Acting range

Dustin Hoffman......from Benjamin Braddock to Ratso.

 

When this thread started, I said to myself, I've thought about this. There is one actor I thought exactly fit this description. And I couldn't remember who it was. Yes, Jeff Daniels.

 

Jennifer Anis. . . . oh, you said WIDE range.

Did you ever hear his New England twang (if a New England twang is even possible) in "Thirteen Days"?

 

Dustin Hoffman -- Ben Braddock (The Graduate), Ratso Rizzo (Midnight Cowboy), Babe (Marathon Man), Ray Babbit (Rain Man), Michael Dorsey (Tootsie).

 

John Malkovich. The one area he has it over Hoffman is in the crazy, dangerous area. (In the Line of Fire; Rounders). Hoffman didn't much convince me as a tough guy in Billy Bathgate as Dutch Schultz.

Of Mice and Men, Dangerous Liaisons, Red, ConAir. Being John Malkovich. That's a lot of range.

 

Long maintained Costner in Thirteen Days is the worst attempted accent I've ever heard.

 

Also, Johnny Depp has a pretty wide range: Whitey Bulger, Hunter S. Thompson, Donnie Brasco, Keith Richards' son, Ed Wood, Blow

 

Meryl Streep has to be in the mix, too.

 

I don't know. Has she ever played anyone happy?

 

Julia Child in Julie and Julia?

 

Bryan Cranston -- from Hal in "Malcolm in the Middle" to Walter White in "Breaking Bad" and a whole lot of roles since

 

MTM beat me to it: Cranston, who is the small screens Tom Hanks.

Also Alec Baldwin.
John Goodman, who is critically underrated.
Hands down Kathy Bates.

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