Which actor or actress would you like to see doing something totally different than what they are currently known for?
I, personally, would love to see Christian Bale do a comedy with Vin Diesel.
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–CiaTH
morgan freeman as an ignorant bumbling fool
Arnold Schwarzenegger as a Tibetan Buddhist Monk
Tom Hanks as a psychopathic serial killer.
Angelina Jolie as an overweight, middle aged, frumpy housewife who never wears lipstick.
R. Lee Ermey as (may Og strike me dead) a twinkly-eyed, grandfatherly fount of comic wisdom. Sort of a 21st century Walter Brennan.
“Be yourself, Jimmy! You’re good enough just as you are! Now, drop and give me 20, maggot!”
I first suggested it as a joke when Pierce Brosnan wanted out as OO7, but I kept coming back to the idea of Hugh Grant as secret agent James Bond: a skinny and innocuous stammerer who says witty things like always, but who also happens to be the finest sniper on the planet and can slide a tricked-out sports car through hairpin turns on an obstacle course.
How about R. Lee Ermey as an old gay queen who owns an antique store in New Hampshire?
I have thought for a long time that Adam Sandler would be great as a child-like, emotionally retarded psychopathic murderer and rapist.
Andy Dick in a role that normally would have gone to Mel Gibson.
Just kidding.
Actually, I’d always wanted to see Don Knotts in a very serious role. I think the closest he got was one episode of The X-Files.
Chuck Norris as a New Age therapists helping repressed gays find their true potential.
Jackie Chan as a grizzled old blues guitarist.
John Cleese as a serial killer–and not some comedic, haha, parody type of serial killer. I’m talking serious as sin serial killer.
While I’m thinking police drama… how about Rick Moranis as the cop investigating him?
Steve Buscemi as a ladies man.
I wanna see Mike “Austin Power” Myers as the killer in a slasher flick. Hey, Mike Myers as Michael Myers in Rob Zombie’s Halloween 3!
I think that Michael Cera would make an excellent serial killer.
In a movie narrated by somebody else.
Meryl Streep as a woman who talks like Meryl Streep.
Mel Gibson as Arnold (the Jewish drag queen) in a remake of TORCH SONG TRILOGY, with Tyler Perry as his overbearing Jewish mother M’mele.
G.D. “Mr. Cor-lee-oh-nay” Spradlin as a British lord.
Al Pacino as a deaf-mute.
Joe Pesci and Robert Deniro as two roommates named Lou who own a flower store and antique sofa business and run a Pomeranian rescue center.
Kathy Griffin as a nun who teaches kindergarten.
Phil Leeds as Terminator.
No serial killer, but he had a straight (i.e. not a single comic line) role as the title character’s mentor in Francis Ford Coppola’s Kenneth Branagh’s Mary Shelley’s FRANKENSTEIN. He also looked particularly sexy with long gray hair (something like Billy Connolly’s).
One of the characters on Queer as Folk (the U.S. version) was a concert violinist who mentioned that his grandfather was a Jewish concert violinist who had stayed alive during the Holocaust by playing for the Nazis. The grandfather was just mentioned, never shown, but I always thought it would be a great role for Mel Brooks, who for some odd reason I’ve always wanted to see in a dramatic role (and a Holocaust survivor finding out the grandson he adores is gay would be a great role for anybody).
Harvey Fierstein as a ladies man.
ROFLAMOJ
Georgia Engel as an alien that feeds on human brains.
He actually played one on an episode of MURDER SHE WROTE- a womanizing cartoonist who gets murdered. He was… uh… well, let’s just say he didn’t win an Emmy. And it wasn’t prejudice.
OTOH, he played Tevye on Broadway an interviewer asked him how odd it was to play a straight guy. He responded, obviously a bit irked, “My last Broadway role was as a 350 pound Protestant agoraphobic housewife and mother, now I’m playing a middle aged Jewish man dealing with bigotry and aging and a changing world. Which one do you think is more like me?”
My understanding is that was the original final episode to THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW. Unfortunately people were afraid that the audience was still confusing Mary with Laura Petrie and they didn’t want to think of what that would do to Rob and Ritchie, so they changed it to the mass layoff which would allow Mary/Laura to get over the career gal foolishness and go be a wife and mother again.