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Irony as She Is Cast happens when known traits of an actor and the displayed traits of a role do not mesh. Perhaps a classically trained opera singer is cast as someone who cannot carry a tune to save their life, or a born-and-raised Jewish actor is cast as a Nazi. In order to qualify, the fans must know about said traits, otherwise there would be no dissonance. Their trait might even have been the reason for casting: The actor wants to break out of their defined role. The character's trait is enhanced by, or impossible without, the actor's knowledge. For action or performance scenes, The Powers That Be do not want to use a Stunt Double or a Talent Double. The Powers That Be simply thought it would be funny. Casting a talented actor as an untalented character is a common form, as it usually requires a great deal of precision. You have to be off-tune in exactly the right way to be clearly off-tune, at exactly the right time to engage maximum laughter; the level of skill involved for Stylistic Suck is frequently much greater than the skill needed to perform "properly". This version often implements Dreadful Musician, Hollywood Tone-Deaf, or Bad "Bad Acting" (or any of the other tropes under Stylistic Suck). Irony as She Is Cast might be reactionary in a long-lived role; extreme cases might try to counter what's Ripped from the Headlines. A supertrope of Jews Playing Nazis. Compare Casting Gag, when an actor is cast in a role that mirrors or parodies a previous role or experience, and Playing Against Type, where the actor plays a character contrary to the previous characters. Contrast Cast the Expert where this person was chosen specifically for their talent, The Cast Showoff, where talent gets to be in the limelight, Actor-Shared Background, where an actor's characteristics line up with that of their character's. The Trope Namer is English as She Is Spoke, probably the first real-life example of My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels, and not really related to the trope at all. But it makes for a good trope name. |
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In Sherlock, the character Irene Adler is changed from an opera singer to a dominatrix. She is portrayed by Lara Pulver, an accomplished musical theatre actress. | |
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On Pretty Little Liars, Aria is considered the best at keeping secrets, but her actress Lucy Hale is so bad at it that the writers couldn't tell her about some of the show's twists because they thought that she would spoil them by accident. | |
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Kengo Utahoshi from Kamen Rider Fourze has a chronically weak constitution, but his actor Ryūki Takahashi is quite capable with stunts and fight scenes. Movie War Ultimatum does give him a chance to show his skills, however. | |
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Carry On Camping: Harriet loved riding her tandem bicycle, but Betty Marsden was terrified of riding during filming. | |
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Ultraman Dyna: Takeshi Tsuruno, who played the athletic Shin Asuka, isn't athletic in real life, which made filming action scenes quite difficult. From Ultraman Gaia onward, Tsuburaya Productions would start casting athletic actors for the leading roles to prevent a repeat situation. | |
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In GoldenEye, Minnie Driver played terrible lounge singer Irina, whose rendition of "Stand By Your Man" is compared to "strangling a cat" by James Bond. Minnie Driver is actually a talented singer. | |
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Carry On Cruising: Liz Fraser and Esma Cannon couldn't swim. In the swimming pool scenes, the former pretended to by flailing her arms around. | |
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever: Tenoch Huerta didn't actually know how to swim when he was cast to play Namor the Sub-Mariner. He had to take eight months of swimming lessons to prepare for the role. | |
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Gina Cazador in Bojack Horseman is, at best, mediocre when she auditions for a singing part on her show Philbert. Stephanie Beatriz, who plays her, is a much better singer, as shown in Bojack's drug trip | |
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Caitlin Waite, a former child model who lent her likeness to Kit Kittredge in the American Girl book series, stated on a Reddit thread that while she got the gig to portray Kit, she was actually more into the books and was honestly creeped out by the dolls themselves. | |
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Alfonso Ribeiro is actually a professional dancer (with an instruction video to boot), but Carlton Banks on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air has a humorously goofy and unhip dance routine that serves as a Running Gag. But as unhip as his dancing may be, he is clearly performing the moves the way he intended—i.e., he is an uncool dancer, but not a bad one. On the other hand, there were a couple of episodes where he got to actually show his skills, including one where Carlton is convinced to strip and throws in some of Michael Jackson's iconic moves (Ribeiro was a backup dancer for Jackson), in Soul Train, no less. |
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In the Nashville episode "I Can't Get Over You To Save My Life," movie star Noah West asks country music star Juliette Barnes if she's acted much (she hasn't). Noah is played by Derek Hough, who's much better known for his dancing than his acting; Juliette is played by Hayden Panettiere, who's been in the business since she was a tot. | |
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In Cats, Victoria is a silent role who dances an iconically difficult ballet number and must therefore be played by a very talented ballerina. During the performance, she is supposed to shake and look nervous, looking like an amateur, because Victoria is a very young cat at her first Jellicle Ball. | |
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RENT: In a Cast Full of Gay, the only actor in the original cast who was actually gay was Anthony Rapp as Mark, a straight man (Rapp initially identified as gay but later came out as queer). Wilson Jermaine Heredia, who plays a character dying of AIDS, studied medicine before getting into acting. |
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In the original English dubnote the first three TV seasons, the OAV series and both movies of Ranma ½ the male voice of Ranma Saotome, a young man cursed to turn into a girl whenever he gets splashed with cold water (who is consequently very insecure about his masculinity to the extent that comparing him to a girl is his Berserk Button) was provided by... a female voice actress (Sarah Strange). She actually provided a really convincing male voice (surprisingly even deeper than Richard Ian Cox, her replacement from season 4 onwards), but the casting is still inexplicable, considering that she did not also provide the voice of Ranma's female form (who was voiced by Venus Terzo). | |
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Charles Wright's most famous gimmick was that of The Godfather, a pimp wrestler. In real life, he despises pimps and whenever he worked security at the strip club he now runs, he'd let the clientele know that if there were any pimps among them and they didn't leave, he'd personally knock them out. Nonetheless, Wright states that the Godfather was his favorite gimmick. | |
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Xanthippe in The Girl Who Leapt Through Space. | |
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Beauty and the Beast (2017): Straight actor Josh Gad plays LeFou, who is gay and pining after the very heterosexual Gaston, played by openly gay actor Luke Evans. | |
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In Spies Are Forever, the Jewish actor Brian Rosenthal plays Baron von Nazi. | |
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Avengers: Age of Ultron: Natasha reveals that she can't have children because Black Widow spies are routinely sterilized as part of their conditioning, to prevent an unplanned pregnancy from compromising their mission. Scarlett Johansson was pregnant during filming. In the very scene where she reveals that she's barren, she's wearing a thick bathrobe and holding a towel in front of her specifically to hide her baby bump. | |
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BoJack Horseman: A central struggle for Princess Carolyn is being unable to have a child or marry at her advanced age. She's played by Amy Sedaris, who has said in interviews that she has never wanted to marry or have kids. | |
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In Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., Frank Sutton's Sgt. Carter is portrayed as completely hopeless at hand-to-hand combat. In real life, Sutton was an Army Veteran and a black-belt in Judo. | |
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Ed Asner, who is Jewish, played a Nazi who hid as a Holocaust survivor in an episode of CSI: NY. | |
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Jackie from That '70s Show frequently makes cracks about Fez being from another country. The irony is that Fez's actor (Wilmer Valderrama) was born in the United States while Jackie's actress (Mila Kunis) was born in Ukraine. | |
