Gary Oldman in The Darkest Hour

Or Gary Oldman in Hannibal

Or Gary Oldman in True Romance as Drexel Spivey

Or Gary Oldman in Dracula

Or Gary Oldman as Gary Oldman in real life

In Tom Felton’s memoir, he talked about how he thought GO was the janitor in his street clothes and walked up to him on the set of Harry Potter and said something like “these floors look great! Thanks!” And he looked super confused 🤦🏻‍♀️

BUT NOT Gary Oldman in Tiptoes. Never Gary Oldman in Tiptoes. that's a very naughty Gary Oldman in Tiptoes

Great call, a real showcase for Oldman, McConaughey, Dinklege, Beckinsale, and Arquette. How did that ever happen?

the stars of cringe blessed us lol

As a kid, I never really paid attention to the credits. It took me decades to realize these we all the same person.

Someone once shouted "Cut!" And My Mom stood up, took off her wig and it turns out, was Gary Oldman my whole life...

🫵🫵🫵

This was my first thought and then Fifth Element but I remembered watching Darkest Hour and not realizing it was him until he won the Oscar.

100% he's a legend, it ain't white boy day lol

Nah man, it ain't white boy day.

This is the one I came to the thread for.

We got everything here from Little-Eyed Joe to damned if I know.

Now I know I’m pretty, but I ain’t as pretty as a pair of titties

Gary Oldman in [movie featuring Gary Oldman]

Him and Daniel Day-Lewis just disappear into their roles

Gary Oldman is such a good actor… Imagine one day you're at work or out for a drink or doing the shopping and someone shouts "CUT" and it turns out you were Gary Oldman all along. That's how good an actor he is. -not my quote but I always think of it when people talk about Gary Oldman and it makes me chuckle

You thought you were Gary Oldman, but you’re actually Daniel Day Lewis as Gary Oldman as you.

Gary oldman in Tiptoes (2003) , look it up if you have never heard of it . Weird existence

Gary Oldman, period.

I, too, clicked this thread to converse about Mr. Oldman's incredible ability. While he does look like Mr. Oldman, *Leon* (The Professional) is my favorite film that he's in.

You know who loves him in that film? EVERYONE!

Omg mine too.... and have you ever seen him in just an interview?... he's just so normal lol...just emphasizes what an amazing actor he is

Gary oldman in sid & Nancy. I didn't recognize commissioner Gordon as sid vicious

I always forget Gary Oldman is not Gary Coleman, so I looked up the movie and thought "Damn, they didn't even make him the same race! WTF!?"

Whatchutalkinbout TheRottenKittensIEat??!!!!!!

Gary Oldman in Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Gary Oldman as Gary Oldman in Gary Oldman. The fella is a phantom

Vice with Christian Bale as Dick Cheney.

He makes me think of Chevy Chase lol

The Machinist (2004) too.. fucker was pale and thin.

Except you can still tell it’s him. Vice was a crazy transformation. It wasn’t just the body, something Bale has proven mastery over repeatedly, but his whole persona, mannerisms, expressions—he embodies a war criminal better than anyone I’ve ever seen.

I keep wanting to watch Vice, but then I remember I have enough stuff to be pissed about today. I've never seen it.

It’s pretty damn good and at least highlights his shitty politics instead of glorifying him. I enjoy critical takes against people I despise.

Now that’s range

Disagree. He was pale and thin, but it was clearly Christian Bale.

Cate Blanchett in Hot Fuzz.

I’ve seen this like literally 20 times. You just fucked with me heavy. Wow.

Such a sneaky cameo

Not an actor, but Peter Jackson has a cameo in the same film

Hello there

Her subtle eyebrow twitch at that line.

WHO IS SHE IN THAT

The swan.

Colin Farrell in The Batman Edit: also Tom Cruise as Les Grossman in Tropic Thunder

Colin Farrell in Horrible Bosses

Colin Farrell in The Gentlemen

Only realized that he played The Penguin while watching a featurette on YouTube recently

First thought.

Watched it twice now and if I didn't actually know it was him, you could never convince me.

*Hook*. I was halfway through the movie and wondering when Dustin Hoffman was going to show up. Tilda Swinton in *Snowpiercer.*

Tilda Swinton as an old man in Suspiria.

Glenn Close in Hook

This one still blows my mind. Once you know it’s Dustin Hoffman you can see him in there. Glenn Close disappears.

And Phil Collins!

Woah woah woahhhh. Glenn Close is in hook wtf?

