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00:00From diabolical orderlies returning for an unexpected round two,
00:04to actors being so damn convincing as historical figures
00:08that it'd be plain rude to not ask them back for another showing,
00:11here's another bunch of stars who showed up as the same character in separate feature spectacles.
00:17I'm Gareth from WhatCulture.com and here are 10 more actors you didn't know
00:21played the same character in different movies.
00:2410. Michael Sheen, Tony Blair, The Deal, The Queen, The Special Relationship
00:29To many, Michael Sheen is fondly known for his blockbuster work on the likes of The Underworld and Twilight flicks.
00:35But for those outside of the vampire-obsessed demographic,
00:39the Welsh powerhouse is more intrinsically linked to folks such as David Frost and Brian Clough,
00:44producing mesmerising turns in both Frost-Nixon and The Damned United, respectively.
00:49However, when looking back on the BAFTA-nominated Thespian's career,
00:53it's hard to look past one role in particular as the one that he was simply born to play,
00:57evidenced in the fact he's played the part on three separate occasions.
01:02Though not classed as directly connected in the traditional sense,
01:05Sheen would play Tony Blair in The Deal, The Queen, and The Special Relationship.
01:09Unofficially, this trio of flicks made up the Blair trilogy,
01:12seeing Sheen bring the former prime minister to life in the various stages of his political career.
01:18Rounding out his real-life figure work,
01:20Sheen has also strutted his stuff as comedy actor Kenneth Williams,
01:23and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire host Chris Tarrant and Kenneth Williams' Fantabulosa and Quiz, respectively.
01:309. Michael Sherd
01:32Adolf Hitler
01:33Five different times
01:35Some folks are born to play the British prime minister,
01:39while others are destined to take up the reins of one of the world's most infamous leaders.
01:43That's just show business, I guess.
01:45In the case of Scottish actor Michael Sherd,
01:47his most consistently witnessed character came in the form of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.
01:53Rocking up as the unmistakable presence on a whopping five different occasions,
01:58Sherd would play the leader of the Nazi party in TV flicks Rogue Mail and the Dirty Dozen Next Mission,
02:03TV series The Tomorrow People and Secret History Hitler of the Andes,
02:07and the big-screen blockbuster that was Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade.
02:11Strangely enough, he'd also play leading Nazi party member Heinrich Himmler on three occasions, too.
02:16Appearing in The Death of Adolf Hitler, The Bunker, and Space as the historical figure,
02:22seems sure he'd found quite the niche in playing deeply despicable human beings of days gone by.
02:278. Stanley B. Herman
02:28Uncle Hank
02:29Requiem for a Dream and Black Swan
02:32Speaking of despicable human beings,
02:34Stanley B. Herman had the largely overlooked honour of bringing a particularly heinous character to the table on two separate occasions,
02:42both of those being helmed by Darren Aronofsky.
02:44First showing up in the director's deeply unsettling and unfiltered psychological drama Requiem for a Dream,
02:50as one of the chilling guys goading Jennifer Connelly's character of Marion to go ass-to-ass in the midst of a sex show,
02:56she was taking part in to raise heroin habit funds.
02:59Aronofsky would credit Herman as the pervert initially.
03:02However, after confessing that he felt somewhat bad over hiring the actor to play such a volatile part for one day only,
03:08the director would bring Herman back for Black Swan, after gifting him with the new moniker of Uncle Hank.
03:14Here, playing the same part as he did in Requiem for a Dream,
03:17Herman is seen harassing Natalie Portman's Nina while she's riding the subway.
03:21Weirdly enough, he'd also play a part known as the pervert in Aronofsky's short film Fortune Cookie,
03:26and turned up as Fornicator in Mother 2.
03:29Again, quite a niche.
03:30Number 7, Ben Stiller, Orderly Hal, Happy Gilmore, and Hubie Halloween
03:34Though perhaps not the major talking point coming out of Adam Sandler's golfing riot that was Happy Gilmore,
03:41Ben Stiller still made a sizable impact on those chuckling on when terrorizing the titular character's grandma
03:46in her nursing home throughout the flick.