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Psych: Second-season episode "Lights, Camera... Homicidio" revolves around a telenovela that Shawn gets cast in, which he struggles through due to his glaring lack of Spanish skills. In reality, James Roday Rodriguez is half-Mexican and is actually semi-fluent in Spanish. | |
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In Jeeves and Wooster, Wooster (played by Hugh Laurie) was, at best, a competent piano player, while Jeeves (played by Stephen Fry) was better. In real life, it's the other way around. | |
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Euphoria: Cassie is a Dirty Coward who tends to run away from physical fights, while her actress Sydney Sweeney is a trained mixed martial artist who would probably be the one person in the cast who would handle herself best in an actual fistfight. Sweeney also appeared in episode Kickin It around the same time she started learning how to fight. She does no fighting in said episode. |
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Carry On... Series: Carry On Cruising: Liz Fraser and Esma Cannon couldn't swim. In the swimming pool scenes, the former pretended to by flailing her arms around. Carry On Cabby: Amanda Barrie couldn't drive, so she had a rope attached to the front of her taxi and was towed out of the shot when the drivers were supposed to drive off. Carry On Camping: Harriet loved riding her tandem bicycle, but Betty Marsden was terrified of riding during filming. Carry On Abroad: David Kernan (a gay man) plays Nicholas, a straight man, who is pined for by his Gay Best Friend, Rob, played by John Clive (a straight man). |
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Charlie's Single-Target Sexuality throughout the show is the Waitress (we never learn her real name), and he's an Abhorrent Admirer to her; she, in turn, is barely able to tolerate him on her best days and openly tells him she hates him on her worst, which far outnumber the others. Charlie is played by Charlie Day, while the Waitress is potrayed by Mary Elizabeth Ellis—the two have been Happily Married for nearly twenty years. Deandra "Sweet Dee" Reynolds is the Gang's Butt-Monkey and favorite target of abuse, while Ronald "Mac" MacDonald goes from being in a Transparent Closet to openly gay and proud over the course of the series' run; Dee and Mac often fight and snipe at each other. Their actors, Kaitlin Olson and Rob McElhenney, met, fell in love, and got married over the course of the series and have had two children together, with Olson's first pregnancy being written into the show itself. |
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In Al Rawabi School For Girls, Miss Abeer is a Female Misogynist Muslim woman who's heavily religious and blows a gasket at students daring to (gasp) show their shoulders. Her actress Reem Saadeh is a Christian. | |
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Homer Simpson from The Simpsons is known for loving meat, drinking beer and rarely doing physical activities. But actor Dan Castellaneta, who has voiced Homer for nearly 35 years, is a vegetarian, doesn't drink alcohol and does exercises regularly. | |
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In Kotoura-san, Haruka Kotoura (played by Hisako Kanemoto) is severely Hollywood Tone-Deaf as shown here. The irony is that Hisako Kanemoto also played Yayoi Kise/Cure Peace just months before and had sung her Image Song (Lyrics here) very competently! Need more proof of Hisako-san's singing talent? Look no further than Squid Girl's infamously addicting opening theme (Lyrics here) since she sang that one too! | |
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Aftershock: Lorenza Izzo, who's Chilean with Spanish as her native tongue which she speaks fluently, in the film plays Kylie, who's American, just visiting Chile and only knows a tiny bit. | |
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In a deleted scene in Little Fockers, Barbara Streisand's character sings "Happy Birthday" horrendously off-key. Though this may be a joking reference to the commonly observed 'fact' that it's impossible to sing that damned song on-key in a group. | |
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WandaVision: Randall Park and Kat Dennings had previously been sitcom stars themselves, whereas Jimmy Woo and Darcy Lewis are much more serious looking in on Wanda's artificial sitcom setting for herself. | |
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iCarly: Carly Shay cannot draw. Miranda Cosgrove can, very well. | |
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A Bad Moms Christmas: Amy's family loudly complains at her mom dragging all of them to the Russian The Nutcracker, which is entirely in Russian, as no one in their family understands it. Her mom also later remarks, "What are we, Jewish?" speaking about their Christmas tradition. Mila Kunis, who plays Amy, is a Russian-speaking Jew. | |
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Hi-de-Hi!: Gladys is known for her bizarre semi-off key opera singing. Ruth Madoc is a professional singer. | |
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The character of Janet in The Drowsy Chaperone is a famous actress who (in-universe) is played by Jane Roberts, a relative up-and-comer in the theater world. In the Original Broadway Cast, she's played by Sutton Foster, who at the time was one of the most well-known modern Broadway actresses, thus making this a rare case of Irony as She Is Cast (in the show) and Cast the Expert (in the Show Within a Show). | |
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Moesha, who was played by the singer Brandy, could not carry a tune to save her life. | |
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Natalie Bassingthwaite did an impressive job playing a bad singer on Neighbours considering her success with the Rogue Traders. | |
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Mystery Men: Captain Amazing's publicist complains to him, "I'm not a magician!" He's played by Ricky Jay, a famous card magician. | |
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On Under the Dome, Lyle sings horribly off-key during his short time in prison. He's played by Dwight Yoakam, who is better known as a country singer than as an actor. | |
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Power Rangers Time Force: Kevin Kleinberg who played the Green Ranger Trip has a red belt in karate and seven years of kickboxing experience. Unlike other Ranger actors who got to show off their martial arts skills, Kleinberg rarely shows off this skill when Trip is unmorphed and Trip is depicted as being the weakest of the Rangers in terms of fighting skill with his main asset being his brains. | |
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The voice of the Hero Boy in Christmas movie The Polar Express, Daryl Sabara, is Jewish. | |
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In the Avengers Assemble episode "Prison Break", Crimson Widow takes quite a bit of joy in beating up Wasp and vice versa. Their respective voice actors, Julie Nathanson and Kari Wahlgren, are best friends in real life. | |
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Bohemian Rhapsody: Rami Malek portrayed Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, who was a well-known Kindhearted Cat Lover. In real life, however, Malek is allergic to cats, which is why he isn't directly seen alongside any cats onscreen. | |
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On The Originals, the majority of the titular family was born in what is now America, but the only one American among them, Riley Voelkel, plays the Scandanavian-born Freya. Freya is also the first-born but Voekel is actually the youngest of all of the actors | |
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Power Rangers, Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: Billy was a triple-example: his characterization started as that of a bumbling dork, who was also incredibly clumsy. His actor, David Yost, used to be a champion gymnast. He was also initially portrayed as quite hopeless at fighting while unmorphed and generally weak. Whether or not Yost was as skilled as his cast mates is debatable, but he sure was muscular for a supposedly wimpy teen. Finally, in a darker form of the trope, Billy was the ranger most consistently shown as getting the girl and winding up in romantic entanglements. In real life, David Yost was a closeted homosexual and claims that the people who wrote the show knew this and were trying to make fun of him. (The only people who didn't were his fellow ranger actors.) Power Rangers Time Force: Kevin Kleinberg who played the Green Ranger Trip has a red belt in karate and seven years of kickboxing experience. Unlike other Ranger actors who got to show off their martial arts skills, Kleinberg rarely shows off this skill when Trip is unmorphed and Trip is depicted as being the weakest of the Rangers in terms of fighting skill with his main asset being his brains. |
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In Married... with Children, Peg is an awful singer. Katey Sagal, who plays her, is a talented singer who has recorded albums and was a backup singer for Bette Midler, amongst others. | |
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Portlandia: Battlestar Galactica (2003) creator Ronald D. Moore made a cameo appearance as an actor who had never watched Battlestar Galactica. | |
