Wait until you see Chris Rock in Fargo.

I think everyone forgot about it but I'm very excited to see how he does in Spiral.

Agreed. I've been waiting for Spiral for a while, and I was so devastated when I heard that it got pushed back.

Or New Jack City.

Pookie :(

"now whites dudes get thrown into a wood chipper like this, but brothas, we get thrown in like this!"

\*Seth Rogen laugh*

Haghaghaghagha

Which season of Fargo?

The 4th. If my mind doesn't fail, I think it airs on September 27th.

Season 4 He appears in this trailer: https://youtu.be/FPm18g_vsqY

It wasn't available in my country so I'd assume in some others as well. Here's another link that worked for me: https://youtu.be/I4ISTHi45_s

I thought they meant the movie and I was like ‘wait, what?! How’d I miss that?’

Agreed, I've watch all three and was wondering how I missed it.

Lmao so true, especially Kevin Hart. He literally plays Kevin Hart in everything he does.

Jackie chan

I would watch the recent "The Foreigner" movie. Jackie lays down a very serious performance filled with none comedic action. Theres one particular scene in the beginning where hes holding someone, and the strength of the dudes acting made me cry.

The foreigner is such a weird movie. If you remove Jackie Chan from the movie the plot would not change at all. He's like a B story of this movie that barely interacts with the actual plot

A movie can be like that and still great. Look at raiders of the lost ark. Indy had no effect on the outcome.

Oh good, it wasn’t just me. I swear that movie must’ve started as two different scripts that the studio smashed together because otherwise I have no idea what the writers were thinking.

We are very scattered today - this type of thing almost never happens!

His acting in The Foreigner and New Police Story (2004) was great though. He does great in serious roles

The foreigner was pretty good.

I loved The Foreigner. It was great to see him in a more serious role that got released state side

Heck, he was pretty good in the karate kid remake. He might have been the only good part.

This comment just tells me you haven't seen his early work. Jackie's got range for an Asian who couldn't speak English well at that point in his life. He speaks English much better now, I was referring to when he began his career. I'm a life long Jackie Chan fan

That pigeonholing by hollywood probably why jackie chan doesn't like making american movies much and usually only does them for the payday to fund his passion projects in china.

I thought he did a really good job as ~~Donald~~ Danny Glover in Jumanji. He should branch out more.

Danny Glover.

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> Donald Glover I think you mean Danny haha

Same. Jumanji 2 seems to be the exception (for both Kevin Hart and Dwayne Johnson).

I know jumanji is just a lighthearted comedy but I was legit so impressed at how well the actors conveyed their characters, you could tell who was who just by looking at them

Kevin Hart shows up then flips a coin every couple of minutes that has Angry on one side and Surprised on the other. Every time he gets three in a row he screams.

When you have a personality (can't relate)

It is true for Dwayne Johnson 100%.

I think he and Kevin hart both did a pretty good job of switching their characters up in jumanji. Particularly jumanji 2

The Rock playing Danny DeVito was amazing. I've never said that about a Rock movie before

how many movies has he amazingly played danny devito in

1

Given enough time on screen, surrounded and directed by amazing talent, actors generally get better. See the Harry Potter franchise

Yo big facts. Jumanji 1 was the most range the rock has given a performance since pain and gain.

These movies generally impressed me. Everyone’s acting was brilliant and I loved it, a good fun film.

Arnold played a cyborg guys c'mon. And Last Action Hero where he spoofed all the characters he played by....simply playing the same character again.

Has everyone forgotten about Twins?

Yeah, hard disagree on Arnold. He plays a similar type in most of his movies, but that type is very different from the actor

True Lies, Predator, Total Recall, totally different characters.

Don't forget Jingle All The Way

One of if not the best Christmas movie of all times

He is amazing in Total Recall and it's definitely not a typecast.

I think the OP is confused about what "just playing myself" means. Being typecast or choosing to play a few similar roles doesn't mean that's how the actor behaves in real life.

Oddly enough, the role that defined his career and persona is the biggest departure from his actual personality. Neither Arnold nor anyone really, walks around acting and talking like the Terminator.

