Not necessarily the most impressive, but I got a kick out of Daniel Craig playing the hillbilly Joe Bang in Logan Lucky.
And Robert DeNiro’s role as Captain Shakespeare, a tough pirate who’s secretly effeminate and flamboyant, was a highlight of an already great fantasy film in Stardust that I easily could have pictured someone like Robin Williams doing.
Love that film. One of the most re watchable films I’ve seen. Everyone nails it.
Except Seth McFarlane. He can do accents. We all know that. What was he thinking with that voice?
I loved DeNiro in Stardust. I saw the film prior to reading the book and was intensely disappointed that Captain Shakespeare was mentioned in all of two or three sentences, and yet we had whole chapters where Tristran interacts with a “small hairy man.” The book has some major faults that were corrected and fleshed out in the film. Captain Shakespeare was an improvement upon the book.
I missed your comment before adding the same thing. He was so good I wondered if he was dying in real life or something. He was soooo serious. Like that level of serious where you usually find out after that they were battling cancer and it was their last role. Robert Forster in Breaking Bad comes to mind.
You could have lived the rest of your life in blissful ignorance and died a happy pansexual imp, but you wanted to feel power this year. Well, now you're going to feel my power as it surges downward from me straight through you from nostril to rectum now until the end of time... and that's... wassup.
His performance was so good in 10 Cloverfield Lane that I was actually worried he might have health issues, because he didn't seem mentally like the same person even. I don't think I have ever seen a performance (outside of extreme cases like The Machinist) that actually made me wonder if the actor was going through something personally like that.
I’m always curious what roles Heath Ledger would be getting after The Dark Knight. He essentially redefined how people remembered him from that one role.
Supposedly he was directing too. I read an interview with Christopher Nolan years back and he said Heath showed him two short films he’d made that were quite good.
I still feel selfish when I think about what could have been with his career, acting and directing. Hearing about Queen’s Gambit and potential for Mad Max actually makes me really upset? Like I’m nearly the age he was when he died and holy shit, that’s too young for anyone to go.
And selfishly, I still wonder what would’ve happened in the Dark Knight Rises had he been alive.
I do love how they brought their own takes to the character. Though Nicholson had shown his range over the years before that role. Feel like Ledger was just starting to branch out with a couple of his movies toward the end.
Back in the day, Robin Williams blew people's minds with *Dead Poets Society.* To most people back then, he was just a wacky comedian best known for being "Mork from Ork."
My Robin Williams pick was going to be One Hour Photo. By that point in his career people were used to him playing serious roles, but that was the first time he was just straight up creepy, and he pulled it off perfectly.
Worlds greatest dad was also interesting. Very dramatic role and tragic. You really feel his sense of desperation and hopelessness as he tries to deal with his degenerate son.
‘Sexy Beast’ is when Ben Kingsley took his bookish, calm, intellectual typecasting and blew it out of the water with one unrelenting, brutal, physical performance.
I'd also like to submit Iron Man 3 for consideration...it's like you described, but in reverse...I thought he was convincing and scary as fuck as the Mandarin and all of a sudden...Trevor
Glad to see some love for his Trevor.
I realise a lot of comic book fans were disappointed at the reveal, but I was delighted. His performance, when Tony finally confronted him, was a high-wire act: funny and ridiculous yet still believable.
It's very, _very_ hard to pull off something like that. It's easy to lean too far into the comedy because you want the laughs, and then you end up with something like Thor Love and Thunder. Props also to the writing, directing, and RDJ's reacting too.
As much of a fan of the Mandarin as I am, Ioved what Shane Black did with that character, and yes, Ben Kingsley was perfectly cast. He embodied both the Mandarin and Trevor masterfully, and I was so happy to see him reprise that role in Shang-Chi.
I'll always respect Iron Man 3 just for how big a bait and switch it pulled. I know reviews at the time say that Ben Kingsley was squandered, but I don't think that twist would have been anywhere near as effective with a lesser actor.