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In the Lord of the Rings movies, the kingdom of Rohan forbids women from joining its mounted army, and Eowyn has to disguise herself as a man to do so. But behind the scenes, most of the Riders of Rohan (or at least the non-speaking extras) were played by women disguised as men. Production wanted to cast local equestrians with their own horses, but women vastly outnumber men in the equestrian hobby. As a result, production hired what men they could and the rest were women in fake beards. The Witch King never stood a chance. | |
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The OP theme of Maple Town is sung by Satoko Yamano, who also does the voice of minor character Puriprin. As with many of the above examples, Puriprin is notable for being a horrible singer: her practice session before the school play is cacophonous enough to wake the entire town. | |
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Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: Billy was a triple-example: his characterization started as that of a bumbling dork, who was also incredibly clumsy. His actor, David Yost, used to be a champion gymnast. He was also initially portrayed as quite hopeless at fighting while unmorphed and generally weak. Whether or not Yost was as skilled as his cast mates is debatable, but he sure was muscular for a supposedly wimpy teen. Finally, in a darker form of the trope, Billy was the ranger most consistently shown as getting the girl and winding up in romantic entanglements. In real life, David Yost was a closeted homosexual and claims that the people who wrote the show knew this and were trying to make fun of him. (The only people who didn't were his fellow ranger actors.) | |
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The Flash: Maribel Verdú, who plays Barry Allen's loving mother Nora, has once publicly stated that she doesn't want to have children, that she doesn't see herself as a mother. | |
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In The Big Bang Theory, Mr. Fowler is awestruck by Howard's stage magic act, and fails to reproduce a trick later, with painful results. He's played by Teller, who is part of a famous magic duo. | |
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In The Wild Wild West's "The Night of the Murderous Spring," Dr. Loveless, Antoinette, and Kitten Twitty go down with their boat in a lake, due to the fact that none of them can swim. Luckily, Michael Dunn (Loveless) was a great swimmer - when Phoebe Dorin (Antoinette) came close to drowning during the filming, he rescued her. | |
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Batman: The Brave and the Bold: In an episode, Catwoman jokingly mentions that Black Canary being gagged is for the best since she has a horrendous singing voice (which keeps with the comics, where Oracle has compared Canary's singing to torture on multiple occasionsnote itself an irony as Canary would later be reinvented as a professional singer in her out-of-heroics job). Black Canary's voice actress, Grey DeLisle, is a professional singer. In the Musical Episode "Mayhem of the Music Meister", we get to hear her sing, and it's beautiful. Apparently, Catwoman was just messing with her. | |
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The Nutters: Eoin tries to sing "Deck the Halls" in the Christmas Special and gets a "that's rotten" in response from Jake. Greg Young is in fact a very talented singer. | |
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Kamen Rider Ex-Aid is for all intents and purposes, a video game Medical Drama, and the Riders of the main cast are all doctors or involved in the medical field. One of the few major Riders who isn’t a doctor is the Big Bad Kamen Rider Genm/Kuroto Dan, who is instead a Corrupt Corporate Executive for a game development company. His actor—Tetsuya Iwanaga—also happens to be the only member of the cast who actually does have real life experience practicing medicine, as he is (among other things) a licensed pharmacist and has written parts of medical textbooks. | |
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Dr. Robotnik from Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog is a horrible singer. However, his voice actor, the late Long John Baldry, was a blues and folk-rock singer. | |
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Family Ties: Despite playing a staunch Republican Alex P. Keaton, Michael J. Fox has endorsed Democratic politicians due to his advocacy for stem cell research. | |
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2: The ironic thing about Gamora not enjoying dancing, is Zoe Saldaña actually has a deep background in dancing, with Ballet being her first passion. Similarly, Dave Bautista's Drax hates dancing and explains his attraction to his wife was due to her not dancing, no matter how catchy the tune playing was. Bautista himself is a former breakdancer and has married two dancers. Kurt Russell plays Ego, Peter Quill’s Disappeared Dad who abandoned him and his mother, whereas Kurt Russell has been in a relationship with Goldie Hawn since 1983, around the time her biological children, actors Kate Hudson and Oliver Hudson, with her ex-husband were still very young. Though little else is known to the public about the years growing up, both Oliver and Kate have publicly stated that they see Russell as their father. |
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In Ted, he does a very, very, very horrendous job of singing "All Time High". | |
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Similarly, DC Super Hero Girls (2019) has a episode revolving around how Wonder Woman, also voiced by DeLisle, cannot sing at all. She only gets to show off her actress' actual singing voice via magical cheating. | |
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Carry On Abroad: David Kernan (a gay man) plays Nicholas, a straight man, who is pined for by his Gay Best Friend, Rob, played by John Clive (a straight man). | |
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During the saving skits in Super Robot Wars UX, Fei-Yen HD (aka Miku) starts to speaks in a very robotic way, contrasting with her cheerful personality during the game. This is mostly her voice actress trying to sound like Miku just like in the original Vocaloid software, rather than Banpresto trying to use the software for that job. Ironically, she does a bad job doing that, even if that scene is supposed to be a Tear Jerker for the player. | |
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James Bond: According to Roger Moore's book Bond on Bond, Desmond Llewelyn (Q from From Russia with Love through The World Is Not Enough) was a Walking Tech Bane who couldn't get a pocket calculator to work if his life depended on it. In GoldenEye, Minnie Driver played terrible lounge singer Irina, whose rendition of "Stand By Your Man" is compared to "strangling a cat" by James Bond. Minnie Driver is actually a talented singer. Roger Moore disliked even handling guns and would use them as little as possible while filming. If James' face wasn't seen while firing a gun, Moore would have his stuntman pull the trigger. |
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While filming Roots (1977), Levar Burton's character, Kunta Kinte, was supposed to be chased down in a sprint by his future wife's father. The father was played by football Hall-of-Famer O. J. Simpson, and it was expected that Simpson would have absolutely no problem catching Burton. Problem was, Burton had been a medal-winning track star in high school and could leave Simpson in the dirt when running flat out. After six ruined takes, the director finally took Burton aside and instructed him to not run flat out. | |
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Wizards of Waverly Place: Alex Russo is a terrible singer. Selena Gomez, on the other hand, can sing pretty well. | |
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An early episode of The Incredible Hulk (1977) featured Martin Kove AKA Master Kreese and a three-time Black Belt as a completely untalented boxer. | |
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While Debra from Everybody Loves Raymond shows mediocre singing skills at the end of "Sweet Charity," Patricia Heaton is an accomplished singer. | |
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Yomi from Azumanga Daioh. | |
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Battle of Britain: Laurence Olivier joined the Royal Air Force in World War II, but became notorious for bad flying and frequent crashes. Still, that did not keep him from being cast as Hugh Dowding, Commander-In-Chief of the RAF Fighter Command. | |
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Chilling Adventures of Sabrina casts Kiernan Shipka to play Sabrina Spellman, whose famous companion is her black cat Salem. Kiernan herself is allergic to cats. | |
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The Hairspray movie with John Travolta and Christopher Walken romantically singing together and dancing very, very badly. It's even funnier as both are well known as excellent dancers and are doing it badly on purpose. | |
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The Prestige: Ricky Jay, the film's magic consultant, is cast as an mediocre stage magician. | |
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Jackie Chan Adventures: Uncle's ignorance of the Oni and the Japanese culture in season four is an example of this due to Uncle's voice actor, Sab Shimono, being Japanese. | |
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Similarly, Streep playing the titular character in Florence Foster Jenkins. The whole point of the movie is that Jenkins is an absolutely awful singer who thinks she's great. Streep herself is an accomplished singer, having appeared in the movie musicals Mamma Mia! and Into the Woods, and even as a hard-rocker in Ricki and the Flash. Streep is also known for her humility and awareness of her own limitations, unlike Florence, who seems (literally) tone-deaf to her own bad singing. | |
