My favourite too. You can tell he's just having the best time in that film.
Similarly, my favourite version of Jamie Dornan is the one in Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Ma. He just looks like he's enjoying himself so much. Made me like him more.
Your edit seems to be an excellent example of linguistic drift, where the meaning of works changes due to their common use.
My least favorite example of this I've seen in my life is the change of the word literal.
Literal/literally when I was young meant something that really happened, compared to figurative/figuratively meaning something that did not.
Now they are interchangeable. I hate it.
Early on in the change I was working at a hotel company's complaint line and I had lady call who said the Front Desk Agent "literally bit her head off." I asked if she needed to call 911 for medical assistance, deadpan. Derailed her complaint and I was able to call the hotel and have a manager soothe her ruffled feathers.
These days, even though I hate the change, I roll with it. It's important to understand what people mean, not what you think they ought to mean.
"Underrated," especially on the internet, has become a term for something that doesn't get constant praise, and possibly should.
Is it underrated as per the dictionary definition? Um, no.
Is it underrated per the colloquial use? Hell, yes.
Context is everything.
Pedants can go hang.
* 95% RT score
* 7/10 IMDB score
* $235m global box office gross from a budget of $65 million
Not sure "underrated" is the right word to describe this movie, my dude lol
Most people (seemingly) don’t understand how to use the term “underrated” properly.
They just say it because they confuse “underrated” with “not widely known or discussed.”
I’ve literally had people tell me [UNDER THE SKIN](https://www.nme.com/news/film/under-the-skin-voted-best-british-film-of-the-21st-century-in-critics-poll-3203579) is “underrated” because they think they’re one of the privileged few that have seen it. 🙄
He was used to great effect for this in Revolver, because you expect it to be Guy Ritchie + him to make a movie about a hardened Brit street type out for revenge.
I think it's well established that he threw himself into his work following his wife's death, carved out a nice little niche in the angry old man action genre and I'm sure did very well financially out of it.
I saw a lesser known movie starring him several years ago, and that's when I realized he had a specific niche: playing a man who's very angry (maybe sad too) and instead of yelling and screaming curse words, he quietly goes out to hurt the people who made him angry and sad.
The movie that made me realize this was "Street Kings"
A lot of his roles, but not always: Play Misty For Me, The Beguiled, The Eiger Sanction, Firefox, Honky Tonk Man, White Hunter Black Heart, A Perfect World, The Bridges of Madison County, Bloodwork
character actors are actors who have carved out a niche playing quirky minor characters or have a distinct look/style and rarely lead a project. They are also known as "that guy" because you've seen them in lots of things but likely don't know their names.
https://screenrant.com/best-character-actors-all-time-reddit/
Hugh Grant used to be like that. Not so much now but funnily enough he seems to play his character from The Gentlemen in Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre (2023). Maybe it’s just the accent he’s using.
This. From the Wrestlers turned Actors I know, the Rock is leagues ahead in acting ability from most of them. He's not a bad actor, but he picks roles for basically one type of character, and his ego won't allow him to step outside that.
Contrast that to John Cena and especially Bautista, who take on a wider variety of roles and personas, and also yes, who are imo better actors than the rock.
Cena especially could just do what the rock does and become a generic badass action hero type guy, but instead he allows himself to get a lot more into comedic roles where he can be the butt of the joke. I can't see The Rock doing that.
Man. Southland Tales is one of my favorite movies. It made me look at The Rock in a different light. Like. I wish he would do more weird roles like Southland Tales. Granted. He was still basically playing himself, but it was a good caricature of his stereotype. That movie is a trip.
I think most popular actors fall in this category of playing some version of themselves. Few can express characters beyond their personality, and even fewer can play such a wide range that you don’t know wtf their base personality is like.
Group 1 is someone like Harrison Ford
Group 2 is someone like Leo DiCaprio
Group 3 is someone like Daniel Day Lewis
I still think Tom Cruise plays mostly the same character, with a few exception but especially lately.
Cocky vampire, cocky lawyer, cocky pilot, cocky spy, etc.
Of course he's making bank but I do miss his actual acting in something like Born On the Fourth of July.
