Fun topic: what’s the first time you remember seeing now famous actors? Like, I remember seeing Michael Fassbender in JONAH HEX and thinking “shit, this dude’s good.”
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My husband and I both came away from "Living in Oblivion" feeling very impressed with a scene-stealing actor we had never heard of, one Peter Dinklage. "Oh, it MUST be a DREAM! There's a fxckin DWARF in it!"
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Nope - she didn't start killing it until she played Peggy Olson in Mad Men. Hers was a criminally underrated role. She was superb.
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Carrie Coon in GONE GIRL.
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I saw Carrie Coon play Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream at American Players Theatre twenty years ago or so and her performance even then stood out so memorably among very very talented theater actors
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Terrible movie, brilliant performance
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In elementary school we had to watch this educational series called “Voyage of the Mimi” that featured Ben Affleck, who was roughly 10 at the time it was filmed. Came out in the 80s but we were watching it when Good Will Hunting came out which makes it even weirder/funnier
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Geoff Goldblum as a random rapist in Death Wish one or two.
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First one.
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I feel like Oscar Isaac has a half dozen of these but for me it will always been Creepy orderly in Sucker Punch.
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I was thinking of his guest spot on a L&O: Criminal Intent episode.
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Wow. Many a great started on that franchise.
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Oh shit, that reminds me! Adam Driver as a key suspect on a Law and Order SVU.
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my first time seeing Keanu was in I Love You to Death and he was AWESOME!
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David Tennant shone in 'Taking Over The Asylum' Funnily enough at the time I watched it back in the 90s, it was co-star, Ken Stott, who I thought would be a perfect Doctor Who.
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Seeing Jimmy Kimmel as the sidekick on "Win Ben Stein's Money" and thinking, "He could carry a show." Same thing when I saw John Fugelsang as the sidekick on the short lived CNBC talk show hosted by John McEnroe.
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For me, it was surreal to see Jimmy from the radio station on Win Ben Stein's Money, and then even stranger to see him keep going past that.
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Kenan Thompson's career has been a more or less uninterrupted run of rock solid sketch comedy ever since his Nickelodeon days.
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Christian Bale in Empire of the Sun.
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An amazing performance in a very underrated Spielberg film. Bale was a great actor even as a child.
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When I watched American Psycho I could swear I’d seen him before
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Jack Nicholson in The Raven, 1963.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt on 3rd Rock from the Sun.
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Sebastian Stan as a teenage sniper/kidnapping victim in an episode of Law & Order. To a lesser extent, Ty Burrell in the same episode.
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Giancarlo Espizito on NYPD Blue as a wheelchair using former gang banger.
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he will always be Al Giardello's son from Homicide Life on the Street to me xD
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great topic, struggling to think of answers, but Kristen Bell in The Shield comes to mind
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I would love to say "Michael Shannon in Groundhog Day" but it would be a lie that I recognized him in it before I knew who he was from other things
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Kristen Bell in Deadwood, playing a teen con artist who meets her end in a gruesome way. I knew she had mega talent when I saw her in this role.
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mm hmm
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Laurence Fishburne on one of the daytime soaps -- All My Children (or was it One Life to Live?) back when his name was Larry Fishburne and he was a teen.
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He was great in Apocalypse Now.
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Jeff Goldblum in Between The Lines
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Silverado. Kevin Costner was a blast of fresh energy! 😁
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Austin Butler in The Shannara Chronicles! Did a really good job for what was a fun fantasy series. Was thrilled to see his phenomenal performance as Elvis, and he's gone on to do more great work.
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Dakota Fanning in a S1 episode of CSI in late 2000. She was absolutely incredible.
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My kids loved the 2010s reboot of PBS’s The Electric Company which was my first exposure to both William Jackson Harper and Lin Manuel Miranda.
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The original The Electric Company - my first exposure to Morgan Freeman (yes, I'm old.)
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Milla Jovovich in Return to the Blue Lagoon was "not of this age/world". So I especially adored her Leeloo in the 5th Element. "Multi pass!"
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Lin-Manuel Miranda on House
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Mark Ruffalo in “You Can Count on Me.”
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I remember an episode of a short-lived TV series from the early 80’s called LEGMEN featuring a young Tim Robbins (he played Brewster the eccentric Beverley Hills heir who lived in the pool house and witnessed a murder) and thinking this dude has something.
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Jude Law as Jerome in Gattaca. It was obvious he had the juice. Plenty of casting directors must have seen him as well because he was in like twenty movies a year later
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"As the World Turns" when I was watching it in the early 1990s was giving us Ming-Na Wen, Lauryn Hill, and Parker Posey all at the same time.
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Reading through these makes me realise how terrible I am at recognising faces, as I've seen a LOT of these and just never made the connection that it's the same person.
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Eg TIL Oberyn Martel was played by Pedro Pascal, I loved that character, but he was absolutely not Pedro-Pascal-shaped at all in my memory.
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David Corenswet actually. He was in “We Own This City” and as soon as he appeared on screen I was like “oh this guy’s the hero” and was kinda disappointed that he wasn’t more integral to the plot. I wasn’t surprised at all that he went straight being cast as Superman
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Am I too old for this one? I got Lawrence Fishburne on peewees playhouse
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He was like 16 or 17 in that. I really loved him in Francis Ford Coppola's utterly weird adaptation of Rumblefish. Fishburne was beyond cool, and I think he was only 21 or 22 in that.
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Time for bed Grandpa.
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Go watch Apocalypse Now. He was maybe 18?
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Oh cmon u know the peewee stuff is more fun n representative of the OPs theme! Ofc saw it 45 yrs ago, but don't rewatch much. No need
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I saw Liev Schreiber in Cymbeline in Central Park. He stood out as a, "wow, that guy's got presence" guy.
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This reminded me - Liev Schreiber in Mixed Nuts. He really stood out. Just looked it up and it was his first film (after one made for tv film).
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Me every time I see Bradley Cooper: “It’s the guy from Alias!”