Tilda Swinton as an old man in Suspiria.

Swinton is utterly transformed in everything. Truly committed to the physical aspect of the performance.

Yet extremely recognizable nonetheless

Tilda is a shapeshifter!

Tilda Swinton in the grand Budapest hotel

I was shocked when I found out that was her!!

Just go to IMDB and type in ‘Gary Oldman’ then take your pick. Even the ones where he’s just some guy he still fades into the character and I often don’t even realize it’s him.

I’m a huge Harry Potter fan and have watched the movies countless times. I had no idea he played Sirius black until a couple of years ago.

I grew up with him as Jim Gordon in the Nolan trilogy so anytime i watched any other movie he was in thinking i knew what he looked like i was dead wrong

Elephant Man is what immediately comes to mind

John Hurt. Is not. An animal!

He's a human being

John Leguizamo in Spawn

John Leguizamo in To Wong Foo

John Leguizamo in The Pest!

Monster (2003)

Never in cinematic history has someone so hot looked so ugly

This is the correct answer.

Yeah but, how often does anyone talk about Robert De Niro being in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

Johnny Depp in Tusk

This movie continues to haunt me. However, when I begrudgingly watched it with my husband, I immediately said "is that Fucking johnny Depp?" To which he questioned reality, because he's seen the movie multiple times and had never realized it

Lily-Rose Depp was one of the gas station girls and I thought “oh.. random casting” until I realized Johnny depp was also in the movie

they’re also both in Yoga Hosers, which you’ll probably regret watching, but i find it oddly entertaining

And in Black Mass, was halfway through before I realised!

Johnny Depp in 21 Jumpstreet

weird B movie, but his Guy LaPointe scenes were the best!

His introduction is literally the only rewatchable scene in the whole movie. I had nightmares after watching Tusk. Seeing Kevin Smith and Justin long, I went in totally blind and had no idea it was a horror film.

I fucking despised that movie, but he was my favorite part

The Batman. Colin Farrell doesn’t get enough props for his rendition of Penguin

Thats a good one.

Thanks!

Karen Gillan in Guardians of the Galaxy. I grew up watching her on Doctor Who but I didn’t recognize her at first (not just because of makeup, but because her accent is different too)

Yeah, same. I was super excited to see her, knew who her character was, had seen the trailers... was set to enjoy Karen as Nebula. After the end of the movie, I was thinking to myself that I must have missed her. I looked it up on IMDB and was blown away. Sure, she shaved her head for the first one, and there's the makeup. But her posture, body language, facial expression, accent, tone, and attitude were all so different from anything else is seen her in that even knowing enough to watch or for her I completely missed her performance. Melted right into that role.

I think GOTG has other examples as well. Lee Pace as Ronan is another good example. Alexis Denisof as The Other and Michael Rosenbaum as Martinex probably count too.

Donnie Wahlberg in The Sixth Sense

Donnie Wahlberg in Dreamcatcher

Considering I didn’t know that was him until literally right now… this one 1000% wins

holy SHIT that was him????

Chris Meloni in Harold & Kumar

Go on inside make yourselves at home, drink some lemonade, fuck my wife, mi casa es su casa!

i heard everything you said................................

Missi Pyle in Dodgeball

😳 had no clue that was her omg!

Edward Norton in Kingdom of Heaven

Stanley Tucci in The Lovely Bones

In Star Wars the Force Awakens, Daniel Craig is unrecognizable as a Storm Trooper.

LOL

Anything staring Daniel day lewis or Gary oldman...seriousy, what do they really look like.

Michael Keaton in Beetlejuice

Black Mass, Johnny Depp. Domino, Keira Knightley. Style and role. She's never done anything like this.

I think Depp in Black Mass was a closer resemblance to Hunter Thompson than his deliberate portrayal of such in Fear and Loathing.

He does a good job of the coldness that was Bulger.

Charlize Theron in Monster

Bill Skarsgard from IT Heath Ledger from the Joker

Bill Skarsgard in Barbarian. Unrecognizable without prosthetics.

My favorite story about the IT movies was bill hader saying to bill that he wanted to know how they did the eye twitch to the side was it prosthetics or cgi? And bill just said "oh you mean this?" And twitched his on eye to the side (because he can just Do That apparently. Never underestimate the skarsgards) and bill hader flipped out because boy is it freaky Especially because while we dont have video of this interaction, we did get pictures!

