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7 actors who surprised us with multiple roles in one movie

Have you ever watched a movie and wondered, "Why isn't that the main actor, only now he has another role in the movie?" Many actors tried their hand at multiple roles within the same film. And here are the 7 players who surprised us the most.

7 actors who surprised us with multiple roles in one film:

Cate Blanchett  Manifesto (2015)


In this movie Julian Rosefeldt it is Cate Blanchett played as many as 13 roles. She transformed into a teacher, a housewife, a widow and others.

Tom Hanks  Cloud Atlas (Cloud Atlas, 2012)


Adapted from the book David Mitchell the souls of different individuals are reincarnated in different lives. So there are a bunch of actors playing some completely different roles and one of them is Tom Hanks, who exceptionally turned into a villain for one of them.

Hugo Weaving  Cloud Atlas (Cloud Atlas, 2012)


Another from the mentioned film is a great Australian actor Hugo Weaving, who excelled in The Matrix trilogy. The directors of the latter also recorded Atlas of the Clouds, and thus their acquaintance also appeared in this interesting film and transformed into various villainous roles.

Mike Myers Austin Powers in Goldmember (Austin Powers in Goldmember, 2002)


In the third part of the comedies of Austin Powers is the main actor Mike Myers appeared in as many as four roles. In addition to the standard title character and his villain, he also portrayed Goldilocks and the Fat Man. The latter must have spent hours and hours behind the scenes.

Cheech Martin  From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)


A cult film Robert Rodriguez, in which they play the main roles Quentin Tarantino and George Clooney, had the Mexican comedian Cheech Martin in three roles. We bet you won't figure out all three while watching.

Eddie Murphy  Norbit (2007)


This film was admittedly the beginning of the end of Murphy's career, but his three roles in Norbit were certainly a challenge for all maskers. However, the actor had previously practiced similar methods in To the stricken professor (The Nutty Professor, 1996) and in Prince discovers America (Coming to America, 1988).

James McAvoy  Split (Split, 2016)


The freshest of all "multipracticals". Forked accompanies a character who has just 23 different ones personalities. The Scottish actor portrayed them brilliantly, as he is actually the only one on this list who managed to do it without an additional mask or artificial prosthetics. He played the character of a psychopathic nature excellently and we will already be able to see him in the sequel Glass, coming in 2019.

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