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for me it was Bradley Cooper in Jack and Bobby.
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Ah, Will. Us Alias fans will have a soft spot for Bradley Cooper until the end of time.
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Just last night I was reminded that Daniel Dae Kim was in the Babylon 5 spinoff "Crusade"; that may have been the first role I saw him in.
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OMFG YES! How could I forget that!
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I loved him in Angel.
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I think I wasn't watching regularly when his character became more prominent? I'd completely forgotten he was in it. ^_^;;
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Me too. But he killed it on Lost.
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Love LOST, was just thinking about the first time I saw him. But his ending on LOST still makes me upset.
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Me too. But I cried buckets at the Kwons' ending. 😢
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Jim Carrey in Earth Girls are Easy.
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Florence Pugh in The Falling. Wasn't the lead, but absolutely shone on screen. Knew she would move onto much bigger things.
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David Dastmalchian was in The Dark Knight for one scene, then he was also in a Wendy's commercial. I was like "why do I know this face, and why am I terrified of this burger man?"
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Patrick Swayze on “M*A*S*H”
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I remember Darren Criss as the lead in A VERY POTTER MUSICAL by StarKid. When he showed up on GLEE later I was like, oh, cool, Darren Criss, someone else saw that YouTube video, too.
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i was just watching florence pugh in the little drummer girl the other day and thinking she was a cut above. now im curious to see her first film with maisie williams, the falling, from 2014. similarly, recall being enchanted by emily blunt & natalie press in my summer of love in 2004.
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Peter Capaldi as John Malkovitch's valet in Dangerous Liaisons.
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Hayden Panettiere in Remember the Titans. She was like 11 but was really convincing as an influence on Will Patton’s character.
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When I first saw Norman Reedus in FLOATING, I thought, "This guy is like the missing Phoenix sibling."
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The justly forgotten NBC original Persons Unknown featuring Chadwick Boseman. I had no idea who he was but instantly knew he was a great actor and knew he’d go places. Similarly in 2005(?) Fassbender was on some bad BBC show as a demon and it was clear he was a star.
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There are a lot of examples from this show, but I always think of Rashida Jones as "Kim Kelly's rival from 'Freaks and Geeks'". Similarly, in my mind Bob Odenkirk is still "Bob Odenkirk from 'The Ben Stiller Show'"
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Philip Seymour Hoffman in The Hunger Games sequels.
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Ben Affleck in Voyage of the Mimi. Jk 😂
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Michael Shannon in Revolutionary Road (though tbf he did have a small part in Groundhog Day when younger)
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Christian Bale as a teenager in “Henry V”. (I hadn’t seen “Empire of the Sun” at the time.) Even in the few minutes he was in H5, you could tell he was going to be a really great actor as an adult.
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I saw Dustin Hoffman in a TV production of The Journey of the Fifth Horse by Ronald Ribman in the mid-'sixties. I was a teenager. He blew me away. It was a couple of years before he would make The Graduate.
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Everyone in Black Hawk Down
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I think there is an objectively correct answer to this question. Future Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker in Bloodsport:
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I'm positive Forrest Whitaker had a tiny but memorable role in 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High' (1982).
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Yes! Fast Times was lousy with Best Actor Oscar winners: Whittaker, Sean Penn, Nicolas Cage.
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Yeah totally correct. I just think it is funnier thinking of him in Bloodsport lol
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Giancarlo Esposito as Buggin-Out in Do the Right Thing. A few years later, he killed it as the independent journalist in Bob Roberts, and I was knocked out when I realized he was the same guy. I've followed him ever since, and I'm thrilled that he's getting the recognition he deserves.
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There was a documentary that came out in 2000 or so, showing the UPW wrestling training school and students that were working towards becoming professional wrestlers. Even that early, John Cena captured the camera.
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Ben Foster in “Six Feet Under” had me thinking “I wish we had more of that character” and then he started doing movies and he’s remained in my top tier
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Daniel Craig in Road to Perdition. He was creepy AF in that movie and I thought, no idea who this is but this dude is awesome
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Andrew Garfield in Lions for Lambs. I looked up his name in the end credits because I was sure he'd make it big someday.
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Garfield in Never Let Me Go, opposite Carey Mulligan & Keira Knightley. I had no idea who he was, but he was impressive and heartbreaking. Such a tragic dystopian story.
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I don't cry at the movies very often, but I definitely cried at the end of Never Let Me Go.
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Another Kazuo Ishiguro novel, Klara and the Sun (a similarly tragic dystopian story) is being made with Jenna Ortega in the lead. I hope Ortega is up to the role - if so I'll be crying at the end as well.
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Allison Janney in Big Night. Small part I remember wanting to see more of.
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James McAvoy in sci-fi channels children of dune. He clearly was the most talented guy in the room.
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Courtney Cox in Misfits of Science. If you remember this show, your back hurts.
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Cox in the Bruce Springsteen Dancing in the Dark video.
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Yes! I thought I was the only one that remembered that show.
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And your knees make noises
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My back hurts so much I even remember Judge Harry Stone meeting a Nielsen couple responsible for its cancellation and being mad at them.
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Whoa, Rock was a baby in this.
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Renee Zelwigger and Mathew McConaughy in Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Return. Johnny Depp - Nightmare on Elm Street.
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Joe Pesci in Raging Bull.
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I saw Mystic Pizza at the theater and thought “that Julia Roberts stands out”
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Rami Malek as Snafu on The Pacific
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He was totally scary.
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Michael B Jordan just destroyed s1 of The Wire, they never really had someone else so perfect (even though everyone else was great too).
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Jesse Plemons in breaking bad
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Jesse Plemons in Friday night lights!
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Aldis Hodge and Michael B. Jordan in Friday Night Lights.
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Michael B. in The Wire. Such a sad storyline and he nailed that role.
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God, every now and then my husband will be like “where’s Wallace at, String?” and 😭
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CRUCIFICTORIOUS!
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LANCE!
