Because for some reason I scrolled for 5 min and didn't see it. Viggo Mortensen Jr as Aragorn. He truly lives the ranger life that you see Aragorn living at the start of the series. His sword instructor said he picked up the skill faster than any he had trained before. That scene in fellowship of the ring where the Uruk throws the dagger at him and he knocks it aside? The was genuine, the Uruk actor was supposed to miss but he slipped up and it flew straight at Viggo's head and he deflected it. They left it in the movie because he just stayed in character and it was way more bad ass than the scripted scene.
To add onto this, he actually sings beautifully, and bought and rode some of his horses from LotR. He's a fantastic guy who does quite a bit of charity work as well afaik.
Peter Jackson admitted that sometimes he accidentally called Viggo Aragorn! He was so good at being Aragorn that people had a hard time separating him with the character. He also had a few changes/upgrades in Aragorn’s outfit according to his daily experiences. Such a dedicated actor.
That scene on Goodfellas where his character goes "Funny how? Like a clown?" was literally all the other actors and the extras really tense for real, because only Scorcese and him knew what would happen next and how Tommy would react being called that;
IMO you can say this about pretty much everybody in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Those movies have some of the best casting decisions I've ever seen.
Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster. Hard for me to accept him in other roles because that was my first introduction to both him and P G Wodehouse . Come to think of it, Stephen Frye is the one and only Jeeves.
Also Stu in Scream. Plenty have tried to capture his creepy energy in, not only the sequels, but a lot of horror movies since his role but he did it the best.
Christopher Lee as Saruman. He was the only LOTR cast member to have met JRR Tolkien and deeply loved the books. He had preferred to play Gandalf, but that role was a bit too physical for him at his age. He did a recording the
I'm glad he portrayed Saruman. He has a stern presence that just works, but I don't think he has the warmth that Ian McKellen has that made his Gandalf just perfect
When he auditioned, he didn't play it as a wisecracking tv dad like almost all the other actors did. He played it as a man who had given up on life (apparently based on his uncle). And that's why he got the job.
I read that they were trying to cast John Krasinski as Dwight, but he got them to consider Rainn Wilson because he really wanted to be Jim, and that fucks with me all the time.
I still can't believe that Willem Dafoe demanded that he do his own stunts for No Way Home. Dude came back after a huge break in playing the role, absolutely nailed it, and put on an impressive physical performance as well.
I read that Kevin Feige said they've held off on using Osborne or Octavious in the MCU because he didn't think they would ever find better casting than Dafoe and Malina.
Let's be honest, that man rocked every role he had. He was a very talented actor who could pull off comedy, drama, and suspense roles. Check out One Hour Photo, Insomnia, and What Dreams May Come for reference.
I keep seeing him show up as a guest star and a bunch of '90s TV shows. It's kind of funny though because he just plays the same character with different job titles in everything he does But I don't get bored of it. Today I saw him playing a priest on NYPD Blue who was friends with David Caruso and that guy that plays jigsaw and they were playing basketball. It was a weird mix of people.
Dinklage as Tyrion, Charles Dance as Tywin and Diana Rigg as Olenna elevated the show and the scenes every single time they were on them, they were just perfect.
He's a great actor, but like almost everyone cast the problem is he's too pretty. In the books he's impish and grotesque even before he was disfigured. Peter Dinklage basically was like casting a gross nerd as Jessica Beil in glasses. He's basically the brad pit of Dwarves when the roll called for the Steve Buscemi of Dwarves.
It really bothers me that he is such a talented actor and so gd classically handsome and yet it took him like 15 years to become famous. If someone that good looking and that talented cant make it in this world then i no longer would want to be a part of the world.
Even Stan Lee said this in an interview; Robert Downey Jr is the real life representation of the Tony Stark character in his mind while he was conceptualising and writing Iron Man. That it’s like he was born to play Tony Stark.
