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Re: Actors who are unrecognizable in some movies?

Mel Gibson in Pocohontas.
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Re: Actors who are unrecognizable in some movies?

Originally Posted by Kevin M. Dean
Looks more like the one on the right to me.
that is correct
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Originally Posted by Jaymole
that is correct
Thanks for the correction. He still looks tough for a 9-year-old. Frankenstein--or his ghost--better watch out!
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Sharon Stone in Police Academy 4.
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Originally Posted by riotinmyskull
ethan embry in CHEAP THRILLS
Agreed.
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Originally Posted by Josh-da-man
John Ritter in Slingblade.
I remember at one point watching this movie and thinking to myself, "In that lighting he reminds me of John Ritter. " And then something clicked and I realized - "WAIT that is John Ritter!"
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Today I saw a trailer for an upcoming movie (that I unfortunately don't remember the title of) that stars Channing Tatum and Steven Carrell. Some sports-related movie based on real events.

I didn't know it was Carrell until his name appeared. The voice was familiar, but I couldn't place who it was. He is absolutely unrecognizable.
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I know he's not in the movie as himself but Bradley Cooper in Guardians of the Galaxy. His voice as Rocket just sounds so different from his natural speaking voice.
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Re: Actors who are unrecognizable in some movies?

Originally Posted by Jon2
Today I saw a trailer for an upcoming movie (that I unfortunately don't remember the title of) that stars Channing Tatum and Steven Carrell. Some sports-related movie based on real events.

I didn't know it was Carrell until his name appeared. The voice was familiar, but I couldn't place who it was. He is absolutely unrecognizable.
Foxcatcher. Yeah, he looks like a completely different person.
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Re: Actors who are unrecognizable in some movies?

Originally Posted by Defiant1
I know he's not in the movie as himself but Bradley Cooper in Guardians of the Galaxy. His voice as Rocket just sounds so different from his natural speaking voice.
I had the same thought. He gives a very good voice performance.
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Danny McBride in Pineapple Express.

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Re: Actors who are unrecognizable in some movies?

Edmond O'Brien in THE WILD BUNCH (1969):



When I first saw the movie it took me a while to figure out who this old coot was. (O'Brien was only 52 when he made this.) Just three years earlier I'd seen O'Brien in FANTASTIC VOYAGE (1966) and he looked like this:

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Re: Actors who are unrecognizable in some movies?

Originally Posted by Ash Ketchum
Edmond O'Brien in THE WILD BUNCH (1969):



When I first saw the movie it took me a while to figure out who this old coot was. (O'Brien was only 52 when he made this.) Just three years earlier I'd seen O'Brien in FANTASTIC VOYAGE (1966) and he looked like this:

Seeing O'Brien as "Fats" Murdock in The Girl Can't Help It and then a few years later in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, he appears to have lost quite a bit of weight, and his beard makes him look older than 47. I never mistake him for anyone else but his appearance was pretty different in those two films.

For someone else in that movie, I can never recognize Vera Miles in anything I've seen her in besides TMWSLV and The Searchers, and I've tried.

Much was made at the time about the unrecognizeability of Albert Finney in Murder on the Orient Express.
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Brie Larson in Hoot (2006)

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Re: Actors who are unrecognizable in some movies?

Simon Pegg in The Force Awakens.
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Gary Oldman as Drexel in True Romance.

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Starting with V for Vendetta, I can always tell it's Natalie Portman. There are a number of roles before that where she looks quite different.
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Re: Actors who are unrecognizable in some movies?

Originally Posted by majorjoe23
Simon Pegg in The Force Awakens.
You should've also mentioned Daniel Craig in The Force Awakens.
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Re: Actors who are unrecognizable in some movies?

Jeffrey Dean Morgan in Skyfall.

Also had no clue Javier Bardem was on Grey's Anatomy.
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Re: Actors who are unrecognizable in some movies?

Vincent D'Onofrio in The Salton Sea
Gary Oldman in The Contender
Gary Oldman in Dracula
Matthew McGounhey in Dallas Buyers Club
Alec Baldwin in The Juror
Ben Kingsley in Schindler's List
Jared Leto in Suicide Squad
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Re: Actors who are unrecognizable in some movies?

Charlize Theron in Monster.
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I had no clue that was Tom Hardy as Fitzgerald in The Revenant until I saw the IMDB credits.
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Re: Actors who are unrecognizable in some movies?

Originally Posted by Nth Power
I had no clue that was Tom Hardy as Fitzgerald in The Revenant until I saw the IMDB credits.
Tom Hardy as Bronson, too. It was my first real exposure to Hardy, so seeing him in movies afterwards was weird.
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Grover (from Sesame Street) in The Empire Strikes Back.

Jimmie Walker as Windshield Wiper Man in Airplane!. According to the DVD commentary, Paramount wanted a comic actor in the movie. But the point of having recognizable, dramatic stars was they would play it straight/deadpan. Walker didn't have any lines and was too far away from the camera to recognize him (for me, at least).

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