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Video: 6 celebrities who started out as comedians and went on to become dramatic actors
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
In childhood, many kids love to grimace. For some, this goes away over the years, but others succeed in the parody genre, and as a result make it their profession. And even more - without staying for a long time in stand-up shows and comedies, in the future they gain fame as excellent actors in dramatic films, and some even grow to Oscars. Today we remembered a dozen of such Hollywood stars who managed to grow from the role of a clown to universal recognition in serious cinema.
Robert Downey Jr
This is not to say that the future "iron man" made jokes brilliantly, but, nevertheless, the producers were able to see the comedian in the young guy. He was invited to the sketch show Saturday Night Live, which aired in the mid-1980s. Robert managed to hold out there for about a year, until he was fired for incompetence. Such a failure did not break the actor, and he continued his career, acting in comedies and comic melodramas about the life of young people, for example, in "Oh, this science." The turning point came in 1992, when Downey Jr. was nominated for an Oscar for his leading role in the biopic about the great comedian Chaplin. Since then, directors have discerned a dramatic streak in him. Yes, and Robert learned to joke - to remember at least his lines in superhero blockbusters from Marvel, where the actor is credited with working on the script.
Bruce Willis
This actor became famous, playing the role of the savior of both an ordinary skyscraper and the whole planet. But none of us know that Bruce began with romantic comedies. Yes, yes, then he was a young handsome guy with normal hair and playing the harmonica. It was not a sin to shoot such a handsome man in the romantic "Blind Date", the black comedy "Death Becomes Her" or in the comedy-detective series "The Moonlight Detective Agency". And now, unexpectedly for everyone, he gets a role in the blockbuster "Die Hard". As the creators of the picture later shared, they needed an actor "from the simple", who had not yet become famous as a superman, but known to the audience as a humane and vulnerable hero. Well, and then it went - it went - either an ordinary cop, by the will of fate, involved in the hunt for the fifth element, or the best driller capable of blowing up a meteorite …
Tom Hanks
The quirky simpleton can be seen in many popular comedies of the 80s and early 90s. It was during this period of time that comedies such as "The Bachelor Party", "Joe Against the Volcano", "Turner and Hooch", "Sleepless in Seattle" were filmed. The turning point was the role in the legal-political drama "Philadelphia" - Tom played a lawyer dying of AIDS. It was for the embodiment of this dramatic image that the actor was awarded an Oscar. Since then, Hanks has become a superstar, who has been hired mostly to work on heroic and dramatic characters. For example, for the role of Forrest Gump in the film of the same name or the modern-day Robinson Crusoe in The Outcast, a police officer in Catch Me If You Can, or a TV presenter in the recent Wonderful Day Next Door.
Nicolas Cage
The nephew of the famous director Coppola began his acting career with dramatic roles. But either the experience was lacking, or the bar was too high - as a result, Nicholas switched to comedic roles, which just brought him his first success. "Kiss of the Vampire", "Power of the Moon", "Raising Arizona" - these are the pictures that opened Cage as a comedy actor. The first success in a dramatic role was the role of Sailor Ripley in the crime film Wild at Heart (1990). Well, and finally managed to move to a new level of skill only after hard work on the film "Leaving Las Vegas", for which Nicolas Cage was awarded the "Oscar". In addition, it is necessary to remember his heroic role in Michael Bay's action movie "The Rock".
Jamie Foxx
Many black actors started out as comedians - in the early 90s there was simply no other way for them to enter the stage. So Jamie Foxx also spent most of this decade on the stage as an "adult clown." He even had his own sitcom on television called The Jamie Foxx Show, which managed to stay on air for five seasons. In the future, the actor managed to break through to the big screen, and the directors were able to discern the charisma and dramatic inclinations of talent in it. He starred in the films "Accomplice", "Ali", "Every Sunday". Well, his most stellar role was the autobiographical drama about the famous musician Ray Charles, for which he received the long-awaited Oscar. Well, most moviegoers fell in love with Jamie Foxx for the lead role in the movie "Django Unchained."
Jennifer Lawrence
Looking at this main Hollywood nigga Jennifer Lawrence, it's not hard to assume that the girl once participated in humorous shows. Indeed, before becoming a superstar, Jennifer starred for three years in the family sitcom The Billy Yngwala Show, where she played the protagonist's daughter. But her further work in the blockbusters "X-Men" and "The Hunger Games" proved her dramatic talent. However, it was not for these achievements that she was nominated for the main Hollywood award. The actress received her "Oscar" for her role in the comedy "My Boyfriend is Crazy", and another nomination for her participation in the black crime comedy "American Scam". Or maybe just Jennifer Lawrence - a versatile actress who looks organically both in the humorous genre and in the drama?
Leonardo DiCaprio
It is not surprising that we do not remember Leonardo for his comic roles - the actor managed to make the transition from comedy to drama even before he came of age. The majority of Russian viewers met this wonderful Hollywood star with the films What Eats Gilbert Grape and Romeo and Juliet, The Iron Mask, and then we saw his work in such movie hits as The Beach, Titanic, Inception, Catch Me If You Can, Survivor. However, in his early youth, DiCaprio became famous as a boy from the television series Parents and Growing Problems. In addition, he starred in the popular in the 90s TV series "Santa Barbara", but due to the large number of episodes, our fans may not have been able to see him there.
To move to a new stage in his career, he was helped by the patronage of Robert De Niro himself, when the celebrity chose him from many applicants for the role in the film adaptation of Tobias Wolfe's semi-autobiographical book "This Boy's Life". At the time of his appearance on the wide screen, Leonardo was 19 years old. But DiCaprio received his "Oscar" for a dramatic story about a Canadian hunter left by friends wounded in a winter forest at the age of 40.
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