Jim Carrey for "the mask". To be honest every roll he did ended up being amazing because he fit himself into it so well but I really just can't imagine any other actor doing that roll as well as he did. Not even Johnny Depp who has a pretty similar sort of genre of movies he does. Comedy and some sort of like comedy action like in the "pirates of the Caribbean"
If I remember correctly. He spent 30 days in a hotel room without much social contact to fully develop the character and master his role as a jacker. He was a brilliant actor.
Keanu Reeves as John Wick. The guy really does have a limited range, but John Wick lands firmly in his wheelhouse. His first outing as Neo in The Matrix was nearly as good a score as well. Constantine was about as much of a stretch as he can manage (and I like that movie).
Most of the actors in the MCU match that same perfect fit. RDJ as Tony Stark, Chris Hemsworth as Thor. Some actors haven’t had the time to really cement themselves as a character but those 3 are definitely matched.
The part I find insane is that cap wasn’t even his first marvel role. Before that he played the human torch in a fantastic 4 movie. Not only that, but they had to convince him to take the role because he didn’t feel like he’d meet expectations
Because for some reason I scrolled for 5 min and didn't see it. Viggo Mortensen Jr as Aragorn. He truly lives the ranger life that you see Aragorn living at the start of the series. His sword instructor said he picked up the skill faster than any he had trained before. That scene in fellowship of the ring where the Uruk throws the dagger at him and he knocks it aside? The was genuine, the Uruk actor was supposed to miss but he slipped up and it flew straight at Viggo's head and he deflected it. They left it in the movie because he just stayed in character and it was way more bad ass than the scripted scene.
To add onto this, he actually sings beautifully, and bought and rode some of his horses from LotR. He's a fantastic guy who does quite a bit of charity work as well afaik.
Peter Jackson admitted that sometimes he accidentally called Viggo Aragorn! He was so good at being Aragorn that people had a hard time separating him with the character. He also had a few changes/upgrades in Aragorn’s outfit according to his daily experiences. Such a dedicated actor.
Mortensen is an outdoorsman off screen anyway. Getting h to play a ranger is a no brainer
Christina Ricci as Wednesday Adams.
And now, Christina Ricci as Misty Quigley.
Frank Reynolds, Danny DeVito.
I like how he has an Oscar. He is Hollywood famous. He has fucking made it. Time to crawl out of this sofa naked and sweaty as a gag.
In interviews, you can see how much he loves that role. He said he loves being covered in goo/fluids and having makeup/prosthetics.
There's only one other actor I know that would be able to construct a sandwich in their mouth.
Joe Pesci as any crazy mobster
That scene on Goodfellas where his character goes "Funny how? Like a clown?" was literally all the other actors and the extras really tense for real, because only Scorcese and him knew what would happen next and how Tommy would react being called that;
You mean Vinny Gambini, right?
Leonard Nimoy (Spock)
Christopher Lloyd as Reverend Jim "Iggy" Ignatowski.
Jason Alexander to play George Costanza
I would argue almost all Seinfeld casting. Puddy, Newman, J Peterman, Elaine, Cosmo, Soup Nazi, Uncle Leo.
He's the real star of the show.
Frank and Estelle were also perfectly played by Jerry Stiller and Estelle Harris.
“I WAS IN THE POOL!!!!”
My favourite arc was when he decided to the the exact opposite of what he would normally do and went from loser to successful.
Ian McKellen as Gandalf.
IMO you can say this about pretty much everybody in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Those movies have some of the best casting decisions I've ever seen.
I always wonder if Ian McKellan ever thought he would become an action movie star in his 60s
Tim Curry as Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. So good!
Tim Curry in Clue!
Also Tim Curry as Long John Silver in Muppets Treasure Island!
Arnold Schwarzenegger as The Terminator.
T2 is one of the most perfectly cast movie ever, their roles fit their personal lives and acting strengths so well.
Robert Patrick as the T-1000
Jeff Bridges embodies The Dude so well that I think he's actually become him over the years, but that's just like my opinion man.