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On The Vampire Diaries, the only male main character Caroline didn't date was Jeremy, played by Steven McQueen, who actually dated Candice Accola in real life. | |
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Kath & Kim: Kim is shown singing off-key in two episodes. Gina Riley, her actress, is a very talented singer who has appeared in several theater productions, and sings the show's theme song. | |
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In-universe example: In The Moon is Blue, the virginal Patty tends to play a tart on TV. | |
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"Celestia Ludenberg" of Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, an obviously Japanese girl who claims to be European, speaks with an affected French accent in the English dub (that quickly disappears whenever she gets angry and reappears just as quickly afterwards). She is voiced by Marieve Herington, who is French-Canadian. | |
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Lucky Star: Aya Hirano playing Konata Izumi. Anyone who's watched Hirano as Haruhi Suzumiya (also singing that series' themes) knows that she has a fantastic singing voice. Konata, on the other hand... doesn't (her butchering of "Cha-la Head Cha-la" is but an example). The same applies to Yuko Goto, the voice actor of Mikuru: she sings very well in the theme songs, but her in-character rendition of Koi no Mikuru Densetsu is hilariously off-key |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: In "Take Me Out to the Holosuite", Sisko recruits a baseball team to challenge a Vulcan rival. The actors portraying the inexperienced players were actually much better at baseball than those playing the experienced players. In particular, much of the episode's plot is driven by Rom's utter hopelessness at baseball. His actor, Max Grodénchik, was a semiprofessional player before pursuing his acting career, and ended up playing left-handed (his off hand) for the episode because it was the only way he could convincingly fake his character's level of incompetence. Wallace Shawn had the recurring role of Zek, the Grand Nagus of the Ferengi, who are staunch capitalists. In real life, however, Shawn is an outspoken socialist. |
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In Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, Robin Atkin Downes has to do a bunch of horrible impersonations of Metal Gear characters in-character as Kaz. The voice actor himself is actually an extremely gifted vocal impressionist and nailed every line in the original recording session, with most sounding virtually indistinguishable from the original actor. The director had to call him in again to rerecord them all properly badly. Fortunately, the game gives Robin Atkin Downes the opportunity to show off his actual range when he plays Psycho Mantis and Revolver Ocelot in the quiz game at the end. | |
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Part of comedian Jack Benny's persona was his inability to play the violin, much less realize it. In real life, Benny was an accomplished violinist, often performing with Isaac Stern. As an amusing anecdote, Jack was at one point asked to dine at The White House, and while he was there he would play his violin. When he arrived, a Secret Service agent asked him what he was carrying in his violin case. Benny answered that he had a Thompson submachine gun in there, "the old Chicago typewriter". The agent sighed and said, "Thank God, I was afraid you had your violin in there." Apparently, only a very good violinist can pull off playing badly for comic effect. A bad violinist doing it is just horrible. This holds true for just about any musical or theatrical endeavor, resulting in this trope in the first place; someone who is very good can be far, far worse than someone who is actually bad or merely mediocre. Speaking of Benny, he often compared his skills to the legendary Jascha Heifetz (see the live-action TV folder), who himself occasionally recorded hilarious imitations of bad violin students for fun. Once one such imitation of Heifetz was actually rejected in a blind audition test. Heifetz's actual playing was truly spectacular. |
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Victorious: Trina Vega is utterly untalented. She can't sing, she can't dance and she can't act. Her actress, Daniella Monet, can do all three, to the point where she was a finalist for the role of Hannah Montana before ultimately losing it to Miley Cyrus. | |
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Broadway veteran Jason Alexander had to tone down his voice to convincingly sing badly as George Costanza in Seinfeld. | |
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He sings "The Touch" poorly in Boogie Nights. | |
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Degrassi: The judgmental Christian Darcy Edwards was played by Shenae Grimes, who in real life is an atheist. | |
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On Halt and Catch Fire despite Mackenzie Davis admitting that she's terrible at typing, she plays computer phenom Cameron Howe. | |
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The Proposal is about Margaret, a Canadian woman, who attempts to marry her American assistant Andrew after her visa expires so she won't be deported. In real life, Sandra Bullock (Margaret) is American while Ryan Reynolds (Andrew) is actually Canadian. | |
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Knives Out: Both Ana de Armas and Marlene Forte (who plays Marta's mother) are originally Cuban, pretty much the only place in Spanish-speaking Latin America their characters can't be originally from.note Due to the immigration policies at the time, if Marta's mother were Cuban, she would've gotten permanent residency within a year upon arrival on the US. Rian had a misconception that this was not currently the case, the actresses had to explain to him that Cubans still had special immigration privileges in the US. It was eventually decided that the country of origin was unimportant and the actresses deliberately spoke in a Spanish that is not Cuban sounding. They actively tried to make it hard to pin down their exact country of origin from the accent. Linda Thrombey's most notable trait is her arrogant and deceitful claims that she's a Self-Made Woman, despite owing much of her success to her famous, wealthy father. In contrast, her actress (Jamie Lee Curtis) was praised for her honesty and humility in a post-release interview where she admitted that nepotism played a role in much of her early acting career (her parents, Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, were both famous actors). |
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Cherry was a timid valet to Deuce and Domino who at first was just the Damsel in Distress, and then portrayed as the weaker friend to Michelle McCool. Kara Drew on the other hand had been wrestling on the indies for years, and was the more experienced of the two. She however didn't mind this role, viewing Cherry as a separate character, and the plan was for her to slowly get stronger without betraying the persona (before she was released thanks to budget cuts). | |
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Kamen Rider Kengo Utahoshi from Kamen Rider Fourze has a chronically weak constitution, but his actor Ryūki Takahashi is quite capable with stunts and fight scenes. Movie War Ultimatum does give him a chance to show his skills, however. Kamen Rider Ex-Aid is for all intents and purposes, a video game Medical Drama, and the Riders of the main cast are all doctors or involved in the medical field. One of the few major Riders who isn’t a doctor is the Big Bad Kamen Rider Genm/Kuroto Dan, who is instead a Corrupt Corporate Executive for a game development company. His actor—Tetsuya Iwanaga—also happens to be the only member of the cast who actually does have real life experience practicing medicine, as he is (among other things) a licensed pharmacist and has written parts of medical textbooks. |
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Both the David Brent (played by Ricky Gervais) and Michael Scott (played by Steve Carell) versions of The Office have extremely talented comedians playing a character that is not only not funny, but doesn't understand enough about comedy to understand that they are not funny. See, especially, Michael Scott's improv comedy classes (which is doubly funny given the fact that Steve Carell actually taught improv classes back in his Second City days). Michael Scott's first girlfriend in the series, Carol Stills, is perhaps the least tolerant girlfriend of Michael's Manchild ways and is quick to turn down his hasty marriage proposal. Carol is played Nancy Carell, Steve Carell's real-life wife. |
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Olga Baclanova played Cleopatra, the antagonist of Freaks, whose entire motivation is her ableistic loathing of the titular carnival freaks and her attempt to con them out of a lot of money. Baclanova in real life, meanwhile, was incredibly sympathetic and respectful to the disabled actors who featured in the film, staying in contact with some of them even after the production. This was not a common attitude at MGM at the time (they went so far as to force them to live in separate quarters), which makes it all the more impressive that the main villain was one of the few exceptions. | |
