Actors who were born to play a certain role

deadybai

What actors do you think were just born to play their role in a certain movie or movie series? Or that a movie was specifically wrote for a certain actor to be in it.

I'll start it off with

Jack Black - School of Rock. Can't imagine anyone else play his character just was perfect for the role. He had the personality, the looks and the knowledge and passion for the genre. Brilliant performance.

Into The Blue

Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer. Dammit!

pmasterson95

Patrick Stewart as Charles Xavier/Professor X

Corvo

Arnold as Terminator

deadybai

Corvo wrote: »

Arnold as Terminator

Was going to say that in my original post. Imagine if they went with OJ Simpson :eek:

Stone Deaf 4evr

Mel Gibson as Martin Riggs in Lethal Weapon

KrakityJones

John Malkovich in.. being john malkovich

Sorry couldn't resist

NicoleW85

Reese Witherspoon in Legally Blonde (sorry for the major girly input)

ancapailldorcha

Peter Weller as Robocop.

Johnny Depp playing the same character in each of

• The Rum Diaries
• Alice in Wonderland
• The Lone Ranger
• Sweeney Todd
• Pirates of the Carribean

Tabnabs

Jeff Bridges as The Dude, aka His Dudeness, Duder, El Duderino

Hugo Stiglitz

Edward James Olmos as William Adama.

Taltos

Clint Eastwood - Dirty Harry

Captain Chaos

Robert Downey Junior as Tony Stark. Perfect.

Tefral

I have to say Tony Stark being played by Robert Downey Jr. is pretty spot on.

I also cant imagine anyone else playing Red from Shawshank Redemption other than Morgan Freeman.

blue note

Mickey rourke in the wrestler

deadybai

pmasterson95 wrote: »

Patrick Stewart as Charles Xavier/Professor X

Hugh Jackman as Wolverine to. Brilliant casting

AndyBoBandy

Brendan Gleeson as Martin Cahill

Colm Meaney as Dessie Curley & Jimmy Rabbitte Snr.

Tombo2001

Luke Skywalker

So born to play the role that no one knows the guys name, and yet its possibly the single most famous movie character of all time.

mick121

Charlie sheene as Charlie in 2 and a half men.not acting just being himself

FortuneChip

Have to agree on RDJ as Tony Stark and Hugh Jackman as Wolverine.
Can't realistically see anyone being better suited.

I know DiCaprio was linked, but Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho.
Bale is darkly funny in a way DiCaprio had never really tried at that point. He absolutely nails the social awkwardness as well (business card & bathroom encounter scenes).

Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden. Brad Pitt brought a real coolness to this ultimately destructive character that I think others may have struggled with it.

Mick55

Hugo Weaving as Agent Smith.

SuperGrover

Nicholas Hope as Bubby

SuperGrover

Jack Nicholson as Randle McMurphy

Evac101

Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty in Blade Runner - my favourite eulogy in any film, for himself, by himself.

Rosie Rant

Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter.
Anythony Hopkins in any of his roles, really. He is an amazing method actor.

pmasterson95

Ian McKellen - Gandalf & Magneto

brevity

Bill Murray - Lost in Translation.

He was excellent in it and I cannot picture another actor playing that role.

Snakeweasel

pmasterson95 wrote: »

Ian McKellen - Gandalf & Magneto

Have to disagree regarding magneto, great performances, but doesn't have the physical presence of Magneto. Fassbender looks much more like you would expect Magneto to look, albeit a younger version.

NicoleW85

brevity wrote:

Bill Murray - Lost in Translation.

He was excellent in it and I cannot picture another actor playing that role.

Oh & 'What about Bob?' - he was fab in it too

ballyargus

Orson Welles. In pretty much any Orson Welles film.

deadybai

deadybai wrote: »

What actors do you think were just born to play their role in a certain movie or movie series? Or that a movie was specifically wrote for a certain actor to be in it.

I'll start it off with

Jack Black - School of Rock. Can't imagine anyone else play his character just was perfect for the role. He had the personality, the looks and the knowledge and passion for the genre. Brilliant performance.

Sorry to ruin it, but School of Rock was written almost entirely for Jack Black, so not so much that he was born to play the movie, but the movie was born for him.

I would personally say Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon. He's fantastic at the quietly insane.

TheIrishGrover

Bruno Ganz as Hitler in Downfall. I don't know if it's a good thing or not to be "born to play Hitler" but he was amazing in it...... Before it was ruined by its overuse in poor memes

blue note

Keanu reeves in bill and Ted.

Gallagher1

Matt Damon as Will in 'Good Will Hunting'.

MadDog76

Eric Bana as Mark "Chopper" Read in Chopper.

ricero

Sylvester Stallone as rocky balboa.

mikom

Wooderson............

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZTei7UMTPk

The Adversary

John Hurt as Winston Smith

Hugo Stiglitz

ballyargus wrote: »

Orson Welles. In pretty much any Orson Welles film.

I loved him as Harry Lime. It's probably the oldest movie I like.

silverharp

Ralph Fiennes as amon goeth

scouttio

I really thought Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela would have been mentioned in at least the first 6 posts

MadDog76

deadybai wrote: »

What actors do you think were just born to play their role in a certain movie or movie series? Or that a movie was specifically wrote for a certain actor to be in it.

I'll start it off with

Jack Black - School of Rock. Can't imagine anyone else play his character just was perfect for the role. He had the personality, the looks and the knowledge and passion for the genre. Brilliant performance.

And of course Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela goes without saying.

scouttio wrote: »

I really thought Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela would have been mentioned in at least the first 6 posts

Post One.

Bacchus

Mick55 wrote: »

Hugo Weaving as Agent Smith.

Keanu Reeves as Neo too. Tailored made role for him.

Katy Bates as Misery is another. She was terrifying.

scouttio

MadDog76 wrote: »

Post One.

You nearly had me there

MadDog76

Couldn't resist!!!!!!

jobbridge4life

I am going to be an uber nerd and suggest Kate Mulgrew in the role of Captain Catherine Janeway on Star Trek Voyager. She inhabited that role and unlike other worthy mentions like The Wrestler it wasn't that Kate Mulgrew was the basis of the role but rather her acting style simply suited the role to an incredible degree.

RoadhouseBlues

Have to agree with Mel Gibson as Martin Riggs. Also Joe Pesci in the Lethal Weapon movies. He was brilliant. I'd say they had some laugh making those movies.

MadDog76

Joe Pesci as Tony "The Ant" Spilotro in Casino.

Pat Mustard

Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones.

When he shot the swordsman in Raiders of the Lost Ark, the look of exasperation on his face was hilarious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I_Ds2ytz4o

Tomagotchye

Home Alone kid 1.