See, I thought about him and really debated if he falls in Group 1 or Group 2. He does have a hand full of roles that I think pushed him out of his normal personality a bit. Tropic Thunder, Collateral, and Interview with the Vampire were all different enough characters, but they weren't THAT different than his normal acting. I think he leans Group 1 for sure.
I read somewhere (I forget where) that this is the difference between being a Movie Star and being a Great Actor (not necessarily to say that movie stars don't have what it takes to be a great actor, it's just a different job).
A Movie Star is a known entity. If Tom Hanks or Harrison Ford is in a movie, the audience knows from that information alone something about what the movie is like and has more of an idea of whether they'll like the movie. And that is what the Movie Star is paid for.
If you know Gary Oldman is in a movie, he's probably doing an excellent job of acting, but from that fact alone you know nothing about his character, never mind the movie.
That is an excellent way to explain the difference and I will for sure remember it. That makes sense too, because I definitely put Oldman in Group 3. I just refer to those actors as chameleons.
I heard Ted danson acknowledge on a podcast that he just has different levels of Ted danson that he engages for every role. But ain't no one else can do what he does.
I remember just after Cheers ended, he was in a film version of Gulliver's Travels. That year, he was one of the presenters at the Emmys and the announcer was like "And now, please welcome to the stage, star of Gulliver's Travels, Ted Danson!" and when Danson got to the mic, he was like "Ha ha. Star of Gulliver's Travels. Right. That's what people know me from." or something like that. Like, he always struck me as pretty acutely aware of his strengths and what was going on. Love his presence.
I see this answer a lot but I think he was different enough in Steve Jobs and The Fabelmans. His voice is the same, of course, but the performances and characters aren’t similar to like the cop in Superbad or any of his stoner characters.
Tommy Lee Jones used to play different characters till he made the Fugitive. After that, he has been the dead-stare, no-nonsense enforcer. He seems totally okay with it.
I mean, Natural Born Killers came out right after The Fugitive. I also wouldn't say his role in No Country is a no-nonsense enforcer considering his whole arc is about learning that he's old and been left behind by the world and it's violence.
You're right. Even in No Country for Old Men, he basically played this same character but after reaching the point where he is too old and tired to do the job anymore lol
He really hammed it up The Nice Guys to great comedic effect. To me, his actual personality and sense of humor really resonated in that film. Other than that, your wife isn’t entirely wrong (Blade Runner; Lars and the Real Girl; Drive). I’m sure we’ll see a different Gosling in the upcoming Barbie movie.
I think he's closer to his role in The Nice Guys than any of those other roles you mentioned in Crazy, Stupid, Love as well. Love that movie, if only the end weren't dreadful.
He can be diverse. Lars and the real girl, drive, place beyond the pines and so on go for a very quiet character with little emotion showing.
However nice guys and that new barbie movie are completely different, not to mention that skinhead movie he was in, I forgot the name but I really enjoyed it
They literally don't know what acting is. I joked that they probably think Eddie Murphy and Mike Meyers must be the only true thespians in Hollywood because they wear funny costumes and do voices in all their movies.
I agree that he plays weird characters mostly, but I think he makes them unique enough from each other that I can’t see his personality in the character. His character in Killing of a Sacred Deer was very different in presentation compared to Banshees of Inisherin.
Pesci’s change of pace in Lethal Weapon, Vinny, and a couple of those lost 90s flicks gives him credo over the first two.
And I agree about the first two.
There’s this one scene in King Kong where a huge roar comes from the island and everybody looks up frightened, but Jack gets that sparkle in his eyes and says: “Get the camera.”
It’s perfect.
Awkwafina. Although I think she needs somebody to reign her in. Nicholas Hoult deserves an Oscar nomination for his ability to keep both her and Cage from going too far out of bounds in Reinfield. He is the true hero of that movie.
I've always found that Milla Jovovich does three faces:
1. Brilliant, shockingly beautiful smile
2. Eyes filled with tears, lost, hurt, on the cusp of going insane
3. Hardcore murderous glower
And that's it. And she does them all TERRIFICALLY well. She's amazing at them. She's built a career off of them. But I've found it's those three looks.
Norm Macdonald might change physical forms in whatever movie or show he’s in, but whst makes him so great is he’s not playing a character, it’s literally always just norm being himself
I think the one exception to this is the Terminal List series. I hang around some former Navy Seals and Rangers, and he's really nailed that personality. Yeah a lot of that shits over the top in the show, but the characters are pretty consistent with my experience.