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Neptune in Neptunia (except for Image Songs and the idol simulation spin-off, where she instead suddenly is a fantastic singer). | |
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In the Dad's Army episode, "Branded", Godfrey is revealed to have been a conscientious objector during the First World War. In Real Life, Arnold Ridley was a private with the Somerset Light Infantry Regiment and was heavily wounded at the Somme. He was medically discharged from the army with the rank of Lance Corporal in 1916. He was also a commissioned officer in the Second World War and, following his discharge, joined his local Home Guard. | |
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The Red Baron: Matthias Schweighöfer suffers from aviophobia, the fear of flying on planes. And he played Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron himself. | |
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In Monsters vs. Aliens, the 49-foot 11-inch Ginormica is voiced by the 5-foot 1-inch Reese Witherspoon. The "behind the scenes" footage even lampshades this. | |
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Hogan's Heroes: Colonel Klink is a horrendous violin player. His actor Werner Klemperer was apparently very talented at it. His father Otto was a famous symphony conductor who left Germany in 1933 when Hitler came to power and served in the US Army during WW2. Exploited: In addition to Klemperer as Klink, John Banner as Sergeant Shultz, Leon Askin as General Burkhalter and Howard Caine as Major Hochstetter were all Jews cast to play the Germans. As observed by John Banner, "Who can play Nazis better than us Jews?". |
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30 Rock: In an early episode, Jack was written into a sketch, causing Hilarity To Ensue when he turned out to be a really terrible actor. Of course, he's played by Alec Baldwin, who has been nominated for Oscars and is widely considered to be an excellent comic actor, especially for sketch comedy (Saturday Night Live has always loved having him on). Liz Lemon can be pretty incompetent as a showrunner (depending on the episode). Tina Fey is not, as seen when she was head writer on Saturday Night Live from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s—and then running 30 Rock itself (probably the most acclaimed comedy of its era, which was a pretty good time for comedies). Because 30 Rock is a show about making a fictional show, it could use this trope in-universe. It did so when the new actor Danny, a skilled singer, pretends to be a terrible one to avoid upstaging his costar Jenna. Alan Alda reacts in one episode to Tracy's weekly hijinx: "A guy crying about a chicken and a baby? I thought this was a comedy show." |
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Glee: In the original cast, before the character pool starting growing and flooding over, the cast's best dancer by a million miles was Kevin McHale. His character, Artie, is a wheelchair user. Karofsky is an Armored Closet Gay bully who has no interest in the glee club and frequently torments its members. Max Adler is one of the few cast members who sang in show choir in high school. |
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Lost: For the first few seasons Jin can only speak Korean and doesn't understand English until Sun, and eventually the other castways, start teaching him. In real life Daniel Dae Kim's first language is English and he knew very little Korean, requiring coaching from Yunjim Kim who played Sun and spoke both languages fluently. | |
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M*A*S*H: David Ogden Stiers was a skilled French horn player, while his character, Charles, makes it sound more like a foghorn. In addition, Charles once told a patient that while he loved music he had little talent for music, while Stiers was an accomplished musician who conducted over 70 different orchestras. | |
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Vida: Melissa Barrera, a native Mexican who speaks fluent Spanish, plays Lyn Hernandez, who's inability to speak (and just barely understand) Spanish serves to highlight her pochanote A person of Mexican ancestry who lives in the US and doesn't speak fluent Spanish image. | |
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On Law & Order, Lennie Briscoe describes himself as having no knowledge of music whatsoever. His actor (the late Jerry Orbach) was a veteran Broadway song-and-dance man, who even recorded a solo album. | |
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It: Chapter Two: Here, Nicholas Hamilton plays a violent homophobic bully. But in real life Hamilton is part of the LGBTQ+ community, and is a staunch progressive and LGBTQ+ ally. | |
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Back to the Future: As opposed to the initially Extreme Doormat role of George McFly, Crispin Glover was actually very demanding and very argumentative, and, in fact, always tended to be at loggerheads with Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale over various matters. Although the role of Biff Tannen cemented him as one of cinema's iconic bullies and meatheads, Thomas F. Wilson is actually self-professed music nerd and says that he used his own experiences as a bullying victim to create a character audiences would root against. |
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Downplayed with Kim Possible: Kim's voice actress is Christy Romano, an accomplished singer. The episode "Hidden Talent" reveals Kim is a mostly good singer, but has trouble hitting high notes (she does manage it at the end of the episode though). | |
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Batman: The Animated Series: The Penguin squawks out a grating accompaniment of I, Pagliacci in "Birds of a Feather". His voice actor Paul Williams is actually an acclaimed singer/songwriter with notably smooth, melodious vocals (as can be heard in the Penguin's speaking voice). Notorious "playboy billionaire" Chick Magnet Bruce Wayne/Batman is played by Kevin Conroy, who later came out as gay. In an interview, Conroy stated that he related to Bruce Wayne/Batman, a man who keeps a large portion of himself hidden from the public, as he also lived that way in his younger years. |
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In Shrek the Big Bad Lord Farquaad receives a lot of mockery due to his short height. He's played by the 6'4 John Lithgow. | |
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The Harvey Girls has a gag where Ray Bolger's character is terrified of horses, and Virginia O'Brien is the one brave enough to put a shoe on one. In reality it was her who was afraid of horses. | |
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In Fighting with My Family, Florence Pugh is a natural blonde who dyed her hair black to portray Paige - a wrestler who is a natural blonde (but the movie doesn't show this) dyed black, who dyes her hair blonde to better fit in with the other 'Divas' training at WWE. | |
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Scream: In Scream (1996), Tatum dies when she tries to escape Ghostface through the pet flap on the garage door, only to get stuck. During filming, it turned out that her actress Rose McGowan was actually skinny enough to fit through the pet flap, forcing the production to nail her top to the inside of the garage door to prevent her from slipping out. Maybe she wasn't Too Dumb to Live when it was such a close thing in real life? A prop example came with the Buck 120 hunting knife that was used as the model for Ghostface's signature weapon. Wes Craven wanted Ghostface to use a big, scary-looking knife that the killer might've taken from Dad's garage as opposed to a slender, flimsy-looking kitchen knife like Michael Myers, and the Buck 120 certainly looked the part. The ironic part? Buck had actually discontinued the 120 because it was too big to be used at its intended purpose of gutting and skinning animals — and one of the most famous scenes in the first film concerns Ghostface telling his target that he's going to gut her like a fish! Even more hilariously, Buck later put the knife back into production because of the movie renewing demand for it. |
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Snatch.: Alan Ford, a dedicated animal rights activist, plays Brick Top, a London Gangster who runs dog fights and feeds people to pigs. | |
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In Spears, Jeff is the Non-Action Guy and is reluctant to let things get violent. Bobby Calloway was previously a pro wrestler. | |
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As Olive in On the Buses, Anna Karen played a character who was presented as frumpy and uncaring of her appearance, though in Real Life Karen had been a model and dancer before her breakthrough role in this series. When she showcased her natural look during a magazine shoot in the 1970s, viewers were shocked at just how different she appeared from her character. | |
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Bewitched has, at its main source of drama, friction between Darren and Samantha's mother, Endora. In truth, Dick York and Agnes Moorehead, the two actors, were dearly fond of each other. | |
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Kaere of Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei is sometimes joked to be a dreadful guitar player and an awful singer. Her voice actress, Yuu Kobayashi, plays guitar as a hobby and is clearly a quite good singer as evidenced by her singing in various music for the show. Kaere's character songs play around with this trope—at some points, they are very discordant and Karere is Hollywood Tone-Deaf, but this is a reflection of the character's multiple personality disorder. When that's not in effect, the singing is very good. | |
