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Jeff Goldblum
This is one of the few that's correct but also completely fine, IMO.
The Rock
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 DWAYNE behind the scences thats his contracts and it rubbed people the wrong way.
I honestly really enjoy cena in the stuff he’s in
Peacemaker had no right to be as good as it was.
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How do we even tell between actors that only get casted for one type of role, actors who only apply for one type of role, and actors who just can't play anything else well?
Thats kinda hard to say tbh...
I think Adam Sandler is a good example of an actor who CAN play more than one role (Uncut Gems as an example) but mostly only does movies that are all the same role.
Yeah, that's the other-side-of-the-coin of your question but much more interesting. For instance, there's a list of examples on the wiki page for typecast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typecasting#Playing_against_type
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When you see them as themselves, then you know.
Tom cruise for example, he isn't any superhero at all but he always wants to play that role (and probably always wanted ever since he was that kid who was always much smaller than the others).
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Jack Black.
I didn't know, he did a really good job as playing a teenage girl in Jumanji.
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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Has Steve Buscemi ever not been Steve Buscemi? Even as a hitman, he's Steve Buscemi.
Watch The Death of Stalin and then Fargo and then The Big Lebowski. Dude has range.
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Ryan Reynolds. There were some other movies but once he was in Deadpool, I feel like his whole personality was sarcastic mean funny guy
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nobody mentioned, but Chris pratt, originally he was being casted in EVERYTHING. after parks and recs he has no range, hes just a sad moody pos irl too, supporting a alt-right church, and his sudden switch to evangelicalism. anne farris in an interview said he changed to a gymbo the moment he got buff for marvel/JP movies.
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Will Ferrell. Adam Sandler. Kevin James.
Adam Sandler in Uncut Gems and Will Farrell in Everything Must Go+Stranger Than Fiction were different performances than their usual and really well acted.
Kevin James... I don't think I've yet to see him in any different role
Ryan Reynolds.
Jennifer Coolidge, and I love her for it.
I scrolled through the entire thread down and back up, it's a bit of a shock that John Wayne was not mentioned even once... until now.
"Howdy, partner, I'm Genghis Khan."
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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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Richard Ayoade, his entire role in IT crowd was just him being him in whatever scenario he's in.
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Michael Cera
Samuel L. Jackson is the first name to pop into my head upon reading the thread title.
Fining out Joe Pesci plays Joe Pesci in real life because he was originally a tough guy, not the usual NY Juliard alumni, made his movies pretty annoying for me. Highlight: him hosting SNL and threatening to smack Sinead O'Connor for her anti-pope statement made that obvious
Sucks that it's too late to stop quoting My Cousin Vinny
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Keanu.
The Roc
Kevin bacon
Nick cage.
Ted Dansen.
The Roc shouldn't be on your list. The Roc has massive range. Mostly due to their enormous wings.
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