Who's an actor who nailed a role so hard that nobody else will ever be able to live up to it?
Who's an actor who nailed a role so hard that nobody else will ever be able to live up to it?
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Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow.
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But why is all the rum gone?
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Alan Rickman as Severus Snape
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AND as the Sheriff of Nottingham!
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Why a spoon cousin, why not an axe? It's dull you twit.
I always remembered that bit, I rarely heard anyone but my dad call someone a twit.
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Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. With the sole exception of his height, (comic book Wolverine is very short, and Jackman is not) it’s like the character walked out of the comics and onto the movie screen.
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The like, 2 seconds in Deadpool where they had Cavill as wolverine made me wonder if he could legitimately do it
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Hard disagree. Hugh is too tall and too pretty. He's done a fine job with the character but I am extremely excited for a new short-king wolverine. It's time to move on.
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Ian Mckellen, as either Gandalf or Magneto.
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Sir Christopher Lee as Saruman.
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The fact that Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn isn't on this list makes me sad.
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Bryan Cranston as Walter White
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Bryan Cranston on It's always sunny. The man's got range!
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Yep nobody else could ever play that now
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Heath Ledger as the Joker.
Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man.
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The entire cast of Princess Bride.
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Runners up, R to L:
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No one will ever play Wilson so well.
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Gene Wilder as Willie Wonka.
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He was too angry. Not necessarily his fault (probably moreso the script/direction), but Wilder didn't nail the character for me.
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Robin Williams as the Genie.
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Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams in the 'Evil Dead' movies.
I fucking dare you to try to remake that with another actor.
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Carl Urban - Dredd
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Mike Myers as both Wayne and Austin Powers. He has a way of doing corny characters with soul, and that's quite rare.
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Ewan McGregor - Obi Wan Kenobi
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David Suchet as Hercule Poirot.
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One of the things about his performance is that the role has also been played by more than a dozen other actors, including Kenneth Branagh, Peter Ustinov, Albert Finney, John Malkovich an Ian Holm. Yet he made the character indelibly his own.
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Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg
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Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal the Cannibal
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I thought the same,then i watched Mads Mikkelson in the tv series Hannibal and think he played the role even better.
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They both do different parts of the character's story super well. Its worth noting that SotL Hannibal is far more sinister feeling and Hopkins killed that. Mads plays a Hannibal who MUST be reasonable and hide his darker nature and it's a much more subtle performance
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Good answer
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Danny DeVito.
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I dunno, he and Arnold Schwarzenegger are pretty much indistinguishable
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Thank you for making me feel old. That reference made me realize how much my back hurts. But, at least I didn't throw my mom from a train.
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For which role?
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Yes.
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All of them. The penguin and IASIP especially.
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Barbie
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Some great runner-ups mentioned here. Of course the answer is Dr. Frank-N-Furter, who also had one of the best character entrances ever.
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Henry Cavill as Superman for me. Alan Ritchson as Reacher.
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But
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Well yes of course. But Cavill lived up to his role
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Matthew Mcconaughey as Rust in True Detective S1. I'm desperately longing for a show that can live up to S1 with a character similar or better than Rust
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Every character in that season was perfect. Even the very minor roles played by unknowns were all knocked right out of the park. The stars really aligned for that first season, and I am very much okay with that being a rare thing.
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Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in Tombstone.
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David Spade as Joe Dirt
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Heath Ledger as Joker.
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Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley
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Bruno Ganz as Adolf Hitler in The Downfall
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Is that the film that the "Hitler reacts" videos are from?
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Yeah
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David Tennant as Doctor Who
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Robert Englund as Freddie Kruger.
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Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison.
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I used to think no one but Jim Carrey could do Ace Ventura, but I've seen plenty of impersonations of the character now that Carrey actually wouldn't be needed.
I used to think nobody could replace Mark Hamil's Joker voice until the devs of the Arkham games debuted his replacement for one of them and he fucking nails it to the point if I didn't know he was replaced, I would just assume it was still Hamil.
I can no longer hold the idea that an actor is irreplaceable simply because a good actor can imitate other actors.
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Rami Malek absolutely nailed Freddie Mercury. The side-by-side clips of the two are astounding.
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Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba in the new Wicked (part 1)
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A couple LotR mentions already, but Andy Serkis as Gollum is actually most unliveupably to me.
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