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Mary Magdalene: Joaquin Phoenix is an atheist, and plays Jesus Christ. | |
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Moral Orel: One of the most notable traits of Orel's mother, Bloberta, is that she's incredibly tone-deaf, which earned her a lot of grief from her family, who all had perfect pitch. Bloberta's voice actress, Britta Phillips, is a professional musician best known as the singing voice for the titular character in Jem and the bassist for the indie rock band Luna. | |
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The villains of Trolls Band Together, Velvet and Veneer, are fraudulent pop stars who literally drain the singing talent out of Floyd due to not having any of their own. Veneer's voice actor, Andrew Rannells, is a talented singer in his own right (Velvet, meanwhile, has separate actors do the speaking and singing). | |
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Leela in Futurama is played by Katey Sagal, who has worked as a professional singer before she became known for playing Peg Bundy on Married... with Children. While during musical numbers, she gets to show off her chops, in-character Leela has a terrible singing voice, as seen when she attempts to serenade invading aliens with a horrific version of "I Will Always Love You". | |
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In the Undeclared episode "The Assistant", Steve's father Hal insists on performing an original song for Adam Sandler (As Himself) and turns out to be a Dreadful Musician: Hal is played by singer/songwriter Loudon Wainright III. | |
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'Allo 'Allo!: René Artois is forever uncomfortable with Lieutenant Gruber's infatuation with him, but the actor who played René, Gorden Kaye, was an out gay man (while Guy Siner, who played Gruber, is heterosexual). Actor Sam Kelly was Jewish and played German Wehrmacht Captain Hans Geeringnote Which led to the Urban Legend that Hans' unique response to "Heil Hitler" ("'Tler!") was a result of Kelly refusing to give the proper salute. Kelly denied this, claiming it was meant to emphasize Hans' laziness. In a few episodes, Fanny takes over for Edith and is an even worse musician; her actress, Rose Hill, started out as a professional opera singer. Officer Crabtree's French pronunciation is absolutely horrendous while being played by Arthur Bostrom who is fluent in French. |
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Keeping Up Appearances: Part of the comedy involves Hyacinth being such a terrible singer that Emmet dreads even being in the same room as her. Patricia Routledge, who portrays Hyacinth, happens to have an excellent singing voice in real life, and in fact, actually shared the 1968 Tony Award for Best Actress with Leslie Uggams. Additionally, Hyacinth is a social-climbing snob who prides herself on being "upper-middle-class", looks down her nose at anyone she considers "beneath" her, and goes to great lengths to get "in" with the local social elite. In reality, Routledge comes from a working-class background. She herself has admitted that she only agreed to play Hyacinth as a parody of all the traits she despises most in snobs! Despite Richard being shown attending church with Hyacinth, Clive Swift was actually Jewish and by his own admission, Swift was nothing like Richard and was known to tell fans to fuck off if they approached him. Richard drives a 1987 Rover 216S saloon, of which Hyacinth is (naturally) immensely proud, frequently disdaining the age of neighbour Elizabeth's car by comparison. Said car is a 1989 Austin Metro city hatchback and is thus newer than Richard's car. A building example, if that's even possible. Hyacinth frequently brags to Elizabeth that her sister Violet has a swimming pool at her house. The one used to stand in for Elizabeth's actually had a pool in its garden, that of course couldn't be shown on screen. |
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On Hannah Montana, Miley's best friend Lilly is shown to have a terrible singing voice. In real life, Emily Osment is a capable singer. In the episode where her poor singing is demonstrated, the "edited" version of the song is actually Osment's real singing voice. | |
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NUMB3RS: Charlie is a math genius, while David Krumholtz was not a great math student in high school. Conversely, Colby is as lost when it comes to advanced math as any of the other agents, but Dylan Bruno went to MIT for engineering. |
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Red, White & Royal Blue: The homophobic British king is played by Stephen Fry, who is openly gay. | |
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Lords of Chaos: The Jewish actor Emory Cohen plays Varg Vikernes, who in real life is an outspoken neo-Nazi and white supremacist. Needless to say, the real Varg was not amused, both by the choice of actor and how the film portrays him as the villain. | |
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In The Neon Demon Jessie has a speech about how she has no talents, mentioning she can't dance or sing. Elle Fanning is both a professionally trained ballerina and quite a gifted singer. | |
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In Scream (1996), Tatum dies when she tries to escape Ghostface through the pet flap on the garage door, only to get stuck. During filming, it turned out that her actress Rose McGowan was actually skinny enough to fit through the pet flap, forcing the production to nail her top to the inside of the garage door to prevent her from slipping out. Maybe she wasn't Too Dumb to Live when it was such a close thing in real life? | |
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Studio C has a sketch where a group of people are choosing players for their basketball teams. Then comes actual NBA player Shawn Bradley, who's about one and a half times the height of all the others ("it's like someone put a pair of pants on a ladder", to quote the Shoulder Angel that shows up), and everyone treats him like The Load. | |
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In The Pink Panther Strikes Again, Michael Robbins is dubbed with a truly appalling singing voice courtesy of an uncredited... Julie Andrews! | |
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In Disney's Enchanted, Nancy is the real world Foil to a literal Disney Princess who sings musical numbers throughout the film. Nancy never sings once in the film. Her actress Idina Menzel is an acclaimed Broadway star known for her incredible singing voice. While many bemoaned the wasting of her, she herself said she felt flattered to be hired just as an actress. | |
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Shiva Baby: The Jewish Danielle (Rachel Sennott) is contrasted with the gentile Kim (Dianna Agron), whom the characters call a "shiksa princess". In real life, Agron is Jewish and Sennott is not. | |
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Saturday Night Live: Among Chris Farley's characters was Todd O'Connor in the recurring "Superfans" sketches, who are diehard fans of Chicago sports teams, especially the Chicago Bears. In real life, Farley, being a native Wisconsinite, was a fan of the Bears' division rivals, the Green Bay Packers. | |
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Young Sheldon: "Summer Sausage, a Pocket Poncho, and Tony Danza" has Missy convincing George to take her to Red Lobster, and she loves the experience. Missy's actress, Raegan Revord, is a vegan in real life. Perhaps alluded to in "A Live Chicken, a Fried Chicken and Holy Matrimony", where Missy becomes upset that the Sparks' are going to kill their pet chicken Matilda, and steals her, along with trying to stop her family from eating fried chicken. It's possible that the character is on her way to becoming vegan also. Reba McEntire, a talented and multi-award winning country singer, plays June, who is Hollywood Tone-Deaf. |
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Diplomatic Immunity's lead character Leighton has a bit of a thing for princesses, having a previous public indiscretion with a French princess and being in love with the king's niece Leilani. He's also furious at a musical about Edmund Hillary that inserts Homoerotic Subtext, and is visibly uncomfortable when The Niu hits on him. His actor Craig Parker is openly gay. | |
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Played with by Jean Hagen as Lina Lamont in Singin' in the Rain. Hagen, actually a talented singer, plays Lina with a hilariously shrill and screechy Brooklyn-accented voice and no sense of pitch. However, when Cathy Selden (played by Debbie Reynolds) dubs Lina's voice work for her in order to salvage the studio's current film, it's actually Hagen singing, not Reynolds. | |
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Leverage: Timothy Hutton is this. While he is an Academy Award-winning actor, the character Nate Ford is almost entirely a Large Ham when he plays roles in-universe. Played with in-universe by Sophie. On a con, she can effortlessly step into any role and master any accent to play a part brilliantly. But when she tries her hand at legitimate theater or even a commercial, she becomes the worst actress imaginable. Even she can't understand how she can fool law enforcement with ease but can't win over a third-rate talent scout. As Nate once puts it "she can act when it's an act." The gang uses a movie shoot as part of a con and are naturally worried about Sophie as the lead actress in the "film". To their astonishment, she turns in a great performance with Nate explaining that because Sophie is only pretending to be an actress, she can pull it off. |