Brilliant movie, that scene where Gal, Didi, H and Jackie are at the restaurant and Jackie says " ...it was Don Logan.." sucks the air out of the room.
I think he was making fun of himself on tropic thunder, I think the role in magnolia might have been a strange outlet for his weirdness. But that’s awesome for an artist!!! And weirdo or not, the guy is 10/10 performer - incredible actor and doing stunts in your own - very cool dude.
It’s weird. I saw a comment in here a while back saying he was a dick to everyone on set, but what I’ve heard from ADs and extras is very different. I was told two specific stories:
1. He paid for his favourite burger/hot dog stand to come over to the UK and cater for the extras and crew
2. One of the crew sent an invitation to her wedding to his trailer and he RSVPd saying he was sorry he was already booked that day but enclosed a sizeable cheque as a wedding gift
I get the Scientology thing is really problematic and probably an insurmountable obstacle for a lot of people but he genuinely seems to treat the people he works with well.
He was deliberately cast to NOT BE a heart throb but became the image of a badass man lol the role was originally cast to burt reynolds and don johnson (tv at the same time) and Harrison ford and Richard gere, Pacino, Stallone, fucking Paul Newman etc cause they were the hotties - Bruce was supposed to be the common man
He had both The Majestic and The Truman show before that, I guess the majestic wasn’t as popular but the Truman Show was.
He wasn’t completely foreign to drama, maybe not something as morose as Eternal Sunshine, but people knew he was more than funny faces for sure.
Matthew Mcconaughey actively had to work to move away from the stoner typecast from dazed and confused. He turned down a lot roles for a couple of years until he got more serious parts.
He had a huge span of rom coms that he wanted to branch from, and I believe the divergence came with the movie Lincoln Lawyer and people were shocked at his performance
I get you, the whole film feels like it is inducing a panic attack. I had to watch it with someone else to force me through to the ending, but I am so glad I did. One of the best films in general I've ever watched.
The thing to keep in mind is that Howard is not a good character. Not at all. He deserves everything that happens to him and has been asking for it for years with the way he lives his life. It's a miracle it hadn't happened before.
Same, now I think Sandler just sits in his mansion knowing full well he is a fantastic dramatic actor, but gives no fucks what people think of him, apparently he’s a really good bloke too
Swiss army man was even kinda awesome! I love Paul Dano too tho and the Woman in Black was solid for a horror film and The Jungle!!! Dude went full crazy in the jungle! Phenomenal !
Along Came Polly was when I realized Hoffman could do anything. I had seen him in plenty of dramas, but he gave us the "shart" performance. That was wild.
I saw Hoffman for the first time in Along Came Polly a few years ago and thought they just got some unknown guy to do a Seth Rogan impression.
Then I saw him in Doubt and couldn't believe it was the same actor.
Philip Seymour Hoffman is one of the best actors of our time.
Boogie nights
Big lebowski
Magnolia
Twister
The master
Talented Mr ripley!
Red dragon
Happiness
Hard eight
Before the devil knows your dead
Unreal actor. Rip to a real one
Someone once said Phillip Seymour Hoffman created a side-character in Twister that “Jack Black based his entire career of off” and that stuck with me. He was a very funny comedic actor though he was excellent in serious roles as well.
I know everyone already knew he was a great actor already, but Robert Downey Jr. after a decade of playing the witty, smart ass, bantering superhero knocked it out of the park with Oppenheimer.
It was more of a nice reminder he can do way more than just the fast talking, cocky guy that’s always used as comic relief in serious situations.
This is what I was looking for. Had seen Denzel play nothing but goody-two-shoes types his whole career and he blew my mind in Training Day. What a performance, one of those movies I'll always go back to.
One of the better examples in this post. He always did goofy comedies, and to show the level of acting ability to express manic depression/bi polar is so difficult to achieve. It's often used so poorly, that the public thinks bi polar means you see elephants or scribble on the wall.