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My first encounter with Jack Black was The Neverending Story 3 lol
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Adrian Brody in the 1993 movie King of the Hill
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Great movie--that might have been my first time seeing Spaulding Grey as well.
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Everybody Wants Some!! is such a great ensemble movie, but that fucker Glen Powell really stood out amongst all the lovable dirtbags
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Elliott Page in an episode of Trailer Park Boys at about twelve. Oh, and Rebel Wilson in Fat Pizza. “My Habibi!”
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When Michael B Jordan showed up in Friday Night Lights, my wife and i both shouted “It’s Wallace!” And became evangelists for his work.
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Matthew McConaughey was alright alright in Dazed and Confused. Ben Affleck was not. He was an even bigger jerk in Mallrats. Speaking of jerks, that Bradley Cooper guy in The Wedding Crashers was intense.
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Maybe not their best early roles but Ben Stiller and Joe Pantoliano had small speaking roles in “Empire of the Sun” and I remembered them years later when they came into their own.
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Christian Bale in Empire of the Sun.
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Seeing Sebastian Stan on Once Upon a Time and saying to my daughter, “Why is he on TV? This guy is a movie star”
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Mr. Dark in Something Wicked This Way Comes. Jonathon Pryce in an unforgettable villainous role.
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From Wikipedia: "In a 1981 issue of Cinefantastique, Bradbury said that his top choices for Mr. Dark were Peter O'Toole and Christopher Lee, but to keep the budget down, Disney decided to cast Jonathan Pryce, who was still relatively unknown."
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Which reminded me of this kid - I’d heard of him, certainly, but hadn’t really noticed him before - who played Edward Scissorhands and suddenly was just, woah, how did that THAT happen?
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My first experience with Jonathan Pryce was Jumping Jack Flash 😆 Very different experience!!
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Robert De Niro (IIRC) recently told a story about going to an office with one of his kids and Jonathan Pryce was there. De Niro noted that Pryce was Mr Dark, and the kid was scared! Something Wicked was such a good adaptation, too
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When David Corenswet showed up in We Own This City, I thought, “that dude looks like Superman.” If only I was a betting man.
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Jennifer Lawrence in Winter's Bone. I had to watch it in High School and didn't like the movie, but she definitely did a good job. A year later I saw her in X-Men
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Carey Mulligan in the "Blink" episode of Doctor Who. Carries the whole episode.
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I remember seeing her in Blink and going "it's Kitty Bennet!" but she had more opportunity to shine in Blinknfor sure.
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Sally Sparrow! I was gutted when she didn't become Ten's companion. But she was about to do An Education, so that put the kibosh on it.
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Around the same time I saw Amy Adams play Tara's bigoted redneck cousin in Buffy and Josh Lyman's crush/Aaron Sorkin's sermon delivery device in the West Wing. Now she's probably the finest actor of our generation.
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"Before they were famous" - BOTH Kathryn Hahn and David Harbour in Revolutionary Road in bit parts holding their own against Kate and Leo.
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The very young unknown Ryan Gosling in Young Hercules. Whatever happened to him?!!?
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Seeing "Mystic Pizza" (1988) and deciding on the way out that a key member of the cast was going to be a star. (Okay, I figured it was going to be Annabeth Gish instead of Lili Taylor or Julia Roberts, but close enough, right?)
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Tom Hardy as Captain Picard’s clone on Star Trek Nemesis.
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When we watched Cellular shortly after its release, my wife and I agreed that guy had star potential. "That guy" was Chris Evans.
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Natalie Portman in The Professional, Ethan Hawke in Dead Poets Society, and a bit newer, Oscar Isaac in Inside Llewyn Davis come to mind quickly.
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Oscar Isaac was doing something so unusual in the otherwise execrable Sucker Punch that I made a point to remember the name.
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I had the same response to him in Ridley Scott’s otherwise entirely flat Robin Hood
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The Coens' Inside Llewyn Davis did it for me (also showcased Adam Driver).
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He was memorable in Madonna-directed "W.E." in 2011
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Ryan Gosling in The Believer.
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Bruce Willis in a jeans ad of all things. With just a few seconds of screentime he imparts a hell of a lot of personality.
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When Scott McNairy started showing up everywhere I was like “Oh hell yeah it’s the guy from Monsters!” and at some point later I realized I had seen him even before Monsters in Art School Confidential.
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We started watching Halt and Catch Fire and my wife couldn't remember where she knew him, I got to go "he's the guy from Monsters" so now he's always "he's the guy from Monsters".
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Idris Elba in the TV series Ultraviolet. I knew he'd make it big.
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That was a good programme.
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Phillip Seymour Hoffman in Scent of a Woman
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Philip Seymour Hoffman as Lester Bangs in Almost Famous. I hadn't really noticed him much before this performance. But his final scene with Patrick Fugit almost made me cry.
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Carey Mulligan in the Doctor Who ep Don't Blink!
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I remember seeing Adrien Brody in Summer of Sam and thinking “Wow, this guy’s gonna win an Oscar. Now he has two. Conversely, I remember seeing Marisa Tomei on the TV show A Different World and thinking she was the worst actress I’d ever seen. Five years later, she won the Oscar. What do I know?
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I fell in love with Lin-Manuel Miranda in House. He was amazing.
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Daniel Craig in Layer Cake. Remember thinking he'd make a good Bond. True story.
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Paul Walter Hauser, of I, Tonya, Richard Jewell, The Naked Gun ‘25 & Fantastic 4… will always be the jugallo kid from Always Sunny
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Michelle Pfeiffer in a horrible cop show called B.A.D. Cats
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Christian Bale as the kid in Empire of the Sun.
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Bruce Willis on Miami Vice
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So many people on Miami Vice! Fantastic casting on that show.
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Pedro Pascal on Buffy
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Went back to see him as Eddie again a few months ago. He looks so young!
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I just knew him as “that guy from the mentalist who doesn’t get the girl, and why should he?” Now I know.