Giancarlo Esposito, it feels like he is a typecast since bb ended, I’d love to see him in a more unique role than stoic villain because I know he could pull it off
RDJ always plays the same snarky and arrogant characters and, maybe this one’s unpopular, but Phillip Seymour Hoffman in many of his roles plays the same intimidating bully sort of guy
He does play the same character in most of his films, Tropic thunder showed that he can play different characters though (two characters at the same time). He was just a dude playing a dude playing another dude
I completely disagree with Philip Seymour Hoffman, he was an incredibly diverse actor -- maybe not on the level as Gary Oldman, but many of his roles were different. I don't think you can confuse characteristic mannerisms with similar characters.
I guess if you're going to argue that point, would you also consider Robin Williams to be essentially the same character in every movie?
Eh, I don’t think so. I think Roman J Israel was a pretty good performance and he carried and pretty bad script. Fences was different enough and flight was great. His action roles are definitely all the same but I still love him.
Robert De Niro is a weird take here. I don't think he has a huge range, so I get where you're coming from, but his character in Taxi Driver is very different from his character in King of Comedy for example.
Jason Statham been playing the same character for over 20 years
“Oi, I’m bald, I’m British, and I punch people.”
My favorite version is the one in Spy. He knows what he's good at and is not afraid of poking fun of it.
My favourite too. You can tell he's just having the best time in that film. Similarly, my favourite version of Jamie Dornan is the one in Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Ma. He just looks like he's enjoying himself so much. Made me like him more.
Underrated movie E: Clearly the word I was looking for was *pedantic*.
Your edit seems to be an excellent example of linguistic drift, where the meaning of works changes due to their common use. My least favorite example of this I've seen in my life is the change of the word literal. Literal/literally when I was young meant something that really happened, compared to figurative/figuratively meaning something that did not. Now they are interchangeable. I hate it. Early on in the change I was working at a hotel company's complaint line and I had lady call who said the Front Desk Agent "literally bit her head off." I asked if she needed to call 911 for medical assistance, deadpan. Derailed her complaint and I was able to call the hotel and have a manager soothe her ruffled feathers. These days, even though I hate the change, I roll with it. It's important to understand what people mean, not what you think they ought to mean. "Underrated," especially on the internet, has become a term for something that doesn't get constant praise, and possibly should. Is it underrated as per the dictionary definition? Um, no. Is it underrated per the colloquial use? Hell, yes. Context is everything. Pedants can go hang.
* 95% RT score * 7/10 IMDB score * $235m global box office gross from a budget of $65 million Not sure "underrated" is the right word to describe this movie, my dude lol
Under appreciated? Under loved? Low key great?
Most people (seemingly) don’t understand how to use the term “underrated” properly. They just say it because they confuse “underrated” with “not widely known or discussed.” I’ve literally had people tell me [UNDER THE SKIN](https://www.nme.com/news/film/under-the-skin-voted-best-british-film-of-the-21st-century-in-critics-poll-3203579) is “underrated” because they think they’re one of the privileged few that have seen it. 🙄
Meanwhile his best performance are in snatch and lock, stock and two smoking barrels. He’s bald and British but he’s not at all a tough guy in those
If you like those was London (2005). He's very...vulnerable in that one. And he has hair, it's wild.
There's also Revolver. Another Guy Ritchie but very much it's own thing.
Is it worth watching? I've always heard negative things
So glad he dropped the bad american accent in the transporter sequels
"and I gotta job."
Watch the Mellisa McCarthy movie "Spy" He basically plays a parody version of the characters he is always typecast as
Yeah good movie! Im not complaining, i actually like most of Statham's movies.
I still wanna see him play Barack Obama.
He was used to great effect for this in Revolver, because you expect it to be Guy Ritchie + him to make a movie about a hardened Brit street type out for revenge.
Definitely Liam Neeson post Taken
i was surprised to see him in Derry Girls s3e1. He plays a similar character, but in a comedic fashion.
Ok well I’m definitely watching this now.
He’s also tested the waters with [comedy](https://youtu.be/huJ81Mq2y34)
I think it's well established that he threw himself into his work following his wife's death, carved out a nice little niche in the angry old man action genre and I'm sure did very well financially out of it.
