No matter how hard they try to convince me that Sarah Jessica Parker is sexy I will always think of her as one of the nerdy girls on Square Pegs.
Metatron in DOGMA
I’ll never be convinced she’s sexy, no matter what her past roles were.
Fortunately, when I saw her in Steve Martin’s L.A. STORY, I did not recognize her as the SP girl, so her sexy cred was intact, until she got older & her SP features seemed to re-emerge. Now she’s OK looking but not hot.
May I congratulate you on a terrific User Name. That and your “location” convince me you have excellent tastes in movies and actors. One of the best.
I think that’s the case for any actor who comes from nowhere to have a big, recurring role. The Friends cast will always be the Friends cast (particularly Matt LeBlanc and Lisa Kudrow for me), the Seinfeld cast will always be the Seinfeld cast, and the Buffy cast will always be the Buffy cast (except for Anthony Head - he’ll always be the guy from the Nescafe Gold Blend ads).
It mostly affects TV series casts - after all, they run for so much longer - but the same can occur in movies too. No matter how much I enjoyed the way Dominic Monaghan played Charlie in Lost, he was always Merry the hobbit in the back of my mind, and the same will be true of Billy Boyd, should I ever see him in anything else. Orlando Bloom escaped that fate, although that’s probably down to the fact that he’s so bland in every role he plays they all roll into one.
Alec Guiness was a pretty good, classically trained actor with a worthy catalogue of roles. Unfortunately, he’s only going to be remembered as Obi Wan.
I scrolled down slowly from the first post about her, hoping to make this statement and hoping no one else had. Thank you for saying though, so I don’t feel so guilty making the off topic statement. But seriously, she’s sexy? No way…I’m not convinced by her past roles, nor by her appearance. I’m pretty sure future roles will cause me to believe the same.
Brendon Small
I think SJP is hot.
I always think of him a Prince Fizal… “A Slim Customer… Very good. Now we are Talking Turkey are we not?”
No matter how many campy farces of the same character he plays over the years, R. Lee Ermey will always be the sargeant in Full Metal Jacket, and Vincent D’Onofrio will always be Private Pyle. I suspect if I hadn’t seen that movie first, though, the latter would be stuck in my head as the crazy dude from The Cell. Regardless, every time I see him in any serious role, I always think “Why is he trying to act not-crazy?”
Carrie-Anne Moss is forever Trinity in my mind. I’ll watch her in anything, but even when she’s wearing a polka-dot sundress and a flowery hat, in the back of my mind I’m still going “Just wait 'til she kicks all your asses.”
And yeah, to me, Hugh Laurie is House. OMGsoweird seeing him as the dad in Stuart Little. I was just waiting for him to bust out the mean.
I first knew Patrick Stewart as Sejanus in I Claudius.
That great miniseries colored my perceptions of Brian Blessed, John Rhys Davies & Derek Jacobi.
And John Hurt, of course!
He’s hardly a big name, but Asian character actor Al Leong showed up pretty much every time there was a group of Asian thugs, and at least once (Die Hard) when there was a group of multi-racial thugs, and every time I saw him, I mentally referred to him as Genghis Khan (due to his standout performance in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure).
Bill Paxton as Wyatt’s older brother Chet in Weird Science.
“How 'bout a nice greasy pork sandwich served in a dirty ashtray?”
He’ll always be Colonel Nicholson to me.
Gregory Peck will Always be Atticus Finch.
Not that this would ever be a bad thing in my book.
Off the top of my head Anthony Hopkins- Hannibal Lecter for me, ehh it’s a common one I bet.
I watched him in a film where he was this eccentric inventor type, very smily, creeped me the fuck out. Didn’t that film have something to do with cornflakes?
:dubious: He was the inventor of cornflakes…? No?
The way he tore into that big chicken leg…the way he jumped at that woman’s bosom. Oscar Award winning performance, there.
Matthew Broderick is Ferris Bueler. He can be no one else. Oh, sure, he may be Ferris fighting Godzilla, of Ferris dressed as Inspector Gaget, but the’s still Ferris.