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Also, oddly, Sydney Sweeney playing a naive virginal child bride in Gilead from The Handmaid's Tale
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Oh no now I know who Sydney Sweeney is. I was imagining a farmer influencer for some reason. Dammit.
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Alan Tudyk stealing the show as Traxler the Security Guard in Wonder Boys
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Jeremy Renner in Angel
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Giancarlo Esposito in Maximum Overdrive (1986), as the dude that wanders into the game room and tries to steal all of the cigarettes, coins, and coffee.
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Giancarlo Esposito in School Daze.
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Colin Farrell, Tigerland, circa 2000
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I see you never caught Ballykissangel reruns late night on PBS as a child
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A woman came into my shop around 2002 and had just seen Hart's War, she said that the movie was a piece of shit 'but that Colin Farrell fellow is very talented'
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This happened to me three times with Mckenna Grace because I kept not recognizing her in things as the same actress I had been impressed by previously.
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coens fans being like "oh I should pay attention to this Hailee Steinfeld" in 2010
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🫡🫡🫡
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not sure I've ever seen anyone so clearly have It from the moment she appears on screen
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She should have been considered for Best Actress. But it was a tough year regardless. Her performance is incredible.
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free yourself of needing the Oscars to reward quality. you know she was amazing. this is enough
aug 5, 2025, 4:12 am • 2 0 • view
Hear hear
aug 5, 2025, 2:57 am • 4 0 • view
And yet, I think she stinks. Watch her and Florence Pugh in the "macaroni scene" in Hawkeye and you'll see the difference between a mannered self-conscious actress and a truly great one in total control of her art.
aug 5, 2025, 6:46 am • 1 0 • view
100 percent
aug 5, 2025, 3:42 am • 1 0 • view
Mmhmm mmhmm
aug 5, 2025, 2:40 am • 1 0 • view
I think she is an OK singer (clearly she wanted to have pop songs on the radio), but she is leagues leagues LEAGUES a better actress and I don't think I've seen her do a bad job in that field yet
aug 5, 2025, 3:49 am • 0 0 • view
everyone should stick with what they made their breakthrough, except justin timberlake, he should switch to acting
aug 5, 2025, 4:14 am • 2 0 • view
For me it’s Jimmi Simpson on the “Unfaithful” episode of “House.”
aug 5, 2025, 3:57 am • 0 0 • view
House, but Jeremy Renner
aug 5, 2025, 4:04 am • 1 0 • view
Tom Holland in The Impossible. Teen actor (15/16 or so) & technically he'd already done Billy Elliot on stage so he was a bit famous in the UK, I guess, but I had no idea who he was. He gave an utterly amazing performance. 4 years later, he was Spider-Man.
aug 5, 2025, 5:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Jack Black in the X-Files
aug 5, 2025, 8:43 am • 3 0 • view
Eddie Marsan in a Cadbury's Dairy Milk advert, trying to clean an automatic door. He was in a show called Vice, not long after. Olivia Coleman, I remember being in a National Lottery advert for Hotpicks. Her pronunciation annoyed me to remembering. Little did I know she'd be an Oscar winner.
aug 5, 2025, 1:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Jim Carrey in the smallest room at the Comedy Store before In Living Color aired.
aug 5, 2025, 7:26 am • 2 0 • view
Timothee Chalamet and Ezra Miller making recurring appearances on Royal Pains way beforr anything else to my knowledge.
aug 5, 2025, 4:59 am • 0 0 • view
I remember seeing Scarlett Johansson in “Ghost World” (2001) and thinking there was something awfully intriguing about her but also thinking she was quiet and seemed bored, so I figured I wouldn’t see much of her again. I was right about the intriguing part, wrong about the rest.
aug 5, 2025, 3:45 pm • 3 1 • view
When I was like 5 I thought the smart-alec kid in the sitcom "It's Your Move" was pretty cool. The show is long forgotten, but Jason Bateman is still going.
aug 5, 2025, 3:18 am • 13 0 • view
Oooh. I shoulda thought of that one. Show was moderately amusing, but I generally think back on it when I see him.
aug 5, 2025, 4:43 am • 1 0 • view
Also, I feel like a lot of folks in my age group first knew Bradley Cooper from "Alias".
aug 5, 2025, 3:24 am • 10 0 • view
It will always amuse me that he was, like, the less-cool awkward friend/ damsel in distress for Sydney
aug 5, 2025, 3:38 am • 10 0 • view
Taps (1981) had Sean Penn, Giancarlo Esposito, and of course Tom Cruise
aug 5, 2025, 4:45 am • 3 0 • view
Morgan Freeman on Electric Company I always say 'Dignan!' when I see Owen Wilson
aug 5, 2025, 4:02 am • 6 0 • view
Oh of course--good call on Electric Company! She was already a big deal but of course that was my first time seeing Rita Moreno as well.
aug 5, 2025, 11:30 am • 2 0 • view
Russell Crowe in the Quick and the Dead was the first time I thought “that’s a star”. Also Pedro Pascal in Buffy but I was mainly bummed he died right away. The last time this happened was John Boyega in Attack the Block
aug 5, 2025, 4:45 am • 2 0 • view
Sabrina Carpenter in Girl Meets World
aug 5, 2025, 4:04 am • 1 0 • view
Viola Davis is so good though so barely in OUT OF SIGHT.
aug 5, 2025, 12:45 pm • 1 0 • view
Ryan Gosling in Lars and the Real Girl. Chris Pratt in Parks and Rec. Though I didn't imagine either would become AAAA-listers
aug 5, 2025, 3:58 am • 1 0 • view
Chris Pratt in Everwood
aug 5, 2025, 4:05 am • 0 0 • view
Never saw it
aug 5, 2025, 4:07 am • 0 0 • view
I’m still like “that guy played Leto II in the dune miniseries!”
aug 5, 2025, 2:19 am • 36 1 • view
YES same
aug 5, 2025, 4:05 am • 1 0 • view
He did?!
aug 5, 2025, 2:28 pm • 0 0 • view
james McAvoy.
