00:00It's of course expected that the overwhelming majority of movies which fare well with critics
00:05will inevitably end up with a sequel, in which the surviving main characters will return
00:11to reprise their roles.
00:13But every so often, actors end up revisiting major roles in the most unexpected of movies.
00:19So unexpected in fact that you might not even know it, or may have since forgotten that
00:25it ever happened.
00:26These 10 actors were all given the opportunity to reprise one of the biggest roles of their
00:31career, up to that point anyway, in a movie that absolutely nobody saw coming.
00:37I'm Gareth from WhatCulture.com and here are 9 Actors You Didn't Know Played the Same Character
00:42in Different Movies.
00:449.
00:44Michael Keaton, Ray Nicolette, Jackie Brown and Out of Sight
00:48Jackie Brown is unquestionably Quentin Tarantino's most underappreciated film.
00:53A star-studded and devilishly witty adaptation of Elmore Leonard's novel Rum Punch, and one
01:01which features a memorably against tight turn from Michael Keaton as ATF agent Ray Nicolette.
01:07But while Jackie Brown was being shot, another Elmore Leonard novel was due to ramp up production,
01:12the Steven Soderbergh directed Out of Sight.
01:16Ray Nicolette also appeared in that novel.
01:18And so Soderbergh managed to convince Keaton to reprise the role for a brief uncredited
01:23cameo in his movie.
01:24Due to Miramax owning the screen rights to the character, however, it fell to Tarantino
01:30to insist that they didn't charge Universal, who distributed Out of Sight a fee to use Nicolette.
01:36As neat as a shared cinematic universe in which Tarantino and Soderbergh have both dabbled
01:41is, it's easily forgotten given how unassuming Keaton's tiny role is in Out of Sight.
01:52You probably don't much remember the character of Trent in Michael Bay's original Transformers,
01:58but he was Michaela Baines's stereotypically obnoxious jock ex-boyfriend and Sam Witwicky's
02:03high school nemesis.
02:05The character was a one-off in the Transformers franchise, and made no appearances in any of
02:10the sequels.
02:11Though this might be explained by the fact that Trent secretly resurfaces, and dies, in
02:172009's Friday the 13th remake.
02:20In the movie, Travis Van Winkle plays another character called Trent, who exhibits all the
02:25same off-putting traits of his prior Transformers character.
02:28An antagonistic bully douchebag who viewers are actively encouraged to despise.
02:34Trent of course ends up as one of Jason Voorhees' victims.
02:37But, given that Friday the 13th was itself produced by Michael Bay, there's absolutely
02:42no way in hell that this casting and namesake were a mere coincidence.
02:47Number 7, Dan Aykroyd, Ray Stant, Ghostbusters and Casper
02:52Dan Aykroyd's signature role is surely that of Ghostbusters Ray Stant, a role he played in
02:58the first two movies, a number of animated TV series and video games.
03:01And also Ghostbusters Afterlife, oh and 1995's big screen adaptation of Casper.
03:08While Carrigan and her assistant Dibs attempt to have the McFadden mansion purged of Casper's
03:13unruly uncles, better known as the ghastly trio, none other than Ray Stant is seen running out
03:19of the house in full Ghostbuster regalia no less.
03:23On his way out he says to Carrigan and Dibs, who you gonna call?
03:26Someone else.
03:28Before fleeing the scene.
03:29And to dispel any doubt about the cameo, Aykroyd's costume has a visible name tag bearing the
03:34moniker Stant.
03:36Number 6, Michael Parks, Earl McGraw.
03:38From Dusk Till Dawn, Kill Bill and Grindhouse.
03:41The late, great Michael Parks played the role of Texas Ranger Earl McGraw in From Dusk Till
03:47Dawn's more restrained first half.
03:49And though he's quickly killed by bank robber siblings Seth and Richie Gekyll, that was far
03:54from the last we saw of him on screen.
03:57McGraw makes a chronologically ambiguous reappearance in Tarantino's own Kill Bill Vol. 1, where
04:03he's seen investigating the wedding massacre which left the bride in a four year coma.
04:08Amusingly, Parks also plays a totally different character, Esteban Viejo, in Kill Bill Vol.
04:142.
04:14But it doesn't end there.
04:16Parks reprise McGraw again in Robert Rodriguez and Tarantino's exploitation collaboration,
04:22Grindhouse.
04:23Playing McGraw briefly in both of their movies, Planet Terror and Death Proof.
04:28Number 5, Jason Statham, Frank Martin, The Transporter and Collateral.
04:32The Transporter franchise, the first three movies anyway.
04:36Star Jason Statham as Frank Martin.