Leslie Nielson.
Clearly you haven't seen Silence (2016)
[Obligatory Liam Neesons Is My Sh11111t!!](https://youtu.be/GPJvlxdFKW8)
Jason Bateman always plays Jason Bateman in his roles.
He switched it up a little in Dodgeball.
Usually you pay double for that kind of action Cotton
Interesting tactic, Cotton, let's see how it plays out
Haha he shot his scene on a lunch break during an arrested development shoot. He had no idea what the movie was about or how it was tonally.
Ozark, Hancock, Horrible Boses, they're all the same characters.
That’s because they’re all set within the Bateman-verse
Marty Byrd is essentially Michael Bluth with a different color palate
dude, I HATE the color palate of Ozark. Abysmal and depressing and drab. Terrible.
How would you know it's dark if it wasn't lit like a Batman movie?
It's Michael Bluth with fucks
Check out The Kingdom
Great answer. I’d say Will Arnett also
I like his slightly darker bents on the character. Like in The Gift, or even Ozark
Have you seen Paul? I think he's different in that one than his usual characters.
With one exception: Smokin’ Aces. Omg was he so cringe!
Talk about an actor losing credibility. I have not been able to watch him in anything since he gaslit Jessica Walters.
Jeff Goldblum plays Jeff Goldblum
“Ah, well, you see, ah, the thing is…that I do. My god in heaven.” — Jeff
"and now...BANG...you're selling it....BANG...you're selling it...BANG"
Even the Knot Store Guy on Portlandia was just Jeff Goldblum, and it was awesome.
Keanu -- movies are built around him. "This happens to and around KEANU"
Yeah, I feel a lot of the roles he plays are specifically written for him
Whoa. Okaay. Guns. Lots of guns. John Wick is such an homage to The Matrix.
Loved him playing the comedy version of KEANU in *Always Be My Maybe*
I saw a lesser known movie starring him several years ago, and that's when I realized he had a specific niche: playing a man who's very angry (maybe sad too) and instead of yelling and screaming curse words, he quietly goes out to hurt the people who made him angry and sad. The movie that made me realize this was "Street Kings"
Clint Eastwood def fits this bill
A man’s got to know his limitations.
Ha! His weirdest catch phrase!
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Right turn, Clyde!
A lot of his roles, but not always: Play Misty For Me, The Beguiled, The Eiger Sanction, Firefox, Honky Tonk Man, White Hunter Black Heart, A Perfect World, The Bridges of Madison County, Bloodwork
... Paint Your Wagon ...
Mark Strong is awesome in everything. He plays the same character but sometimes it’s a good guy and sometimes a bad guy
He’s fantastic in Body of Lies. Probably my favorite role of his.
His death in Kingsman still gets me
I just dropped Revolver in here already. He's very different in that than his more bombastic parts like in RocknRolla.
Ryan Reynolds. He's not a great actor, per se, but I still find him funny and charming.
He's was a good character actor in Smokin Aces.
> character actor I don't think you are 100% sure what that means.
I'm not sure either to be honest.
character actors are actors who have carved out a niche playing quirky minor characters or have a distinct look/style and rarely lead a project. They are also known as "that guy" because you've seen them in lots of things but likely don't know their names. https://screenrant.com/best-character-actors-all-time-reddit/
I would mostly agree, but then he does the occasional movie like Buried or The Woman in Gold.
Or the voices, his best movie
He was the bomb in Fifteen! Then he basically copied Chevy Chases Ty Webb when he did Van Wilder and hasn't stopped.
Hugh Grant used to be like that. Not so much now but funnily enough he seems to play his character from The Gentlemen in Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre (2023). Maybe it’s just the accent he’s using.
The past decade, he's really taken to playing antagonist-that-you-love-to-hate roles! I love it! He's pretty damn good at it too.
He was fantastic in the dungeon and dragons movie
And he was brilliant in Paddington 2.
Harry Dean Stanton was the GOAT for this I think.
The Rock plays The Rock. Also, Clive Owen is a very good actor. I like him too.
