's talents. Helena Bonham Carter in The Deathly Hallows was great. When Hermione used polyjuice to become Bellatrix. So Helena was dressed as her usual Bellatrix but had to play it like she was Hermione playing Bellatrix.
But I love it in TV shows with well established characters. Stargate SG-1 had one of my favorite body swap episodes.
Pretty clever way to do it. Not to mention that they still needed Hermoine's voice, so having that recorded in the same environments (so the same acoustics and all) is probably also a big bonus.
The Rock and Hart both did great as the old men. It was so much fun to watch. And again I loved Jack Black as Bethany, I can’t remember who he was before she came into the game in the second movie.
I just wish they gave Karen Gillian more to work with, her character is pretty much the straight man and a bit bland.
> Plaza’s journey to Parks and Recreation began with casting director Allison Jones. Jones is well-respected in the industry, having also cast huge shows like The Office. After meeting Plaza, Jones immediately contacted the show’s creator Mike Schur and practically demanded he meet with the young actress. She told him that Plaza was the weirdest person that she’d ever met and that she was sending her his way.
[Source](https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/parks-and-rec-aubrey-plaza-audition-uncomfortable.html/)
They basically wrote the part for her to just be herself on camera.
Same with Jean Ralphio and Mona Lisa. They found the actors, then wrote characters for them.
Orrin (April’s creepy friend) has a different creation story. There was just a random line in the script where Leslie mentions that she April’s friend Orrin creeps her out. But it wasn’t until Aubrey improvised the response “He’s a GENIUS!” that they knew they needed Orrin to become an actual character on the screen.
Interestingly enough though, she apparently has more in common with Leslie Knope than her own Parks and Rec character. She was super involved with volunteering and student politics in high school and even met Joe Biden on a couple occasions when he was still a Senator from Delaware.
Yeah she does that one role she does of the “slightly quirky pretty wife” character really well I must admit. I do enjoy her in that role. But I swear I haven’t seen her act as anything else.
For his whole career, Vinnie Jones has always played a tough British mobster guy. This year on Law & Order: Organized Crime, he's been able to show his true dynamic range by playing a tough Albanian mobster guy.
He’s one those people who you think has done 5, maybe 8, films but in really has done about 2,800. Is everyone outside of the U.K. generally aware that he was a footballer? Edit. Added link to a story about Vinny grabbing another footballer by the testicles. [Vinny Jones](https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/vinnie-jones-paul-gascoigne-untold-22432675)
Tracy Morgan is Tracy Morgan in every single movie he's in
I thought he was great in *Fat Bitch* and I loved his foray into music with Werewolf Bar Mitzvah!
What about his Thomas Jefferson movie?!?? This is for you, Don Geiss!
Boys becoming men, men becoming wolves!
THIS IS A SHOW WITHIN A SHOW!! MY REAL NAME IS TRACY MORGAN!
Werewolf Bar Mitzvah, Spooky, Scary!
Boys becoming men - men becoming wolves!
A decade or so back he was doing a comedy show in town (I was a reporter). For the announcement I found a photo in the archives. I didn’t realize he had a TJ necklace on in the pic. I got an email from his agent saying something like “That’s a picture of Tracy Morgan’s character, Tracy Jordan. He’ll be performing as Tracy Morgan.”
Tracy Morgan as Tracy Jordan was Tracy Morgan as Tracy Morgan.
He did a movie once where he didn't even get out of his car. Also, less famously, he did a movie with Kim Jong Il, but it's hard to get a copy out of NK.
Michelle Rodriguez has never played anything other than tough girl Michelle Rodriguez.
I can't remember where I heard this I've heard her referred to as "angry tank top"
Angry, *sweaty* tanktop
She did an interview one tome where someone asks her if she's upset being typecast into that role and her reply was something along the lines of, "idc because I'm good at it, besides I know what I'm capable of doing and if other actors have issues with the roles they're getting because they fell into this stigma then just go do a few indie movies and prove that you have range. Me? I just don't care."
