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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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    Jeff Goldblum

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      This is one of the few that’s correct but also completely fine, IMO.

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      deleted by creator

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    The Rock

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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 DWAYNE behind the scences thats his contracts and it rubbed people the wrong way.

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

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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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          yeah what I have seen has been fun.

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          He was great in Pluribus

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          Everyone sleeping on Vacation Friends. A fun movie

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          His hands are hilariously huge. I watched that forest firefighter movie he was in and laughed every time he used a cellphone.

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

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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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    Sean Connery is not an actor, he’s a movie star.

    Yesh, I am a British shecret agent. Bond, Jamesh Bond.

    Yesh, I am a Shoviet Shubmarine captain. my name is Ramiush. Marco Ramiush.

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      I mustache you a question but I’m shaving it for later

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      I’m not shpanish i’m egyptian

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      Don’t forget Zardoc!

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      One of my favorite fan theory’s is that Sean was 007 left to rot by MI6 in The Rock.

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      Jamesh Bond sounds like a bollywood version. Would watch

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    Jack Black.

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

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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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        Jack Black is a teenage girl IRL

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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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    Owen “Wow” Wilson

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      First one who came to my mind. Not sure Luke Wilson is very much better.

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      Against type in the big year imo

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    Christopher Walken. The exception would be maybe Sleepy Hollow, but only because he didn’t have any lines.

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      Watch Severance. He’s a very different Christopher Walken.

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        Thats the same Christopher Walken as in Catch Me if you Can. Maybe Seven Psychopaths?

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      He did a good job with the (admittedly small) part of the emperor in Dune.

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    The rock “the rock” the rock johnson

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      But you must admit that he’s hilarious at it.

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        His whole deal was pretty funny for a few weeks in the early 2000s.

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          He used to do this eyebrow thing that killed it back in the second week of March, 2001.

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            Can you smell what The Rock is cooking?!

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        Not even a little

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    Seth Rogan. Worst Donkey Kong possible.

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      hyukhyuhkyuhk

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      Is it? I mean who even would be a good donkey kong?

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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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      He was him even back in Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place.

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        And waiting

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      He was already kind of heading that way before Deadpool. I rewatched Buried and he was still doing that, just with less references so he didn’t sound like Gex.

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      Waiting (2005) was him as himself as a waiter

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      he was in wolverine the 2009 one as wade. hes pretty much the same thing as in deadpool just slighty less loudmouth. he did play that wierd schizophrenic character in the one movie that nobody remembers.

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      Van Wilder?

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      He did a weird indie film called “The Nines” he can turn the chops on when he wants to. I find it hard to criticise those people because “Hey, want to earn millions of dollars doing this the easy way? Or you can go do some passion projects to prove a point and make less.” Is a damn awkward spot to be in.

      Im sure we all like to think we would take the route of Sandler doing Uncut Gems, I love to think that was him just telling his haters to go fuck themselves. “Just because I dont, doesnt mean I cant”

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    Has Steve Buscemi ever not been Steve Buscemi? Even as a hitman, he’s Steve Buscemi.

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      Watch The Death of Stalin and then Fargo and then The Big Lebowski. Dude has range.

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        Fargo was the hitman role I was thinking of!

        Oh, he absolutely has range! But, he’s like a guitar, it’s great and has all sorts of range but it’s never going to be a piano.

        Like, in Fargo I see him as Buscemi with nervousness lower authority high. As Donny, nervousness high, authority low. In Russia, nervousness high, authority high.

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          ya know, just kinda funny lookin’

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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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      The past participle of “cast” is “cast”.

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        Whomstedestesteries’

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

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      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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    Jennifer Coolidge, and I love her for it.

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    Will Ferrell. Adam Sandler. Kevin James.

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      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

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      Nope. Definitely absolutely nope. Maybe.

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      Dont really like WF but he has branched and has chops

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    Ryan Reynolds.

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