aug 5, 2025, 2:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Oooooh. I thought you were say Idris Elba did and I was like, "Dang, I don't remember that! " hahaha.
aug 5, 2025, 3:11 pm • 1 0 • view
Johnny Depp in 21 Jump St. Used to love watching it with my ma. I remember when Edward Scissorhands came out and everyone knew his name, our house was sort of proud of him 🤣🤣
aug 5, 2025, 10:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Seeing David Strathairn as the likable lawman in Matewan and then realizing with a shock that he was also the skeevy abusive father in Dominick & Eugene.
aug 5, 2025, 4:34 am • 5 0 • view
That is an actor who is always so good every single time.
aug 5, 2025, 11:32 am • 3 0 • view
Tom Hanks in Bosom Buddies. Ryan Reynolds (and Nathan Fillion) in Two Guys a Girl and a Pizza Place. Patrick Warburton in Seinfeld.
aug 5, 2025, 7:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Shit. Joe Rogan on News Radio.
aug 6, 2025, 1:35 am • 0 0 • view
Definitely Hanks in BB. He was a star from the beginning. So beguilingly obnoxious.
aug 6, 2025, 7:06 am • 1 0 • view
Emma Stone in Superbad.
aug 5, 2025, 8:00 am • 6 0 • view
cyberpunk julia stiles in ghostwriter:
aug 5, 2025, 1:21 pm • 1 0 • view
I remember Tobey Maguire really standing out in THE ICE STORM, even among that stacked cast
aug 5, 2025, 3:11 am • 28 0 • view
Ooh, for me it would be Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon and Paul Walker in Pleasantville.
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Jake Gyllenhaal in a play in London called This is Our Youth with Anna Paquin and Hayn Christensen who I knew from Life as a House and some Canadian teen show Higher Ground. Ryan Gosling in another Canadian teen show Breaker Higher and then he went on to do Remember the Titans and The Believer.
aug 5, 2025, 6:09 am • 0 0 • view
Tilda Swinton in the BBC Scotland TV series Your Cheating Heart. (written by Scottish playwright John Byrne, her then-partner.)
aug 5, 2025, 3:14 am • 5 0 • view
Also Emma Thompson in John Byrne’s Tutti Frutti (also BBC Scotland), rocking a southside Glasgow accent.
aug 5, 2025, 3:15 am • 3 0 • view
Took me a bit to warm up to Tim Robbins because I first saw him in Howard the Duck and his character was sooo annoying.
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Also I first saw Chris Pratt as “Che” in season 4 of the OC.
aug 5, 2025, 3:59 am • 1 0 • view
I first saw Leo DiCaprio in the last season of Growing Pains.
aug 5, 2025, 3:54 am • 3 0 • view
Viola Davis at the end of "Antwone Fisher." Michael Shannon in "Revolutionary Road."
aug 5, 2025, 3:05 am • 4 0 • view
THE QUICK AND THE DEAD introduced me to a taciturn lump of beef named Russell Crowe and a beautiful young elf named Leonardo DiCaprio, neither of whom I had ever seen before. I remember noting that the DiCaprio kid in particular seemed talented.
aug 5, 2025, 2:54 am • 18 0 • view
FWIW, DiCaprio already had an Oscar nomination to his credit by the time he was cast in “The Quick and the Dead”
aug 5, 2025, 4:12 am • 6 0 • view
Yes, DiCaprio. I saw him in a pre-final cut screening of "This Boy's Life", and was blown away that "this kid" (!) was holding his own with De Niro.
aug 5, 2025, 4:57 am • 3 0 • view
Also great in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
aug 5, 2025, 1:29 pm • 2 0 • view
Crowe I Romper Stomper. Made my partner watch it. This guy is gonna be huge.
aug 5, 2025, 9:03 am • 1 0 • view
Really showing my age but Liam Neeson in A Woman of Substance. I remember thinking damn it why isn't this man famous? 😂
aug 5, 2025, 7:53 am • 1 0 • view
Brie Larson on a show called RAISING DAD a wholesome sitcom that was very old fashioned and liked it and got a cast set a autographs which is where got Brie Larson who is now super famous in that set
aug 5, 2025, 5:12 am • 1 0 • view
My wife was a big STARGATE: ATLANTIS fan, so when Jason Momoa started breaking out, I kept thinking, "hey, lookit that, it's the big dude from STARGATE: ATLANTIS!"
aug 5, 2025, 2:21 am • 67 0 • view
Yeah, when I realized it was him as Drogo in GOT, I thought “Yeah, that’s perfect.”
aug 5, 2025, 3:46 am • 1 0 • view
Every time I see someone thinking his career started with Game of Thrones (or, heaven forbid, Aquaman) I just wanna cry
aug 5, 2025, 10:01 am • 0 0 • view
First time he shows up it was definitely a ‘oh, this guy’s gonna have a career’ moment.
aug 5, 2025, 3:32 am • 14 0 • view
Apparently he was in a Baywatch spinoff too? But I very much remember him from SG: Atlantis.
aug 5, 2025, 4:08 am • 8 0 • view
Nicole Kidman in Dead Calm blew up my 18 year old brain. Ed Norton in Primal Fear Ewan McGregor on an ER episode 2 days before I saw Trainspotting Michael B Jordan in The Wire Michelle Pfeiffer in Hollywood Knights
aug 5, 2025, 4:11 am • 0 0 • view
Same guy, inglorious Basterds
aug 5, 2025, 3:47 am • 0 0 • view
Jack Black stole scenes in Airborne in a very small role, absolutely killed it.
aug 5, 2025, 2:44 am • 1 0 • view
I still think of Jack Black as Zero from the X-Files episode where his friend Giovanni Ribisi gets lightning powers
aug 5, 2025, 2:21 am • 201 6 • view
I love that episode
aug 5, 2025, 2:46 am • 1 0 • view
God that episode slaps
aug 9, 2025, 12:08 am • 1 0 • view
The opening sequence of this episode has a killer version of that James song Ring the Bells
aug 5, 2025, 2:48 am • 1 0 • view
Jack Black? You mean the annoying sales staff from High Fidelity?
