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When you think of an actor, what character comes straight to your mind?

71 replies

Soubriquet · 09/04/2023 08:09

For me it’s Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn. I know she has the new Barbie movie coming out but I still see her Harley.

Anne Hathaway…would have to be Princess Mia from The Princess Diaries.

Ryan Reynolds…of course is Deadpool

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chocolateisavegetable · 09/04/2023 08:50

David Suchet is obviously Poirot

LetUsPonce · 09/04/2023 08:53

Alan Rickman - Snape

Soubriquet · 09/04/2023 08:54

Oh yes to Alan Rickman.

In fact, if I watch anything with him, it’s just Snape.

Makes Love Actually an interesting watch….Professor Snape cheating on Professor Trelawny

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Avarua2 · 09/04/2023 08:55

Christian Bale - the banker guy in American Psycho

LightDrizzle · 09/04/2023 08:59

Ben Kingsley-Gandhi

I think of Jamie in Truly, Madly, Deeply for Alan Rickman and was amused when I first saw him in HP. He was a brilliant Snape though.

Sarah Lancashire -Raquel!

HuggingtheHRT · 09/04/2023 09:02

It's impossible to think of Ardal O'Hanlon as anyone other than Father Dougal. Death in Paradise confuses me as I can't work out why a craggy island priest is solving murders in the Caribbean....

Knullrufs · 09/04/2023 09:05

Jamie Dornan as Paul Spector in The Fall. Can’t see him as anything else. (Unfortunately.)

Xrays · 09/04/2023 09:07

LetUsPonce · 09/04/2023 08:53

Alan Rickman - Snape

For me it’s the Sheriff of Nottingham but I think that’s showing my age 😳😆

Nitgel · 09/04/2023 09:10

christopher quinten Brian tilsley

Allthecatsandcosyblankets · 09/04/2023 09:12

Jennifer Aniston- Rachel
Ricky Gervais - David Brent

OldTinHat · 09/04/2023 09:12

Johnny Depp - Jack Sparrow.

Billybagpuss · 09/04/2023 09:16

Xrays · 09/04/2023 09:07

For me it’s the Sheriff of Nottingham but I think that’s showing my age 😳😆

Hand gruber, die hard does that make me the oldest?

David Tennant, Casanova

Soubriquet · 09/04/2023 09:17

Yes to Jennifer Aniston and Johnny Depp!!

Mila Jovovich…torn between Alice from resident evil, or Leeloo from 5th element

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Soubriquet · 09/04/2023 11:12

Kirsten Stewart…Bella. Which unfortunately has put a bit of a dampener on her as Bella was shit

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x2boys · 09/04/2023 11:15

Andrew Lincoln will always be Egg in this life to me.

JulieHoney · 09/04/2023 11:19

Margot Robbie as Tanya Harding:
”who would do that….

… to a friend?”
😂

Eddie Marsan as the furious driving instructor in Happy Go Lucky

Idris Elba as Stringer Bell

Gregorylass · 09/04/2023 11:21

Maggie Smith as Lady Grantham

BearSoFair · 09/04/2023 12:55

Peter Capaldi - Malcolm Tucker. 2 avid Doctor Who fans in the house and even after every episode with him as the Doctor, he's still Malcolm to me!

Mads Mikkelsen - Hannibal Lecter

LlynTegid · 09/04/2023 12:56

Lord Olivier as Henry V

GrouchyKiwi · 09/04/2023 13:11

Christian Bale is Laurie for me, and Winona Ryder will always be Jo.

Viggo Mortensen is Aragorn.

Rachel Weisz is Evelyn Carnahan, but Brendan Fraser is George of the Jungle (and Lesley Mann is Ursula).

Paul Rudd is dude from Clueless.

MarshaBradyo · 09/04/2023 13:16

Margot Robbie - The Wolf of Wall St ditto Leonardo DiCaprio

Anne Hathaway - The Devil Wears Prada ditto Emily Blunt and Meryl Streep, although latter is the Chamberlain story dingo too

Mila Jovovich- The 5th Element

MarshaBradyo · 09/04/2023 13:18

And one not yet mentioned

Meg Ryan - When Harry Met Sally

Tom Hanks - hard one The Castaway but others score highly
I haven’t watched Forrest Gump

TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross · 09/04/2023 13:20

Viggo Mortensen - Aragorn
Orlando Bloom - Legolas.
Alan Rickman - Colonel Brandon
Tom Cruise - Ethan Hunt
Keira Knightley - Elizabeth Swan

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 09/04/2023 13:21

Gregorylass · 09/04/2023 11:21

Maggie Smith as Lady Grantham

Showing my age here - Maggie Smith is Miss Jean Brodie to me! Watched Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid yesterday. Defining roles for Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Al Pacino - Michael Corleone. Jack Nicholson - thingy from The Shining. Julie Andrews - Maria from The Sound of Music. Clint Eastwood - a sort of mash up of The Man with No Name and Dirty Harry. Robert E. Grant and Paul Megan- Withnail and I.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 09/04/2023 13:22

Richard! Not Robert.