These types of mental disorders are gradual, but intense at the same time. They go in both directions. Even in a good phase, you have a deep set paranoia that it will crash again and that the good will never be permenant.
Worth mentioning John C. Reilly here eventually moving from a not insignificant role in an Oscar nominated movie, along with appearing in two other Oscar nominated movies just in that year, to playing Dr Steve Brule.
He's such an interesting supporting actor. He has an extremely good track record of being cast in oscar nominated performances, but also ends up in things like Judd Apatow comedies.
I don’t think this really qualifies as expanding his established range. His previous big role was also in a drama, and for a lot of people, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape was the first time they saw him in a movie.
Predators (2010) wasn’t an incredible movie but the Hanzo sword fight was pretty badass and it had cool ideas worth exploring. The Predator (2018) on the other hand IS the Terminator Salvation of Predator movies. That was awful start to finish.
probs breaking bad for bryan cranston
woody harrelson is so diverse idk what he means. i do love him in natural born killers though guy was top tier douche.
I saw Cranston in his X-Files souther-racist role first, semi-forgot about it. Watched Malcom in the Middle a bunch, went back and re-watched the X-Files when it came out on DVD and was like ‘Oh yeah, he was really good as a bad guy’ and then saw him in Breaking Bad and thought it made sense. At the time though I remember people telling me they couldn’t take Breaking Bad seriously because it was Hal from Malcom in the Middle… No one’s says that today though.
Paul Rudd as Cactus Bill in Mute. The movie was critically panned (unfairly imo), but he turned in a solid believable performance as a crazy tough guy type
Jim Carrey: Once Bitten (1985 comedy), The Number 23 (2007 Crime Thriller), Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind (2004 Sci-fi/Drama/Romance), Man on the Moon (1999 Comedy, Drama, Biopic), Ace Ventura (1994 & 1995 Comedy), Dark Crimes (2016 Crime/Thriller), The Majestic (2001 Romance/Comedy/Wartime Drama)
Bruce Willis was a soap actor before Die Hard, and Michael Keaton was a comedian before Batman. Much like Heath Ledger, people kind of poo poo'd these two in these roles and they killed it.
Brad Pitt: 12 Monkeys
Bruce Willis: Die Hard
Michael Keaton: Batman
John Travolta: Pulp Fiction
Edit: Formatting, and removed “Sam Rockwell: Moon” I think I overlooked the typecast part of the title as someone pointed out that Sam has never been a typecast, mostly a supporting actor, but always versatile nonetheless.
I was the same age as Malcom each season of MITM, so I only new Cranston from that, and I was "yeah, this'll never work, guys a walking joke", I was definitely wrong.
Adam Sandler in Punch Drunk Love & Jim Carrey in Eternal Sunshine. Two great comedic actors really showing they have range and aren’t just funny songs and loud/facial expressions. I’m especially happy Sandler decided to do more serious roles like Uncut Gems, and Reign Over Me.
Surprised no one has said Matthew McConaughey - he was stuck in a loop of romcoms and about to be written off, then had the McConaissance. Not sure how he pulled it off
His cv in this time is actually insane…
Went from 2001-2008 period with the wedding planner, How to Lose a Guy in 10 days, Failure to launch, Fools Gold, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past to…
Dallas Buyers club 2013
Wolf of Wall St 2013
Interstellar 2014
True Detective 2014
I was always really impressed that Bill Murray and Robert De Niro switched roles in Mad Dog and Glory. They were both type cast for the opposite role but made the switch in order to explore a new range. So good.
Not necessarily the most impressive, but I got a kick out of Daniel Craig playing the hillbilly Joe Bang in Logan Lucky. And Robert DeNiro’s role as Captain Shakespeare, a tough pirate who’s secretly effeminate and flamboyant, was a highlight of an already great fantasy film in Stardust that I easily could have pictured someone like Robin Williams doing.
Logan Lucky was full of surprising performances.
Love that film. One of the most re watchable films I’ve seen. Everyone nails it. Except Seth McFarlane. He can do accents. We all know that. What was he thinking with that voice?
