Do you ever watch a film and can't relate one actors role in another different film?

[savoloysam]

For example every time i watch a film with Kevin Spacey in he always reminds me of him as Lester Burnham from American beauty

 

[Epona]

I have a touch of "face blindness" so find it hard to recognise faces, often when I am watching something I will have a vague feeling that I recognise an actor from something else and it bugs me to the point where I need to hit the pause button and look it up on IMDB, just to set my mind at rest. Even very famous actors I find it difficult to place them and have to look it up so that I can place why they look vaguely familiar before being able to continue enjoying a show

So possibly the opposite problem to the one you've mentioned! If I watch something with Kevin Spacey in it I sit there thinking "I think I've seen him in something else" but can't quite place him and have to refer to IMDB before I can relax!

 

[savoloysam]

Some of my favorite actors appear in other of my favorite films hence the contradiction. I know what you mean about actors you've seen but don't know where. It takes you away from the film you're watching.

 

[mrs quoad]

I'm still confused by what Agent Cooper is doing in Desperate Housewives.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Tommy Carcetti in Game of Thrones is just wrong.

 

[Reno]

Tommy Carcetti in Game of Thrones is just wrong.

....and will he ever bugger another 15 year old boy, like he did in Queer as Folk ?

 

[SpookyFrank]

....and will he ever bugger another 15 year old boy, like he did in Queer as Folk ?

Given littlefinger's character in the TV show I wouldn't be at all surprised.

 

[danny la rouge]

I can't see Kermit in A Muppet Christmas Carol without expecting him to sing Rainbow Connections.

 

[8115]

If I see someone who used to be on tv in a film, I think "that's not right", as though there are two different universes, with no way of crossing between them.

Sometimes. Not if they're really good. Olivia Colman can cross the divide.

 

[EastEnder]

If I see someone who used to be on tv in a film, I think "that's not right", as though there are two different universes, with no way of crossing between them.

Simon Pegg.

Shaun of the Dead - not a problem, it was basically an extended episode of Spaced.
Hot Fuzz - bit iffy, getting close to a "real" film.
Mission Impossible 2, Star Trek - No freaking way, get him off the screen, it looks like he's only there cos he won a competition for aspiring amateurs.

 

[albionism]

That geezer who was always "on probation" in the tv series Ideal.
When he appears in Game Of Thrones as one of the Night's Watch,
i keep expecting him to say it.

 

[ice-is-forming]

yes! i think! but sometimes i see cartoon characters playing different cartoon characters! does my bleeding 'ed in.

 

[Firky]

Robin Williams, he'll always be Madam Doubtfire.

Not that I am bothered, if he's in a film it's a sure sign it's going to be shite.

 

[Firky]

Tommy Carcetti in Game of Thrones is just wrong.

He was the main poof in Queer as Folk. I always think of him in that role.


He also played a Royal Marine in an Ungentlemanly Act - giving my age away