krameriffic
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Actors who play themselves in every role?
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Mace Windu.
Massive Nights
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How has no one said this man yet!
*Okay, someone said it on the last page.
*Okay, someone said it on the last page.
WoolyNinja
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Vince Vaughn - I happen to love what he does but with the exception of a couple films he's always playing the same character.
I love Gary Oldman. He's the type of actor who has roles so different from each other that it makes you go, "Wait, that was the same actor!?" When he takes a role, he changes everything from his voice down to his most subtle mannerisms.
Anyway, to continue the theme of the thread, Johnny Depp seems like the same person on screen unless he's playing a really eccentric character like Jack Sparrow or Willy Wonka.
Brat Pitt? Really? You can hate this guy but saying he always plays the same guy or himself is really bullshit.
Seth Rogen is for me the guy which fits the most. I think he has to make some smaller films with a suprise in his role.
Vince Vaugn is heading in this direction too. (yeah i know "Be Cool" but still)
Seth Rogen is for me the guy which fits the most. I think he has to make some smaller films with a suprise in his role.
Vince Vaugn is heading in this direction too. (yeah i know "Be Cool" but still)
Roger Danish
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Came here to post Marky Mark. He was already posted. I have nothing further to contribute.
Any actor who doesn't do evil or less than perfect character roles. In my book most of those guys/girls play the same lovable character.
That includes Will Smith, as much as I love the guy he needs to do more roles where he isn't just the bad ass hero.
Jamie fox yes. Don't think he has done a bad guy role.
Daniel/hanks/deceprio/bale are probably some of the best actors because of their huge variety of roles.
That includes Will Smith, as much as I love the guy he needs to do more roles where he isn't just the bad ass hero.
Jamie fox yes. Don't think he has done a bad guy role.
Daniel/hanks/deceprio/bale are probably some of the best actors because of their huge variety of roles.
No way.
I'd say the problem is even more noticeable when he plays eccentric characters, there's not a great difference between Jack Sparrow and Raoul Duke.
FelixOrion
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Johnny Depp
He needs to get surgically separated from Tim Burton asap.
He needs to get surgically separated from Tim Burton asap.
DerZuhälter;45896077 said:The most obvious ones are the ones we forget:
Someone didn't see Buried.
Seriously. I am fucking sick of Burton. Is he ready to retire?
He still acts like Van Wilder stuck in a coffin in that movie.
Id say he at least has two characters.
His BoogieNights/TheHappening/Ted comedy characters and everything else.
Doctor Decimate
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SkyMasterson
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Tom Cruise.
I enjoy his movies and actually like him as an actor, but he just does that same intense look and has the exact same tone in almost every movie he's been in.
A few of his unique performances are Born on the Fourth of July, Magnolia and Tropic Thunder and even in the first two, you still have Tom Cruise the personality ocassionly seeping through the character he portrays.
I enjoy his movies and actually like him as an actor, but he just does that same intense look and has the exact same tone in almost every movie he's been in.
A few of his unique performances are Born on the Fourth of July, Magnolia and Tropic Thunder and even in the first two, you still have Tom Cruise the personality ocassionly seeping through the character he portrays.
Kuro Madoushi
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George Clooney is always the same dude.
I like him as an actor, but he never plays someone else.
Here ya go. It's not like it's not entertaining watching him in movies. However, he more or less plays himself in every single movie. No range at all.
BadAss2961
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2Pac was on his way to this before he died.
DerZuhälter
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Yes I did... it's Ryan Reynolds, buried.
greycolumbus
The success of others absolutely infuriates me.
When he's not stuck in the 60s, he's stuck being himself
Couldn't agree more.
He was great in Django though.
PumpkinPie
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Christian Bale. He just gets skinny or gains muscle for his roles, he never changes his acting.
Seriously?
Aaronology
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Anyone who said Jim Carrey has obviously never seen his best movie ever.
Good call ... most of his characters are even called jackie
Hes british playing an american though, hes pretty much almost never himself.
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
Tom Cruise does a fine acting job, its just that most of the movies he's in want "Tom Cruise" -- they don't want Tom Cruise being someone else. He's cool enough as is. There was Magnolia, after all.
Robin Williams plays himself in every role. The only movie he wasn't himself was One Hour Photo.
