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* KeanuReeves is also an inversion. His earliest roles in in troubled-teen art films earned him near-universal critical raves, he was sought-after as a bankable, serious actor as well as an indie darling; he was even heralded as the next DeNiro. It's hard to say whether it was BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure or {{Speed}} that triggered the ''enormous'' and still-ongoing backdraft.
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* MarkHamill impressed ''everyone'' after ''StarWars'' by taking very serious roles in the Broadway versions of{{Amadeus}}, and {{TheElephantMan}}. Then he started [[BatmanTheAnimatedSeries voice acting]]...
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* JohnWayne is an older example of this, though I forget the movie of which it was said "I didn't know the big lug could act." WikiMagic? (Someone famous said it.)
** That would be ''RedRiver''. And Howard Hawks said it.
* In his review of ''InglouriousBasterds'', {{Moviebob}} captioned the photo of Eli Roth with the phrase "When did ''he'' learn to act?"
** Don't forget Mike Myers' OneSceneWonder.
** That would be ''RedRiver''. And Howard Hawks said it.
* In his review of ''InglouriousBasterds'', {{Moviebob}} captioned the photo of Eli Roth with the phrase "When did ''he'' learn to act?"
** Don't forget Mike Myers' OneSceneWonder.
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* JohnWayne is an older example of this, though I forget the movie of which it was said this. After ''RedRiver'', Howard Hawks said, "I didn't know the big lug could act." WikiMagic? (Someone famous said it.)
** That would be ''RedRiver''. And Howard Hawks said it.
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* In his review of ''InglouriousBasterds'', {{Moviebob}} captioned the photo of Eli Roth with the phrase "When did ''he'' learn toact?"
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** That would be ''RedRiver''. And Howard Hawks said it.
* In his review of ''InglouriousBasterds'', {{Moviebob}} captioned the photo of Eli Roth with the phrase "When did ''he'' learn to
** Don't forget
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** But nobody really noticed until he returned to acting after taking off a few years to go to college. And not only his acting chops, but how fully committed he can be to any role or bit performed. His stint as host of SaturdayNightLive had him perform the "Make Em' Laugh" number from SinginInTheRain to ''near perfection on live television''. To give some perspective, even stage performances of the number nowadays don't require the actor to perform all of the stunts because of the sheer amount of athleticism required pull it off.
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** But nobody really noticed until he returned to acting after taking off a few years to go to college. And not only his acting chops, but how fully committed he can be to any role or bit performed. His stint as host of SaturdayNightLive had him perform the "Make Em' Laugh" number from SinginInTheRain SingingInTheRain to ''near perfection on live television''. To give some perspective, even stage performances of the number nowadays don't require the actor to perform all of the stunts because of the sheer amount of athleticism required pull it off.
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* Cameron Diaz in ''{{Being John Malkovich}}''. She's unrecognizable and really good.
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* Anthony Anderson spent quite a few years being thought of as just a funny fat guy, verging on {{Uncle Tomfoolery}} in some roles. Then came his terrifying run as {{Large Ham}} {{Complete Monster}} Antwon Mitchell on ''{{The Shield}}'', leading to more highbrow films like ''{{The Departed}}''.
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** But nobody really noticed until after he returned to acting after taking off a few years to go to college.college. And not only his acting chops, but how fully committed he can be to any role or bit performed. His stint as host of SaturdayNightLive had him perform the "Make Em' Laugh" number from SinginInTheRain to ''near perfection on live television''. To give some perspective, even stage performances of the number nowadays don't require the actor to perform all of the stunts because of the sheer amount of athleticism required pull it off.
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** But nobody really noticed until after he returned to acting after taking off a few years to go to college.
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** This could pretty much be said for the majority of the Twilight cast up to and including the examples of Kristin Stewart and Jason Rathbone above.
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** Right in the middle of his stint as James Bond, he starred in ''The Wild Geese'' as basically Daniel Craig's version of Bond, ie a hard, cold badass. His first scene where he forces a drug dealer to overdose on his own product is quite unnverving to people used to his foppish, denonair Bond.
* ''{{The Invention Of Lying}}'', despite being a comedy, features one very effective scene of Ricky Gervais' character improvising a description of Heaven to comfort his dying mother, which shows Gervais could easily start a career as a dramatic actor if he ever wanted to.
* ''{{The Invention Of Lying}}'', despite being a comedy, features one very effective scene of Ricky Gervais' character improvising a description of Heaven to comfort his dying mother, which shows Gervais could easily start a career as a dramatic actor if he ever wanted to.
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* Ellen [=DeGeneres=]'s "When I look at you, I'm home" speech in ''FindingNemo''.
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* Ellen [=DeGeneres=]'s "When I "I look at you, and I'm home" speech in ''FindingNemo''.
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* [[JamesBond Roger]] [[{{TheSaint}} Moore]] is best known for playing suave, charming international playboy types. Seeing him in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Haunted_Himself The Man Who Haunted Himself]], in which he plays an uptight exec who thinks he's being stalked by his own double and ultimately has a nervous breakdown, is a jaw-dropping experience. Partly because his performance is so good, and partly because seeing Roger Moore going realistically insane is genuinely disturbing.
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* It might not have been intentional, but the [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Critic]]'s "nasty-wasties" speech in {{Kickassia}} proved to a lot of people that Doug Walker can be act legitimately terrifying whenever he wants to be.
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** ThisTroper, who only new Billie Piper from her very very early teen pop days, was blown away by her acting ability.
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* Jean Claude Van Damme in {{JCVD}}
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* [[HarryPotter Robert]] [[{{Twilight}} Pattinson]]. ''Remember Me.'' Not that I ever thought he was bad, per se, but ''holy cow.''
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** No mention of ''Click''? This troper even teared up a little toward the end.
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*** To clarify, in ''Criminal Minds'', he played a shy, troubled, perenially mumbling, drug-addicted janitor [[spoiler: and said janitor's split personality]]. What makes this even more impressive is that [[spoiler: the other personality was a serial-killing woman with a Southern accent, contrasting with the normal personality in every possible way]]. To top that off, Rathbone had to [[spoiler: transition between personalities in the middle of a scene]], and he pulled that off as well.
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* Joseph Gordon-Levitt in just about everything he's done since ''ThirdRockfromtheSun''.
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* Josh Peck, famous for kid-oriented shows like ''DrakeAndJosh'', ''TheAmandaShow'', and various movies got his HRCA moment in 2008's ''The Wackness''.
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* Georgia van Cuylenberg spent most of ''FinalFantasyXIII'' making Vanille into one of the most irritating {{Genki Girl}}s ever (not to mention the sketchy accent). Then came a little scene on a stormy rooftop in Nautilus. ''Damn'' but she can act an [[HeroicBSOD epic breakdown]].
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* Not a comedic example, but after playing Meredith Grey as a perpetually vague, droll, half-asleep character for what seemed hundreds of episodes, this troper was astounded when Ellen Pompeo confronts her lucid mother about how she just can't deal with yet another upheaval in her life. It's not one of Izzie's Steven's hysterical meltdowns; it's quiet, understated, and completely rips your heart out.
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* It might not have been intentional, but the [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Critic]]'s "nasty-wasties" speech in {{Kickassia}} proved to a lot of people that Doug Walker can be act legitimately terrifying whenever he wants to be.
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* [[HannahMontana Miley Cyrus]] in {{Bolt}}
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** After ''Charlie St. Cloud'' This Troper guesses that it will only take one or two more serious roles for audiences to forget that he was in HighSchoolMusical.
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** I knew she had it in her after ''Muriel's Wedding''.
