Every actor starts off with smaller roles or occasionally dabbles in an indie role that doesn't get much notice. What are some of your favorite big name actor in a role for a lesser known film? Has this role come to notice recently or is it a well-kept secret he was in this film?
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Ditto to both, as well as Hardy having a small role in Black Hawk Down.
Had no clue that William Hurt and Raul Julia were in Kiss of the Spider Woman. Ya Hurt won Best Actor, and it's a very critically-acclaimed movie, but had no clue that it existed till I walked through the Fort Benning main post library looking for some DVDs for a weekend at the barracks.
Blew my mind that "Larry Fishburne" (I believe that's how his name appears in the credits) was in Apocalypse Now as well. Didn't know about the MASH appearance though.
As for big actors in lesser known but great films/roles
Kevin Spacey in The Life of David Gale
Kevin Bacon, Gary Oldman, Christian Slater in Murder in the First
Sleepers. Brad Pitt, Robert Deniro, Dustin Hoffman, Minnie Driver, Ron Eldard
Z for Zachariah with Chris Pine, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Margot Robbie
The cast of A Time to Kill. Matthew Mcconaughy, Sandra Bullock, Samuel L Jackson, Kieffer Sutherland, Ashley Judd, Donald Sutherland. Also had a ton of actors that are recognisable by face if not by name. Oliver Platt, Charles Dutton, Chris Cooper, Doug Hutchinson.
The Cider House Rules with Michael Caine, Tobey Mcguire, Charlize Theron, Paul Rudd, JK Simmons,
The weirdest though has to be Stephen King in Sons of Anarchy
Scarlett Johansson in Home Alone 3
Tobey Maguire in The Wizard(as an extra)
Laurence Fishburne in Nightmare On Elm Street 3
George Clooney in The Facts Of Life and earlier seasons of Roseanne
Tom Hanks in Family Ties(two episodes)
Sam Rockwell in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Nicolas Cage in Fast Times At Ridgemont High
Mila Kunis in Honey We Shrunk Ourselves
Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Angels In The Outfield
Anthony Mackie in 8 Mile
Jeremy Renner in SWAT
Gwyneth Paltrow in Hook
Zoe Saldana in Drumline, Crossroads and the first Pirates Of The Caribbean
Adam Sandler in The Cosby Show
David Schwimmer in The Wonder Years
Tony Shalhoub in Men In Black
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I just wonder if it was only baseball they interfered with. Was there maybe a badminton player out there who suddenly just had a winning streak?
__________________ Chicken Boo, what's the matter with you? You don't act like the other chickens do. You wear a disguise to look like human guys, but you're not a man you're a Chicken Boo.