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Actors who were born to play a certain role

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    #32
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    deadybai wrote: »
    What actors do you think were just born to play their role in a certain movie or movie series? Or that a movie was specifically wrote for a certain actor to be in it.

    I'll start it off with

    Jack Black - School of Rock. Can't imagine anyone else play his character just was perfect for the role. He had the personality, the looks and the knowledge and passion for the genre. Brilliant performance.

    Sorry to ruin it, but School of Rock was written almost entirely for Jack Black, so not so much that he was born to play the movie, but the movie was born for him.

    I would personally say Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon. He's fantastic at the quietly insane.


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    #33
    TheIrishGrover
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    Bruno Ganz as Hitler in Downfall. I don't know if it's a good thing or not to be "born to play Hitler" but he was amazing in it...... Before it was ruined by its overuse in poor memes


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    #34
    blue note
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    Keanu reeves in bill and Ted.


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    #35
    Gallagher1
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    Matt Damon as Will in 'Good Will Hunting'.


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    #36
    MadDog76
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    Eric Bana as Mark "Chopper" Read in Chopper.


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    #37
    ricero
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    Sylvester Stallone as rocky balboa.


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    #38
    mikom
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    Wooderson............

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZTei7UMTPk


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    #39
    The Adversary
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    John Hurt as Winston Smith


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    #40
    Hugo Stiglitz
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    ballyargus wrote: »
    Orson Welles. In pretty much any Orson Welles film.

    I loved him as Harry Lime. It's probably the oldest movie I like.


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    silverharp
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    Ralph Fiennes as amon goeth

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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    #42
    scouttio
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    I really thought Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela would have been mentioned in at least the first 6 posts


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    #43
    MadDog76
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    deadybai wrote: »
    What actors do you think were just born to play their role in a certain movie or movie series? Or that a movie was specifically wrote for a certain actor to be in it.

    I'll start it off with

    Jack Black - School of Rock. Can't imagine anyone else play his character just was perfect for the role. He had the personality, the looks and the knowledge and passion for the genre. Brilliant performance.

    And of course Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela goes without saying.
    scouttio wrote: »
    I really thought Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela would have been mentioned in at least the first 6 posts

    Post One. ;)


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    Bacchus
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    Mick55 wrote: »
    Hugo Weaving as Agent Smith.

    Keanu Reeves as Neo too. Tailored made role for him.

    Katy Bates as Misery is another. She was terrifying.


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    #45
    scouttio
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    MadDog76 wrote: »
    Post One. ;)

    You nearly had me there


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    #46
    MadDog76
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    :D Couldn't resist!!!!!!


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    #47
    jobbridge4life
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    I am going to be an uber nerd and suggest Kate Mulgrew in the role of Captain Catherine Janeway on Star Trek Voyager. She inhabited that role and unlike other worthy mentions like The Wrestler it wasn't that Kate Mulgrew was the basis of the role but rather her acting style simply suited the role to an incredible degree.


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    RoadhouseBlues
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    Have to agree with Mel Gibson as Martin Riggs. Also Joe Pesci in the Lethal Weapon movies. He was brilliant. I'd say they had some laugh making those movies.


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    #49
    MadDog76
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    Joe Pesci as Tony "The Ant" Spilotro in Casino.


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    Pat Mustard
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    Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones.

    When he shot the swordsman in Raiders of the Lost Ark, the look of exasperation on his face was hilarious.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I_Ds2ytz4o


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    #51
    Tomagotchye
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    Home Alone kid 1.


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    #52
    tastyt
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    The shining, Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance. Perfect performance of the guy slowly losing his marbles!!


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    #53
    Celly Smunt
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    MadDog76 wrote: »
    Joe Pesci as Tony "The Ant" Spilotro in Casino.

    He is actually quite uncanny.

    In fact thought ray liotta did well as henry hill in goodfellas. Scorcese casts excellently.


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    #54
    Deathwish4
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    NicoleW85 wrote: »
    Oh & 'What about Bob?' - he was fab in it too :D

    What About Bob is a genuine classic.


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    #55
    The Adversary
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    Nicolas Cage as every role in the history of film.


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    #56
    tastyt
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    The shark in jaws.


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    #57
    Glebee
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    Pat Mustard wrote: »
    Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones.

    When he shot the swordsman in Raiders of the Lost Ark, the look of exasperation on his face was hilarious.


    Was just about to say that. Also as Han Solo. cant picture anybody else playing both Han / Indy.


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    No_Comply
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    tastyt wrote: »
    The shark in jaws.

    Literally. It was built in a studio for the very purpose.

    Swayze as Bodhisattva :)

    Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly. It wouldn't have worked as well with anyone else. Perfect for him.


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    #59
    jobbridge4life
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    Michonne in the Walking Dead.


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    #60
    JaseBelleVie
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    Can't believe nobody has mentioned it yet:

    James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano

    Nobody, and I mean nobody, in acting since its inception could have made Tony Soprano such a staple of pop culture and an iconic role as Gandolfini. He simply was Tony Soprano. And what a role to be remembered for, in fairness.


    EDIT: Whoops, just realised this is the Film forum. :o Sorry, thought for some reason that this was a thread in After Hours and it was any actor in any role in any medium. Apologies. Carry on.

    But you gotta admit, Gandolfini made not only the role, but he made the whole show.


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    #61
    brianregan09
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    I think pretty much all the avengers were perfect casting bar maybe renner as hawkeye


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