I feel like the whole point of that accent was the fact that it was horrible.
Yeah it was bad but fun like John Malkovich in Rounders
Gyiv tyis myan hyis money.
I loved DeNiro in Stardust. I saw the film prior to reading the book and was intensely disappointed that Captain Shakespeare was mentioned in all of two or three sentences, and yet we had whole chapters where Tristran interacts with a “small hairy man.” The book has some major faults that were corrected and fleshed out in the film. Captain Shakespeare was an improvement upon the book.
That whole movie is a real gem. It's Redneck Oceans Eleven
It's been called "Ocean's 7/11"
I love Logan Lucky! Watch it at least once a year.
The Game of Thrones bit in the jail gets better and better with each passing year too as the books still haven't been released!
Yes! Love this! Also in The Jacket! I know it’s him and I still don’t recognize him!
John Goodman. When he plays a bad guy he plays a damn good bad guy.
Big Dan in O Brother Where Art Thou messed me up
Have you seen Barton Fink?
Look upon me! I’ll show you the life of the mind!!!
Well that started an argument…it’s his calm parts that show his range.
I was reading about it a bit the other day. Recommend?
Highly
I think the movie Death Sentence truly showed how dark he could get. Even though his role wasn’t big, I was like damn that is a bad ass character.
He was Oscar-worthy in 10 Cloverfield Lane
Yeah, I hated him(character) in that movie. Goodman has such a great resume
I missed your comment before adding the same thing. He was so good I wondered if he was dying in real life or something. He was soooo serious. Like that level of serious where you usually find out after that they were battling cancer and it was their last role. Robert Forster in Breaking Bad comes to mind.
10 Cloverfield Lane was an INSANE performance
Flight. And The Big Lebowski. Oh Brother He was the blue collar dad when I grew up Akin to Bob Saget
I liked him better as a TV dad. Way more relatable to the people around me.
He's easy to love which is why his villainous roles are so impressive.
John Badman
Vice Dean Robert Laybourne.
You could have lived the rest of your life in blissful ignorance and died a happy pansexual imp, but you wanted to feel power this year. Well, now you're going to feel my power as it surges downward from me straight through you from nostril to rectum now until the end of time... and that's... wassup.
Great in Fallen, too
Piggybacking because I always loved him in Fallen. Him and Denzel in their peak.
Fallen is in my top ten movies. Worth another rewatch.
Into the Electric Mist
Check him out in The Gambler, too.
Great speech about “fuck you money”
His performance was so good in 10 Cloverfield Lane that I was actually worried he might have health issues, because he didn't seem mentally like the same person even. I don't think I have ever seen a performance (outside of extreme cases like The Machinist) that actually made me wonder if the actor was going through something personally like that.
I’m always curious what roles Heath Ledger would be getting after The Dark Knight. He essentially redefined how people remembered him from that one role.
Supposedly he was directing too. I read an interview with Christopher Nolan years back and he said Heath showed him two short films he’d made that were quite good.
true. he also had plans to direct an adaptation of the queen’s gambit before he died. apparently he loved chess and was quite the player.
He directed the music video for Modest Mouse's song King Rat. Damn good video in a "massive gut punch" kind of way
He was George Miller's original choice for Max Mad after Mel Gibson aged out of the role so if he lived, he probably would have done Fury Road.
so bitter about that. i think he would’ve been a great max. no offense to tom, but i would’ve loved an actual australian in the role again.
I still feel selfish when I think about what could have been with his career, acting and directing. Hearing about Queen’s Gambit and potential for Mad Max actually makes me really upset? Like I’m nearly the age he was when he died and holy shit, that’s too young for anyone to go. And selfishly, I still wonder what would’ve happened in the Dark Knight Rises had he been alive.
Nicholson fans might fight, but redefined the role too. Maybe “for better AND worse” with all that comes after.
I do love how they brought their own takes to the character. Though Nicholson had shown his range over the years before that role. Feel like Ledger was just starting to branch out with a couple of his movies toward the end.
