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re: Has anyone ever disappeared into a role as well as Billy Bob Thornton in Sling Blade?

Posted on 7/13/23 at 8:26 am to
Posted by gameovergt
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Posted on 7/13/23 at 8:26 am to
Youtube has a video of BBT getting into Carl character. No prostetics, juts his lower jaw put. Really cool.
Posted by SouthEasternKaiju
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Posted on 7/13/23 at 8:30 am to
If she wasn’t already broken then this role did it.
Posted by TigerMan327
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Posted on 7/13/23 at 8:41 am to
Great role for sure but I mean the character is pretty obviously Billy Bob Thornton. Wasn't a huge visual\cinematic transformation physically.

It's funny to watch other people give true examples of people becoming completely different people with the help of makeup and what not and you constantly shooting it down "nah I know that's him, I didn't know this guy was Billy Bob though"

Also hilarious to note the amount of actors playing mentally retarded people have made there way into this thread as examples.
Posted by chinese58
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Posted on 7/13/23 at 1:19 pm to
I didn't think he had to act much in One False Move (1992). Felt like he might have just played a mean version of himself.

Posted by Corso
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Posted on 7/13/23 at 1:22 pm to
quote:

Youtube has a video of BBT getting into Carl character. No prostetics, juts his lower jaw put. Really cool.


I remember he had always refused to do it in interviews but when he was on Inside the Actors Studio with James Lipton he busted it out for a second and it was still awesome
Posted by Madking
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Posted on 7/13/23 at 1:28 pm to
Posted by LSUDAN1
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Posted on 7/13/23 at 1:36 pm to
Very small role but Donny Walberg in Six Sense.
Posted by BigBinBR
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Posted on 7/13/23 at 7:49 pm to
Not a good movie, but Tom Hardy in Capone





I also always forget he was Alfie in Peaky Blinders.


Posted by Locoguan0
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Posted on 7/13/23 at 8:34 pm to
Rainn Wilson as Dwight... Try to see him as anything else.

Posted by Jcorye1
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Posted on 7/14/23 at 9:37 am to
Tennent in Jessica Jones. Literally made a shitty TV show watchable.
Posted by madmaxvol
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Posted on 7/14/23 at 10:34 am to
One of my favorites. Brad Pitt in 12 Monkeys

Posted by Xignals
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Posted on 7/14/23 at 11:42 am to
He will always be Arthur from Six Feet Under to me.
Posted by 3deadtrolls
lafayette
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Posted on 7/14/23 at 1:41 pm to
This was going to be my submission. McConaughey crushed this role and unlike most everything else he's in did it without making it feel like a MM movie.
Posted by Ace Midnight
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Posted on 7/14/23 at 4:14 pm to
Tom Hardy

Christian Bale

Philip Seymour Hoffman
Posted by TU Rob
Birmingham
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Posted on 7/14/23 at 4:27 pm to
quote:

Youtube has a video of BBT getting into Carl character. No prostetics, juts his lower jaw put. Really cool.



didn't he also put glass or something in one of his shoes to force himself to limp along? Maybe it was that movie, or maybe it was another actor in a role with a pronounced limp, but I remember reading that somewhere.
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