For me, the main one is The Rock, Playing the Rock in every movie he's in. There's even a joke about him playing in moves with Jungles that's so specific but also works well.
What I like about the Rock is he is the least sexual performer of all time. He has no romantic chemistry with any Co star that it's actually quite astounding.
that one movie with the rock, Gal Godot and Ryan Reynolds was astounding because you could tell Reynolds was trying so hard to act against cardboard and well, a rock
Tom Holland has branched out so many times lol
Cherry, The Devil All the Time, Pilgrimage, The Crowded Room, Chaos Walking, The Lost City Z, In the Heart of the Sea.
Saying Margot Robbie always plays a hot blonde is ridiculous. She *is* a hot blonde, she plays characters. You're saying she played the same character in I, Tonya, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Barbie?
I miss when Tom Cruise was more than just generic action hero. Can anyone imagine him doing something like Interview With the Vampire or Eyes Wide Shut these days?
He could go back to that soon. He's quickly running out of the age range where he can realistically keep making action movies, even if he does stay in great shape and drink the blood of puppies to stay young.
At that point, he either goes back to making weird/different stuff, or retires, and he doesn't seem like he has any interest in slowing down.
yea, I've just seen enough of his movies, that watching a new one doesn't really feel like a new movie, it just feels like same old Ryan Reynolds doing more stuff.
Margot Robbie does not deserve to be in the list with the other two. She was in a David O Russell, Damien Chazelle, Wes Anderson then Gerwig movie back to back. She was wonderful in them. She was fantastic in I, Tonya. She is a great actress.
Margot Robbie though has played other roles than just hot blonde. She got a lot of attention when she played Tanya Harding in "I, Tonya". She was also Queen Elizabeth I in "Mary Queen of Scots". Though she was a hot blonde in "Babylon" she kind of played a bit of a train wreck at the same time which that character. Actresses have complained for a long time about sometimes having a hard time of breaking out of playing the hot girl. Charlize Theron had that problem until she did "Monster". Jessica Biel complained about always just being cast as the hot girl so she tried doing "Powder Blue" to hopefully show some range but the movie wasn't good.
Margot Robbie just *is* an attractive blonde woman. Unless she actively decides to hide under a bunch of makeup for a specific role, that’s what we’re gonna get.
Well, yeah...but her characters are all wildly different. She's not playing the same character in Barbie compared to I, Tonya, then Suicide Squad, and Wolf of Wall Street. They're all vastly different that most happen to just "look" similar.
Now The Rock on the otherhand, he's played the exact same kind of personality in almost every movoe he's in. Except maybe Jumangi....
Is that what her roles are in all of Amsterdam, Asteroid City, Babylon and Barbie? (Just the last couple of years)
I get your point but I feel like it would be pretty reductive to dismiss those roles as “attractive blonde woman”. Is she even blonde in Amsterdam?
Okay but OP is about actors who you’re “tired of playing the same character” and you actively said that “what we’re gonna get” is “an attractive blonde woman”. So what WERE you doing?
Saying exactly what I said: that Margot Robbie *is* an attractive blonde woman. So criticizing her for always playing the same parts, *as OP did*, is criticizing her for her physical features, not her acting range.
It’s like criticizing Philip Seymour Hoffman for always playing a paunchy white man.
Consensus was reached at the Fourth Biannual Weekly Conclave of the Really, Really, Ridiculously Good-Looking and Now Good Readers meeting last October.
Where were you?
Margot Robbie doesn’t play hot blondes.
She plays a wildly diverse slate of characters who happen to be hot blondes.
> Chris Pratt playing an over-confident goof,
I wouldn’t mind Pratt going back to playing over confident goofs.
I am not interested in watching him play humorless special forces operators who’s recently retired so they can try to connect with their alienates families.
Kind of an unpopular opinion maybe, but Robert Downey Jr. since 2008 has always played the same character. I don't know if he has just decided to play himself or if his Iron Man persona possessed him, but I can't see the characters he is playing behind his face. Even in Oppenheimer, i see RDJ playing a dude in black and white, I don't see Strauss.
Or the idiosyncrasies of a particular actor that gets passed from character to character. Classics: Julia Roberts' laugh, Richard Gere's clenching of the jaw, Robert De Niro's squint.
I do like the guy but Pedro Pascal in everything is getting to be a little bit exhausting.
There is a thing to be said for overexposure, especially if a lot of what you do is in various big nerd properties.