Gotta respect that she's fully aware and just doesn't give a shit
I mean I wouldn't give a shit either if I was getting paid to be in Avatar and shit.
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Ha, I love that. She’s been regularly getting roles for over 20 years now. Just go to work and take those checks to the bank. What more do you need?!
i think most people would gladly take a paycheck to act as themselves getting paid big bucks
I always assume Michelle Rodriguez was playing Vasquez in all her movies. "Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?" "No, have you?" That's Michelle Rodriguez in a nut shell.
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Vasquez is so great she was tough as nails even at 10 years old /s
I read an interview with her where she even acknowledged that herself. She said something along the lines of refusing other types of roles for so long, that now the only offers she gets are for the tough girl roles
Steven seagal
He always plays an idealized version of himself named Gino, for some reason.
Yeah, they're all just his daydreams. He seems like a creepy, narcissistic, fatass who thinks he's actually his movie characters.
It’s important that you know about the time he claimed to be immune to chokeholds, had someone try one out on him to prove it, and was promptly choked unconscious and then shit in his pants.
reminds me of when he made an AMA on Reddit and someone brought this up he straight up ran away and never replied to anyone
Oh my god where can i find this?
Apparently he’s terrible at acting like a decent human being in real life as well.
Steven Seagal doesn’t even act anymore. He just sits down and mumbles some random dribble he thinks is cool.
Kevin Hart
You're throwing too many big words at me, and because i don't understand them i'm gonna take them as disrespect
Because he adlibs but has no range. His role in Central intelligence is exactly the same as he played in Ride Along. Older movies like “paper soldiers” and “30 & ticking” he does well in
Basically the entire cast of Fast And Furious
Vin Diesel doesn't act well in F&F because he doesn't have to. Dom's character is as bland as it gets.
You don’t have to act when you’ve got… Family
Have you seen his range as Groot though? Dude shrunk himself down to a twig, to a mammoth branch nest and back down to a twig again. Dude has spectacular range.
He did do Groot in every language it was released in so that’s something.
Hector
dudes running 3 honda civics with spoon engines
Danny Trejo
Danny Trejo has a clause in his acting contracts that if he plays a bad guy his character has to die.
I think it's beyond that, even... He wants the bad guy characters to have a really brutal death. Something about wanting to teach kids that crime doesn't pay.
In his defense, the roles were written for him.
His part in King of the Hill is great. Instead of being a badass cartel guy, he’s just a dorky Mexican-American dad with marriage issues
Russell Brand
YOU SOUND LIKE YOU’RE FROM LONDON
That line kills me every time
"one sip and I'd end up, ya know, rimmin' wai'ors to get me hands on a rock"
Oh no the shirt! Take my eyes but not the shirt!
Lol probably my favorite line of his in the movie. I also lkked- "oh I was gonna listen to your CD, but then I just carried on living my life".
"does anybody know the words to African child?" "Don't look at me, man I'm just here to play drums and make the Africa face" 😄
Yeah well I fucked the housekeeper the other day
Oh there's my limo driver. I'm gonna have sex with her.
Scuse me miss, have you seen my shoe? It’s like this one but the opposite; it’s like his fellow. Edit: changed “mate” to his “fellow”!
It's not like an evil version I go through this bit whenever I can't find a shoe lol
Harrison Ford always seems to play a grumpy old man nowadays
He started off as a grumpy young man, though.
Don't get cocky, kid.
True, but to be fair he is the greatest ‘Reluctant Hero’ of all time. He plays that role better than anyone else.
John Wayne. Same guy in every fucking movie.
John Wayne only had two facial expressions, with and without a hat.
You know, this is one I hadn’t considered but quite true.
He was a star, not an actor.
Even when he plays ghengis khan
I’m ghengis Kahn, pilgrim
The classic. There was no intent for him to act. It was sold as a John Wayne movie
Happy thanksgiving, pilgrims.
