# Circa 2010 - Male Actor in a lot of movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [September 26, 2021, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circa-2010-male-actor-in-a-lot-of-movies/951353 "2021-09-26T01:44:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2021, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circa-2010-male-actor-in-a-lot-of-movies/951353/1 "2021-09-26T01:44:26Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2021, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circa-2010-male-actor-in-a-lot-of-movies/951353/2 "2021-09-26T01:58:03Z")
Jude Law? ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2021, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circa-2010-male-actor-in-a-lot-of-movies/951353/3 "2021-09-26T02:10:47Z")
Thank you. That’s the name I was trying to think of. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2021, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circa-2010-male-actor-in-a-lot-of-movies/951353/4 "2021-09-26T13:00:56Z")
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.) ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2021, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/circa-2010-male-actor-in-a-lot-of-movies/951353/5 "2021-09-26T16:33:58Z")
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/](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…