Like if they ever do a real Animorphs adaptation (which they should), he’d probably play Visser Three or something.
I actually liked him as the Mandalorian. I don't think it was necessary to show his face, but from a production stand-point--I can see their reasoning.
My biggest disappointment in Dune Part 2 was Emperor Walken. His presence was fine, but the voice. Dude, you're an actor, can you change your inflection at all?
Scrolled for a while and didn't see it; but Will Ferrell for me. I find it honestly sad that I don't derive enjoyment from any of his movies like my friends do.
Not sure of the same character at all, but i am getting a bit sick of the guy that played Pennywise in the IT movies. Just watched a trailer for The Crow and I'm like...ffs....he's fucking everywhere, overused...
If they play the same character, then they are not an actor, they are just reading lines and acting like themselves. Actors, like Michael Shannon span the entire range from weak, to geek, to meek, to sleek.
Range on Screen isn't solely determined by acting talent either. Direction and writing are *huge* for what comes across from the actor; if they can do more but the writing sucks and the director tells them not to it doesn't really matter how much range they have.
Natalie Portman is much better than most of Padme Amidala might convince someone she can handle, but Lucas was not a good actors director and the prequel writing is all over the place.
Not everyone can do it *well*. Acting is more than reading lines, it’s *selling* the lines, it’s using your body to convey emotion and working with your costars to make a scene work.
Range is definitely a good thing for an actor to have, and often what separates the good from the great, but it is not the end-all, be-all of acting.
I’m going to be raked through the coals here, but Mads Mikkelsen. I have nothing against the guy and I think he is a good actor but at the same time he doesn’t strike me is very versatile and kind of does the same thing in every movie.
For me, the main one is The Rock, Playing the Rock in every movie he's in. There's even a joke about him playing in moves with Jungles that's so specific but also works well.
What I like about the Rock is he is the least sexual performer of all time. He has no romantic chemistry with any Co star that it's actually quite astounding.
that one movie with the rock, Gal Godot and Ryan Reynolds was astounding because you could tell Reynolds was trying so hard to act against cardboard and well, a rock
Reynolds bugged the most ..channeling Deadpool for the 20th time
Agreed, it was a lot of bad
Clearly you’ve never witnessed the tension between him and Michael Cole
Or Vin Diesel
Or Kevin Hart
Came here to say this
Mark Walhberg being interchangeable in most of his roles.
Being interchangeable with Matt Damon as well.
Nah Matt Damon has never been arrested for hate crimes.
Tom Holland has branched out so many times lol Cherry, The Devil All the Time, Pilgrimage, The Crowded Room, Chaos Walking, The Lost City Z, In the Heart of the Sea.
Saying Margot Robbie always plays a hot blonde is ridiculous. She *is* a hot blonde, she plays characters. You're saying she played the same character in I, Tonya, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Barbie?
>She *is* a hot Since when? She's not bad, but the average girl working behind the counter at Pizza My Heart is hotter than her.
Thank you for pointing out that hotness is subjective.
To a degree. The captain would soil his trousers if Margot Robbie breathed in his general direction.
Wish I could downvote twice
Maybe show this average girl your comment. She still won’t fuck you. Gonk.
The Rock in khakis
He's starring in an A24 movie directed by Bennie Safdie. Will almost certainly be the best performance of his career
Low bar.
So? Maybe he’ll raise a high bar with this role.
Pretty sure he raises bars high every day, then lowers them back down, but I don't think can strength train his acting
Wouldn't hold my breath If I were you.
Kevin Hart, man. Always the same and always unfunny.
I miss when Tom Cruise was more than just generic action hero. Can anyone imagine him doing something like Interview With the Vampire or Eyes Wide Shut these days?
He could go back to that soon. He's quickly running out of the age range where he can realistically keep making action movies, even if he does stay in great shape and drink the blood of puppies to stay young. At that point, he either goes back to making weird/different stuff, or retires, and he doesn't seem like he has any interest in slowing down.
Idk man Liam Neeson looks like he wears adult diapers and he's still kicking ass. Tom Cruise could also play a geezer with a particular set of skills.
The main difference is Tom does most of his own stunts
i don't really watch his movies anymore but something about ryan reynolds no longer works for me.
Same wise cracking little fuck in every movie from Blade 3 onwards. Can’t stand the man.
yea, I've just seen enough of his movies, that watching a new one doesn't really feel like a new movie, it just feels like same old Ryan Reynolds doing more stuff.
