Same actor--very different characters

[TV_time]

*Originally posted by Sublight *
**As much as I cringe at the thought of publicly praising Leonardo DiCaprio, his performance in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? was actually quite impressive, and radically different from Titainc, The Man in the Iron Mask and Romeo and Juliet, in which he essentially played “the character created for Leonardo DiCaprio so 15-year-old girls will pay to see this piece of crap 20 times in a row.” **

Well said Sublight, but when you mentioned What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?, I thought you would follow up on Johnny Depp.

There is an actor I am never certain if it is the same actor half the time. Besides Grape, you’ve got Edward Sissorhands and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow(granted this one may fall afoul of the “good” movie requirement, but he was different from the other two).

[Revtim]

*Originally posted by Ginkgo *
**Gary Oldman

Vlad Dracula in Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Lee Harvey Oswald in JFK
Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy
Rosencrantz in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg in The Fifth Element

…and the list goes on. The guy’s a freakin’ chameleon. **

Totally agree. I didn’t even recognize him in True Romance.