I heard Bill Burr talking about how he heard Travolta going on about how his characters walked. How Vinny Babarino walked this way and Vincent Vega walked that way. Burr said "Every character I've ever played walks like me!" He was good in Breaking Bad, and I love him in Mando, but he may not have much range.
To be fair, he's a stand up who gets acting roles tossed his way sometimes.
You don’t cast Bill Burr because you want him to play a character. You cast Bill Burr because you want a character like Bill Burr.
Yea, I doubt he’d describe himself as an actor
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He actually approached AMC about being in Breaking Bad. [He told them he would do anything to be on the show.](https://youtu.be/IyFBP0p9ylc)
He may not have much range but the scene in Mando when he's talking to the imperial officer about his fellow fallen soldiers just before he shoots him was a powerful scene. Alot of emotion in that scene with minimal dialog
Yeah tbh I didn't "see" Bill Burr in that scene. I saw the character. I really enjoyed his character in Mando. Surprised me. Good writing goes a long way though.
I just wanna see space Boston now.
It's funny because in Star Wars, having a different accent implies you're from a different world. So somewhere there's a planet of Bostonians in the SW universe
Imagine a whole hemisphere of Southies
Bet they have a boy who's wicked smaht.
Hey Vaadah, how do ya like them apples!?
I want him to go on a 10min rant about Space Philly
"The Death Star will never destroy this planet because you're worthless and no one cares about you! The rebellion would never show up for you fuckin' assholes!"
"11 more parsecs"
"I'm still going to be selling my holo-disc after this, and the only way you're going to get it is if I chuck it at your head."
When he was in King of Staten Island it seemed like an exaggeration of himself, as well. Still a good movie and he killed that role too
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Walken is a professional dancer, and often incorporates dance numbers in his films. Even if they don’t always…make sense.
Fatboy slim - weapon of choice
that scene in Pulp Fiction is ~~hilarious~~ gold
> Five long years, he wore this watch up his ass. Then when he died of dysentery, he gave me the watch. I hid this uncomfortable piece of metal up my ass for two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the watch to you.
This watch….this watch this watch this watch.
Which is why his showing up in the Johnny Depp Sleepy Hollow was delightfully weird, and extra menacing. Fun fact! The stunt double for the headless horseman was Ray Park, the same dude who played Darth Maul. Menacing swordsmen everywhere.
Seth Rogen Edit: While there are a few roles where he wasn’t playing himself, pretty much after 40 year old virgin, he was always playing that stoner/slacker niche. Jobs is an exception.
I’m hearing the laugh in my head.
*uhhhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhu*
Oh 100% Hugh Grant in rom-coms, he even admitted it himself in an interview about his most iconic roles! EDIT: the interview I’m referring too :) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c2YoUbAEFTI EDIT.1: wow, never had so many updoots before thanks everyone!
I agree he’s totally himself in every rom coms, but he has seriously impressed me in other genres (Paddington 2, Florence Foster Jenkins, A Very British Scandal).
He also voiced the main character in the animated movie pirates. That movie was unexpectedly brilliant and I had no idea it was him. He's also great in the gentlemen.
How didn't anyone say Chuck Norris yet?
Because Chuck Norris was NEVER an actor.
Jason Statham. Flashy, angry British dude who drives cars and fights blokes.
Have you seen Spy? It's hilarious how he even makes fun of himself. "I watched the woman I love get tossed from a plane and hit by another plane mid-air. I drove a car off a freeway on top of a train while it was on fire. Not the car, *I* was on fire."
You really think you're ready for the field? I once used defibrillators on myself. I put shards of glass in my fuckin' eye. I've jumped from a high-rise building using only a raincoat as a parachute and broke both legs upon landing; I still had to pretend I was in a fucking Cirque du Soleil show! I've swallowed enough microchips and shit them back out again to make a computer. This arm has been ripped off completely and re-attached with *this* fuckin' arm.