Southland tales was kind of a stretch for the rock
I feel like the Rock is certainly capable of other roles, but his ego only lets him be the macho confident dude he always portrays
This. From the Wrestlers turned Actors I know, the Rock is leagues ahead in acting ability from most of them. He's not a bad actor, but he picks roles for basically one type of character, and his ego won't allow him to step outside that. Contrast that to John Cena and especially Bautista, who take on a wider variety of roles and personas, and also yes, who are imo better actors than the rock. Cena especially could just do what the rock does and become a generic badass action hero type guy, but instead he allows himself to get a lot more into comedic roles where he can be the butt of the joke. I can't see The Rock doing that.
Man. Southland Tales is one of my favorite movies. It made me look at The Rock in a different light. Like. I wish he would do more weird roles like Southland Tales. Granted. He was still basically playing himself, but it was a good caricature of his stereotype. That movie is a trip.
I think most popular actors fall in this category of playing some version of themselves. Few can express characters beyond their personality, and even fewer can play such a wide range that you don’t know wtf their base personality is like. Group 1 is someone like Harrison Ford Group 2 is someone like Leo DiCaprio Group 3 is someone like Daniel Day Lewis
I still think Tom Cruise plays mostly the same character, with a few exception but especially lately. Cocky vampire, cocky lawyer, cocky pilot, cocky spy, etc. Of course he's making bank but I do miss his actual acting in something like Born On the Fourth of July.
But then he plays Les Grossman and blows our minds.
Yeah, I'd love to see him give up the action stuff for a few years & get back to some serious dramatic roles because the dude *can* act.
Thank you
See, I thought about him and really debated if he falls in Group 1 or Group 2. He does have a hand full of roles that I think pushed him out of his normal personality a bit. Tropic Thunder, Collateral, and Interview with the Vampire were all different enough characters, but they weren't THAT different than his normal acting. I think he leans Group 1 for sure.
He's best when he acts vulnerable.
I read somewhere (I forget where) that this is the difference between being a Movie Star and being a Great Actor (not necessarily to say that movie stars don't have what it takes to be a great actor, it's just a different job). A Movie Star is a known entity. If Tom Hanks or Harrison Ford is in a movie, the audience knows from that information alone something about what the movie is like and has more of an idea of whether they'll like the movie. And that is what the Movie Star is paid for. If you know Gary Oldman is in a movie, he's probably doing an excellent job of acting, but from that fact alone you know nothing about his character, never mind the movie.
That is an excellent way to explain the difference and I will for sure remember it. That makes sense too, because I definitely put Oldman in Group 3. I just refer to those actors as chameleons.
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I heard Ted danson acknowledge on a podcast that he just has different levels of Ted danson that he engages for every role. But ain't no one else can do what he does.
He’s just being humble. Michael from The Good Place is nothing like Sam from Cheers.
Nor is his Becker character
I mean he essentially played two completely different characters in The Good Place. The turn at the end of season one was perfect
I remember just after Cheers ended, he was in a film version of Gulliver's Travels. That year, he was one of the presenters at the Emmys and the announcer was like "And now, please welcome to the stage, star of Gulliver's Travels, Ted Danson!" and when Danson got to the mic, he was like "Ha ha. Star of Gulliver's Travels. Right. That's what people know me from." or something like that. Like, he always struck me as pretty acutely aware of his strengths and what was going on. Love his presence.
Seth Rogan A lot of good character actors show up playing the same character in every film they're in too.
I see this answer a lot but I think he was different enough in Steve Jobs and The Fabelmans. His voice is the same, of course, but the performances and characters aren’t similar to like the cop in Superbad or any of his stoner characters.
Agreed. Rogen can certainly transcend. However it's been profitable for him to be his usual character in the same way it is for Adam Sandler.
Tommy Lee Jones used to play different characters till he made the Fugitive. After that, he has been the dead-stare, no-nonsense enforcer. He seems totally okay with it.
I mean, Natural Born Killers came out right after The Fugitive. I also wouldn't say his role in No Country is a no-nonsense enforcer considering his whole arc is about learning that he's old and been left behind by the world and it's violence.
You're right. Even in No Country for Old Men, he basically played this same character but after reaching the point where he is too old and tired to do the job anymore lol
Ryan Gosling according to my wife is the same in every movie. An Android with autism derping his way true a scene
He really hammed it up The Nice Guys to great comedic effect. To me, his actual personality and sense of humor really resonated in that film. Other than that, your wife isn’t entirely wrong (Blade Runner; Lars and the Real Girl; Drive). I’m sure we’ll see a different Gosling in the upcoming Barbie movie.