aug 5, 2025, 8:17 am • 0 0 • view
While I love the D, Jack Black will always be Augie the goalie from Airborne
aug 5, 2025, 2:39 am • 3 0 • view
I always remember him getting his hand blown off by that remote controlled sniper rifle in "The Jackal"
aug 5, 2025, 4:19 am • 1 0 • view
Jack Black? The airplane pilot in Water World?
aug 5, 2025, 3:59 am • 2 0 • view
Jack Black, the Fake Jamaican from I Still Know What You Did Last Summer?
aug 5, 2025, 6:54 pm • 1 0 • view
He was so sorry
aug 5, 2025, 3:43 am • 0 0 • view
That’s funny, cuz I didn’t notice him there til rewatches after he became famous, but i remember his brief appearance in The Jackal opposite Bruce Willis
aug 5, 2025, 2:22 am • 41 0 • view
That scene where his arm gets blown off fucked me up as a kid
aug 5, 2025, 4:08 am • 3 0 • view
I first noticed him as one of the teenage psychos following Bob Roberts around
aug 5, 2025, 2:31 am • 49 0 • view
I first saw him as a bully in the 1993 roller blading classic movie Airborne!
aug 5, 2025, 3:24 am • 1 0 • view
Dammit you beat me to it.
aug 5, 2025, 3:55 am • 0 0 • view
He captured something essential about budding young American fascists
aug 5, 2025, 2:46 am • 17 0 • view
I first recall JB as Matthew Broderick's friend in "The Cable Guy."
aug 5, 2025, 2:49 am • 18 0 • view
I just rewatched the incredible Broadway parody "The Joke: The Musical" on "Mr. Show", which has a *lot* of JB.
aug 5, 2025, 3:24 am • 9 1 • view
I think my first JB sighting was Neverending Story II.
aug 5, 2025, 3:51 am • 4 0 • view
It was NES 3.
aug 5, 2025, 5:35 am • 0 0 • view
First time I saw him was in Airborn, at the theatre 😂
aug 5, 2025, 4:12 am • 5 0 • view
Album store clerk in High Fidelity
aug 6, 2025, 1:32 pm • 0 0 • view
He was a teen bully in The Neverending Story III!
aug 5, 2025, 9:10 am • 0 0 • view
Him and Seth Green are both in Airborne which I saw in theaters for reasons I can't explain.
aug 5, 2025, 2:32 am • 1 0 • view
That's the episode that really focuses on a Virtual Fighter 2 cabinet right?
aug 7, 2025, 7:37 pm • 0 0 • view
I remember Jack Black as a brown shirt looking kid in Bob Roberts.
aug 5, 2025, 3:54 am • 2 1 • view
I first fell for him in Mr. Show's *The Joke: The Musical."
aug 5, 2025, 2:55 am • 5 0 • view
BOOYAH
aug 5, 2025, 6:26 am • 0 0 • view
I prefer Jack Black in Airborne. Classic comedy performance
aug 5, 2025, 10:25 am • 0 0 • view
oh you know i never saw that but i did randomly read the novelization of that episode as a kid, and from what i remember of it? that sounds like spot-on casting for the character
aug 5, 2025, 4:17 am • 1 0 • view
The same episode where the local sheriff was played by Blake Lively's father. And the same season with Ryan Reynolds playing a weepy teen.
aug 5, 2025, 4:26 am • 1 0 • view
Gary Oldman in Sid & Nancy in a little art house theater in London. Knew nothing about the movie; just decided to go in. Definitely went "shit, this dude is good"
aug 5, 2025, 6:52 pm • 2 1 • view
When I was a kid I saw the movie where Jack Palance played Dracula. For my entire life, whenever I've seen Jack Palance in anything, I always think to myself something like "Hey look, it's Dracula playing a cowboy."
aug 5, 2025, 2:43 am • 15 0 • view
I mean he was probably already famous by then, but he wasn't to me.
aug 5, 2025, 2:44 am • 8 0 • view
My first experience of Jack Palance was Ripley’s Believe It Or Not.
aug 5, 2025, 3:50 am • 6 0 • view
Same
aug 5, 2025, 6:28 am • 0 0 • view
I think my favorite example of this is Liam Neeson in Krull ('83).
aug 5, 2025, 3:53 am • 4 0 • view
Excalibur was even earlier
aug 5, 2025, 11:20 am • 1 0 • view
Val Kilmer in Real Genius
aug 5, 2025, 3:18 am • 32 0 • view
This is the answer. I miss him, but I’ve missed young Val for decades. That movie is still so fun.
aug 5, 2025, 3:45 am • 1 0 • view
He was in Top Secret! a year earlier, and that made quite a splash too!
aug 5, 2025, 4:09 am • 11 0 • view
Keanu Reeves in "The River's Edge." Total hidden gem from the past.
aug 5, 2025, 3:54 am • 1 0 • view
Or damn, Sean Penn in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High." His two buddies were Anthony Edwards and Eric Stoltz.
aug 5, 2025, 4:00 am • 1 0 • view
Forrest Whitalker... the black guy in that flick.
aug 5, 2025, 4:10 am • 0 0 • view
Yes! Him too. Just a stacked cast of future stars. Whitaker was probably the most purely talented.
aug 5, 2025, 4:16 am • 3 0 • view
Jennifer Jason Leigh
aug 5, 2025, 4:17 am • 2 0 • view
Keanu Reeves in Constantine, in which I first took notice of him. Can't beat a gorgeous Unattainable Man dressed in black.
aug 6, 2025, 7:13 am • 0 0 • view
Wilford Brinkley in Absence of Malice
aug 5, 2025, 1:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Vin Diesel in Saving Private Ryan
aug 5, 2025, 4:47 am • 1 0 • view
Walton Goggins in The Apostle
aug 5, 2025, 3:03 am • 2 0 • view
Walton Goggins in Justified. First time I'd seen him, and he did stellar work, particularly opposite Timothy Olyphant. Timothy Olyphant in Go! The sexiest drug dealer *ever.* Melissa McCarthy was in it too, in a tiny but fairly hilarious role.