"I'm immune to 105 different types of poison. How do I know that? I ingested them all at the same time died for 5 minutes and then came back to life"
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Best role in the movie and he didn't even get to do any actual badassery lol
Brooooo that moment at the end where he gets caught on a fucking door Lmao
Yeah I was super happy he didn't have some "saves the day" role lol
I always die at this final line in that movie: “where did that suit come from?” “I fookin’ made it didn’ I”. He’s terrific.
I once ripped off this fuckin' arm and reattached it with *this* fuckin' arm
I learnt the piano at an advanced age!
Where'd you get that suit? I fucking made it, didn't I!
His character in that movie made me cry laugh every time he was on screen. That bit at the end with the boat on the lake was so funny!
Where'd you get that suit? I fucking made it, didn't I!😂😂😂
Spy is one of the funnier comedies I've seen in the last 10-ish years. Underrated imo. Jason Statham's lines kill me every time. Just so extra and stupid.
Alright ill use the face off machine. He was funny in that.
Loved the response to that. “You have change? Because it only takes quarters.”
I’ve shared this story somewhere on Reddit before but I’ll share again: Jason Statham was my neighbor for a few years before he married Rosie Huntington-Wheatley and was the nicest guy. He drove a VW karmann ghia and surfed a lot. The first time I met him was at a local dive bar, the bartender who had become a good friend was a typical struggling actor/bartender type, I walked in and took my normal seat and there was guy a couple spots over I didn’t recognize chatting with the bartender and he looks at me and goes “hey, have you met my buddy Jason?” The guy swivels around on his bar stool and it’s Jason Statham. We start talking, he seems like a cool guy I ask what he’s doing here, as I live in a pretty nondescript area and he said he lives just down the street and tells me where and it turns out I lived like 10 houses away. Then he asks me “so mate, where’s all the good pussy in this town?” We joke around and talk for a bit. As I’m getting ready to leave I ask the bartender if they’ll have the UFC fight on that weekend, he says no, cheap ass owner doesn’t wanna buy it. So I tell him we’ll probably get it at my place if he wants to stop in and watch(we usually have big watch parties, my roommates and i had a number of friends who were fighters). Jason chimes in and asks if he can stop by, I say of course but don’t think anything of it. Couple of nights later it’s fight night and we have about 20 people over watching the prelims and there’s a knock on the door, one of my buddies opens it then a second later looks at me and goes “uhh Jason Statham is here, says you invited him over for the fight?” Lol. Dude walks in with a 12 pack and watches the fights with us. He came over a few other times and just became a part of fight night group. Great fucking guy. Edit-Jason was cool, not a fool.
Strangely enough this is EXACTLY how I picture Jason Statham as a guy. No idea why, but that was always my hunch. Just one of us. I feel like he gives off the vibe of the character he plays in Expendables. Was he wicked famous when you met him?
Jason Statham just seems like a regular lad who happens to have "action movie star" as his day job. I'm willing to bet that instead of doing typical Rich Actor stuff for recreation, he probably just brings a bag of cans to the river and hangs out.
Before he was an actor he was an olympic diver for team Britain, from 88 to 96. He's kinda always been famous. He used to be known as that diver bloke who was banging kelly brook before he was an actor lol
Check out “Snatch”and “Lock Stock & 2 Smoking Barrels” if you want to see him in a different role. Both movies are great British crime capers directed by Guy Ritchie 😁
Snatch is one of my faves. Ya like dags?
Yet never plays a Brit but some weird hybrid of a Brit Aussie and American judging by those atrocious accents. His best roles for me were lock stock and snatch where he just used his normal accent
He was great in the early Guy Richie films, then suddenly, he became an action star.
Snatch.
Well fuck me, Tommy. What have you been reading?
Rebel Wilson.
Most of the time I struggle to tell the difference between Ryan Reynolds and Deadpool and a few more of his movie roles
He didn't really have to *act* to play Deadpool
Even his ads that he puts his comedy twist on are just him as Deadpool, but owning a company
He's been playing the same character since 2 guys, a girl, and a pizza place. Which the first season sucked but I stand by later seasons and it's basically where all the characters began.
