10 Actors Who Just Played Against Type (And KILLED It)

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These actors sure rose to the challenge - and then some.
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@HariSeldon913 Ай бұрын

If this had been released in 1988, the #1 would have been Bruce Willis going against his comedic type to be an action hero.

@KoldenKosmer Ай бұрын

Or Leslie Neilson moving to comedy

@brucelucasjr5856 Ай бұрын

In the greatest Christmas movie EVER!!!!!!

@TBullets85 Ай бұрын

@@KoldenKosmerhe became a comedy icon with the naked gun series. GOAT of that comedic style. Easy.

@rbarnett3200 Ай бұрын

What’s actually weird is that Bruce has never been a good comedic actor but was an excellent action film star because the proposition was comedic.

@shanerasmussen5225 28 күн бұрын

@@TBullets85 Actually it was Airplane that was Neilson's first comedy.

@xZeroGunnerx Ай бұрын

Bob Odenkirk así a badass John Wick kinda character in Nobody

@rocketdive2001 Ай бұрын

He nailed it!!!

@claymccoy Ай бұрын

The list is for recent films. 10 Actors Who JUST Played Against Type.

@brucelucasjr5856 Ай бұрын

Ryan Reynolds as George Lutz in The Amityville Horror remake, or the guy in the box in the movie Buried

@owie4070 Ай бұрын

His work in Buried surprised me for sure.

@MitchellFace Ай бұрын

One i always think of is Steve Zahn in A Perfect Getaway. He at first seems to be playing his type of character, a kinda awkward but somewhat charming dude. Then that switch happens and he becomes an absolute psycho and kills it!!

@kelleyk28 Ай бұрын

I know! I did not see that coming at all. There was no way he could be the bad guy. The Director's Cut shows more of his character and it's awesome.

@shill1444 Ай бұрын

Yup. Totally agree!!

@MrPhilbautista Ай бұрын

I can't believe Heath Ledger didn't make this list. For an actor that was typecast as a leading man in young adult romcoms like 10 Things I Hate About You and A Knight's Tale, playing a gay cowboy in Brokeback Mountain and the Joker in The Dark Knight are serious deviations from type, and the fact that both performances were award winning just drives home the point that he killed it.

@user-rg5nu5bx7x Ай бұрын

List features the actors who "Just Played" ...

@Baccory Ай бұрын

As much as Ledger broke type, it was 16 years ago my guy.

@YolandaAnneBrown95726 Ай бұрын

Still stunned by "Late Night with The Devil" and David Dastmalchian's performance, giving me the absolute goosebumps!

@jcole139 Ай бұрын

I thought the movie was very good - not great but I agree David was REALLY really good in the role! Loved his performance.

@scottmiller8617 18 күн бұрын

He was good, the movie was disappointing overall.

@brianartillery Ай бұрын

I'm surprised that you made no mention of the great Bob Odenkirk in 'Nobody'. I for one, never believed he could do hard as nails stuff like that. But he does, and it's a revelation. Just watch the eye-wateringly violent bus fight, and his turns on 'Breaking Bad', and 'Better Call Saul' fade into the distance, fast.

@jefflebowski3784 Ай бұрын

Vince Vaughn - Brawl in Cell Block 99. Frickin amazing.

@ottomattix86 Ай бұрын

Agreed. He was so good.

@brucelucasjr5856 Ай бұрын

Don't forget his FBI/cop role in The Cell with J-Lo and Vincent D'Onofrio. It was very different from what he's usually in or character he's played

@daniellewis2133 Ай бұрын

I have been waiting many years for David Dastmalchian to get famous.

@IOSARBX Ай бұрын

WhatCulture, This video is fantastic! I liked it a lot!

@user-et9de2hs5l Ай бұрын

Talk about "against type," just saw Allison Janney in Lou, where she played a long-retired CIA agent living alone in a cabin. She absolutely kicked butt all through the movie!

@latarribell4152 Ай бұрын

Agreed. She was outstanding.

@kevinpoole6122 Ай бұрын

In I, Tonya, as well!

@GroundhogJay Ай бұрын

As much as I loved Downey Jr's work in Oppenheimer, I still believe that Mark Ruffalo should have gotten the Oscar over him for Poor Things.

@samuelmanning2491 Ай бұрын

"Matilder"

@aadamtx Ай бұрын

I'm surprised Adam Sandler in UNCUT GEMS didn't make the list. Lots of actors play against type at least once - Yul Brynner in THE MAGIC CHRISTIAN, Richard Burton in STAIRCASE, even David Spade in LIGHT SLEEPER.

@PaulVandersypen Ай бұрын

Yul Brenner was cast against type as the homicidal android in Westworld.

@claymccoy Ай бұрын

The list is for recent films. 10 Actors Who JUST Played Against Type.

@mattlatakas7051 Ай бұрын

Yooo...Alisha Wier KILLED IT in Abigail. Can't wait see what she does next!