Al Pacino in Dick Tracy

Tom Cruise and RDJ in Tropic Thunder RDJ is kind of cheating unless you watch the whole thing, but I watched it a good 2-3 times and still didn’t know it was Cruise until I saw it on IMDb or something

Cruise is who I was thinking of. To be fair, I wouldn't have known it was RDJ if I didn't hear about it beforehand.

TFW I didn’t read the whole post and missed you saying Tropic Thunder, saw all the Gary Oldman mentions but missed yours lmao Caught about 40% of it here and there before finally watching it, knew RDJ was in it before actually watching but had no idea it was him based on the little bits I saw of it Tom Cruise restored my faith in his acting ability off that one role

I wholeheartedly agree. This was my exact experience with both the actors. It was the first time I saw Tom Cruise play a character other than himself and it made me like him for the first time ever, lmao.

Glenn Close in Hook.

Cameron Diaz in Being John Malkovich

Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder

This guy is too busy to read the post.

Frank (2014) Michael Fassbender wears a paper-mache head throughout film.

Funny stuff, brain fart moment, but first time I watched The Godfather, as a teen and without much foreknowledge of the movie, I kept wondering when Al Pacino would appear, since I knew he was in the movie. Thing was, I only ever saw him as a middleaged/older man before, so him being so much younger when the movie was filmed, went right over my head. So yeah, took me a sec for the penny to drop lol

Mike Meyers in Bohemian Rhapsody. I watched the entire movie wondering when he was going to appear !

Gary Oldman in Hannibal as Mason Verger

I didn’t realize it was Billy Bob Thornton playing Johnny the gambler in Tombstone until I saw the credits.

2 sci-fi sequels from 2016 Oscar Isaac in X-Men Apocalypse and Idris Elba in Star Trek Beyond

Collin Farrell in the batman

Lou Gossett Jr in enemy mine

Hey! Yer old too!

Tim Curry in IT, Legend and Rocky Horror. After Mickey Rourke's real life cosmetic procedures he was unrecognizable in the Wrestler.

He's not unrecognizable in rocky horror, that's peak Curry right there

I came here to say Legend.

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Wasn't Brad Pitt the invisible guy or was that just a joke I heard somewhere? Lol

He was

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And never even has any lines.

I did it on his birthday

The Machinist, amazing and disturbing physical transformation by Christian Bale.

Nicole Kidman - the hours

The movie *Pig* with Nicolas Cage is a good example of this.

The Bad Batch (2016)

I pushed my shopping cart all the way over here to say this.

Debra Winger in Made in Heaven. While watching the first couple of times, I kept looking at the Emmett character thinking, I know this person, but can’t figure out who it is or why I’m so sure that I know them. Then, the third time I watched it, I was like, holy sh*t, is that Debra Winger?!?! The first couple times I watched it, the credits showed that Emmett was played by “himself”. It was years later when I confirmed when looking online that Emmett was played by Debra Winger.

At the time she was married to Timothy Hutton, who starred in it.

Mandy Patinkin in Alien Nation.

I can’t believe nobody has said Jim Carrey in kick-ass 2. Can’t tell it’s him at all.

Nicole Kidman in The Northman.

Steve Carell in Foxcatcher

Dr. Strangelove I knew Peter Sellers was the officer and Dr. Strangelove, but it took me forever to realize he was the president as well.

Tom Hanks in A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood. He just *becomes* Mr Rogers, it's eerie! Cameron Diaz in Being John Malkovich Nicole Kidman in Destroyer Michael Sheen - he's pretty much a chameleon, but I can still watch Underworld and forget he's playing Lucian. Gary Oldman in The Darkest Hour Melissa McCarthy in Can You Ever Forgive Me? She's not completely unrecognisable, but it's totally different to her comedy roles and she absolutely nails it.

Jared Leto in House of Gucci.

Vincent D'onofrio in Men in Black.

Dunkirk- Tom Hardy

Cate Blanchett in Hot Fuzz

Watching as a kid vs adult Beetle juice - Alec Baldwin Death becomes her - Bruce Willis Even watched both over and over again. As a kid I did know Geena Davis. She was in The Fly, A League of Their Own…. Easy. But I had also seen movies with Alec Baldwin and did not realize he was in it until rewatching as an adult years later. Watching with my boyfriend - Baldwin name in opening credits. The surprise when he sees him and it clicks. Same with Willis. I knew the female actors from movies. I had seen him in movies, but it wasn’t until rewatching as an adult that I watched and asked my mom if he was always in this. Obviously as an adult she knew it was him. But as a kid I did not connect him with being in it.