04:38A driver slash mercenary who will deliver any package to any location if enough greenbacks
04:44are on the table.
04:45For a time, Martin was Statham's signature character, enthusiastically dispatching the
04:50baddies while cutting a trim figure in a dark suit.
04:54And according to Louis Le Terrier, who directed the first two Transporter films, Martin made
04:59an additional appearance outside of the series proper.
05:02You may well have forgotten that Michael Mann's terrific 2004 thriller Collateral begins with
05:08Assassin Vincent swapping bags with a shady, unknown man at the airport, who just so happens
05:13to be played by The Stath himself.
05:16Though the character is credited only as Airport Man, The Terrier later confirmed that it is
05:22indeed a canonical appearance by Frank Martin.
05:25Given that he's absolutely in the business of dropping off packages and making anonymous
05:30trades, it fits like a glove.
05:32Number 4, Rob Schneider, Nato the Delivery Guy, Big Daddy and Mr. Deeds.
05:37Big Daddy is one of the better Adam Sandler comedies of its era.
05:41An unapologetically immature yet surprisingly sweet film stocked with Sandler's usual supporting
05:47cast of best pals.
05:49Most prominently among them is Rob Schneider, who makes surely his most memorable Sandler
05:54movie cameo as Naso, the deranged best friend and delivery man of protagonist Sonny.
06:00Though Schneider actually received a Razzie nomination for his performance in the film,
06:05it's honestly one of his less grating performances in a Sandler film, even mustering a few honest-to-god
06:10chuckles I tells ya.
06:12Yet all but the most ardent Sandler fans will likely have no idea that Schneider actually
06:17reprised the role a few years later in Sandler's remake Mr. Deeds.
06:21Granted he's in the movie for literally two short scenes, and because Mr. Deeds didn't
06:26make anywhere near the same pop culture imprint as Big Daddy, it's a revival that's been
06:31largely forgotten to time.
06:34Number 3, Jamie Foxx, Django Freeman, Django Unchained and A Million Ways to Die in the West.
06:39Jamie Foxx played the central role of vengeful former slave Django Freeman in Tarantino's
06:45Django Unchained.
06:47And while it was pretty reasonable to expect the character to be a one-off, Foxx actually
06:51reprised the part in the most unexpected of films.
06:55Django actually showed up at the very end of Seth MacFarlane's western comedy A Million
06:59Ways to Die in the West.
07:01After the movie proper has finished, but before the end credits actually roll, Django pops up
07:06for a tiny cameo where he murders the operator of a racist shooting game called Runaway Slave,
07:12and drops the film's recurring one-liner, People Die at the Fair.
07:17Number 2, Jamal Woolard, Notorious B.I.G.
07:20Notorious and All Eyes on Me.
07:22Though 2009's Notorious B.I.G. biopic Notorious received wildly mixed reviews, even those critics
07:29who dismissed the film generally agreed that it featured a spot-on performance from Jamal
07:34Woolard as the ill-fated rap icon.
07:37Woolard ended up unexpectedly reprising the part of Biggie eight years later for 2017's
07:43Tupac Shakur biopic All Eyes on Me, albeit this time in a supporting capacity.
07:48Sadly, Woolard's performance wasn't received quite so enthusiastically this time round, with
07:54many critics complaining that Woolard, who was 41 years old when All Eyes on Me was being
07:58shot, no longer resembled Biggie, who of course died at just 24 years of age.
08:04Needless to say, Woolard has now firmly aged out of playing the part ever again.
08:08But considering how the Tupac biopic came and went without a peep, you probably never even
08:13knew he was in it.
08:14Number 1, Ralph Bellamy and Don Amici.
08:21In John Landis' beloved 1983 comedy Trading Places, the antagonists are Randolph and Mortimer
08:28Duke, the cruel commodity broker brothers who make a high-stakes bet to switch the life circumstances
08:34of a well-off broker with a street hustler.
08:37In the end, however, the tables end up turned as our hero set up the Dukes to lose a staggering
08:43$394 million, resulting in their personal and corporate assets both being confiscated,
08:49leaving them bankrupt.
08:51Hilariously, the Dukes make a blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearance in another collaboration between Landis
08:56and Murphy.
08:581988's Coming to America.
09:00In the film, Prince Akeem Joffer walks past two homeless men and passes them a fat stack
09:06of cash.
09:06And it's revealed moments later that the two men are in fact none other than the Dukes
09:11themselves.
09:11The two even refer to one another by their first names, but the 30 second cameo is still
09:17so fleeting that it's easily forgotten for all but the most hardcore fans.
09:21And that's our list.
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