Same actor, wildly different role

[singlecoil]

Michael Caine was very convincing as the posh infantry officer in 'Zulu', then as the much less posh Charlie Croker in the 'Italian Job'. Quite a contrast there, but surely not as much as the contrast when Anthony Hopkins went from playing the insane Hannibal Lecter in 'Silence of the Lambs' to the very dignified and repressed butler Mr Stephens in 'Remains of the Day'. Brilliant in both roles, of course.

Anybody think of any other examples?

[dougc]

De Niro - Taxi Driver and Raging Bull to Meet the Parents and Analyse This/That

[minimax]

rowan atkinson - slackbladder----------->thin blue line?

:hazardsguesswhilstwavinghandsvaguely:

[RemaL]

Robert Downey Jr





played both parts very well and very different

[richyb]

Hugh Grant? A floppy haired, unlucky in love, posh English guy in...............I'll get my coat.

[Timmy35]

Pammy Anderson....getting analysed and jizzed all over in her porn films ( so I'm told ) to all American life saver in Baywatch.

[BlueCello]

Ben Kingsley as Gandhi, then you see him in Sexy Beast as one of the most hateful, disgusting people on film.

[schueymcfee]

Joe Pescsi? Was an evil bd in Casino and Goodfellas, but totally different as Leo in Lethal Weapon

[Shaw Tarse]

Robert Powell Jesus to someone in Holby City (or Casualty)

[Brown and Boris]

No competition;

Ben Kingsley, in Ghandi and Sexy Beast.

Now that is acting!

[Brown and Boris]

Brown and Boris said:

No competition;

Ben Kingsley, in Ghandi and Sexy Beast.

Now that is acting!

Sorry Bluecello you beat me to it.

[richyb]

Harvey Keitel & Christopher Walken. Job done.

[paul99]

Christian Bale has done some diverse stuff, American Psycho to the Machinist, Batman etc..
Great actor imho.

[Shaw Tarse]

Timmy35 said:

Pammy Anderson....getting analysed and jizzed all over in her porn films ( so I'm told ) to all American life saver in Baywatch.

Saw the interview with Palmie & Piers Morgan.

[richyb]

BlueCello said:

Ben Kingsley as Gandhi, then you see him in Sexy Beast as one of the most hateful, disgusting people on film.

His performance in Schindlers list was also excellent.

[singlecoil]

richyb said:

Harvey Keitel & Christopher Walken. Job done.

You mean one of them played the other? Which film?

[bigandclever]

Most diverse? Don't know, but Depp stands out - WillyWonka, EdwardScissorhands, JackSparrow, SweeneyTodd, Ed Wood.

But I have to say I really like Robert Carlyle's diversity - a scouse hooligan in Cracker, an MS sufferer(?) in Go Now, Trainspotting, Plunket & McClane, Doctor Who, HamishMctittingBeth, 51st State, The Full Monty, and on and on and on. Brilliant. Or perhaps briwiunt.

[anonymous-user]

Hugh Grant in 4 Weddings and in ....

Oh...maybe not!

[singlecoil]

Come to think of it, Audrey Hepburn did well as the before and after Eliza Doolittle in 'My Fair Lady'

[Dr Jekyll]

Hugh laurie in Jeeves and Wooster, then House.