Actually not – there are very long stretches where he doesn’t appear, though they did beef up the part.
Mark Rydell as Marty Augustine in The Long Goodbye
Robert Duvall in Apocalypse Now
Robert Preston in S.O.B. and also Victor/Victoria
Thelma Ritter in every film she was in.
Technically, Rita Moreno in The Ritz, though the script was written with her in mind – but she’s a supporting character, not the main one.
Completely agreed. A very entertaining movie overall, but he was the real star.
I enjoyed this movie way more than I’d anticipated, and I can get on board with that. I found myself really looking forward to her being on-screen. I’m going to attribute at least a chunk of that to the way her character was written, though, as opposed to just how good she was.
And I concur with Heath Ledger, of course, but I assumed that was going to be everyone’s answer.
Vin Diesel stole the crap out of Boiler Room, an otherwise forgettable movie. He’s awesome in it, and skinner than you’ve ever seen him.
I thought David Cross as Cain stole every scene he was in in “Year One.”
Rupert Everett completely stole My Best Friend’s Wedding, so much that people tend to think of him as the “best friend” and forget that Dermot Mulroney was even in the movie.
Another “Me too” for Val Kilmer in Tombstone.
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Johnny Depp completely stole Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl - especially if you think of “stealing” as meaning “so completely taking the spotlight from the erstwhile stars, Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley, that the producers end up writing the sequels around your originally-tertiary character.”
Marisa Tomei in My Cousin Vinny, why is probably why she got best supporting actress.
From two of my all-time favorite comedies:
John Belushi’s “Bluto” Blutarski in Animal House and Bill Murray’s Carl Spackler in Caddyshack are both essentially supporting characters. Yet they’re inevitably the first things anyone remembers from these films.
Well, consensus at the time was that Nicholson stole the movie in the first Batman flick as well. So it may be the part. Charismatic psychopaths apparently beat out uncharismatic psychopaths.
James Gandolfini had the best scene in True Romance. He didn’t run away with the movie, but if he was given more screen time he probably would have.
Warren Oates in Two Lane Blacktop.
Karl Urban as Bones McCoy and Simon Pegg as Scotty in the 2009 Star Trek may not have stolen the movie, but they stole every scene they were in.
Steve McQueen in The Magnificent Seven.
Bloom and Knightley were the romantic leads, but I think Depp was always the “star.” He was a famous, charismatic leading man cast in a flamboyant, larger-than-life role, and the marketing of the film certainly doesn’t suggest that he was ever considered a tertiary player.
Yep. Similar is his role in Alice in Wonderland. He may seem like a secondary player in the story but there was no doubt they marketed the film around him.
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If anyone stole the PotC films it has to be Jack, the Undead Monkey.
Sweet Zombie Jesus!
Yeah, I’d have to agree that Depp was a star of PotC, along with Bloom and Kneightly.
Geoffrey Rush, on the other hand, stole every scene he was in, even the ones with Depp. He wasn’t over-the-top, not scenery chewing, just plain perfect as a bitter, rough, undead pirate-captain.
This is what I came in here to say.