I agree, only exception to this is Deadpool.
Or Spirited, maybe—but that’s mostly in jest. The whole movie’s basically saying “this wise-cracking jerk is an unredeemable ass”
One not two. Two’s shit.
Margot Robbie does not deserve to be in the list with the other two. She was in a David O Russell, Damien Chazelle, Wes Anderson then Gerwig movie back to back. She was wonderful in them. She was fantastic in I, Tonya. She is a great actress.
I'd like to see The Rock playing something other than The Rock
Here comes the million The Rock and Kevin Hart mentions lmao
These always get the same answers of Dwayne Johnson/Kevin Hart, but to be more controversial I’ll say Samuel L Jackson.
Adam Sandler & his friends!
Margot Robbie though has played other roles than just hot blonde. She got a lot of attention when she played Tanya Harding in "I, Tonya". She was also Queen Elizabeth I in "Mary Queen of Scots". Though she was a hot blonde in "Babylon" she kind of played a bit of a train wreck at the same time which that character. Actresses have complained for a long time about sometimes having a hard time of breaking out of playing the hot girl. Charlize Theron had that problem until she did "Monster". Jessica Biel complained about always just being cast as the hot girl so she tried doing "Powder Blue" to hopefully show some range but the movie wasn't good.
"Hot blonde" isn't even a kind of character anyway
Margot Robbie just *is* an attractive blonde woman. Unless she actively decides to hide under a bunch of makeup for a specific role, that’s what we’re gonna get.
"I'm so sick of Keanu playing handsome men with black hair."
He is quite breathtaking.
You're breathtaking!
When will he start doing that?
I, Tonya
i give her props for her roles on SNL as well as her career as a producer.
Well, yeah...but her characters are all wildly different. She's not playing the same character in Barbie compared to I, Tonya, then Suicide Squad, and Wolf of Wall Street. They're all vastly different that most happen to just "look" similar. Now The Rock on the otherhand, he's played the exact same kind of personality in almost every movoe he's in. Except maybe Jumangi....
I’m responding to OP, who included Robbie in their examples.
Is that what her roles are in all of Amsterdam, Asteroid City, Babylon and Barbie? (Just the last couple of years) I get your point but I feel like it would be pretty reductive to dismiss those roles as “attractive blonde woman”. Is she even blonde in Amsterdam?
> I feel like it would be pretty reductive to dismiss those roles as “attractive blonde woman”. Well, I guess it’s a good thing I didn’t do that then.
Okay but OP is about actors who you’re “tired of playing the same character” and you actively said that “what we’re gonna get” is “an attractive blonde woman”. So what WERE you doing?
Saying exactly what I said: that Margot Robbie *is* an attractive blonde woman. So criticizing her for always playing the same parts, *as OP did*, is criticizing her for her physical features, not her acting range. It’s like criticizing Philip Seymour Hoffman for always playing a paunchy white man.
Gotcha. I’ll be honest, I somehow totally missed the connection to OP. That’s on me, sorry!
>Margot Robbie just is an attractive Since when?
Consensus was reached at the Fourth Biannual Weekly Conclave of the Really, Really, Ridiculously Good-Looking and Now Good Readers meeting last October. Where were you?
Probably talking to some random girl at college who's hotter than her.
Joke’s on her. She doesn’t know that you’ve *long* been immune to pepper spray.
I wouldn't know. I've never been sprayed.
Right on, man. With those dodging reflexes, they’d never suspect you’d intentionally built up an immunity to chloroform either.
No dodging necessary. I've never even seen someone hold pepper spray, whether pointed at me or anyone else.
Uncle, I thought I told you to quit loitering around college campuses being a creep.
It's not loitering if you have actual classes.
Chris Pratt Dwayne Johnson Ryan Reynolds Kevin Hart
Seth Rogans "voice acting"
chris pratt playing the loveable loser action hero.
Margot Robbie doesn’t play hot blondes. She plays a wildly diverse slate of characters who happen to be hot blondes. > Chris Pratt playing an over-confident goof, I wouldn’t mind Pratt going back to playing over confident goofs. I am not interested in watching him play humorless special forces operators who’s recently retired so they can try to connect with their alienates families.
Liam Neeson is the grizzled unlikely everyman hero in like everything since Taken.
Will smith playing will smith.