@TheRprecupjr Ай бұрын

Seriously? No love for Robin Williams in "One Hour Photo"? Talk about "against type"

@jackbastrd6 Ай бұрын

late night with the devil is a great movie!! if you havent watched it yet you should

@joelbrown2782 Ай бұрын

Monkey Man was actual really good. Dev Patel was great in the film too.

@anashirinrazirabi1848 Ай бұрын

It was shown during Ramadhan/Eid in my country so I missed it. I have always made a point to watch Dev Patel’s movies at the cinema. Add Sobhita into the mix, i have no doubt it’s an incredible movie.

@christianu9159 15 күн бұрын

😂it was Garbage

@JohnDrummondPhoto Ай бұрын

I'm going to go back in time to suggest Henry Fonda as Frank in "Once Upon A Time In The West". Most of Fonda's career, especially early on, featured him as a nice-guy Everyman, or a reluctant hero. Frank, however, was a remorseless killer. He had no backstory and didn't need one. Some guys, even handsome blue-eyed ones, are just BAD. Fonda played it to a tee. He even rejected Sergio Leone's idea that he wear a mustache and dark contacts, reasoning that his natural look would make his character that much more jarring to the audience. [EDIT: It was actually Fonda who showed up with dark contacts and a fake mustache, and Leone who told him to lose them.]

@user-mg5mv2tn8q Ай бұрын

Actually, Fonda initially came in to play the role wearing dark brown contact lenses, figuring they gave him a more intimidating stare. But Leone said, "No, I want the audience to see your blue eyes and say, 'Oh, my God, it's Henry Fonda, and he's playing a murderer!'"

@melmartinez7002 Ай бұрын

Yeah - that's a great performance in a great film. Fonda was so unnerving to see in that role. Doesn't make the list for "just played", but definitely a great example from the past of a character totally going against type.

@shill1444 Ай бұрын

Denzel Washington actually being the heavy in Training Day was masterful.

@tranz2deep Ай бұрын

Some directors have roles they fully intend to cast wildly different actors for. Henry Fonda's role as Frank in _Once Upon A Time In The West_ comes so strongly to mind I am deeply shocked it's not on this list. Fonda himself went on talk shows later and detailed how he'd done himself up all dark and shadowy and Leone took one look and told him to scrub that crap off. The clip's here on KZfaq; in Fonda's words, "That _______ sonuvabitch *wanted* these baby blues." When he saw the clip of his first reveal he figured it out, how people would have seen a family completely destroyed by Frank's gang then... *"Jesus Christ, that's HENRY FONDA!!"* (To further expound my point, Fonda nailed his role, too.)

@kelleyk28 Ай бұрын

I'm not sure if this counts, but I always thought the difference between Statham's character in The Meg is actually different from what he usually does. He usually does movies where he's kicking ads, 3/4 of the movie. The Meg was a normal movie where asskicking wasn't necessary and he played a regular guy. It's still weird watching it sometimes.

@ICanDoItMyself Ай бұрын

I feel like Ryan Reynolds in The Amityville Horror should also be on this list.

@Michelle-DiPalo Ай бұрын

That's not a recent movie

@ICanDoItMyself Ай бұрын

@@Michelle-DiPalo I didn't hear "recent movies" in the video. Maybe implied....?

@Michelle-DiPalo Ай бұрын

@@ICanDoItMyself Video title is actors who "just" played against type, insinuating recent movies.

@GroundhogJay Ай бұрын

Alisha Weir was truly incredible and often ran rings around even the best of the ensemble around her.

@darasen66 Ай бұрын

They should add (in the last two years) to the title. I am going to go with Henry Fonda in "Once Upon a Time in the West".

@michelehayward2241 Ай бұрын

Where is Charlize Theron in Monster?

@dylanogg347 Ай бұрын

Imagine if Feyd was played by the man called Sting.

@sandrakiefler4649 Ай бұрын

Awesome video my dude 👍😅

@bertdog7639 Ай бұрын

Sting was one of the best things about the earlier Dune.

@anhurtorrez Ай бұрын

A few that should be mentioned Tom Cruz in interview with a Vampire, Bruce Willis in Die Hard, and Leslie Nelson in Airplane but I guess after the rolls they did they stared in other's like those movies besides Tom Cruz.

@therealmj113 Ай бұрын

I guess people forget Leo’s performance in Gilbert Grape

@girrl88 Ай бұрын

loved Late Night With the Devil!

@skipper4126 Ай бұрын

I mean Sydney Sweeney is immaculate. Seems to fit.

@RARusk161 Ай бұрын

Paul Reiser as Carter J. Burke in Aliens.

@claymccoy Ай бұрын

The list is for recent films. 10 Actors Who JUST Played Against Type.

@alecsandyr Ай бұрын

Ewan with the incisive review again ❤❤❤

@janjud1828 Ай бұрын

Henry Fonda in Once Upon a Time In The West

@claymccoy Ай бұрын

This list is for recent films. 10 Actors Who JUST Played Against Type (And KILLED It)

@I9X8I Ай бұрын

@@claymccoy one of those videos it s good to know copy & paste. ;)

@caronstout354 Ай бұрын

James Spader-from John Hughes brat pack to action hero in Stargate...