No way.
BigJonsson
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Tom Cruise
......You guys are forgetting that the whole point of great acting is for the actor to be as authentically himself as possible within each new script.
The whole point of acting is not "to play someone else" -- they wouldn't be good enough to be movie stars if that were the case. Of COURSE they all seemingly "play themselves" -- that's what good acting is -- it makes you think that the character on the page is exactly as real as the actor infront of you.
The whole point of acting is not "to play someone else" -- they wouldn't be good enough to be movie stars if that were the case. Of COURSE they all seemingly "play themselves" -- that's what good acting is -- it makes you think that the character on the page is exactly as real as the actor infront of you.
It takes a really, really talented actor to portray themselves as truly different people, going beyond inhabiting a different personality, but also adopting different gestures, mannerisms, and even inflections in their speech and word delivery.
I can kinda understand those who say Tom Cruise is essentially playing different aspects of himself, even in more extreme roles such as his characters in Magnolia and Rock of Ages.
To me, the way he delivers his lines sounds consistent throughout all his films. Regardless, I love his work despite that. I feel the same way about most other actors who are movie stars. They are stars/icons because of the consistency of their...charisma, I suppose.
Johnny Depp does "Johnny Depp as" in most of his roles after Jack Sparrow. I don't know how, but Sparrow tends to seep into his other roles. Or maybe he was always that way. I'll need to rewatch his older films.
I can kinda understand those who say Tom Cruise is essentially playing different aspects of himself, even in more extreme roles such as his characters in Magnolia and Rock of Ages.
To me, the way he delivers his lines sounds consistent throughout all his films. Regardless, I love his work despite that. I feel the same way about most other actors who are movie stars. They are stars/icons because of the consistency of their...charisma, I suppose.
Johnny Depp does "Johnny Depp as" in most of his roles after Jack Sparrow. I don't know how, but Sparrow tends to seep into his other roles. Or maybe he was always that way. I'll need to rewatch his older films.
BattleMonkey
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Same in every role
Dark Octave
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99% of Hollywood actors play themselves in every role.
Easiest gig in the world compared to the money they make.
Get popular = rich. They shouldn't be called actors, they should be called personalities.
Some of them have to work hard and stay determined to get to where they are though so I would never deny them that.
Easiest gig in the world compared to the money they make.
Get popular = rich. They shouldn't be called actors, they should be called personalities.
Some of them have to work hard and stay determined to get to where they are though so I would never deny them that.
adamsappel
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Popeye.
I would argue that Johnny Depp has been playing Hunter S. Thompson for the past 13 years or so. You look at any Depp movie pre-Fear and Loathing and compare that to every movie post-Fear and Loathing. He hasn't been playing himself. He's been playing Hunter Thompson.
Bill Murray went through a similar phase after Where the Buffalo Roam. I think he got out of that for a while, but has come back to being basically a more subdued Hunter Thompson in the past 10 years or so.
Bill Murray went through a similar phase after Where the Buffalo Roam. I think he got out of that for a while, but has come back to being basically a more subdued Hunter Thompson in the past 10 years or so.
Same in every role
Nah. He was amazing in Anchorman.
Sure, he plays a hapless idiot, but it's a different kind of hapless idiot.
And he's made a few movies where he's not an idiot.
AlimNassor
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No, it's really not. Maybe if they're pumping out crappy family movies or movies that require zero effort, but, even then it's still difficult.
AlimNassor
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Al Pacino is the single most over fucking rated actor around. Play tough Cuban/Italian/etc gangster in every. fucking. film. Every role has him screaming and yelling at the top of his lungs and that is somehow considered good acting. I can yell and scream and cry till im red in the face, where the fuck are my oscars?
Honorable mentions:
Robert Deniro
Will Smith
Denzel Washington.
Worst post in all of NeoGAF. Someone hasn't seen Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, The Godfather, The Godfather Part 2, or Heat for Pacino or The King Of Comedy, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Brazil, The Deer Hunter, or Silver Linings Playbook for De Niro.
Some really stupid choices in this thread. Brad Pitt? Really? Snatch, True Romance, Seven, Assassination of Jesse James, Benjamin Button, Inglorious Basterds, Oceans Eleven, Twelve Monkeys etc etc.... He's one of the more dynamic actors out there.
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