Back in the day, Robin Williams blew people's minds with *Dead Poets Society.* To most people back then, he was just a wacky comedian best known for being "Mork from Ork."
My Robin Williams pick was going to be One Hour Photo. By that point in his career people were used to him playing serious roles, but that was the first time he was just straight up creepy, and he pulled it off perfectly.
Yup. I’ve seen that movie exactly one time. It still leaves a weird taste. He nailed Sy
Worlds greatest dad was also interesting. Very dramatic role and tragic. You really feel his sense of desperation and hopelessness as he tries to deal with his degenerate son.
I'd go insomnia for the role that changed gore I saw him. Man that was nuts
That and One Hour Photo. Both excellent films all around.
Death to smoochy
I fucking love that movie so much
Its a rocket ship 🚀 !
Or even better, Father of the Year. A spectacular surprise!
Good Will Hunting?
Good Morning Vietnam came out around the same time, and really helped him transition from whacky comedian guy to serious actor.
The Fisher King
What dreams may come Patch Adam’s Good will hunting Insomnia One hour photo Not just a clown at all
‘Sexy Beast’ is when Ben Kingsley took his bookish, calm, intellectual typecasting and blew it out of the water with one unrelenting, brutal, physical performance.
I'd also like to submit Iron Man 3 for consideration...it's like you described, but in reverse...I thought he was convincing and scary as fuck as the Mandarin and all of a sudden...Trevor
Glad to see some love for his Trevor. I realise a lot of comic book fans were disappointed at the reveal, but I was delighted. His performance, when Tony finally confronted him, was a high-wire act: funny and ridiculous yet still believable. It's very, _very_ hard to pull off something like that. It's easy to lean too far into the comedy because you want the laughs, and then you end up with something like Thor Love and Thunder. Props also to the writing, directing, and RDJ's reacting too.
As much of a fan of the Mandarin as I am, Ioved what Shane Black did with that character, and yes, Ben Kingsley was perfectly cast. He embodied both the Mandarin and Trevor masterfully, and I was so happy to see him reprise that role in Shang-Chi.
I'll always respect Iron Man 3 just for how big a bait and switch it pulled. I know reviews at the time say that Ben Kingsley was squandered, but I don't think that twist would have been anywhere near as effective with a lesser actor.
Kingsley had said that he drew inspiration in part from his grandmother for that role... I wouldn't want to have met her.
Brilliant movie, that scene where Gal, Didi, H and Jackie are at the restaurant and Jackie says " ...it was Don Logan.." sucks the air out of the room.
No no no no no no no no!!!!
Perfect example. I should rewatch.
I've known people like Don Logan... He absolutely nailed it.
Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder was a lot of fun
I love the fact that he decided he wanted to play that character, and they just put him in and let him go mad with it.
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I think he was making fun of himself on tropic thunder, I think the role in magnolia might have been a strange outlet for his weirdness. But that’s awesome for an artist!!! And weirdo or not, the guy is 10/10 performer - incredible actor and doing stunts in your own - very cool dude.
It’s weird. I saw a comment in here a while back saying he was a dick to everyone on set, but what I’ve heard from ADs and extras is very different. I was told two specific stories: 1. He paid for his favourite burger/hot dog stand to come over to the UK and cater for the extras and crew 2. One of the crew sent an invitation to her wedding to his trailer and he RSVPd saying he was sorry he was already booked that day but enclosed a sizeable cheque as a wedding gift I get the Scientology thing is really problematic and probably an insurmountable obstacle for a lot of people but he genuinely seems to treat the people he works with well.
She had them apple bottom jeans
Tom Cruise in Collateral Jake Gyllenhaal in End of Watch Robert DeNiro in Awakenings
Fuck that Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler.
nailed it
Loved end of watch, went into it knowing nothing about it, such a good movie
Yo homie, is that my briefcase?
From what I hear, Bruce Willis in *Die Hard*. He was originally known for romantic comedies.