Apparently the clothes he wears on the movie are his own so he actually is the Dude
I love Tron Legacy but it essentially is The Dude being stuck in a computer for 1000 years.
I’d agree, while saying he was equally good as Rooster Cogburn in True Grit
Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley.
Especially amusing given that the role, all the roles, were entirely empty suits. No gender, age, or ethnicity specified.
Hugh Laurie as Dr House, that man embodies the character and no one could have done it better.
Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster. Hard for me to accept him in other roles because that was my first introduction to both him and P G Wodehouse . Come to think of it, Stephen Frye is the one and only Jeeves.
Hugh Laurie in The Nightmanager. Still makes me shiver. He played too well.
Didn't realize he had a British accent until over 10 years later.
Nick Offerman as Ron Swanson
[удалено]
James Gandolfini = Tony Soprano
Carmela could you close the dooooor
It's too bad he never had the makings of a varsity athlete.
He killed 16 Chechens single handed, he was part of the Interior Ministry. The guy's some kind of Russian Green Beret.
I wish the lord would take me now
Kathy Bates as Annie Wilkes in Misery
Also as Molly Brown in Titanic
Kathy Bates as Mama Boucher.
Christian bale for American psycho
He's so good at playing Patrick Bateman it's literally ruined the batman franchise for me. I literally just see bruce wayne as the american psycho.
Matthew Lillard for the Role of Shaggy.
That was the first one I thought of! He did it so well he was the voice actor for the cartoon for a lot of years, too!
Also Stu in Scream. Plenty have tried to capture his creepy energy in, not only the sequels, but a lot of horror movies since his role but he did it the best.
Christopher Lee as Saruman. He was the only LOTR cast member to have met JRR Tolkien and deeply loved the books. He had preferred to play Gandalf, but that role was a bit too physical for him at his age. He did a recording the
I'm glad he portrayed Saruman. He has a stern presence that just works, but I don't think he has the warmth that Ian McKellen has that made his Gandalf just perfect
I'll always love that clip of him explaining how someone actually gets stabbed to Peter Jackson.
Jim Carrey in The Mask.
The Truman Show
Ace Ventura?
JK Simmons as J Jonah Jameson in Spider-Man
I thought it was a missed opportunity in Spiderman: No Way Home that they didn't make a joke that JJJ was the same person even across multiverses.
There's literally nobody else
I would argue JK Simmons in pretty much anything I've seen/heard him in - Cave Johnson? Check. Terence Fletcher? Yup. J Jonah Jameson? Oh yeah
The email response from JJJ in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 has me convinced that Simmons was also the character in the Andrew Garfield movies.
contested laughter followed by rambunctious laughter You Serious?
Dude who played Ragnar.
Watching vikings right now. He and Gustaf Skarsgård as Floki both knocked it out of the park
Raised by Wolves is partly Ragnar the Space Crusader.
patrick stewart as the captain of the enterprise D
Patrick Stewart as Charles Xavier!
Cap.tain. Jean.Luc.Pi.card of the U.S.S. En.ter.prise
Ed O'Neill as Al Bundy. Hell, the entire cast in Married With Children in fact.
When he auditioned, he didn't play it as a wisecracking tv dad like almost all the other actors did. He played it as a man who had given up on life (apparently based on his uncle). And that's why he got the job.
Even Buck the Dog?
Nicholas Cage as Nicholas Cage.
I thought John Travolta played Nicholas Cage?
You stole my post. Now I'm gonna have to steal the Declaration of Independence.
For the record, in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Nicolas (Nic) Cage plays a character named “Nick Cage.”
Catherine O’Hara as Moira Rose.
As Cookie Fleck (Best in Show is a great film)
Rainn Wilson as Dwight Schrute
Didn’t Seth Rogan audition for dwight? dang what a different universe that would’ve been.
I read that they were trying to cast John Krasinski as Dwight, but he got them to consider Rainn Wilson because he really wanted to be Jim, and that fucks with me all the time.
