# Learning to like actors who were creeps the first time out **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 23, 2007, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-to-like-actors-who-were-creeps-the-first-time-out/416659 "2007-08-23T16:58:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-to-like-actors-who-were-creeps-the-first-time-out/416659/41 "2007-08-26T09:34:37Z")
[QUOTE=adhemar] Eric Roberts, he is the creepy sleazy boyfriend in Star 80 forever. [/QUOTE] Oh, thank you for posting this! I’ve been trying to remember the name of that movie so I could add to this thread! I have the same reaction to him! I’ve never been able to totally shake it, even when I see him doing comedy. ---
**Author:** ![Layla01](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/layla01/32/15552_2.png) [@Layla01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Layla01)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-to-like-actors-who-were-creeps-the-first-time-out/416659/42 "2007-08-26T12:48:35Z")
I’m sorry, but Anthony Hopkins will always be Hannibal Lecter to me - I saw him before he did “Silence of the Lambs” in “Elephant Man”, but no matter how many sympathetic characters he plays, he always creeps me out… ---
**Author:** ![Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abby_Emma_Sasha)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-to-like-actors-who-were-creeps-the-first-time-out/416659/43 "2007-08-26T14:40:50Z")
I started this thread without really thinking through what I wanted to say and I’m not happy with the outcome of my OP. Some of my grammar was lacking and I got on a tangent about something that was irrelevant to the subject(Flowers in the Attic?). However, I _am_ happy about the responses. To be more clear, I was thinking of actors I had seen for the first time in bizarre, creepy roles. I used Louise Fletcher because that was the first movie I had seen her in and twent years later I can never see her as anything but evil nurse Ratchid. I don’t feel the same way about Anthony Hopkins or Mark harmon(both excellent serial killer portrayers) because I had known their work from years before. Oh, another good example is Ted Levine. I had never heard of him before “Silence of the Lambs”, but even when I watch “Monk” and love Capt. Stottlemeyer all I can think is …“It puts the lotion on it’s skin”. Ewww. MMMkay, everyone continue now. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-to-like-actors-who-were-creeps-the-first-time-out/416659/44 "2007-08-26T15:27:25Z")
I keep expecting [Ted Levine’s](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0505971/) Captain Stottlemeyer on _Monk_ to say. “It rubs the lotion in or it gets the hose again” from _Silence of the Lambs._ dammit. ---
**Author:** ![Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abby_Emma_Sasha)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-to-like-actors-who-were-creeps-the-first-time-out/416659/45 "2007-08-26T15:33:28Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] I keep expecting [Ted Levine’s](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0505971/) Captain Stottlemeyer on _Monk_ to say. “It rubs the lotion in or it gets the hose again” from _Silence of the Lambs._ See, that’s wha’m talkin’ bout. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-to-like-actors-who-were-creeps-the-first-time-out/416659/46 "2007-08-26T15:57:21Z")
[QUOTE=Abby\_Emma\_Sasha] See, that’s wha’m talkin’ bout. [/QUOTE] Is that Good or Bad? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-to-like-actors-who-were-creeps-the-first-time-out/416659/47 "2007-08-26T16:21:11Z")
[QUOTE=Abby\_Emma\_Sasha] See, that’s wha’m talkin’ bout. [/QUOTE] Me too. 🙂 See post #38. ---
**Author:** ![Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abby_Emma_Sasha)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-to-like-actors-who-were-creeps-the-first-time-out/416659/48 "2007-08-26T16:32:14Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] Is that Good or Bad? 😕 [/QUOTE] It’s all good, baby. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-to-like-actors-who-were-creeps-the-first-time-out/416659/49 "2007-08-26T16:36:13Z")
[QUOTE=Zoggie] Me too. 🙂 See post #38. [/QUOTE] Sorry about that. ---
**Author:** ![Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abby_Emma_Sasha)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-to-like-actors-who-were-creeps-the-first-time-out/416659/50 "2007-08-26T16:40:02Z")
[QUOTE=Zoggie] Me too. 🙂 See post #38. [/QUOTE] I gotcha **Zoggie** but I can’t agree about Juliette since I’ve seen her work as a pre-teen. But yeah, today she kinda scares me. She was so so pretty, and now she looks so harsh. I digress. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-to-like-actors-who-were-creeps-the-first-time-out/416659/51 "2007-08-26T16:40:41Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] Sorry about that. [/QUOTE] And apparently, **Sampiro** beat me to the punch. Oh, thought of another. The first time I saw Kevin Spacey was in Se7en, so I associated him with serial killers for the longest time. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-to-like-actors-who-were-creeps-the-first-time-out/416659/52 "2007-08-26T16:49:31Z")
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**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-to-like-actors-who-were-creeps-the-first-time-out/416659/53 "2007-08-27T01:46:35Z")
[QUOTE=Miss Mapp] Just about everything I have seen Jeffrey Combs in has crept me out. Dr. West in the Reanimator movies? Creepy. The FBI agent in The Frighteners? Creepy. Most of his various alien roles in Star Trek? Creepy. The remake of House on Haunted Hill? So creepy I can’t watch it. But I am a fan of his. When I met him once at a Trek convention a few years ago, I was surprised that found him attactive. He’s really kind of cute in real life! [/QUOTE] Very cute, actually. He used to work at a very cool local repertory theater in SoCal (where I was a student), so I saw him on stage a lot. I was always creeped out by the movie roles he chose. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-to-like-actors-who-were-creeps-the-first-time-out/416659/54 "2007-08-27T02:53:13Z")
The actor [David Dukes](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0241232/) has had a long career, mostly small or one-off parts, but a few featured roles. But to an entire generation of TV watchers he’ll always be the guy who tried to rape Edith Bunker. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/learning-to-like-actors-who-were-creeps-the-first-time-out/416659.md?page=2)