03:49In a scene which unfortunately didn't make it into the theatrical cut,
03:52Stiller's orderly Hal ultimately got his just desserts in the form of being sent flying through a window,
03:57but far from forcing him to change his ways,
04:00Gilmore's retaliation seemed to only serve as the catalyst for a career change.
04:04Returning as the devilish handlebar moustache sporting Hal in 2020's Hubie Halloween,
04:10Stiller is seen mocking and abusing what he thinks is a sleeping Richie Hartman,
04:14before discovering in the movie opening scene that Richie had actually bolted from the bed instead.
04:19It's an unfortunately brief nod to one of Stiller's more volatile but no less hilarious turns,
04:24but one that provided audiences with a sweet laugh and dose of nostalgia
04:28before having to endure the rest of another largely painful comedic Sandler experience.
04:346. Ian Hart, John Lennon, The Hours and Times, and Backbeat
04:38Playing the part of one of the most influential artists ever to set foot on planet Earth
04:43isn't what you class as an easy feat by any stretch of the imagination,
04:47but it was clearly one that Ian Hart didn't see any issue in taking a stab at,
04:50on two separate occasions no less. Years before he'd immortalize himself as the sniveling vessel
04:56that Lord Voldemort was taking residence in, Professor Quirinus Quirrell to you and me,
05:01during Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Ian Hart was thrown into the spotlight
05:05on the back of a deeply convincing portrayal of the legendary Beatle John Lennon,
05:10in Christopher Munch's The Hours and Times.
05:12Then, following on from the fictionalized telling of what might have gone down between the Beatles
05:16and their manager Brian Epstein, during a holiday in Barcelona in the 60s,
05:21Hart was brought back to play Lennon once again in Ian Softley's Backbeat three years later.
05:26Portraying a younger version of the Imagine Creator,
05:29when asked whether he was worried about being oddly typecast,
05:32the actor would confess,
05:33yes, I have played John Lennon twice,
05:35but they were two completely different characters who happened to have the same name.
05:40Yeah, sure.
05:41From one Lennon to another,
05:48here's an actor who took it upon himself to join the dots between two characters
05:51from two separate Christopher Nolan entries,
05:54and you can't exactly fault his logic, to be honest.
05:56Despite the iconic filmmaker never explicitly saying,
05:59or even visually alluding to the fact over the course of both Memento and The Dark Knight Rises,
06:04actor Thomas Lennon is convinced that he is actually playing the same role
06:07in both of those Nolan-helmed features.
06:10Speaking to HuffPost Entertainment around the time of the latter film's release,
06:14Lennon would confess,
06:15basically, I guess, I kind of think it's the same character from Memento,
06:19the doctor who's testing Sammy Jankis in that movie.
06:22I like to think I'm exactly the same doctor,
06:24and it's all happening inside of Guy Pearce's mind.
06:27He would later go on to admit that whether or not that's true is probably for Nolan to say,
06:31but it does make for an interesting theory as to how Nolan's bombastic flicks
06:35are all connected as part of an unofficial Nolan-verse.
06:38It also remains to be seen whether this doc will be along for another high-octane ride
06:42in the not-too-distant future.
06:454. Judi Dench, Queen Victoria, Mrs. Brown, and Victoria and Abdul
06:50As I've already alluded to over the course of this list,
06:53some actors are simply born to play certain famous faces from the very real past.
06:58And in the case of the formidable Dame Judi Dench,
07:00the role of the Queen of England seems to fit her like a regal glove.
07:04Yet while her only Academy Award win to date may have come thanks to her show-stealing turn
07:08as Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love,
07:12this isn't actually the Queenie that Dench has spent the most time bringing to life on a movie screen.
07:17After picking up her first Oscar nod for her work as Queen Victoria in Mrs. Brown,
07:21playing the monarch after she'd recently become widowed
07:23and exploring her relationship with Scottish servant John Brown,
07:27Dench would return to the role a whopping 20 years later in Victoria and Abdul.
