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NFT: TV/Film casting whiplash

BlackLight : 4/18/2018 3:01 pm

When you find out an actor well-known for one role also played someone so diametrically opposed to that role, you pull a muscle in your neck thinking about it.

W. Earl Brown - perhaps best known for playing Dan Dority on Deadwood also played.....
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Joey in VA

DonQuixote : 4/18/2018 3:18 pm : link

playing Eric from BBI

Michael Shannon in Groundhog Day

Greg from LI : 4/18/2018 3:46 pm : link

His first movie role, when he was just 18.
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At first glance this one seems similar

steve in ky : 4/18/2018 4:51 pm : link

Costa Ronin who plays a Russian agent in The Americans, and now also in Homeland. But the guy does such a remarkable job portraying such opposite personalities it's worth mentioning.

Just noticed last week when watching Seinfeld reruns

NoPeanutz : 4/18/2018 6:51 pm : link

Wife and I were blown away when we realized that yada yada girl is Lori from Silicon Valley.

c'mon

santacruzom : 4/18/2018 7:02 pm : link

It has to be Ben Kingsley. Don Logan in Sexy Beast would terrify several of his other characters to death.

John Wayne

idiotsavant : 4/18/2018 9:25 pm : link

I mean, 37 westerns then all of a sudden he's a pilot.

I mean, whip-fucking lash, like spun my mind around. Like, how could you man?