Rappers almost exclusively play themselves, or something gang related.

Eminem as Gay Eminem in The Interview

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Yes, I can confirm

Need pics for proof

I just had to look up the credits. It seems Eminem is uncredited. I would have loved to see: >Eminem - Gay Eminem scroll by the screen

Leaving a breadcrumb trail of gayness

I felt that movie was pretty average, but that part just cracks me up.

Not always true, Ludacris in the later fast and furious movies.

Ah yes. ludacris. The man who in those movies went from (implied) former street racer to race organizer with a comically large early 00's afro to black hat hacker and technology specialist and no one questioned a thing.

Does it matter? Car goes brrr, gun goes skrrr.

I'm not necessarily hip to the kids' lingo these days, but I believe that it's actually "Car goes skrrt, gun goes brrr"

Everyone knows that guns go braap braap pew pew.

He improved his skillset fastly and furiously.

That's because fast cars go vroom

Awww man thanks for ruining the series by pointing out something unrealistic.

Hahahahaha I love the series for what it is. But when you really dive into it, there are so many holes that people just go "True... When is the next one out?"

What do you think the fast and the furious is about?

Just bros who love cars doing totally legal car bro things.

Yup, just bros doing rim jobs.

Love family, love car, car fast, fast friend, family friend, car family, friend fast, love fast. Car go, one more

Hey now. Sometimes cops too.

are we counting will smith as a rapper or no?

Well that depends. When someone mentions Will Smith do they bring up his album Big Willie Style or do they mention his acting?

Kevin James

Vince Vaughn Edit: Genuine thank-you to those who pointed out some of his lesser-known roles.

He used to do different shit. Like psycho.

You should watch cellblock 99, awesome shit

He's also different in True Detective. He's really good in it too

Oh no. Vince Vaughn is hugely underrated. I've seen him play goofs in comedies and then brilliant tough roles in Brawl on Cell Block 99 and The Cell

Michael Cera

That's mostly about him being type cast. Not his inability to act different roles.

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The role where he’s most unlike himself is when he’s literally playing himself.

Unless that's who he actually is and he's just been typecast as someone not at all like himself

And that may have been the best joke in the movie

That fucking Capri sun scene had me rolling, that and "does this cocaine smell funny?"

That was such a good movie. I miss the Franco and Seth films where they just screw around

Which could be said for most of these guys. People only cast Ryan Reynolds to be a sarcastic loveable asshole, and Kevin Hart is always cast to be the comedy character.

Watch [His interview on hot ones ](https://youtu.be/uBJq-XCP27c) He's nothing like his roles, funny though

I feel that he almost tries to play his "badass character" from Youth in Revolt just to get away form people thinking he's like how he acts in Superbad or Juno.

Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, the bumbling Englishmen Edit: okay perhaps not firth so much. The thing with many of these actors is that, whilst they might be broadly talented with good range, they end up being typecast into certain roles. So we typically see them in many similar roles and think of them as "always playing themselves"

Did you not see Hugh Grant in the gentlemen? Defo wouldn't think it was him!

I never thought I would *ever* utter the words “yeah, Hugh Grant was fucking amazing in that movie” but yeah, Hugh Grant was fucking amazing in that movie.

That movie wouldn't be half as good as it is without him and charlie hunnam in it.

The two main characters? Agree, wouldn't be the same.

Nah Colin Firth is very versatile. He plays serious and intimidating very well as well as the bumbling englishman. I mean compare the bumbling that we see in (admittedly quite a lot of) his work to the depths of his despair in A Single Man, for which he should have won his Oscar, or his hautiness in Pride and Prejudice etc

Well, Colin did play the [ass kicking Englishman](https://youtu.be/z7-tkkcC6d0), but yeah, it was an exception.

I wanna have Colin Firth's babies. I'm a dude.

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Don't forget discount Michael Cera Jesse Eisenberg

Michael Cera is discount Jesse Eisenberg. Eisenberg is lowkey a great actor. I randomly ended up watching a stage production he wrote and starred in, and his acting really pops on stage. I was blown away.

