Was gonna say Tom cruise in collateral, but I think his role in tropic thunder was even more a break out moment

JOE PESCI IN HOME ALONE??? HELLO!!!!

How could we not include leslie Neilson. Went from hollywood straight man to deadpan comedy legend in one movie.

You totally forgot Tom Cruise in COLLATERAL. Certainly among my very fave Cruise roles and arguably among his finest performances for sure.

Michael Crawford from Some Mother Do Have 'Em to The Phantom of the Opera.

Nicolas Cage in PIG. For a while now cage has become famous for the crazy cage roles and some of those are amazing. But to see him play such a subdued and sorrowful character in PIG was amazing

How can you forget about Robin Williams in One Hour Photo?

For me, Tom Hanks didn't break typecasting in Road of Perdition, he did it in League of Their Own

Let’s go with Wayne Brady in that Chappelle Show skit. Lol, that’s the first thing that came to mind for me.

I think your colleagues at TrekCulture might be a tad miffed that you missed out the actor who was perennially cast as the western bad guy but then went on to bag the role of the irascible, lovable Dr. “Bones” McCoy, DeForest Kelly.

The potshot at Bruce Willis in the beginning was a bit uncalled for given what we've learned about his health in recent years. It seems like he was only capable of appearing in roles with low time commitment and that wouldn't require a lot of effort.

I'd add Michael Keaton to this list. He started out as a mostly comedic actor then after Beetlejuice he did Clean and Sober a huge step away from his comedic roots.

Jennifer Aniston broke type much earlier than Horrible Bosses in the movie The Good Girl. The problem was that no one saw it. But it's actually a really good movie.

I would like to say that maybe not an entirely unrealistic career move, but it was a complete tonal shift for an RDJ performance in his role in Oppenheimer. Strauss was menacing and dramatic and brought fear to anyone in the same room as him in that movie. I think he personally was my highlight of the film, and certainly a 180 inspired by the later drama of the MCU.

Leslie Nielsen in Police Squad and Airplane.

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Paul Sorvino in Goodfellas. Sorvino was mostly in romantic comedies throughout his career with some dramatic roles (none of which were gangsters), but then he played Paulie in Goodfellas and was so convincing that it sparked an urban legend that he was an actual "made man" in the Mafia.

I'd add Elija Wood. From a lovable Hobbit to an insane cannibal and Daniel Radcliff who seems to go for roles so far from Harry Pottter all the time.

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James Franco in Pineapple Express, Mila Kunis in Black Swan, Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder and/or Collateral, and Ashton Kutcher in Butterfly Effect

James Cromwell: from Farmer Hoggett to… that moment in LA Confidential.

Charlize Theron's Best Actress Oscar win totally justified her efforts for Monster.

I haven’t seen Killer Joe or Mud, but for me Matthew McConaughey showed very well he could handle serious and darker roles with A Time to Kill, and Frailty.

Road To Perdition is a great fcking movie. Everyone in it is great. The kid in it, is Superman from Superman and Lois.

Agreed on Jim Carey, never liked him much until Truman. Denzil shocked me in Training Day. Did you know that Cagney start in show business as a female impersonator ?

Did we mention Daniel Radcliffe in Swiss Army Man or Guns Akimbo?

I remember not even recognizing Bruce Willis when watching Death Becomes Her and my mom pointed it out! One of my favorites

Number 1 should be Leslie Nielsen. But he might’ve broken type so hard, younger ppl didn’t even realize it happened. Before Airplane! he was known as a serious actor, often a dashing, romantic lead like Indiana Jones. After airplane! and the Naked Gun he was that really hilarious old guy. And Michael Keaton is like #2

Amazing video Adam from what culture of actors changing there roles from being typecast for there movies,fantastic job.

The Razor's Edge was the film that allowed Bill Murry to show he could play something other than just a goofy dope, and it opened the door to more serious and meaty roles for him.

Hudson Hawk is one of my personal favorites.