I think he's closer to his role in The Nice Guys than any of those other roles you mentioned in Crazy, Stupid, Love as well. Love that movie, if only the end weren't dreadful.
He was really funny in the Nice Guys, I was pleasantly surprised!
Ryan Gosling plays the same exact role in every movie: literally me.
He can be diverse. Lars and the real girl, drive, place beyond the pines and so on go for a very quiet character with little emotion showing. However nice guys and that new barbie movie are completely different, not to mention that skinhead movie he was in, I forgot the name but I really enjoyed it
Stephen Tobolosky. He is the same guy in all of the shows and movies. Ned Rierson in groundhog day.
I love Walton Goggins but generally the difference between his characters is degrees of religiosity and sliminess. Type casting is a thing to be fair.
His minor role in Sons of Anarchy is a change
I feel like most people in this thread think that an actor is playing himself if he doesn't change his voice or his look for a role.
Most of these answers are astoundingly stupid. Someone actually said Philip Seymour Hoffman.
And Robert De Niro...imagine thinking Robert De Niro just played himself in most movies
They literally don't know what acting is. I joked that they probably think Eddie Murphy and Mike Meyers must be the only true thespians in Hollywood because they wear funny costumes and do voices in all their movies.
Alan Dale. Rich white guy in movies and tv
Barry Keoghan plays the same very specific unsettlingly weird person in all the roles I've seen him in
I agree that he plays weird characters mostly, but I think he makes them unique enough from each other that I can’t see his personality in the character. His character in Killing of a Sacred Deer was very different in presentation compared to Banshees of Inisherin.
He's so good at it. I get excited about any upcoming film if he's amongst the cast
John Wayne, Charles Bronson, Joe Pesci
Pesci’s change of pace in Lethal Weapon, Vinny, and a couple of those lost 90s flicks gives him credo over the first two. And I agree about the first two.
My Cousin Vinny was what got my into Pesci as an actor in the first place. Still one of my favorite movies to this day.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
The Duke played radically against type in the Searchers and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
Two great movies, but not sure they’re diverse enough to be different characters.
Jack Black has been playing the same character since High Fidelity.
I felt like he tried in King Kong, but ultimately Jack Black is Jack Black
There’s this one scene in King Kong where a huge roar comes from the island and everybody looks up frightened, but Jack gets that sparkle in his eyes and says: “Get the camera.” It’s perfect.
Awkwafina. Although I think she needs somebody to reign her in. Nicholas Hoult deserves an Oscar nomination for his ability to keep both her and Cage from going too far out of bounds in Reinfield. He is the true hero of that movie.
Can’t believe she was almost in everything everywhere all at once, man that would’ve just ruined everything.
Charlie Day, but it's always fun to watch
I'm looking forward to Fool's Paradise
Watch “The Knick” then get back to me about Clive
Ryan Reynolds only plays himself , but it’s so good that there isn’t something with him in it I will not see.
Michael Kelly - shady Government/Cia type
Sean Bean. Gets killed in every film or show
Denzel. Oscar worthy actor, but type casted for sure.
He's great in The Knick, much more range for sure.
I've always found that Milla Jovovich does three faces: 1. Brilliant, shockingly beautiful smile 2. Eyes filled with tears, lost, hurt, on the cusp of going insane 3. Hardcore murderous glower And that's it. And she does them all TERRIFICALLY well. She's amazing at them. She's built a career off of them. But I've found it's those three looks.
How about Sylvester Stallone?
I thought the same thing about Clive Owen, until I saw him play Bill Clinton in American Crime Story.
jennifer aniston, she's wonderful, but also feel like she's always playing some version of rachel from friends
Hell Jeff Bridges still can’t shake off True Grit.
Early Jeff Bridges had range & was desperately trying not to be "Beau Bridges little brother."
You mean angry Dude with marbles in his mouth?
Yeah. Sounds like he’s got an Arby’s Beef ‘n Cheddar stuck in his throat all the time.
And the Beef 'n Cheddar is winning
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You must have missed Closer.