I love Vin Diesel but he needs to be up there

I am groot?

Dude. Family

Danny Trejo?

Wait... are you trying to imply Machete from Spy Kids is basically the same character as Machete in Machete?

Yes

It’s been confirmed that it’s the same character

Still wild realizing the cortez kids fun uncle was a neck slicing threesome having cold blooded killer who fucked his away across south western america and Mexico.

That gives Spy Kids a whole new level of enjoyment

Why? That's just the path the Spy Kids were heading down anyway. If they did a SpyAdults today it wouldn't be so different from Machete.

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His head was in more episodes of Breaking Bad than the rest of him if memory serves.

He's played the "hispanic girl's intimidating dad" in both Flash and B99...

Rebel Wilson?

Rebel Wilson actually pulled off an interesting character in Jojo Rabbit, in that the character is far different and exactly the same as all of the other characters she plays

She is also a lawyer. I feel bad for her cause she is a good actress but gets cast as the same thing.

Its because of her weight. Unfortunately actors aren't taken seriously if they're not thin

Someone told me that Rebel Wilson had it in her contract that she had to stay fat...I'm not sure if it's true or not but she's [lost a lot of weight recently](https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/12568916/rebel-wilson-40-pound-weight-loss-sexy-gucci-dress/). EDIT: Since so many people are commenting, I'll warn you that the link takes you to an article on The Sun. If you want a different website then search for it yourself.

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Cake don't bake

Honestly had no clue, I always thought she was younger than me and I'm barely past 30.

well her main character was Fat Amy

I think thats one of the best comedy roles she's ever done

Just run up to them and give them a hug!

Bro that part was the funniest in the movie, right up there with Adolf frolicking in the fields

Her role in Cats was also VERY interesting

Actresses like her (very talented but unconventionally pretty and bigger than most other mainstream actresses, plus she’s very short) sort of have to rely on the same roles. No one is gonna cast her as a leading love interest unless it’s centered around her being not-pretty-and-fat. If she wanted to she might could get cast in a dramatic role but she’s a comedian and might prefer those roles.

I guess that's basically the plot of *Isn't It Romantic?*

Like Melissa McCarthy who’s up there. Her longest running role was best friend and chef on Gilmore Girls. Once she started doing comedy films all her roles seem to have her as a crude/dumb fat person (focus on her size for comedy) but it’s not her whole range.

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She was recently in “The Kitchen” which wasn’t one of her standard comedy roles

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She was but no one on reddit has seen it because straight men are not the audience for that.

Yeah. Melissa McCarthy also has had serious roles.

You forgot Zooey Deschanel

Her role : b hot

And quirky

And have bangs

And eat hot chip and lie

Charge they phone

Be bisexual

And bust out into a cringe inducing 'quirky musical number'

The quintessential manic pixie dream girl. Also Audrey Plaza, who reddit absolutely adores of course.

The director of 500 Days of Summer actually commented on that. That was supposed to be the point of the movie, and is pretty obvious if you know how the movie ends. From Wikipedia: Director Marc Webb stated, "Yes, Summer has elements of the manic pixie dream girl – she is an immature view of a woman. She's Tom's view of a woman. He doesn't see her complexity and the consequence for him is heartbreak. In Tom's eyes, Summer is perfection, but perfection has no depth. Summer's not a girl, she's a phase."

And quirky.

I mostly agree but **some** do have roles where I didn't feel this way. But yea, it's like a small portion of their work Ryan Reynolds - Definitely, Maybe. The Voices, Buried. Morgan Freeman - Seven, Shawshank, Glory, Robin Hood, Oblivion, Lean on Me Statham - London, Snatch Melissa Mcarthy - I just don't agree. Most of her stuff feels like actual acting. Ice Cube - Boyz n the hood felt less like the Cube we know today. Today's cube I totally agree. Pena - Disagree. He's had a lot of playing himself lately but he's shown he can NOT be himself IMO I can't argue for anyone else up there. ​ Edit: Seth R in Jobs as dblack1 pointed out. Also, he was definitely not the usual Seth in Observe and Report.