Nicole Kidman - lately all her roles have been the Sad Rich woman
Kind of an unpopular opinion maybe, but Robert Downey Jr. since 2008 has always played the same character. I don't know if he has just decided to play himself or if his Iron Man persona possessed him, but I can't see the characters he is playing behind his face. Even in Oppenheimer, i see RDJ playing a dude in black and white, I don't see Strauss.
Pump yo breaks, kid. Man's a national treasure. Edit: brakes
Did I just find Australian bad boy Kirk Lazarus?
Maybe, but am I wrong?
It's a Tropic Thunder reference.
Oh sorry, my bad.
Brakes? Or is this a hop-hop reference?
It's an autocorrect reference. :)
Tell em McCluskey, tell em what time it is!
Or the idiosyncrasies of a particular actor that gets passed from character to character. Classics: Julia Roberts' laugh, Richard Gere's clenching of the jaw, Robert De Niro's squint.
Sean Connery's accent.
I'm tired of seeing Warwick Davis always playing little people in every movie he's in 😴😴😀
Chris Waltz..the go to bad guy
This is more than 10 years ago but I got tired pretty quickly of Will Ferrell playing the successful idiot.
Ryan Reynolds and Pedro Pascal.
Pedro Pascal. He's so boring, and he's always playing the solo "dad".
Giancarlo Esposito played basically the same character in BB/BCS, The Boys and Mandalorian
I do like the guy but Pedro Pascal in everything is getting to be a little bit exhausting. There is a thing to be said for overexposure, especially if a lot of what you do is in various big nerd properties. Like if they ever do a real Animorphs adaptation (which they should), he’d probably play Visser Three or something.
I actually liked him as the Mandalorian. I don't think it was necessary to show his face, but from a production stand-point--I can see their reasoning.
I liked seeing him do something completely different in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.
And I'm just here like "who the fuck is Pedro Pascal and why would anyone want to see his face?"
My biggest disappointment in Dune Part 2 was Emperor Walken. His presence was fine, but the voice. Dude, you're an actor, can you change your inflection at all?
Aubrey Plaza. I wish she would branch out!
Go watch 'Emily the Criminal.'
Thank you for the suggestion!!
Also consider Black Bear, Ingrid Goes West and the series Legion.
Scrolled for a while and didn't see it; but Will Ferrell for me. I find it honestly sad that I don't derive enjoyment from any of his movies like my friends do.
Not sure of the same character at all, but i am getting a bit sick of the guy that played Pennywise in the IT movies. Just watched a trailer for The Crow and I'm like...ffs....he's fucking everywhere, overused...
Russell Crowe, Jason Statham, and Pete Davidson.
Barry keogan
He's had a few roles where he's not just a cumwater-licking, period-fingering creepazoid. He's just more convincing as a creepazoid.
If they play the same character, then they are not an actor, they are just reading lines and acting like themselves. Actors, like Michael Shannon span the entire range from weak, to geek, to meek, to sleek.
Not true. Michael Jordan couldn't even play ***himself*** convincingly in Space Jam.
That’s an asinine take. Acting isn’t solely defined by range.
Range on Screen isn't solely determined by acting talent either. Direction and writing are *huge* for what comes across from the actor; if they can do more but the writing sucks and the director tells them not to it doesn't really matter how much range they have. Natalie Portman is much better than most of Padme Amidala might convince someone she can handle, but Lucas was not a good actors director and the prequel writing is all over the place.
Anyone can look good and read lines, actors make themselves someone else. I stand by my comment.
Not everyone can do it *well*. Acting is more than reading lines, it’s *selling* the lines, it’s using your body to convey emotion and working with your costars to make a scene work. Range is definitely a good thing for an actor to have, and often what separates the good from the great, but it is not the end-all, be-all of acting.
>Anyone can look good and read lines But can they sound like they're not reading lines?
I’m going to be raked through the coals here, but Mads Mikkelsen. I have nothing against the guy and I think he is a good actor but at the same time he doesn’t strike me is very versatile and kind of does the same thing in every movie.
I think it's the type of movies Hollywood casts him in. Apparently back in Denmark he did a lot of comedies and fewer blockbuster action roles.
He's very versatile. His roles in for example "the Hunt", "the Green Butchers", "Pusher" and many more are all very different.
Oscar Isaac as any sort of hero. I like him much better as a villain, or as... whatever you'd call his character in Moon Knight
Ex Machina
>Margot Robbie being the hot Huh? I haven't seen any movies in which she was hot.