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Yeah, and then there's the acting 
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Acting performances that surprised you
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It was the first time I realized Efron could actually act.
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Not that much of a surprise – I know he's good – but Douglas Hodge is phenomenal in Decline and Fall. The first I remember seeing of him was playing a really socially awkward character in, I think, a one-off drama in the Nineties.
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Not that much of a surprise – I know he's good – but Douglas Hodge is phenomenal in Decline and Fall. The first I remember seeing of him was playing a really socially awkward character in, I think, a one-off drama in the Nineties.
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I have never even heard of Douglas Hodge
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I've seen the Martin Clunes version of Goodbye, Mr. Chips a few times and it was on again recently. He is fantastic in it but this time I paid particular attention to how well he played Chipping as a very old man.
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I wouldn't be surprised if you've seen him somewhere. He cropped up alongside Kelsey Grammer in a production of La Cage aux Folles a few years ago, so he obviously gets about .
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Brad Pitt in Kalifornia. I have never seen him do another role like this, such a horrible character and such a gritty and dark film.
Jim Carrey - Man on the Moon/Eternal Sunshine. Jim Carrey has always been a comedy actor to me but these films prove he is a phenomenal serious actor as well. Find a video of Andy Kaufman, then watch Jim Carrey playing Andy Kaufman in Man On The Moon and you can barely tell which is which.
Jim Carrey - Man on the Moon/Eternal Sunshine. Jim Carrey has always been a comedy actor to me but these films prove he is a phenomenal serious actor as well. Find a video of Andy Kaufman, then watch Jim Carrey playing Andy Kaufman in Man On The Moon and you can barely tell which is which.
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Was he not nominated? At least as an Oscar bridesmaid.
Truman Show was the one that shattered my image of Carrey, though.
I still can't watch it without tearing up.
Truman Show was the one that shattered my image of Carrey, though.
I still can't watch it without tearing up.
Truman Show was the one that shattered my image of Carrey, though.
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Jim Carrey in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Adam Sandler in Punch Drunk Love
Tom Cruise in Collateral
Adam Sandler in Punch Drunk Love
Tom Cruise in Collateral
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Daniel Wu (star of AMC's Into the Badlands) in 2004's New Police Story. He played the lead villain, a gang leader who has a hatred for cops because of the abuse he endured from his father, a police superintendent. He plays a deadly game of cat and mouse with Jackie Chan, who looks to avenge the death of his entire team at the hands of Wu and his gang.
I caught the end of Robot and Frank last night and loved it – really well cast too I thought. It really made me think about how massively different Frank Langella was in Masters of the Universe to everything else in which I've seen him. Always very contained, even in a role like Dracula for instance, but as Skeletor an expansive, often raging characterisation where it's hard to believe it's the same actor .
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I thought he was great in Frost/Nixon.
I never saw him as Dracula or Skeletor so I though he was some well regarded theatre actor taking a cinematic detour (which, I guess, wasn't totally off the mark).
I never saw him as Dracula or Skeletor so I though he was some well regarded theatre actor taking a cinematic detour (which, I guess, wasn't totally off the mark).
I thought he was great in Frost/Nixon.
I never saw him as Dracula or Skeletor so I though he was some well regarded theatre actor taking a cinematic detour (which, I guess, wasn't totally off the mark).
I never saw him as Dracula or Skeletor so I though he was some well regarded theatre actor taking a cinematic detour (which, I guess, wasn't totally off the mark).
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He was amazing in Frost/Nixon... I saw him as Dracula on Broadway and in the movies...a perfect combination of bone-chilling and sexy as hell.
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Didn't his Dracula come to the UK? I'm only saying this because somewhere in the back of my mind I'm sure that Sylvester McCoy played Renfield on stage — in the film he has a very minor role but I can imagine him being fantastic in that part. I loved Jack Shepherd in the Louis Jourdan version; he's my favourite.
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