Willem Dafoe as green goblin/Osborne and Danny devitto as Frank Reynolds
I still can't believe that Willem Dafoe demanded that he do his own stunts for No Way Home. Dude came back after a huge break in playing the role, absolutely nailed it, and put on an impressive physical performance as well.
Can't believe I had to scroll this far to find a single mention of the actor who plays all da foes.
I read that Kevin Feige said they've held off on using Osborne or Octavious in the MCU because he didn't think they would ever find better casting than Dafoe and Malina.
Shelly Duval as Olive Oyl.
There are a lot of great answers in this thread, but Shelly Duval literally looks like they designed Olive Oyl after her.
Raul Juliá as Gomez Addams.
A man who adores you publicly and privately? Sign me the fuck up!
He's great in every role. He saved Street Fighter as M. Bison versus Jean-Claude Van Damme's Guile.
That whole casting is perfect. There's a reason they had to go animated for the new films.
He’s the gold standard of what a husband should be
Anjelica Huston as Morticia. My taste in women was shaped by this character and Xena.
Robin Williams as the Genie
Let's be honest, that man rocked every role he had. He was a very talented actor who could pull off comedy, drama, and suspense roles. Check out One Hour Photo, Insomnia, and What Dreams May Come for reference.
10,000 years can give you such a crick in the neck
You ain't nev'a had a friend like me!
David Tennant as the doctor, while other were great he's the one and only for me.
And David Tennant as Crowley and Casanova.
David Tennant as killgrave, so good
I don't want to go..
Dean Norris as Hank Schrader
Jonathan Banks as Mike is equally perfect. I mean the entire show is perfectly cast honestly.
I keep seeing him show up as a guest star and a bunch of '90s TV shows. It's kind of funny though because he just plays the same character with different job titles in everything he does But I don't get bored of it. Today I saw him playing a priest on NYPD Blue who was friends with David Caruso and that guy that plays jigsaw and they were playing basketball. It was a weird mix of people.
And Bob Odenkirk as Kevin Costner
Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister.
Dinklage as Tyrion, Charles Dance as Tywin and Diana Rigg as Olenna elevated the show and the scenes every single time they were on them, they were just perfect.
GoT wouldn't have been what it was, without him. He was perfect.
He's a great actor, but like almost everyone cast the problem is he's too pretty. In the books he's impish and grotesque even before he was disfigured. Peter Dinklage basically was like casting a gross nerd as Jessica Beil in glasses. He's basically the brad pit of Dwarves when the roll called for the Steve Buscemi of Dwarves.
Kevin Spacey, in House of Cards.
*Turns, looks at camera*
Let Me Be Frank
Robert Patrick. T-1000.
Gilbert Gottfried as iago the parrot
He wasn't made for the role, the role was literally made for him.
Jack Black as Dewey Finn in School Of Rock.
Po in Kung Fu Panda. I couldn't imagine anybody else in that voice role.
”Uh hullo this is Ned schneebly”
Cillian Murphy // Thomas Shelby
Absolutely. Also Tom Hardy as Allie Solomons. Brilliant
Severus Snape. Alan Rickman
I'd say all his roles were created for him to play.
By Grabthars Hammer. What a talent
This. RIP to one of the greatest.
Jon Hamm as Don Draper...I literally can’t picture anyone else owning that character like he did
It really bothers me that he is such a talented actor and so gd classically handsome and yet it took him like 15 years to become famous. If someone that good looking and that talented cant make it in this world then i no longer would want to be a part of the world.
Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn,
Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man
Even Stan Lee said this in an interview; Robert Downey Jr is the real life representation of the Tony Stark character in his mind while he was conceptualising and writing Iron Man. That it’s like he was born to play Tony Stark.
I had to travel quite a bit for this
Bryan Cranston in Breaking Bad.
Also Bryan Cranston as Hal in Malcolm in the Middle. I can't even fathom anybody doing that role better. Bryan Cranston is just a gem.
Being a fan of Malcolm in the Middle, I didn't think I'd be able to take Cranston seriously in a dramatic role. Absolutely wrong on that count.
Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow.
The most accurate comment imo. I’ll forever see jack sparrow when I see Johnny. Hell I was halfway expecting him to show up in court in full character
So you’ve heard of me?
Anthony Hopkins as Hanibal
Steve Carell as Michael Scott
Somewhere Ricky Gervais is mad at this comment
Jim Carrey for "the mask". To be honest every roll he did ended up being amazing because he fit himself into it so well but I really just can't imagine any other actor doing that roll as well as he did. Not even Johnny Depp who has a pretty similar sort of genre of movies he does. Comedy and some sort of like comedy action like in the "pirates of the Caribbean"
Dwayne Johnson as the rock
You could always smell what he was cooking.
Rami Malek as Elliot in Mr. Robot. That was the craziest emotional character that was so successfully realized because of him.
Rami Malek as Snafu in The Pacific.
Kathy Bates as Evelyn Couch in Fried Green Tomatos.
Bruce Willis in Die Hard.
Daniel Day Lewis as Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood.
Christoph as Hans was perfection
Brendan Fraser as Rick O’Connell
Hugh Jackman as Wolverine.
Ryan renolds as deadpool
His second stint as Deadpool. The first one he didn't get to say much.
Michael J. Fox in all the Back to the Future's!
He was so perfect for the role they refilmed the entire movie with MJF because they didn’t like Eric Stoltz in the role.
Tom Hanks for Forest Gump.
Colin Firth as Mr Darcy.
Tommy Lee Jones as Law Enforcement as in Fugitive, No country for old men, MIB etc
Mark Hamill - Luke Skywalker
Mark Hamill as The Joker.
Heath ledger as the joker
Heath ledger as sir ulrich
If I remember correctly. He spent 30 days in a hotel room without much social contact to fully develop the character and master his role as a jacker. He was a brilliant actor.
Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter.
Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa and John Rambo
Frances McDormand as Chief Marge Gunderson.
Oh yah. That’s a good one.
Sean Bean as Ned Stark and Richard Sharpe
Also Sean Bean as Boromir
Harrison Ford as Han Solo and Indiana Jones
Meryl Streep Devil Wears Prada
Her, Emily Blunt and Anne Hathaway killed those roles
Val kilmer for doc holliday and for Jim Morrison.
Definitely Doc Holiday in Tombstone!
Bryan Cranston as Walter White
Also Bob odenkirk as Saul goodman.
Marlon Brando as Don Corleone.
Marisa Tomei as Miss Mona Lisa Vito
Clark Gable as Rhett Butler
Keanu Reeves as John Wick. The guy really does have a limited range, but John Wick lands firmly in his wheelhouse. His first outing as Neo in The Matrix was nearly as good a score as well. Constantine was about as much of a stretch as he can manage (and I like that movie).
lisa kudrow in friends, and zack galafiniakis in the hangover
macaulay culkin as kevin
Ryan Reynolds to play Ryan Reynolds.
Chris Evan’s as Captain America. He brought the character from the comics to life in way I don’t see another actor ever eclipsing.
Most of the actors in the MCU match that same perfect fit. RDJ as Tony Stark, Chris Hemsworth as Thor. Some actors haven’t had the time to really cement themselves as a character but those 3 are definitely matched.
Watch him again realizing his shield was entirely CGI in the action scenes. He faked that FLAWLESSLY.
The part I find insane is that cap wasn’t even his first marvel role. Before that he played the human torch in a fantastic 4 movie. Not only that, but they had to convince him to take the role because he didn’t feel like he’d meet expectations
John Malkovitch in Being John Malkovitch.
Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester
James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano. He was a good man but damn could he play a repugnant POS, both sacred and propane. RIP.
John Travolta as Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction
Samuel L. Jackson as Jules Winfield in Pulp Fiction.
Al Pacino as Michael Corleone
Hugh Laurie as Dr. Gregory House.
Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka
Norman Reedus as Daryl Dixon
John C. Reilly as Dr. Steve Brule