40 Photos That May Leave You Stunned When You Realize The Same Actor Played These Roles
Have you ever been watching a movie and you knew in the back of your mind you’d seen one of the actors before? But no, you just can’t place them. Then maybe you go look at IMDb and all you can say is, “He played him? No way!” Perhaps that exact thing happened with one of these 40 actors.
40. Bryan Cranston
For a long time, Bryan Cranston was hapless comedy dad Hal on Malcolm in the Middle. But then… Breaking Bad came along. Suddenly he was the actor behind Walter White, a crime lord who was a long way away from Hal. Cranston has a lot of fun with jokey fan theories about those two roles, and after such an impressive acting showcase, he deserves to.
39. Harry Melling
Remember obnoxious cousin Dudley Dursley in the Harry Potter franchise? The child actor who played him, Harry Melling, changed quite a bit as he grew up. It might come as a big shock to learn that’s him playing Harry Beltik in Netflix hit The Queen’s Gambit. Yes, there’s a lot of the name “Harry” involved here.
38. Oscar Isaac
Let’s be honest, many people admire Oscar Isaac for his movie-star good looks as well as for his acting talent. Alas, in one of his first blockbuster roles that handsome face was buried under tons of prosthetics. That was when he played the titular Apocalypse in X-Men: Apocalypse, and no, the movie wasn’t a critical hit. Luckily, the same thing didn’t happen when he played Poe in the Star Wars sequels.
37. Stanley Tucci
Stanley Tucci is an extremely acclaimed character actor, and it’s not hard to see why. You probably wouldn’t realize at first that the man who played Caesar Flickerman in The Hunger Games also played the creepy serial murderer in The Lovely Bones. And not just because of their very differing aesthetics.
