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Maven (famous)@lemmy.zip to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 23 days ago

What are some actors that can only play themselves?

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What are some actors that can only play themselves?

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    23 days ago

    Eva Green’s range includes smoking fags or not and getting up to sexual misadventures or not

    Ricky Gervais is only ever Ricky Gervais

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      Eva Green

      Sexual misadventures

      Yeah I’m okay with this

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      Don’t forget the propensity for violence before/during/after said sexual misadventures and doing it all while goth coded. She’s made of a career of characters you can “fix” but also want to ruin your life.

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        TIL I need to watch more movies Eva Green has been in

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          22 days ago

          i’d start with womb (2010) if i were you

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        22 days ago

        the first two are 300 and dark shadows but don’t recognise the third. penny dreadful maybe?

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          A two-part French remake of The Three Musketeers that came out a couple of years ago. Never got a wide release in the States but if you’re a fan of the story and period pieces it’s one of the best interpretations IMO.

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            22 days ago

            cheers. if i’m a fan of cigarettes and smut what’s the expected return?

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              I don’t recall any smoking. Not nearly as crazy violent as 300 (are we fighting, fucking, or both) and not nearly as crazy ex-gf who spent the last few hundred years plotting her revenge as she was in Dark Shadows. I’d put it squarely in an average outing with Eva- capable woman stuck in a period/system that doesn’t actually appreciate her capability even if it can’t deny it, she’s aware she’s smart and attractive and uses that to her advantage as she can, but she’s also more broken inside than she lets on.

              This has made me realize it would be hilarious to watch her invert her typical characters and be the small town girl who moved the the big city where she got overworked and broken hearted only to come home for a Hallmark Christmas and find she always had what she needed waiting for her in a flannel clad handyman with a beat-up pick-up truck and slice of pie at the diner. The twist ending is that she’s actually nuts and this was all a ruse to burn her town to the ground.

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                21 days ago

                i sincerely hope this is read by someone who can grant you your wish

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                  21 days ago

                  Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas II: Home for the Holidays

                  It’s not like he’s do anything better, or anything other than sequels these days.

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          22 days ago

          Was there a sequel to 300 I’m not aware of or do I just not remember that movie at all?

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    23 days ago

    Steven Seagal

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      22 days ago

      OP’s question was about actors though

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        22 days ago

        He’s become a walrus with a ponytail

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          I’m pretty sure he’s sometimes a cop now too. I heard of someone getting pulled over by him a while back.

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    23 days ago

    What about actors who can’t play themselves like Peter Sellers.

    • Sir ᑕOᔕᗰO Bluebeard@lemmy.world
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      23 days ago

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8bHEdPmazU&t=53s

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        I think Sellers said that Chauncey Gardiner was the closest he ever came to being himself.

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      I see your Peter Sellers and I raise with Gary Oldman.

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        22 days ago

        I feel like nowadays Jackson Lamb is probably pretty close

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    Anthony Hopkins. I love him, but he’s always Anthony Hopkins Hannibal Lector.

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      23 days ago

      Dafuq.

      Go watch thor and then westworld

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      23 days ago

      I’m sorry but that’s absolutely not true

    • Viceversa@lemmy.world
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      23 days ago

      Even in “Meet Joe Black”?

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    23 days ago

    Lightning McQueen

    ;-)

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    23 days ago

    Michael Cera

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    Richard Ayoade, his entire role in IT crowd was just him being him in whatever scenario he’s in.

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      23 days ago

      Not true, he didn’t use his real voice in that role

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        His real voice is actually a deep, Barry White-like baritone

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      22 days ago

      Its boring too

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    23 days ago

    The Rock

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      23 days ago

      Counterexample:
      Pain & Gain

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        I have a love hate relationship with that movie for an interesting reason (IMO). There is not a sympathetic or likeable character in the whole thing.

        The only person who isnt actively dislikeable is Ed Harris and he barely qualifies as a character.

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        I feel like he was himself but dumber in that movie lol

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          Yeah, but he took steroids in that movie, and The Rock says he is natty 🤡

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      hes too lazy to act in anything else. he just wants to be a movie star. bautista and cena is trying to become an actor. apparently behind the scences thats his contracts and it rubbed people the wrong way.

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        … who’s contract? You just mentioned 3 people.

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        Less than a year ago, he starred in a Safdie-directed, A24-produced biopic which earned him a couple of acting award noms, including a Golden Globe. Granted, it was the biggest flop of his career (so far), but from what I understand his acting chops were not the movie’s problem.

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        I honestly really enjoy cena in the stuff he’s in

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          “I dislike that you enjoy someone else’s work” - Somebody else on Lemmy

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          23 days ago

          yeah what I have seen has been fun.

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          Peacemaker had no right to be as good as it was.

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          Cena’s been surprisingly skilled. From psych to peacemaker he’s been bringing it.

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            one of his first roles was in psych, he played the part. but he probably got better since then.

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          He was great in Pluribus

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    ISAIP cast, besides danny devito. they can never get out of being that isaip characther, hence thier ability to branch out of that show is nill, yes they did have other shows but they do anything remarkable different from what they did with isaip. mac saying glenn is from juilhart doesnt make him a good actor.

    gal gadot, terrible acttress, i suspect shes only where she is at because they need to have IDF/zionist cheerleader in hollywood.

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      Its Sunny always in Philadelphia

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      Nah. Charlie Day can bring it

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    I can’t believe no one has said Michael Caine yet.

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      I get what you’re saying, there’s an enigmatic quality about his characters, but watch some of his older movies then watch him as Austin Power’s father - he can play different, he’s just played a similar character a lot.

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      Please watch Children of Men. There are many reasons to watch (it’s one of my fav movies), but Caine’s portrayal of Jasper is memorable, and completely different to anything else I’ve seen him do.

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      Nobody has said it yet because that’s absolute nonsense.

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      Cider house rules, kingsmen, dirty rotten scoundrels. That is your homework.

      If you think he is the same man in all three…

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    Fred Rogers.

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      I recently learned that they made an official youtube channel where they plan to keep a rotating 10 full episodes of Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood up at all times.

      https://www.youtube.com/@MisterRogersNeighborhood/videos

      Right now it still has the very first episode up. Interesting to see how little the ‘formula’ has changed over the years.

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      Untrue. Mister Rogers, Daniel Tiger, Henrietta Pussycat, X the Owl, King Friday XIII, and Lady Elaine Fairchild were all pretty distinct characters from one another.

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      Agreed! He should have kept to the genre he was most famous for: action movies from Cannon films

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    Keanu Reeves

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    David Duchovny.

    John Wayne.

    Keanu Reeves.

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      disagree about keanu reeves. have you seen a scanner darkly?

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      I was all the great robot actors. Actingbot 0.8! Thesb-O-mat! David Duchovny!

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      John Wayne was a Nazi - MDC

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    Jason Statham, Gwneth Paltrow, Jennifer Aniston.

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    Jack Black.

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      I didn’t know, he did areally good job as playing a teenage girl in Jumanji.

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        Jack Black is a teenage girl IRL

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        And as a nervous high school student in Northern Exposure. Or in high fidelity.

        I think his problem is that overwhelmingly people cast him because they want the bombastic hairball. It’s not lack of skill, it’s typecasting

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      No, he was a different guy in “the big year” and also different in that movie where he’s a funeral home director or something? He was southern? Based on a true story I think?

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        Also a gunsmith in the jackal.

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