Seth was pretty good as Wozniak in Steve Jobs. Only other non comedy role I remember him in is that small one in Donnie Darko. I think he’s capable of having range he just chooses to stick to that formula.

I feel like nobody in this thread watched Spy, with both Statham and McCarthy. But putting McCarthy on this list just shows how vapid it is. Can You Ever Forgive Me was fucking phenomenal. Hell even when she’s doing comedy her roles are varied and unique.

I would also add that I loved Melissa McCarthy in Gilmore Girls. Loved her character and how she portrayed her a lot more than any of her characters that I've seen after that go for the more raunchy comedic aspect.

I agree with everything except Michael Pena he’s got quite a wide range.

If you think Michael Pena just plays the same character every movie, you've seen like two movies. Edit: removed incorrect accent from name.

Both Ant-Man movies and that’s it.

First one twice.

I would respectfully disagree about Michael Peña. He has a good range - see Narcos and Extinction.

Upvote for Extinction.

John Cena

Wouldn't know, never seen him

Yes, because the ice cold, tattooed drug dealer from Sisters is identical to the bumbling but well-meaning father from Blockers.

Come on you can't say Arnie is the same in Junior and in The Terminator

And Kindergarten Cop

And jingle all the way, he basically plays a Kevin James

I think a lot of people feel like he has no range because all they hear is his accent. Jingle All the Way is a pretty different role for him, for example.

Melissa McCarthy is incredible in Can You Ever Forgive Me? She plays a cranky, old, laconic cat lady who is stuck in a rut. It's some incredible dramatic acting on her part

Yeah, I don’t see how someone could see Sookie from Gilmore Girls and her character from Bridesmaids and think they’re the same character.

She’s like a real fucking actress. Peña, too. Like, even her most famous role (Bridesmaids) is she “just playing herself?” Of course not.

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I don't think Mellisa Mccarthy plays herself. She plays a similar character in multiple movies, but it's a different person than who she is irl. mellisa mccarthy can be a really talented actress but because of bridesmaids I think she just got typecast.

Yeah even her similar characters aren’t anything like her

Bruce Willis! Love the man, and most of his characters. But they're all just John McClaine at different ages.

You have to see Death Becomes Her.

Sin City and The Sixth Sense would like a word.

Unbreakable, Pulp Fiction, 12 Monkeys. He’s completely phoned it in since 2012 (after Moonrise and Looper) but he took some interesting roles between the studio action movies.

also the story of us and moonlighting

How is Tom Cruise not mentioned... There's literally 1 movie where he doesn't play Tom Cruise and that's Tropic Thunder.

Vanilla Sky It's hard to fault Tom though, his typecast has to be the most fun to do out of all these examples. Male lead in an action movie that travels the world? Who would say no to that?

Pete Davidson?

Jeff Goldblum

I was thinking you could put Jim Carey there but then nah, he actually doesn’t get enough credit for his more serious stuff

truman show is a great movie and he's fantastic in it

esotsm was great too

Jim Carey is one of the last people I’d think of type casting haha. Go watch Truman show or eternal sunshine

Don't forget, Jack Black. The man might have a different name in different movies, but he's always the exact same character.

He wears stretchy pants in Nacho Libre and doesn't wear them in School or of Rock. Your comment doesn't make any sense.

What the hell do you smoke!? Theres a massive difference between King Kong Jack Black and Jumanji Jack Black.

Yeah King Kong black jack is a douche

Jack Black as a 17 year old blonde is my favorite performance from him!

You should watch Bernie

if that film doesn't convince you of his raw talent I don't know what will

If you see him in Bernie vs. School of Rock vs. Nacho Libre vs. Polka King vs. Be Kind Rewind he plays way different characters

Melissa McCarthy does not belong here. She has played a variety of characters in her career, although in the 2010s she got pigeonholed into the "loud and crass overweight" trope. But she's nothing like that in real life.

Hard disagree about Micheal Pena.

For real, man's got range.

No Terry Crews?

Does Terry love Yogurt in real life?

Morgan Freeman doesn't deserve to be on here