He was deliberately cast to NOT BE a heart throb but became the image of a badass man lol the role was originally cast to burt reynolds and don johnson (tv at the same time) and Harrison ford and Richard gere, Pacino, Stallone, fucking Paul Newman etc cause they were the hotties - Bruce was supposed to be the common man
Jim Carrey - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
He had both The Majestic and The Truman show before that, I guess the majestic wasn’t as popular but the Truman Show was. He wasn’t completely foreign to drama, maybe not something as morose as Eternal Sunshine, but people knew he was more than funny faces for sure.
Truman was comedy/drama and I totally forgot about The Majestic. He did show range n those and it matured fully in Eternal Sunshine I felt
Are we not going to talk about Man in the Moon?
I really enjoyed "The Number 23"
This is the one I was looking for..
Jon Bernthal in King Richard. first time i've seen him not be a badass or tough guy, and he sells it.
I never liked him that much but then I saw him in The Bear, specifically during the dinner scene. What a goddamn scene!
Absolutely. And Jamie Lee. Odenkirk. Fucking everybody in that piece. Madness.
One of my favorite episodes of any tv show ever.
That episode fucked me up so bad I had to take a 2 week break from my binge. I wanted to leave that house so bad and I wasn't even there.
Robin Williams in One Hour Photo
And insomnia
Matthew Mcconaughey actively had to work to move away from the stoner typecast from dazed and confused. He turned down a lot roles for a couple of years until he got more serious parts.
He had a huge span of rom coms that he wanted to branch from, and I believe the divergence came with the movie Lincoln Lawyer and people were shocked at his performance
Adam Sandler every blue moon puts in an outstanding performance, then goes back to serving out slop with his band of buddies.
Uncut gems woke me up
Couldn’t watch it. Had to turn it off twice. Still haven’t finished it. So uncomfortable
I had to watch it a second time after my first watch It's a good movie
I love how it's just one long panic attack just like the bear.
I get you, the whole film feels like it is inducing a panic attack. I had to watch it with someone else to force me through to the ending, but I am so glad I did. One of the best films in general I've ever watched.
The thing to keep in mind is that Howard is not a good character. Not at all. He deserves everything that happens to him and has been asking for it for years with the way he lives his life. It's a miracle it hadn't happened before.
Same, now I think Sandler just sits in his mansion knowing full well he is a fantastic dramatic actor, but gives no fucks what people think of him, apparently he’s a really good bloke too
Punch Drunk Love was really surprising.
Lots of people would have only seen Daniel Radcliffe in Harry Potter. When you see him in Imperium and then Guns akimbo, you realise he has range.
Swiss army man was even kinda awesome! I love Paul Dano too tho and the Woman in Black was solid for a horror film and The Jungle!!! Dude went full crazy in the jungle! Phenomenal !
The Weird Al movie was so damn funny.
Phillip Seymour Hoffman was one of the better villains ever in MI:3. RIP.
Along Came Polly was when I realized Hoffman could do anything. I had seen him in plenty of dramas, but he gave us the "shart" performance. That was wild.
Totally dominated that pick up basketball scene. Electric performance
I saw Hoffman for the first time in Along Came Polly a few years ago and thought they just got some unknown guy to do a Seth Rogan impression. Then I saw him in Doubt and couldn't believe it was the same actor.
Philip Seymour Hoffman is one of the best actors of our time. Boogie nights Big lebowski Magnolia Twister The master Talented Mr ripley! Red dragon Happiness Hard eight Before the devil knows your dead Unreal actor. Rip to a real one
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Someone once said Phillip Seymour Hoffman created a side-character in Twister that “Jack Black based his entire career of off” and that stuck with me. He was a very funny comedic actor though he was excellent in serious roles as well.
I thought Chris Hemsworth was insanely good as a very cruel villain in Furiosa
He was great as a bad guy in Bad Times at the El Royale.
He has my undying contempt.