@baileym43ish Ай бұрын

this list is nothing more than Engagement Baiting by naming mostly only recent movies.

@nathanmichael167 Ай бұрын

Ruffalo against Type? i'd say this is the "other" character he plays. I couldn't help but watch this movie and think, so thisi s what happened if the other brother from Brother's Bloom lives. He even somes up character elements from Now you See Me

@snowdenwyatt6276 Ай бұрын

Dastmalchian and Jason Butler Harner need to be cast as brothers in something. I really thought it was Dastmalchian in the early seasons of Ozark...

@jayd2517 Ай бұрын

What the hell is a comfort zoone?

@danjumasmith7122 Ай бұрын

Vince Vaughn in "Brawl in Cell Block 99".

@claymccoy Ай бұрын

The list is for recent films. 10 Actors Who JUST Played Against Type.

@james__y Ай бұрын

June part 2 😅

@deaditeera Ай бұрын

How is Sydney Sweeney’s performance “nailing it”? She acts like she just “nails” producers.

@TomasCorvidea Ай бұрын

How could you not mention Bruce Willis in Death becomes her, or Macaulay Culkin in the Good Son?

@claymccoy Ай бұрын

This list is for recent films. 10 Actors Who JUST Played Against Type (And KILLED It)

@TomasCorvidea Ай бұрын

@@claymccoy Yes and Bruce Willis playing the role of a complete wimp goes completely against his typecast in Death becomes her, as does Macaulay Culkin playing the villain in the Good son. It never said anything about the movies being recent.

@claymccoy Ай бұрын

@@TomasCorvidea The list literally says 10 actors who JUST (as in recently) played against type.

@TomasCorvidea Ай бұрын

@@claymccoy And that explains why I haven't seen any of them.

@mrrd4444 Ай бұрын

Monkey Man was amazing, and so underrated.

@drewbieware Ай бұрын

What about Jim Carrey in eternal sunshine of a spotless mind?

@claymccoy Ай бұрын

The list is for recent films. 10 Actors Who JUST Played Against Type.

@drewbieware Ай бұрын

@@claymccoygood lookin out. Still stand by that though lol

@jenlovesbooks Ай бұрын

What about Melissa McCarthy in Can You Ever Forgive Me?

@claymccoy Ай бұрын

The list is for recent films. 10 Actors Who JUST Played Against Type.

@jenlovesbooks Ай бұрын

@@claymccoy Oops, didn't realise.

@melmartinez7002 Ай бұрын

Dev Patel also broke pretty severely with his younger type-casting in The Green Knight.(2021). Does that count as recent enough?

@user-ml2so8dp8i Ай бұрын

When I heard Robert Downey Jr. was going to be cast this IronMan.I had 2 questions.What who the hell is robert downey jr. and who the hell is ironman

@HariSeldon913 Ай бұрын

He was initially one of the Brat Pack in the John Hughes movies. He even managed to steal a few scenes in Back to School with Rodney Dangerfield.

@user-mg5mv2tn8q Ай бұрын

Weird Science was the first thing I saw him in.

@PeterPan-cy7oy 28 күн бұрын

u see when a human shave your head or just wearing a wig lächerlich

@user-ml2so8dp8i Ай бұрын

Polka dot man the most useless but hilarious villain

@webcrawler2007 Ай бұрын

Daisy Ridley's type is being an awful actress - and she has never went against type

@lordofthereels6790 Ай бұрын

My fan casting from this casting list: Hutcherson as Nightwing Dev Patel as Ras Al Ghul Dastmalchian as Carl Sagan Ruffalo would have been the perfect Van Sant Psycho Norman Bates

@Jamal-bl7yh Ай бұрын

Myself as Miklo Velka In Blood In Blood Out I'm usually your Adult Animation Dad, DC superhero, or Scifi /Action badass but In this movie I was a mixed race Cholo given crap for his White heritage that goes to prison and becomes a Tony Montana like figure totally out of my comfort zone

@0wl999 21 күн бұрын

Lost me at Daisy😢👎👎👎

@Aldo21574 Ай бұрын

Pathetic list! No Heath Ledger in Dark Knight? Sylvester Stallone in Copland? Hugh Grant in About a Boy? Bruce Willis in Die Hard? Loads more better than the ones on this list.

@The_Dudester Ай бұрын

In the words of legendary director Ingmar Bergen, "To get the best performance out of an actor, have him play against type." In the example of Alec Baldwin in "The Hunt For Red October", Alec plays a good guy. In real life, we all know that Alec is a jackhole and an arse, so, having him play a good guy requires Alec not to be himself.

@horvathsogranfume658 Ай бұрын

wut

@justsaying14 Ай бұрын

I'm really curious about what Ingmar Bergman would have to say to this 🤔

@shanerasmussen5225 28 күн бұрын

Director Nick Meyer said he got the best performace from William Shatner by making him do numerous takes so he wore the ham out of him.

@The_Dudester 28 күн бұрын

@@shanerasmussen5225 Must...over...act...and....be...difficult. Tell me Bones, what do you think? Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a drama critic.