Wilford Brimley in The Firm. His mob inforcer is low key badass.

For me Jennifer Aniston's breaking of typecast was best in Cake (2014). It was before Horrible Bosses. Horrible Bosses still relied on her humour and good looks - it wasn't that big of a difference from Rachel Green. Just sprinkle some 'meanness' and add a pinch of 'horny' and that's it.. Cake, however, was a complete departure - it isn't a funny movie, it's a realistic view of depression, chronic pain and grief. It doesn't play up her good looks: she looks dishevelled and scarred. It was a complete 180 from her usual characters. She did phenomenally in Cake and the fact you did not use this movie as her 'break from typecast' example, is just frankly woeful.

Matthew McConaughey in True Detective... OMG he was awsome

Consider Pat Morita who was known as a funny actor and comedian. When doing script readings for The Karate Kid, one of the people in charge didn't want to read for Pat because they thought they needed a serious actor, not a comedian. They got so desperate, they began to let everybody interested read, and the same guy in charge walks in while the rest were watching a tape of Pat Morita's audition. After saying "that guy looks like a Miyagi, who's he?", someone had to tell him "That's the guy you refused to read, sir."

Nicole Kidman in Destroyer (2018) as a gritty hard nosed cop is an amazing performance and deserved more attention that it received

Say McConaissance again? 😂

I tend to think of McConaughey in Frailty before anything else. Probably just because I was so surprised to see him play a serial killer.

Awww, you left out Kiefer Sutherland in "Dark City"

Monster is an amazing movie, and I'm really glad I saw it. *ONCE.*

Henry Fonda was immense in Once upon a time in the west.

Elizabeth Berkley? How about Pat Morita, who was known only for comedy roles before becoming Mr. Miyagi?

What about Elizabeth Berkley in Show Girls?

I think with Jennifer Aniston, the role that made people sit up and take notice was, The Good Girl (2002).

"White Heat" was released 7 years after "Yankee Doodle Dandy". It marked Cagney's return to a criminal role. He also appeared in the musical "Something to Sing About" in 1937. He played a boxer in 1940, a turn of the century (19th-20th) songwriter in 1941. So, never really needed to break any typecasting.

I thought Albert Brooks was great as Marlin, but his roles in The Simpsons show and movie is what made him an incredible actor with charm and range imo. Just as with Kelsey Grammer, he is the type of actor that I audibly cheer for whenever I see him appear in a film, but wish he had more major roles.

I would say Denzel Washington in Fallen helped change him for casting before Training Day.

Tom Hanks is such a nice guy that if we were to hear he punched a nun we'd wonder just how evil of a person the nun is to deserve a hit from Hanks

You missed Mathew McConaughey’s port-rail of Tip To Truckin in Larger Than Life with Bill Murray. I loved this Character! You almost didn’t know it was him, he was so good!

Keaton as Batman was a surprise choice for many, and he did turn out to be one of the better ones in that role. Bill Murray played a vicious gangster badly in a forgetable movie, but did go one to have success in non-comedic roles. Jennifer Lawrence in Netflix's "No hard feelings" is an entirely new screen persona for her but while as a red-blooded male I enjoyed the previously hidden assets she brought to the screen, I felt the movie was an unworthy vehicle for her.

For McConaughey one, i would also say Dallas player club , very diff role for him

Arguably not a particularly typecast actor but when you've become famous for award-winning roles in the likes of Gandhi and Schindler's List, playing the psychotic Don Logan in Sexy Beast was quite a gear-shift for Ben Kingsley.

Tom Hanks was a romcom lead 20 years ago, not now. 🤷‍♀️

I would add Ryan Reynolds in The Amityville Horror. He was able to give me chills when all of the older versions could not. Before that, it was nothing but comedy.

Jim Carrey - Doing Time on Maple Drive!