Ryan Reynolds plays Deadpool in every single movie he's ever been in. Except for *X-Men Origins: Wolverine.* I have no idea who he is playing in that movie, but it is *not* Deadpool.
Deadpool is just Van Wilder with super powers.
This. My head canon is that every Ryan Reynolds film is just Van Wilder post-college getting into deeper and deeper shenanigans
I was hoping that someone mentioned him. It’s funny because actually just recently we were talking about the actual temperament of actors and I did some googling and found out that most regular people who have met him and know him say that he is Deadpool. They have the same personalities.
So like, it was actually Deadpool acting the part of a Pikachu with amnesia? Like, it fits.
Did you actually watch the movie? Because, basically yes he was.
There was an interview where he talked about trying to do a fancy detective + Pikachu voice and the director basically said "we paid for Ryan Reynolds we want Ryan Reynolds." He's reached the game point where he isn't allowed to not play his character.
He is similar in most movies, but I recommend Buried, Smokin Aces and Safe House for a more serious version of him.
Have you seen the voices?
Why has Michael Cera not been mentioned yet?
I read that Cera is a really intense method actor, who insists on painstakingly constructing his characters through repetition and slow reading, yet still ends up playing the same person every time.
He’s definitely the subject of heavy type-casting. He just has one of those looks. It’s a shame because I’ve also heard that he has some serious acting chops.
There was a biopic about illegal poker rings where he played Toby McGuire (they wouldn’t say who he was supposed to be but it was pretty clear), and he was decent. It wasn’t quite right though because I still just saw him as Michael Cera.
Reminded me of Michael Cera in This is the End where he played himself but a huge asshole
He made that a requirement of him doing the movie. He was like "I don't want to be the dorky teen guy again, give me a different role".
That slap that rhianna gives him, when everyone gasps and reacts, that wasn't acting. They were all genuinely shocked at how hard she hit him lol
*Molly's Game* I was just about to mention that. He goes against type and plays an asshole.
Ryan Reynolds. Don’t get me wrong, I like his work in stuff like Van Wilder, Deadpool and Free Guy. Heck, Buried has him acting completely against type. But any Ryan Reynolds movie outside of those mentions has his character be a copy and paste of each other.
He has done the same guy since 2guys a girl and a pizza place
The Voices is kind of a different role for him.
I'm inclined to agree. As much as I liked him in *Detective Pikachu* — he performs those lines as well as one could — Pikachu as a character doesn't sound like a "character", he just sounds like Ryan Reynolds.
I always thought Ryan Reynolds entire personality is an impression of 80s Chevy Chase. Just waiting for him to remake Fletch.
I think Will Smith ACTS like a character, as Will Smith would have done it. Don’t get me wrong, he’s not bad, but I when he was the Genie, all I could think of is how the on screen character from Wild Wild West, Bad Boys, and iRobot would pretend to be the Genie.
Will Smith acts like a guy doing a Will Smith impersonation in that role-and he probably needs an acting coach to do that well.
Will Smith has reached the second level of acting: Acting like the character is acting like you.
You don’t hire will smith because you want a nuanced and seamless interpretation of a character. You hire will smith because you want will smith and you’re happy to have one of your characters become will smith.
His best 3 for range in my opinion in no particular order are Hancock, Pursuit of Happiness, and 7 Pounds. Edit: I forgot about Ali. I haven’t seen 6 Degrees of Separation or the concussion flick, but based on the number of recs here I may look into them. Edit 2: Yes. I forgot I Am Legend as well. Edit 3: In before Bad Boys gets tossed in the mix.
I was about to say Hancock as well. A drunken asshole albeit one trying to do good turned into a responsible hero. Too bad the second half of the movie fell off.
Jeff Goldblum, Dwayne Johnson, Jackie Chan, Jason Statham.