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In-universe in Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Spartacus is a Thracian with a deep hatred of Romans because of the legionnaire who sold his wife into slavery. He is to take part in a re-enactment of a famous battle where a Roman general slaughtered a group of Thracians, himself playing the Roman. | |
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101 Dalmatians (1996): Despite playing Cruella de Vil, Glenn Close insisted all the fur coats she wears in the film be fake. She's also allergic to tobacco, and smoked herbal cigarettes for when Cruella smokes on screen. | |
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Good Omens (2019): One of the Nazi spies in one of the flashback sequences is played by Mark Gatiss, who is openly gay. | |
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In Oh, Doctor Beeching!, Perry Benson was cast as Ralph, the trainee engine driver who was always too hard on the brakes. In reality, Benson had become a skilled engine driver throughout filming and could stop perfectly on any mark. | |
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In the US film version of Fever Pitch, the main character is a ride-or-die Red Sox fan...and is played by Jimmy Fallon, a Yankees fan raised in the NYC metro area. For non-baseball fans, the Yankees are the bitter rivals of the Red Sox, and their rivalry is the fiercest and longest-running in MLB history. | |
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Becky: Kevin James plays a menacing Neo-Nazi who early on makes a veiled racist comment on how racial interbreeding is bad (while facing a white man and his black fiancée). James is Happily Married to a Filipina-American woman himself, with four children. | |
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A somewhat meta example: In Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson uses "immigrant" derisively towards Caribbean-born Hamilton several times. Jefferson's actor also plays Lafayette in Act I (who would, in America, technically be an immigrant from France), and famously has the line "Immigrants - we get the job done". The irony is likely intentional. | |
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Critical Role: Happens and gets lampshaded in the second campaign: Caleb claims he is bad at imitating voices and accents and subsequently does a bad (but hilarious) job at imitating his friends' voices. Caleb's player, Liam O'Brien, then breaks character to point out how strange that was since he, as a voice-actor, is very good at accents. | |
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BOB �� ABISHOLA: The notoriously man-hungry and somewhat homophobic Kemi is portrayed by Gina Yashere, who's a lesbian in real life. | |
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Shirley Manson's character's daughter notes that she can't sing. Extra irony since a cover by Manson of the spiritual "Samson and Delilah", recorded specifically for the show, had been prominently used at the beginning of the episode that introduced her character. | |
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Hazbin Hotel: Angel Dust is one of, if not the most promiscuous characters on the show. His voice actor in the pilot and the ADDICT music video, Michael Kovach, is asexual. Katie Killjoy is a virulent homophobe voiced by the openly gay Brandon Rogers. |
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In the TV-Movie Brian's Song, real-life Michigan State football player James Caan portrayed scrappy underdog Brian Piccolo, while Billy Dee Williams, who did not have a sports background, played the supremely talented Gale Sayers. Caan had to consciously hold back in the training scenes to make Williams seem more believable as the superior athlete. | |
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Jojo Rabbit: Since the film mocks the hell out of the Nazi characters, of course many of them are played by Jews for extra "fuck you, Hitler" points. The biggest being Imaginary Hitler, who is played by Taika Waititi, who's not only Jewish but also half-Maori and describes himself as a "Polynesian Jew". | |
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House of the Dragon: Rhaenyra, whose status as the official royal heir in a world of tightly set gender roles kicks off the entire plot, is played by the openly non-binary Emma D'Arcy. Young Alicent, who fully abides by the set gender roles of her world, is played by queer actress Emily Carey, who has said her pronouns are she/they (a mark of gender nonconformity) and a feminist who rejects such sexist gender norms. |
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The Boy and Little Sister in Bump in the Night are voiced by siblings Scott and Anndi McAfee. In real life Anndi is the older sibling. | |
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Company (Takarazuka Revue) casts Tamaki Ryou as Aoyagi, who is nervous, stiff as a board, and fumbling during Takano (the company's principal danseur)'s seductive demonstration of the New Swan Lake. She is, in fact, very good at dancing, having played Death (a dance-only role) in Romeo et Juliette: De La Haine a l'Amour as a younger actress. Additionally, Aoyagi is the male lead role. By default, principal male leads in Takarazuka are played by the top star — the leader of the troupe, who must have singing, acting, and dancing skills par excellence to get to that position in the first place. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Madeleine Peters, who voices Scootaloo is notorious for her rather bad singing in "The Show Stoppers". However, according to Daniel Ingram, Madeleine is actually a very good singer (as evidenced by her vocals during "One Bad Apple" and "Flight to the Finish") and was told to butcher the song. He would also very much like an opportunity to record a version of the Crusaders' theme sung properly. Claire Corlett grew into this trope. She only provided the speaking voice for Sweetie Belle in Seasons 1-3, with Michelle Creber doing the singing. On the one occasion during this time that Claire sang in her own right, she turned in a screeching, off-key campfire song, going sharply against Sweetie's previous beautiful vocals. As of Season 4, she is doing both the speaking and singing; based on fans' reaction to the latter, she is doing an excellent job. |
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American History X: Romani woman, practicing witch and anti-racist activist Fairuza Balk plays a dedicated Neo-Nazi. | |
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Much of the comedy of Telenovela comes from how Ana Sofia (Eva Longoria) is the Latina lead for a hit Spanish soap opera despite how she doesn't understand a single word of Spanish. | |
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In The Mole, the person playing the Mole purposely does badly at things at which they are highly skilled. | |
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Played with in Stage Door, Katharine Hepburn, considered one of the best actresses who ever lived (and who went on to win four Best Actress Oscars), playing the talent-free wannabe actress Terry Randall. However, Terry is also seen questioning everything all of the decisions of the writer and director of the play she's in, which Hepburn apparently did in real life. | |
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TNA's Joseph Park, a wrestling lawyer, was shown to be shockingly inept at wrestling, even not knowing how to get into the ring and winning by sheer luck despite being 6'8 and 300 pounds (136.08 kg). Of course, he's played by Chris Parks, a 15 year veteran of wrestling who also portrays Abyss. | |
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Casablanca: famously, most of the Nazis were played by Jews, since those were the German actors who were available in Hollywood in World War II. Conrad Veidt, who played the main Nazi antagonist Major Strasser, had fled the Nazis with his Jewish wife; he noted the irony of being praised "for portraying the kind of character who had forced him to leave his homeland." | |
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Rise of the Guardians cast the Australian actor Hugh Jackman as Bunnymund the Easter Bunny. While Bunnymund takes offense to being called a kangaroo, Aussies would consider that comparison insulting to kangaroos, since rabbits are a much-maligned invasive pest down under. | |
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The Harder They Fall (2021): Idris Elba is the prominent villain in this modern-day Western, but he's allergic to horses and constantly took Benadryl to avoid sneezing all over the place. | |
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Carry On Cabby: Amanda Barrie couldn't drive, so she had a rope attached to the front of her taxi and was towed out of the shot when the drivers were supposed to drive off. | |
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This occurred in Big Time Rush, but by necessity, only in the pilot episode. The boys are depicted as having no aptitude whatsoever for singing or dancing, until they finally agree to buckle down and get serious about learning from Gustavo. Of course, in real life, the four actors all needed to be skilled singers and dancers already, or else they wouldn't have been cast in the roles in the first place. From the end of the pilot episode and continuing through the rest of the series, the actors' real talents were allowed to shine. | |