Matthew McConaughey - "Tropic Thunder" -> "Dallas Buyers Club"

It's a shame TV shows weren't taken into account, because Vince Vaughn deserves at least an honorable mention for his True Detective's second season performance, and Sacha Baron Cohen's The Spy role would be my top pick Edit: Sacha, not Sasha

Bruce Willis in The Kid that was a good movie

Some of us remember when Mathew McConaughey was a psycho killer in a Texas chainsaw massacre sequel

If you want to talk about breaking typecasting what about Matthew McConaughey in Reign of Fire. It may not have been as critically successful as the two films you mentioned but he was unrecognisible, playing a bald, heavily bearded, heavily tattooed, cigar smoking Soldier.

Harrison Ford in What Lies Beneath

Dustin Hoffman in Midnight Cowboy, after the Graduate.

Mary Tyler Moore in Ordinary People - By the end you just hate her guts.

I think The Good Girl was probably an earlier one for Jennifer Aniston.

Seems a lot of people are failing to realize that this list is a sequel to another list on the same topic - check that one before complaining about a missing or overlooked possible entry, as it may have already been covered earlier...

Having Matthew McConaughey on this list ignores the fact he already played a psychopath in an gos awful texas chainsaw massacre movie. He had long been trying to break the mold on hippie mat

Aniston's break from character was The Good Girl in 2002.

You forget McConaughey in "Texas Chainsaw"?

Forgot who is on first list but I hope it had Heath Ledger and Anne Hathaway

Robin Williams, One Hour Photo

Aubrey Plaza in Legion.

Tom Cruise in Collateral.

but the biggest one was Michael Keaton. Mr. Mom as the Dark Knight? Everyone scoffed at the idea...until they saw the film.

So just going to completely ignore Lincoln lawyer for Matthew McConaughey which was the actual movie that kicked started his career again

Meg Ryan in When A Man Loves A Woman

don't know that Jim Carrey broke casting in THE TRUMAN SHOW; he acted as though he knew cameras were on him, which was par for the course

Will Ferrell - stranger than fiction.

James Cagney wasn’t just trying to break typecasting with Yankee Doodle Dandy; he was falsely accused of being a communist, and even after he was publicly cleared, it threatened to end his career. He responded by making the most patriotic movie possible.

I thought Robert DeNiro's character Louis, in Jackie Brown, was a very different personality type to what you usually see him play.

“Must come a time…” UH>.. Hollywood type casts, not the actors. Actors thirst to break free of type casting. They simply are not given the chance.

Sean Connery in Indy 3???

isnt that proove they are really good actors if they can change his character 180 degrees?

Jim Carrey in The Number 23. ❤

Robin Williams, 1 hour photo

As a man, Jennifer Aniston wanting you would be the most difficult thing to overcome. You would need to be incredibly monogamous.

I wanna see Tom Hanks and Rita’s trip to Epstein’s Island! That would break his typecast into a Kevin Spacey revelation!!!

I liked Jennifer Aniston before Horrible Bosses. I worship Jennifer Aniston after Horrible Bosses. Gotta be one of the all time sexiest characters in film history.

Nope. Tom Hanks broke typecasting in Philadelphia. Before that, he was seen as a comedic actor.

Jim Carrey was in a great movie doing time on maple drive as a dramatic character great role people forget this one and think Truman show as the first dramatic movie

Tom hanks ran of to Greece to avoid island claims, age of concent is lower in creece.🤔

Leonardo DiCaprio in Django Unchained?

Denzel grew a Van Dyke, not a goatee

You forgot my weirdo boy Rob Pattinson

Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction. And she arguably had to do it again in Kill Bill.

BS, Aniston broke type cast when she starred in The Good Girl.

Anne Hathaway

Jennifer Anniston was number one in previous list wtf?

Really? JAMES KAGNEY written that way?

No Leslie Nielsen with Airplane! and Police Squad? Total whiff on this one, WhatCulture.

tom hanks is all but a nice guy in real life in movies maybe and not break tipecasting ewow