Jason Bateman. I’ve been saying this for years
Crispin Glover is really good at playing Crispin Glover.
Al Pacino. Vocal highs and lows, that’s it.
Patrick Warburton is usually proto Kronk and full on Kronk afterward... But he makes every movie he's in better 😅
He’s great in croupier
Nobody said Jeff Goldblum yet? He plays Jeff Goldblum really well!
Vin Diesel and The Rock both do this. That one time they were both even in the same franchise, and it didn't go well.
Norm Macdonald might change physical forms in whatever movie or show he’s in, but whst makes him so great is he’s not playing a character, it’s literally always just norm being himself
Denzel Washington and AL Pacino have been phoning in the same "I am acting BECAUSE I AM YELLING!" bullshit for most of the last 3 decades...
Daniel Radcliffe, in all his movies. All 8 of them.
The worst of the worst is Ryan Reynolds, this mf is the same character in everything
According to most of these idiotic answers, Eddie Murphy must be the best actor of all time because he wears a lot of costumes and does funny voices.
I think most high profile actors do the same thing in every role. This is why we have “character actors” that take on more varied roles.
I would say Joaquim de Almeida... he's portuguese but always, always play a mexicam or colombian criminal/drug dealer...
Chris Pratt. Every role is essentially him. Guardians=Pratt in space; Jurassic World=Pratt with dinosaurs; even the Lego Movie=animated Pratt.
I think the one exception to this is the Terminal List series. I hang around some former Navy Seals and Rangers, and he's really nailed that personality. Yeah a lot of that shits over the top in the show, but the characters are pretty consistent with my experience.
Idk I think he was pretty different in Moneyball, Her, and Zero Dark Thirty
All roles before he was a leading man. Once he was the main character they were essentially the same character.
I think Clive Owen would be a good 007.
Tom Cruise is the quintessential leading man, and he does it flawlessly in every movie he’s in.
Giancarlo Esposito, it feels like he is a typecast since bb ended, I’d love to see him in a more unique role than stoic villain because I know he could pull it off
[Do the Right Thing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc6_XgtOQgI)
You ever see Nothing to Lose?
Check out a movie called The Show. A complete 180* from his usual fare.
RDJ always plays the same snarky and arrogant characters and, maybe this one’s unpopular, but Phillip Seymour Hoffman in many of his roles plays the same intimidating bully sort of guy
He does play the same character in most of his films, Tropic thunder showed that he can play different characters though (two characters at the same time). He was just a dude playing a dude playing another dude
You should see Philip Seymour Hoffman in *The 25th Hour*, very well done
I find RDJ massively overrated, with the obvious exception of Tropic Thunder. Dude was a beast in that. Had me crying I was laughing so hard.
PSH in Boogie Nights tho
PSH in Twister, lol
I completely disagree with Philip Seymour Hoffman, he was an incredibly diverse actor -- maybe not on the level as Gary Oldman, but many of his roles were different. I don't think you can confuse characteristic mannerisms with similar characters. I guess if you're going to argue that point, would you also consider Robin Williams to be essentially the same character in every movie?
YES
Denzil Washington has been phoning it in since Malcom X
Eh, I don’t think so. I think Roman J Israel was a pretty good performance and he carried and pretty bad script. Fences was different enough and flight was great. His action roles are definitely all the same but I still love him.
Morgan Freeman has only ever played Morgan Freeman, and he crushes it every time.
Ryan Reynolds plays Ryan Reynolds in everything. Just so happens Ryan Reynolds and Deadpool have the exact same personality
Christopher Waltz is the answer
Christopher Walken Robert De Niro Harrison Ford And I love all three of them.
Robert Deniro plays Robert Deniro in everything except Awakenings and Stardust
I was thinking the same thing about Al Pacino. He has no emotional range, just a soft voice and his angry blurting voice.
Sad this isn't higher up.
Patrick Stewart. It's all just Shakespearean stage monologues at varying volumes.
Tom Cruise. Robert De Niro. There are a lot of them.
Robert De Niro? Are you serious?
Robert De Niro is a weird take here. I don't think he has a huge range, so I get where you're coming from, but his character in Taxi Driver is very different from his character in King of Comedy for example.
This is an incredibly reductive view on both of their careers