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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on May 22, 2024 1:32:36 GMT -5
It was kinda weird when I finally pegged Woody from Psych as the evil businessman who dookied himself in No Holds Barred. He was also in Ghostbusters II, and Wayne's World. Kurt Fuller's a fantastic character actor. Keeping it with Psych, Lassiter was a psychic in Starship Troopers and a villain in some Disney Channel movie. Also Gus was Bud on the Cosby Show.  |
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Post by Big DSR Energy on May 22, 2024 2:25:43 GMT -5
Michael Gough, Alfred from the 90's Batman movies, was also the original Celestial Toymaker. Now try imagining him lip syncing to "Spice Up Your Life". He played a detestable creep in films like KONGA and TROG (and did a damn fine job of it, despite those being b-grade horror), far removed from the kindly butler Bat-fans know him as. |
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on May 22, 2024 3:03:56 GMT -5
Michael Gough, Alfred from the 90's Batman movies, was also the original Celestial Toymaker. Now try imagining him lip syncing to "Spice Up Your Life". He played a detestable creep in films like KONGA and TROG (and did a damn fine job of it, despite those being b-grade horror), far removed from the kindly butler Bat-fans know him as. How about Gough as a Satanist in "Curse of the Crimson Altar"? youtu.be/sJQ75wgJu4Y?si=qc_cLyTODgpM5OhG |
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Post by DiBiase is Good on May 22, 2024 3:15:28 GMT -5
Watching Game of Thrones and seeing Bronn being the character he is, it’s hard to separate him from Jerome Flynn’s earlier work. Mainly his crooning away on a cover of Unchained Melody, which is one of the biggest-selling singles of all-time here.
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Post by yokohamacpfc on May 22, 2024 3:18:29 GMT -5
I know a lot of Americans were thrown off when they saw Hugh Laurie as the Prince Regent in Blackadder. Speaking of Blackadder, Robbie Coltrane transitioning from comedic actor to the gruff Fitz in Cracker. The cynical, sneering, scheming Blackadder is of course more famous internationally as Mr Bean. Rick Grimes as the creepy bloke from Love Actually. The actor Andrew Lincoln was also in This Life a 90's BBC show about a group of trainee London lawyers flat sharing. It was a little ahead of its time with jerky camera angles, heavy swearing/sex talk, snarky dialogue, strong female characters and gay characters who weren't stereotypes. Lincoln played a matey laddish type who dropped out of law school and from memory he was awful (so there's hope for struggling actors that things can improve). The only other actor from it who went on to do anything of note was Jack Davenport who played the same aloof upper class prat he would later use as James Norrington in PotC. |
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on May 22, 2024 4:21:16 GMT -5
Speaking of Matthew Broderick, I still remember that he was one of AMC's first choices to play Walter White on Breaking Bad. Well, it's not like he's that much more unlikely a casting choice as Hal from Malcolm in the Middle. He'd still have been the worst choice of the three actors up for the role (the other being John Cusack), for sure. |
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on May 22, 2024 5:46:18 GMT -5
It's always fun to see super famous people turn up in slasher movies before they were famous
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on May 22, 2024 5:55:02 GMT -5
Young Gilbert Gottfried
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on May 22, 2024 15:00:31 GMT -5
Liam Neeson in Schindler's List and Liam Neeson in all the action films he's done feel like two completely different people. Well, Liam Neeson basically stopped attempting to act after Taken was such a hit. “So you’re telling me I can just be Bryan Mills for every movie and you’re gonna pay me good money? Okay, f*** being a thespian” |
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on May 22, 2024 16:26:35 GMT -5
It's always fun to see super famous people turn up in slasher movies before they were famous The main one would be Kevin Bacon in "Friday the 13th"... or Johnny Depp in "A Nightmare on Elm Street". |
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on May 22, 2024 16:33:28 GMT -5
It's always fun to see super famous people turn up in slasher movies before they were famous The main one would be Kevin Bacon in "Friday the 13th"... or Johnny Depp in "A Nightmare on Elm Street". I recently picked up this one called Cutting Class with Roddy MacDowell and a baby Brad Pitt (literally the second movie he ever did). It was mostly terrible but Pitt acted circles around everyone else involved, except Roddy who randomly disappears about halfway through. |
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Post by Hit Girl on May 22, 2024 21:16:24 GMT -5
Seeing Luke Goss be so brilliant as a scary vampire in Blade 2, after his boyband career.
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Post by An Dog On An Skateboard on May 23, 2024 13:09:14 GMT -5
I've got a slight twist on this, and one that loops back to the original post. Before he went into acting, the veteran character actor Richard Edson - known for, amongst other roles, being the carpark attendant in Ferris Bueller's Day Off - was a musician.
I can't find any footage of him as the original drummer in Sonic Youth, but here he is performing with New York post-punk-funk-disco-Latin jazz combo Konk. Also look out for a young pre-fame Madonna.
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Post by JoDaNa1281 on May 23, 2024 13:14:59 GMT -5
It was kinda weird when I finally pegged Woody from Psych as the evil businessman who dookied himself in No Holds Barred. He didn't dookie himself, it was a limo driver who did. |
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Post by mystermystery on May 23, 2024 18:05:04 GMT -5
I love character actors and it's neat (and a little weird) to see their early roles when they were obviously just getting what they could but also finding their wheelhouse for what character types they could lock down in the future. I watch so many re-runs of Murder She Wrote and it's fun to see certain actors appear on it. A young Bryan Cranston appeared multiple times as different characters, murdered once, and the murderer another time. Conchata Ferrell (Berta from 2 and a Half Men) as a grumpy cook. Paul Sorvino as a baseball scout. Tony Todd as an FBI/CIA type tracking a deadly disease. Leslie Nielsen playing multiple characters including a con man whose latest team is being murdered and it might be him trying to cover his tracks.
Speaking of Leslie Nielsen, he did so many serious movies, including being the principal in PROM NIGHT and starring in the legitimate Sci-Fi Classic called FORBIDDEN PLANET before Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker got ahold of him and made him a comedy staple for the back end of his career.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on May 23, 2024 18:38:21 GMT -5
It's always fun to see super famous people turn up in slasher movies before they were famous The main one would be Kevin Bacon in "Friday the 13th"... or Johnny Depp in "A Nightmare on Elm Street". The Burning has George from Seinfeld,with hair,and a young Holly Hunter. |
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Post by DichEvans on May 23, 2024 19:05:42 GMT -5
I’d argue it’s weirder to see their later/current work. I think she's said multiple a few times that her sex work made her more money than any of her acting. While I don't personally believe there should be a stigma with sex work, that type of work does have a naturally time cycle, so hope she invests well |
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Post by DichEvans on May 23, 2024 19:08:52 GMT -5
Breaking Bad as a whole. It's why I like Vince Gilligan's casting, he looks for who is the best fit for the role acting wise. I really doubt Breaking Bad works if they take the CW style of just casting people because they are good looking. Every actor in Breaking Bad was great, they just never got any breaks.  |
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on May 24, 2024 2:45:10 GMT -5
Watching Game of Thrones and seeing Bronn being the character he is, it’s hard to separate him from Jerome Flynn’s earlier work. Mainly his crooning away on a cover of Unchained Melody, which is one of the biggest-selling singles of all-time here. This is the exact same thing I always think. I also always wonder how Robson feels about that. |
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