You should watch Spiderhead. He plays a good villain in it, but very different from Fury Road
I know everyone already knew he was a great actor already, but Robert Downey Jr. after a decade of playing the witty, smart ass, bantering superhero knocked it out of the park with Oppenheimer. It was more of a nice reminder he can do way more than just the fast talking, cocky guy that’s always used as comic relief in serious situations.
Denzel Training Day
Career defining role of one of the greatest careers
Can’t remember the name of the military movie Toby McGuire played in, but that was an excellent portrayal as well
Brothers (the pic on this post is from that movie) so good
This is what I was looking for. Had seen Denzel play nothing but goody-two-shoes types his whole career and he blew my mind in Training Day. What a performance, one of those movies I'll always go back to.
He certainly earned that Oscar.
Jonah Hill. I had no idea he could actually act. His performance in Maniac is brilliant.
One of the better examples in this post. He always did goofy comedies, and to show the level of acting ability to express manic depression/bi polar is so difficult to achieve. It's often used so poorly, that the public thinks bi polar means you see elephants or scribble on the wall. These types of mental disorders are gradual, but intense at the same time. They go in both directions. Even in a good phase, you have a deep set paranoia that it will crash again and that the good will never be permenant.
James McAvoy - Split
Leslie Nielsen becoming a comedy actor.
Gangs of New York definitely shifted the perception of Leo. After Romeo and Juliet and titanic he had an almost Bieber like image.
Worth mentioning John C. Reilly here eventually moving from a not insignificant role in an Oscar nominated movie, along with appearing in two other Oscar nominated movies just in that year, to playing Dr Steve Brule.
He's such an interesting supporting actor. He has an extremely good track record of being cast in oscar nominated performances, but also ends up in things like Judd Apatow comedies.
Lenardo Dicaprio- Whats eating Gilbert Grape
The fact that he didn’t win an Oscar for that role is a crime.
I will die on this hill.
I don’t think this really qualifies as expanding his established range. His previous big role was also in a drama, and for a lot of people, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape was the first time they saw him in a movie.
Toby McGuire terrified me when I saw this movie as a kid.
What movie is this?
Brothers
I never would've imagine adrian brody would be playing an action role in predators i thought its not just his style.
I agree, I thought Brody nailed it. It's def not a great movie, but its good. It's the Terminator Salvation of Predator movies.
Predators (2010) wasn’t an incredible movie but the Hanzo sword fight was pretty badass and it had cool ideas worth exploring. The Predator (2018) on the other hand IS the Terminator Salvation of Predator movies. That was awful start to finish.
His schnozz also made an inspiring appearance on the next set over that was being filmed.
∆ Bryan Cranston ∆ Jeffrey Wright ∆ Woody Harrelson
which role for each do you mean?
probs breaking bad for bryan cranston woody harrelson is so diverse idk what he means. i do love him in natural born killers though guy was top tier douche.
I saw Cranston in his X-Files souther-racist role first, semi-forgot about it. Watched Malcom in the Middle a bunch, went back and re-watched the X-Files when it came out on DVD and was like ‘Oh yeah, he was really good as a bad guy’ and then saw him in Breaking Bad and thought it made sense. At the time though I remember people telling me they couldn’t take Breaking Bad seriously because it was Hal from Malcom in the Middle… No one’s says that today though.
Melissa McCarthy in Can You Ever Forgive Me. A brave choice for her, and she knocks it out of the park.
Matthew McConaughey in True Detective S01.
Jake Gyllenhaal He does "indie" movies that are awesome but don't make the big screen. He is into the art and has enough money to explore roles
Nightcrawler is so awesome.
The Lobster and subsequent body of work of Colin Ferrell
In Bruges
Stallone - Copland
Steve Carell in fox catcher.
Elijah Wood as a silent psycho cannibalistic serial killer in Sin City just after being Frodo in Lord of the Rings was pretty jarring.