07:31This flick would once again delve into Victoria's relationship with a servant,
07:35this time by the name of Abdul Karim.
07:38Her return to the role may not have generated the same buzz as her initial outing,
07:42but it still earned Dench an impressive 12th Golden Globe nomination.
07:46Not too shabby.
07:473. Ian Holm, Napoleon, Time Bandit, and the Emperor's New Clothes
07:51Though not completely against returning to a role within a long-running movie franchise,
07:56seen in his triumphant comeback as the legendary Bilbo Baggins in the Hobbit prequel trilogy,
08:01Ian Holm had largely steered clear of going back over old ground
08:05throughout a frankly absurdly varied big-screen career.
08:08However, away from stellar one-and-dones in the form of Aliens' unsettling android Ash,
08:13and athletics trainer Sam Masabini in Chariots of Fire,
08:17there is actually another character that the late Force of Nature
08:19found himself in the shoes of on multiple occasions in entirely different projects.
08:24After playing the well-known French political and military leader
08:27Napoleon Bonaparte in TV miniseries Napoleon and Love,
08:31Holm was once again drafted into play the infamous figure for Terry Gilliam's Time Bandits flick.
08:36Not content with his time in the Napoleon driving seat,
08:39a final outing as the figure who dominated Europe for over a decade
08:42was realized with Alan Taylor's The Emperor's New Clothes shortly after the turn of the century.
08:47Number 2, Alan Tudyk, Gerhard Wynart, 28 Days and Transformers Dark of the Moon
08:53In another case of an actor filling in his own blanks and coming to the conclusion
08:58that he was actually playing the same role in two largely different cinematic entries,
09:02Alan Tudyk has gone on record to admit that his role of Gerhard Wynart
09:05didn't disappear entirely after the events of the Sandra Bullock starring comedy drama 28 Days.
09:11As Tudyk put it himself upon looking back with Empire at his role as Dutch,
09:16Seymour Simmons' personal assistant in Transformers Dark of the Moon,
09:19I decided that it's the same guy.
09:21He had gotten out of rehab, got himself on the right track and then entered the army,
09:26became a specialist, found that he had skills in computers and weapons.
09:30Then he got burned out after too much killing and just decided to become a valet to Agent Simmons.
09:35There's a moment where he goes crazy and I say, that's the old me.
09:38And that was all based on that BS idea that it was the same guy.
09:42Though at a glance it may seem crazy to suggest that Tudyk's Gerhard theory carries any real weight.
09:48Don't forget that this is the same series that introduced robot dinosaurs later down the line.
09:52So anything's possible, right?
09:541. Sam Rockwell, Sam Bell, Mune and Mute
09:57When deciding to finally pursue what was ultimately classed as a spiritual sequel
10:02to one of his most acclaimed films to date, that being Moon,
10:05it felt like only a matter of time before that film's leading man made his presence felt
10:10in Duncan Jones' Netflix project Mute.
10:12Set within the same universe as that first project,
10:15which saw Sam Bell going through a bit of a drama on the back end of a three-year solo trip
10:20mining Helium-3 on the far side of the moon,
10:22those wondering when Sam Rockwell would ultimately pop up in the story
10:25of a mute bartender searching for the love of his life,
10:28were put out of their misery thanks to a brilliant cameo sequence.
10:32Hammering home what would turn out to be Jones' first film's big twist,
10:36that being that Bell had actually been cloned against his own will,
10:39Mute sees Sam Bell number 156 taking part in a trial against Luna Industries,
10:45on a TV in a cafe where Alexander Skarskar's Leo Bela is enjoying some toast and a cuppa.
10:51As Jones would later go on to add,
10:52if we do ever get a chance to do a third movie,
10:55maybe we can tie all of these things together a little bit more.
10:58So we may not have seen the last of the many Sam Bells after all.
11:01And that's our list,
11:02know of any other actors people didn't know played the same character in different movies?
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