For me he’ll always be Willy Wonka, even though he’s never, to my knowledge, played that character.
Not even for Halloween? Somebody should sort that out.
Everyone in Band of Brothers will forever be their character from Band of Brothers.
Pithy! I read your post and thought about it, and found that to me, it’s absolutely positively true. There’s got to be at least a dozen actors from the series that apply to this dynamic. ( probably a good deal more if I were to research the cast list and cross reference to their other work )
I believe my path for Elfman was voice actor → composer → musician and singer (at this point I’ve seen Forbidden Zone, heard “Dead Man’s Party”, etc. It’s kind of come full circle, because he was the singing voice for Jack Skellington.)
Does anyone else find it weird initially to see actors you know from period pieces in contemporary roles? John Hamm, for example.
I know what you mean, but even stranger to me is actors talking in their native accents after seeing them playing Americans in multiple series and movies. For instance, watching an actor like Damien Lewis in Wolf Hall after following him for years in Life, Homeland and Billions. Or just recently I saw Matthew Rhys speaking in his regular accent in an interview after seeing him in The Americans, Perry Mason and The Beast in Me. Those two really nail the accents, as does Ruth Wilson in The Affair but I first saw her in Luther, so that was less of a surprise.
Jason Bateman will always and forever be Michael Bluth. I’m still mad that Ozark turned out not to be a comedy.
I will never not see Charles Esten as Chip from Whose Line Is It Anyway?
It’s hard for me to see Jason Bateman as an adult. One of very few programs my brother and I watched together was It’s Your Move.
I still call him Derek from Silver Spoons.