Rewatching Older Films And Realizing Famous Actors Were In Them The Whole Time Appreciation Thread

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Not exactly "famous" actors, but the Lost cast is good for this.

I was rewatching "Spy Game" when Brad Pitt is breaking into the Chinese prison, and his partner in the break-in is the Chinese-American dude from Lost who communicated with ghosts. Then watching "X-Men: The Last Stand" and he's the porcupine dude. Look up his credits and he's in Inside Man, Saw, Red Dragon, A.I., Rush Hour...man was eating as "young Asian guy" in blockbusters.

Saw "Solaris" for the first time and that Dr. Daniel Faraday guy from Lost is basically playing the exact same role in that thing. He's in Saving Private Ryan too.

Terry O'Quinn the best one though. I had no clue who he was before he played Locke. Turned out he'd been eating like a king off of bit roles in the industry for thirty years already. If a series made it for any length of time, he played someone in it...even had two different parts in X-Files, seven years apart.
 

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Jimmy Fallon in Band of Brothers

I read somewhere that Steve Buscemi was in Adventures of Pete n Pete. I can't find reruns tho.


Elijah Wood in Back to the future 2.
I think buscemi was inspector 34 or some shyt
 

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Not exactly "famous" actors, but the Lost cast is good for this.

I was rewatching "Spy Game" when Brad Pitt is breaking into the Chinese prison, and his partner in the break-in is the Chinese-American dude from Lost who communicated with ghosts. Then watching "X-Men: The Last Stand" and he's the porcupine dude. Look up his credits and he's in Inside Man, Saw, Red Dragon, A.I., Rush Hour...man was eating as "young Asian guy" in blockbusters.

Saw "Solaris" for the first time and that Dr. Daniel Faraday guy from Lost is basically playing the exact same role in that thing. He's in Saving Private Ryan too.

Terry O'Quinn the best one though. I had no clue who he was before he played Locke. Turned out he'd been eating like a king off of bit roles in the industry for thirty years already. If a series made it for any length of time, he played someone in it...even had two different parts in X-Files, seven years apart.
I knew O'quinn from Millennium. Loved that show.
 

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Dennis Haysbert was the getaway driver in Heat.
Hilary Swank in Buffy the Vampire Slayer(film)
Jack Black in Neverending Story Part 3
Keira Knightley was Padme's fake stand-in in The Phantom Menace
Haley Joel Osment(Sixth Sense) was Forrest Gump's son
Paul Rudd in Clueless
Jonathan Banks(Mike from Breaking Bad) was the bad guy in the Flipper movie.
Both Scarlett Johansson and Chris Evans(Black Widow and Captain America) were in The Perfect Score. I didn't even realize this till I saw the film again.

I didn't realize Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers was in Back to the Future Part 3
 

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The dude that played Raiden in Mortal Kombat 2

I watched The Warriors long after that and swore he looked familiar. Then noticed him again when re-watching 2 fast 2 furious one day

James Remar
 
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