aug 6, 2025, 7:01 am • 1 0 • view
David Caruso in Mad Dog and Glory made me sit up and take notice. Uma Thurman in Johnny Be Good leapt off the screen. Natalie Portman in Beautiful Girls was a wonder. Russell Crowe in Hammers Over the Anvil made quite an impression.
aug 5, 2025, 10:51 pm • 1 0 • view
Zooey Deschanel in Almost Famous made a meal out of a small role and I immediately thought she’d get big.
aug 5, 2025, 6:55 pm • 2 0 • view
Zooey was also in Bridge to Terabithia.
aug 5, 2025, 7:42 pm • 1 0 • view
I saw Ted Danson on the streets of NYC in the 80s doing a commercial for Aramis for men cologne. The shot must have been from the waist up because the pants he was wearing were bright and ugly.
aug 5, 2025, 5:41 am • 1 0 • view
Don Cheadle will always be the guy from the Golden Girls spinoff to me.
aug 5, 2025, 5:00 am • 3 0 • view
Ooh! Don Cheadle in Boogie Nights. He was great in that.
aug 6, 2025, 6:56 am • 0 0 • view
Jon Stewart in "Short Attention Span Theater", mid 90's something.....
aug 5, 2025, 3:13 pm • 4 0 • view
Early 90’s, mid 90’s he got his own talk show
aug 5, 2025, 7:00 pm • 1 0 • view
I remember seeing Ashley Judd on her handful of guest appearances on Star Trek and then thinking "Well, good for Ensign Lefler" whenever she turned up in anything over the next decade.
aug 5, 2025, 2:59 am • 25 0 • view
Naomi Watts first stole my heart as Jet Girl in the Tank Girl movie
aug 5, 2025, 2:41 am • 49 0 • view
I remember seeing it on cable after she’d hit big and being blown away that she was in that.
aug 5, 2025, 3:39 am • 5 0 • view
OH HOLY SHIT THAT WAS NAOMI WATTS. I had a mad crush on Jet Girl when that flick came out.
aug 5, 2025, 10:53 am • 2 0 • view
Lol. I only realised that the other day... 🙄😁
aug 5, 2025, 7:59 am • 0 0 • view
Ok, I realize he was known to most of humanity before this but the first time I saw Idris Elba was on “The Office” and I was so impressed by him- so handsome but also such a good actor- I was thinking - this guy is going to be famous 😊😂
aug 5, 2025, 4:24 am • 2 0 • view
Brad Pitt in Johnny Suede
aug 6, 2025, 6:38 am • 0 0 • view
Bruce Willis in Moonlighting. What a great cast.
aug 5, 2025, 3:51 am • 17 0 • view
A very young Val Kilmer in “Top Secret.” Not only thought “oh, we’re going to see more of this guy,” I also developed an enormous crush. What am amazing actor he was.
aug 5, 2025, 3:48 am • 10 0 • view
Jonathan Bailey was played a dim but kind athlete in a very little watched 2011 British sitcom “Campus” and I talent-spotted him.
aug 5, 2025, 6:51 am • 1 0 • view
I got dragged to see Private Parts, the Howard Stern biopic, and now I will always say “It’s the guy that played Pig Vomit” when I see Paul Giamatti
aug 5, 2025, 3:57 am • 21 0 • view
There were a lot of stars in that. To answer the OP, I was introduced by Mary McCormack and also Edie Falco was in that film, although she didn’t have a speaking role.
aug 5, 2025, 2:28 pm • 1 0 • view
He steals the show! What a great performance.
aug 5, 2025, 1:31 pm • 1 0 • view
Seeing Paul Giamatti in Singles (1992) was the best.
aug 5, 2025, 3:28 am • 3 0 • view
For me, it was Russell Crowe in "Virtuosity." I was absolutely mesmerized. My mother told me she remembered watching "The Electric Company" with me and being blown away by Morgan Freeman.
aug 5, 2025, 1:11 pm • 3 0 • view
Walton Goggins in The Apostle. I was convinced he was a local hire!
aug 5, 2025, 6:58 am • 1 0 • view
Amy Adams in Junebug. Julianne Nicholson (maybe on tv? first).
aug 5, 2025, 3:48 am • 5 0 • view
I remember delighting the first time I saw Junebug when I realised you could actually *hear* Adams smile. I adore that movie.
aug 5, 2025, 4:11 am • 2 0 • view
Ewan McGregor in Shallow Grave. And Emma Stone in the reality show where they were casting a Partidge Family reboot. She jumped off the screen.
aug 5, 2025, 6:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Who let that baby wear those low cut jeans? 😭 youtu.be/acMgZWidqKM?...
aug 5, 2025, 6:55 pm • 1 0 • view
The various Pythons on Dean Martin's Comedy World.
aug 5, 2025, 5:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Viggo Mortensen as Lucifer in THE PROPHECY Sarah Snook as Jessie in JESSABELLE Tatiana Maslany as Ghost in GINGER SNAPS 2 Paul Rudd as Tommy Doyle in HALLOWEEN: THE CURSE OF MICHAEL MYERS Bradley Cooper as Travis in MY LITTLE EYE Ebon Moss-Bachrach as the lead in Comedy Central’s PORN ‘N CHICKEN
aug 5, 2025, 2:58 am • 11 1 • view
That Maslany was able to do *that* as a literal teenager blew my mind. Perfect horror villain
aug 5, 2025, 2:58 pm • 3 1 • view
Same for me with Viggo and Tatiana! God i love the Ginger Snaps movies
aug 5, 2025, 4:26 am • 2 0 • view
Wow, Viggo's performance as Lucifer was literally the only thing I remembered from The Prophecy and I didn't even realize it was him
aug 5, 2025, 5:23 am • 2 0 • view
I loved Viggo in A Portrait of a Lady.