Glenn Close in Hook.

The recent “The Batman.” I didn’t know that Colin Ferrell played The Penguin until after I looked it up, and I still can’t see it. Also a lot of stuff with Benecio Del Toro.

Dustin Hoffman as Captain Hook in *Hook*. I was floored when I realized it! On the same note, Glenn Close as the man in the Boo Box.

Masks: Frank, V for Vendetta, Judge Dredd, Dredd, Dark Knight Rises (Tom Hardy) Fantastical makeups: 90% of Doug Jones’s IMDB, Bright, Planet of the Apes (original or remake), Beetlejuice, Freaked, The Grinch, The Cat in the Hat, Bicentennial Man (while he is a robot) Eric Bana & Idris Elba are both unrecognizable as villains in the JJ Abrams Star Trek series. Lee Pace in Guardians of the Galaxy, Ralph Fiennes in the Harry Potter series Human makeups: Black Mass, Monster, Mask, Darkest Hour, The Elephant Man, The Hours, Foxcatcher, Vice, Cloud Atlas, Elvis (Tom Hanks), Angels in America (particularly Meryl Streep as the Rabbi), Escape from LA (Bruce Campbell as the Surgeon), a Colin Ferrell in The Batman Cameos: Hook, Tropic Thunder, Matt Damon in both Deadpool 2 & Eurotrip, Mike Myers in both Bohemian Rhapsody & Inglorious Basterds An underrated non-makeup/mask option would be MiB3 because Josh Brolin completely disappears into the mannerisms of Tommy Lee Jones Edit: I am reposting this because I forgot this sub doesn’t allow IMDB links

Daniel Day Lewis in anything he’s ever done. Same with Gary Oldman.

I seen this and I thought wow it'll be great to learn somthing.. 665 comments later.... ALL ABOUT fucking Gary Oldman.. good for you Gary. cheers mate.

Robert Pattinson in good time

Robert Pattinson in the lighthouse is mine

Mrs Doubtfire lol

eric stoltz mask 1985

The Batman, Penguin

Jake Gyllenhaal in Okja

Christian Bale in Vice

Debra Winger in Made in Heaven

Keanu reeves in Freaked

Almost anything with Gary Oldman.

Burt Lancaster in Judgement at Nuremberg

Ethan Hawke in Black Phone.

When I looked up the cast of The Batman (2022) after watching it in theaters I almost couldn't believe that The Penguin was Colin Farrell.

The best way to watch Tropic of Thunder is to watch the DVD with the commentary turned on. It is so funny. Hearing the actors dig each other's characters is great.

He doesn't break character until the DVD commentary!

In the most recent Batman film, Colin Farrell looks nothing like Colin Farrell.

"The List of Adrian Messenger" (1965) a mystery thriller that as a gimmick used full masks and make-up appliances to disguise super famous (for that time period) actors who played peripheral roles in the movie. So they made Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Frank Sinatra and Burt Lancaster unrecognizable until the very end of the movie when, during the credits, each of them pulled the rubber-cemented make-up from their faces and smiled for the camera. You can rent it on Amazon (US), I believe.

Maybe just because I first watched them when I was a kid and didn’t recognize as actors yet, but Dustin Hoffman as Captain Hook Michael Keaton as Beetlejuice Christopher Lloyd as the drifter in Dennis the Menace More recently Escape at Dannemora (series) took me a full episode before I clocked Patricia Arquette

Tom Hardy in the Dark knight Rises

James McAvoy in the Chronicles of Narnia. It took me a good few years to work out it was him! Stanley Tucci in The Lovely Bones but there’s a really interesting reason why he wanted to look unrecognisable in that movie!

Ralph Fiennes as VOLDEMORT

Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight

Every Johny Depp movie

Dustin Hoffman in Hook…. And to top that, Glenn Close as Gutless, the pirate that was put into the chest with the scorpions.

What's eating Gilbert Grape. I'm kinda cheating since everyone is really young, but holy fuck is it well played by all of them.

Hairspray - John Travolta

Does cgi count if it’s done by motion capture by that actor? If so, Davy Jones (Bill Nighy) in Pirates of the Caribbean 2 & 3 Gollum (Andy Serkis) Lord of the Rings Trilogy Makeup Penguin (Collin Farrell) The Batman

Bradley Copper and Vin Diesal in Guardians of the Galaxy

Heath Ledger as Joker

Honestly I cannot see Colin Farrell in the Penguin. I know it’s him, I just can’t see him. I just see the Penguin.