Circa 2010 - Male Actor in a lot of movies

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Back in the 2010 time frame there was a male actor who turned up in a lot of movies in notable (if not leading) roles - enough so that there were jokes about him showing up everywhere. Does anyone remember who that guy was?

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Jude Law?

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Thank you. That’s the name I was trying to think of.

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That OP was pretty vague. Congrats to RealityChuck for nailing it in one. My first thought was Matt Damon, then Benedict Cumberbatch. Jude Law would have been about my ninth or tenth guess. (I remember him showing up in a lot of stuff, but don’t really remember jokes about it.)

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I was way off in the year, too. It was more like 2004, not 2010, as seen in this People interview
https://people.com/celebrity/jude-law-2/

The swashbuckling star of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is more than a hero – he’s on his way to becoming a screen legend with six films slated for release in the next few months. After the computer-animated Sky Captain, Law, 31, will appear in Alfie, I Heart Huckabees, The Aviator, Closer and Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. The ubiquitous Brit recently talked about taking over Hollywood, working with his ex-wife and dodging the paparazzi.

With so many movies coming out, do you feel in competition with yourself for Oscar attention?
(Laughs) Gosh, to be really honest, I don’t think like that. I think that jinxes any sense of progress or success of a film anyway.

I also remember that in How I Met Your Mother, referring to an adult movie actor who made 42 movies a movie, Robin says: "Who is he, Jude Law? Right? He makes a lot of movies. I mean, not so much lately, but maybe, like, two years ago,you couldn’t go to a movie without…