aug 5, 2025, 8:13 pm • 0 0 • view
For years I had trouble remembering Amy Poehler's name, but I always remembered her as Andy Richter's little sister on Conan.
aug 5, 2025, 4:42 am • 5 0 • view
Jessica Chastain on Veronica Mars
aug 5, 2025, 3:37 am • 6 0 • view
I was in a one-act play festival in a garage in Brooklyn in 2004. Cristin Miloti was in the piece just before mine, and I was like “oh she’s a star.” Ironically, another piece on the bill starred “the original Becky” from Roseanne, rather on the other end of the celebrity parabola.
aug 5, 2025, 1:33 pm • 1 0 • view
The only reason I kept watching Girls was Adam Driver and Ebon Moss-Bachrach they were both magnetic
aug 5, 2025, 3:55 am • 6 0 • view
I'll see all y'all's Scarlett Johansson in GHOST WORLD/THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE and raise you a THE HORSE WHISPERER.
aug 5, 2025, 5:31 am • 1 0 • view
This is theatre rather than film/TV (and also, I’m old). But Colin Firth in the west end stage production of Another Country in maybe 1983? He was astoundingly good.
aug 5, 2025, 9:15 am • 0 0 • view
Chris Tucker in the Fifth Element
aug 5, 2025, 4:46 pm • 2 1 • view
YES. Ruby Rhod was a character for the ages.
aug 6, 2025, 7:07 am • 1 0 • view
Heather Graham was luminous in the last few episodes of Twin Peaks.
aug 5, 2025, 12:03 pm • 0 0 • view
This line delivery from Anchorman stuck with me forever, and years later I re-watched it and realized it was Kathryn Hahn
aug 5, 2025, 4:15 am • 11 0 • view
She also killed it in Crossing Jordan!
aug 5, 2025, 5:29 am • 4 0 • view
This was the first one I thought of! I had that scene in my brain for YEARS as an example of someone doing The Most and perhaps Too Much with basically a nothing role. (I think I made the connection/learned her name early on when she was in Parks & Rec.)
aug 5, 2025, 1:01 pm • 2 0 • view
Whenever I see Sarah Silverman in anything I remember her as a guest character in that Star Trek: Voyager two-parter where they go to 1997.
aug 5, 2025, 11:28 am • 1 0 • view
I remember watching Ghost World and while obviously Thora Birch was going to be the bigger star I was interested in seeing more of this Scarlett Johansson.
aug 5, 2025, 1:30 pm • 1 0 • view
I came out of The Fugitive asking everyone, “Who was that redhead doctor lady??”
aug 5, 2025, 3:16 am • 18 1 • view
She was my favorite character in The Hand That Rocks the Cradle.
aug 5, 2025, 9:32 am • 0 0 • view
Eric Bana in Full Frontal. Absolutely hilarious
aug 5, 2025, 9:17 am • 0 0 • view
Gary Oldman will always be Joe Orton
aug 5, 2025, 8:11 am • 4 1 • view
YES. An amazing performance.
aug 5, 2025, 8:35 pm • 1 0 • view
Ryan Gosling in Breaker high Emily VanCamp, Chris Pratt from Everwood
aug 5, 2025, 4:47 am • 0 0 • view
Lucy Lawless in Xena.
aug 5, 2025, 2:29 pm • 0 0 • view
It's always so funny on My Life Is Murder when they try to tell us she's clumsy. I have seen this woman handle a sword.
aug 5, 2025, 6:23 pm • 1 0 • view
No kidding haha.
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Way back when, I saw two Australian films in fairly close succession that both starred Russell Crowe: "Proof", in which he played a blind photographer (!), and "The Sum of Us", in which he played a gay man who had a wonderful relationship with his father. I KNEW he would come to be known wordlwide.
aug 5, 2025, 4:33 am • 0 0 • view
Chris Pratt as the jock/blocking character in Everwood.
aug 5, 2025, 3:39 am • 0 0 • view
Didn't see him till P&R, but loved him immediately
aug 5, 2025, 4:00 am • 0 0 • view
Kyle McLachlan in Lynch's "Dune"
aug 5, 2025, 4:42 am • 1 0 • view
Toss up between Richard E. Grant in Withnail and I and James McAvoy in the series Children of Dune. Oh, and maybe Anya Taylor-Joy in The Miniaturist or Margot Robbie in any movie in which she's opposite Domhnall Gleason.
aug 5, 2025, 6:52 am • 2 0 • view
For years I thought of Ryan Reynolds as the funny one from 2 Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place.
aug 5, 2025, 4:23 am • 16 0 • view
Plus Nathan Fillion!
aug 5, 2025, 5:28 am • 1 0 • view
Holy cow I forgot he was in that!
aug 5, 2025, 5:31 am • 2 0 • view
And you were wrong because Fillion.
aug 5, 2025, 8:06 pm • 2 0 • view
Michael Shannon in Groundhog Day
aug 5, 2025, 7:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Saw the Dracula play on Broadway in late 1970s. Frank Langella was doing the movie, so they got another guy I'd never heard of. Raul Julia. As Dracula. I saw that LIVE.
aug 5, 2025, 9:00 am • 5 2 • view
Seeing Glen Powell in "Everybody Wants Some" made me think he was going to be Brad Pitt.
aug 5, 2025, 4:31 am • 2 0 • view
Antonio Banderas in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Brad Pitt in Thelma & Louise.
aug 5, 2025, 8:31 am • 0 0 • view
Jonah Hill as the dry, sarcastic customer in 40 Year Old Virgin.
aug 5, 2025, 3:53 am • 6 0 • view
Bleargh. I have no idea why he has a career.
aug 5, 2025, 8:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Kevin Hart as a customer in there too
aug 5, 2025, 10:34 am • 2 0 • view
Let me tell you about a little show called Pan Am
aug 5, 2025, 2:39 am • 26 1 • view
I was so upset that it only got one series
aug 5, 2025, 9:58 pm • 0 0 • view