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The Angry Birds Movie has Peter Dinklage voice the Large and in Charge Mighty Eagle. Dinklage has dwarfism. | |
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Cromwell: The choice of Richard Harris to play Oliver Cromwell raised many eyebrows, as Harris was a hedonistic and proudly patriotic Irishman (and a Catholic) playing an English puritan who allowed countless massacres to happen in Ireland. The salary was simply too good to pass up. | |
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The Great Dictator: Charlie Chaplin, who was partially of of Romani descent, portrays Adenoid Hynkel, a parody of Hitler, in The Great Dictator. The Roma people were targeted for extermination by the Nazis and other fascist regimes. note Depending on the Romani community, the term employed to refer to the genocide may be porajmos ("devouring", "destruction"), samudaripen ("mass killing"), Kali Traš ("Black Fear"), Berša Bibahtale ("The Unhappy Years"), as well as Holokosto, Holokausto, etc. | |
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Alf Garnett from Till Death Us Do Part, a right-wing anti-Semite, was played by Warren Mitchell, who had left-wing views and was Jewish. This gets even more interesting when you take football allegiances into account, for the West Ham United-supporting Alf was often disdainful of Tottenham Hotspur, on account of their supposed reputation as a Jewish team... and Mitchell was a Spurs fan. | |
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Everything Everywhere All at Once stars Ke Huy Quan, who quit acting for three decades because of a lack of Asian roles in Hollywood. He gets to play over 200 on-screen variations on Waymond Wang, each a visually and emotionally distinct character with their own quirks and behaviors across the multiverse. | |
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In the Divergent films, Caleb is the Non-Action Guy and is visibly winded and out of breath whenever he has to run. He's played by Ansel Elgort, who's a trained dancer and extremely ripped underneath the baggy clothes. | |
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There's an infamous skit where Santino Marella tries (and fails) to do the splits on the ring apronnote He was attempting to imitate Melina's entrance. For Beth Phoenix's reaction, go here.. Santino actually can do the splits, as he has demonstrated in other matches. Although there is a difference between a side-split (legs out on either side, which he was doing on the apron) and a front-split (legs forward and back, which he does in matches.) | |
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On Family Guy, Meg's perceived ugliness is one of her defining attributes; her voice actress Mila Kunis is considered one of the sexiest women alive. This is taken a step further in the episode "You Can't Handle The Booth". With Meg personally commenting on the attractiveness of Mila Kunis herself during the encounter between the characters and their voice actors. |
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The Amphibia episode "Anne of the Year" shows Hop Pop being terrible at improvisational stand-up comedy. His voice actor, Bill Farmer, is an expert at improv. | |
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The Black Dahlia has Mia Kirshner playing the title role of Elizabeth Short; a terrible actress who couldn't get a part. And she gives a performance that even critics who hated the movie raved about. | |
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In Action Heroine Cheer Fruits, Ann Azuki is such a Dreadful Musician that her singing is actually physically painful; her Self-Proclaimed Rival Kanon Shimura is only marginally better than her (at least her singing doesn't hurt the listeners...). Naturally, their seiyuu Miku Ito and Haruka Shiraishi are actually quite talented singers, and in fact they (along with the actresses who play the rest of the Cheer Fruits crew) sing the show's opening and ending themes. | |
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Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger: A Victim of the Week Education Mama is played by Rei Yoshii, who is infertile. | |
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The voice cast of The Lorax includes Zac Efron, who's the star of the High School Musical series, and Taylor Swift, who's Taylor Swift. Even though the movie is basically a musical, neither of their characters ever sings a note (Swift's first role to involve singing was the 2019 movie adaptation of Cats). | |
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Musical comedy show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has Rachel Bloom play Rebecca Bunch, a woman who frequently imagines herself in dramatic musical numbers but when heard to sing diegetically instead of in an imagine spot is awful. Bloom herself has long been known for her singing comedy. | |
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How I Met Your Mother: Serial womanizer Barney Stinson played by openly gay Neil Patrick Harris. Pop idol and 2000s sex symbol Britney Spears played the geeky, socially awkward Abhorrent Admirer receptionist Abby. |
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Highlander III: The Sorcerer: Christopher Lambert plays a Scotsman who has lived as an emigrée in pre-revolutionary France, the actor's native country. | |
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Happens in-universe in Grave Encounters, where the protagonists, hosts of the titular Paranormal Investigation Reality TV show, work with a purported psychic named Houston Gray. The entire show is staged, but whereas the rest of the cast do actually believe in ghosts and express mainly disappointment that they've never found any real ones, Houston is an unapologetic Phony Psychic and the most skeptical of the supernatural out of all of them. When it turns out in this case that the ghosts are Real After All and actively malevolent on top of it, he becomes the Flat-Earth Atheist of the group. | |
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Interview with the Vampire (2022): Steven G. Norfleet is gay and is married to Anthony Hemingway, yet his character Paul de Pointe du Lac is homophobic. | |
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Frasier: Sir Derek Jacobi plays the worst Shakespearean actor in the world. Of course, he won an Emmy for his performance, too. | |
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Friends: In "The One Where Joey Speaks French", Joey tried to learn French, but he was only capable of speaking gibberish. His actor, Matt Le Blanc is a fluent French speaker. In "The One Where Rachel Quits", Ross complains about Chandler's tennis skills after a game together. Matthew Perry (Chandler) was actually a skilled tennis player and thought about turning professional before becoming an actor. |
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Sabrina the Teenage Witch: whenever Aunt Hilda tries to perform comedy on stage, she's terrible. Her actress Caroline Rhea was also a stand-up comedian. | |
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In the Code Lyoko School Play episode, "Laughing Fit", Ulrich gives a spectacularly bad performance as Romeo prior to the Return to the Past... his voice actress was on Broadway at one point. | |
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In The Goon Show, Neddie Seagoon is portrayed as utterly unable to carry a tune in several buckets. His actor Harry Secombe had a successful singing career. | |
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In The Phantom of the Opera, Carlotta is a shrill, shrieky Opera singer who is beginning to get on in years. She's been played by many talented and wonderful singers, who switch from her shrieking voice during the parts where she's supposed to sound badly into a perfect operetta during the ensemble musical numbers. After all, even when she sings badly, she is still supposed to reach a high note during it. | |
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Fellow Travelers: Keara Graves, who's openly queer, nonbinary and has vocally supported LGBT+ rights, is here playing Miss Addison, a homophobic secretary in the 1950s who supports the US government purging LGBT+ employees from its agencies. | |
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Downton Abbey: Rose Leslie plays the lowly housemaid Gwen Dawson. In fact, Leslie has the most aristocratic origins of the entire cast, growing up in a castle as the daughter of a clan chieftain. Her ancestry includes Charles II. | |
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She playing hammy bad actress Madeline Ashton in Death Becomes Her. | |
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On Law & Order: UK, DS Matt Devlin completely butchers the French language when trying to interview a witness. In real life, Devlin's actor Jamie Bamber speaks excellent French (aside from an early childhood spent in Paris, it's one of two languages that he studied, along with Italian, for his Modern Language degree). | |
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In Pepper Ann, the titular character is a Dreadful Musician, while her actress Kathleen Wilhoite is a singer-songwriter in her own right. | |
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