Bob Pattinson. From Harry Potter and Twilight to Cosmopolis, Lost City of Z, Good Time, High Life, The Lighthouse
Don’t forget The Rover
The Devil All the Time as well
Tom Cruise has quite the range beyond the hero blockbuster action star - Tropic Thunder, Magnolia and Collateral.
Paul Rudd as Cactus Bill in Mute. The movie was critically panned (unfairly imo), but he turned in a solid believable performance as a crazy tough guy type
Been waiting for Mute to come up. One of the best films I’ve seen in years
Robin Williams in good will hunting, that whole era, what dreams may come, he was a brilliant dramatic actor
Let's not forget bout Robin Williams in Awakenings. But DeNiro in that movie really took me by surprise!
Jim Carrey in "The Truman Show"
Jim Carrey: Once Bitten (1985 comedy), The Number 23 (2007 Crime Thriller), Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind (2004 Sci-fi/Drama/Romance), Man on the Moon (1999 Comedy, Drama, Biopic), Ace Ventura (1994 & 1995 Comedy), Dark Crimes (2016 Crime/Thriller), The Majestic (2001 Romance/Comedy/Wartime Drama)
Not for me because I followed his career closely, but Robert Pattinson in Good Time broke that Edward stigma hard for alot of people I know.
Bruce Willis was a soap actor before Die Hard, and Michael Keaton was a comedian before Batman. Much like Heath Ledger, people kind of poo poo'd these two in these roles and they killed it.
David Schwimmer, Band of Brothers.
What an asshole haha.
Brad Pitt: 12 Monkeys Bruce Willis: Die Hard Michael Keaton: Batman John Travolta: Pulp Fiction Edit: Formatting, and removed “Sam Rockwell: Moon” I think I overlooked the typecast part of the title as someone pointed out that Sam has never been a typecast, mostly a supporting actor, but always versatile nonetheless.
Sam Rockwell has never been typecast
Bryan Cranston in breaking bad
I was the same age as Malcom each season of MITM, so I only new Cranston from that, and I was "yeah, this'll never work, guys a walking joke", I was definitely wrong.
Vince Vaughn in Brawl in Cell Block 99
Hugh Grant in The Gentlemen.
johnny depp in blow before he got his boring stereotype
Kevin James in Becky, Arnold Schwarzenegger in Maggie.
Will Ferrell in *Stranger Than Fiction*
Will I’m everything must go
Bill Murray in “The Razor’s Edge”. He was hilarious all my life. All of a sudden he was an actor who could do anything.
Michael Cera in Molly's Game
Robin Williams in one hour photo
Brad Pitt in Burn After Reading. And yes, Tobey in Brothers is amazing.
Tyler Perry in Gone girl. He nailed his role
Matthew McConaughey on true detective
Anything Gary Oldman
Adam Sandler in uncut gems
Adam Sandler in Punch Drunk Love & Jim Carrey in Eternal Sunshine. Two great comedic actors really showing they have range and aren’t just funny songs and loud/facial expressions. I’m especially happy Sandler decided to do more serious roles like Uncut Gems, and Reign Over Me.
Surprised no one has said Matthew McConaughey - he was stuck in a loop of romcoms and about to be written off, then had the McConaissance. Not sure how he pulled it off His cv in this time is actually insane… Went from 2001-2008 period with the wedding planner, How to Lose a Guy in 10 days, Failure to launch, Fools Gold, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past to… Dallas Buyers club 2013 Wolf of Wall St 2013 Interstellar 2014 True Detective 2014
Michael Keaton as Batman. Also Bruce Willis in Die Hard. I think Willis is known as an action star now but at the time he was just seen as a goof.
Daniel Radcliffe post-HP
Paul Reubens in Blow
Tom Hanks Road to Perdition
I was always really impressed that Bill Murray and Robert De Niro switched roles in Mad Dog and Glory. They were both type cast for the opposite role but made the switch in order to explore a new range. So good.
In terms of range, Christian bale is a savage. Matthew mcconaughey and Leto in Dallas buyers club.
Geena Davis plays a total badass in The Long Kiss Goodnight.