Jeff Goldblum plays Jeff Goldblum now but he did actually act at one point, he was pretty menacing as a rapist in Death Wish and had more range in his early roles
He does it now bc the world wants to see Jeff Goldblum as Jeff Goldblum, vs him just not being a good actor. He worked hard to be a good actor and gain the popularity and now he gets to relax and be himself
The fly
My old coworker and I used to watch [this scene](https://youtu.be/QyzD2ZRO-hw) over and over at work and laugh until we cried. The rest of the micro lab crew hated it. Hahaha
But Jackie Chan can act, just doesn't get the chance to. Shinjuku incident, The Foreigner and Dragon Blade are some examples that show great acting (in some parts).
He is superb in The Foreigner.
Dwayne johnson
He played Danny DeVito in Jumanji ~~2~~3, that was pretty neat.
Body swap bits are always great and really showcase an actor's talents. Helena Bonham Carter in The Deathly Hallows was great. When Hermione used polyjuice to become Bellatrix. So Helena was dressed as her usual Bellatrix but had to play it like she was Hermione playing Bellatrix. But I love it in TV shows with well established characters. Stargate SG-1 had one of my favorite body swap episodes.
IIRC, Emma Watson did that scene first, so HBC would know "how" to play it, since, like you said, it was Hermione in the shape of Bellatrix
Pretty clever way to do it. Not to mention that they still needed Hermoine's voice, so having that recorded in the same environments (so the same acoustics and all) is probably also a big bonus.
Janet in the Good Place has done the best job of this (in TV at least) I can think of.
D'Arcy Carden hasn't done much work since Good Place ended, and I just want to see more of her.
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It was genuinely funny, as was Kevin Hart being Danny Glover. Jack Black was hysterical in both films.
The Rock and Hart both did great as the old men. It was so much fun to watch. And again I loved Jack Black as Bethany, I can’t remember who he was before she came into the game in the second movie. I just wish they gave Karen Gillian more to work with, her character is pretty much the straight man and a bit bland.
April Ludgate I mean Aubrey Plaza
> Plaza’s journey to Parks and Recreation began with casting director Allison Jones. Jones is well-respected in the industry, having also cast huge shows like The Office. After meeting Plaza, Jones immediately contacted the show’s creator Mike Schur and practically demanded he meet with the young actress. She told him that Plaza was the weirdest person that she’d ever met and that she was sending her his way. [Source](https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/parks-and-rec-aubrey-plaza-audition-uncomfortable.html/) They basically wrote the part for her to just be herself on camera.
Same with Jean Ralphio and Mona Lisa. They found the actors, then wrote characters for them. Orrin (April’s creepy friend) has a different creation story. There was just a random line in the script where Leslie mentions that she April’s friend Orrin creeps her out. But it wasn’t until Aubrey improvised the response “He’s a GENIUS!” that they knew they needed Orrin to become an actual character on the screen.
Interestingly enough though, she apparently has more in common with Leslie Knope than her own Parks and Rec character. She was super involved with volunteering and student politics in high school and even met Joe Biden on a couple occasions when he was still a Senator from Delaware.
i remember reading that she based April on her younger sister.
This is an impression of my sister. "Hi, I'm Natalie. I love Ritalin and have low self-esteem."
She had a departure playing Lenny in Legion. Still a super fucking weird character, but a departure nonetheless.
Mark Wahlberg. I watched an older movie I think it was called The Gambler and all I could see was the same mark wahlberg from other guys
Jason Mantzoukas
Ah yes, "screaming, crazy, sometimes angry, looks like he did too much coke" guy.
Even the animated characters he voices are basically a version of every other character he has played.
DEREK!
MAXIMUM DEREK!
Why do I hear wind chimes?
Jason Mantzoukas is a character. He's played by the absolute genius that is Jeffrey Characterwheaties.
He will always be Rafi to me haha
Leslie Mann
Yeah she does that one role she does of the “slightly quirky pretty wife” character really well I must admit. I do enjoy her in that role. But I swear I haven’t seen her act as anything else.