Thank you,. Email: brucedumbdog gmail. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. Post a Comment. In the Entertainment industry. There are a few reasons why an actor might not get credited for a film role. He shared fantastic chemistry with both Coogan and his long-time collaborator Ben Stiller. Wilson played Jedediah with his usual easy charms, but also gave the character some endearing insecurity about his diminutive size. Tom Cruise was left out of the credits and all the marketing for Tropic Thunder to preserve the surprise of his appearance.
Under all the Les Grossman makeup and prosthetics, Cruise is practically unrecognizable. Doing this worked especially well, considering how much of a surprise it was to see Ferrell show up more than halfway into the movie.
In this case, a bit of secrecy goes a long way. Most films have throwaway characters. Even if that isn't the intention, a character played by a "nobody" in terms of recognition sometimes runs the risk of taking away some significance from a scene — or even the entire movie itself, depending on how much screen time they're given.
That's why bypassing this is simple. Filmmakers just need to hire a more familiar face. Even if that familiar face hardly has a full minute of screen time, let alone any dialogue. That said, the audience remembers this because — whoa, what the hell, was that Jason Statham? It's funny what just a little bit of recognizability can do. And considering the fact that his role was hardly anything to shake a fist at, Statham ultimately goes uncredited in this Michael Mann thriller.
Kurt Russell was in Forrest Gump. Now, before you start racking your brain trying to figure out which scene he was in seeing as you've probably seen the movie well over a million times by now , it's best to know right off the bat that he wasn't physically in the movie. Only his voice was. In , Kurt Russell starred in the TV movie Elvis , and it's safe to say that he became casually associated with the King.
And if nothing else, he could easily pull off the voice. So, when Robert Zemeckis got working on the adaptation of Forrest Gump , he sought out the vocal talents of Russell — not for his singing, but for the brief scene Elvis Presley shows up in while staying at the Gump's house, teaching young Forrest a thing or two about music, while young Forrest himself teaches Presley a thing or two about how to dance.
Russell goes uncredited in the film, but the voice you're hearing is one that he crafted and perfected over a decade prior in a movie directed by John Carpenter yes, that John Carpenter. Before the young'uns got involved with the franchise in Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class , the characters belonged to a different slue of actors. But after three films, Romijn passed the torch to Jennifer Lawrence.
For three films of her own, Lawrence has been rocking blue skin and red hair fairly solidly. In her first go as the character, though, the filmmakers couldn't help but nod at the original, having her morph into an older version of herself as Romijn for just a moment.
It's not necessarily a "blink and miss you it" moment, but Romijn still goes uncredited. Which made for a nice surprise upon initial viewings. When you're James Bond, your face says it all which might explain why his code name is just a set of numbers in the first place.
But you don't need to tell Sean Connery this twice. Retired or not, when you're one of the few actors who's rocked a Walther PPK while fighting off the likes of Goldfinger and Blofeld, you really don't need an introduction.
His screen time is sparse, but that's irrelevant. He is King Richard the Lionheart. He is a rockstar. Whatever actor the filmmakers cast needed to feel important and impactful much like the reasoning behind David Fincher casting Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker in The Social Network.
Even if you don't follow history, you'll know right off the bat that he's important. The fact that he goes uncredited just adds to the rockstar status. Not King Richard's, of course, but Connery's. They have rules regarding pay to the actors in the Guild.
For actors with a credit, SAG requires its actors to get paid a certain amount. When an actor does a cameo or a favor for a director or producer as was already explained , they will not get credited so as to not cause a large production cost, which would otherwise be required by SAG to a credited actor in a production. Now it's probably as clear as mud. I'm sure there are more reasons than we could ever think of.
Hopefully I didn't muddy the waters too much. I'm pretty sure that SAG doesn't care what someone gets paid as long as it's at or above the SAG scale for the project. What scale is depends on the project's type feature, tv show, commercial etc You know who does care? ANY actor can agree to take scale pay in any job. AndreiFreeman As to Julia Roberts' "and introducing" credit I'm pretty sure that was a joke. There's no scale requirement that correlates to what you're billed as and how much you make.
Show 5 more comments. I haven't seen Mystic River , so I don't know how big Eli Wallach's role is and I don't recognize Olivia Williams enough to look for her in X-Men: First Class , so I can't speak to these two specifically but, on the topic of Cameos: The Wiki article for "Cameo appearance" pretty much does all of the answering. And why aren't they credited? Refusing Credit Some performers opt not to take credit for a project.
Extras There's another possible explanation Community Bot 1. An example, Swing Kids As explained in IMDb: Kenneth Branagh is reported to have refused any billing at all rather than be billed above Christian Bale and the other boys who he said were the stars of the film. Gerald Edgar Gerald Edgar 1 1 silver badge 5 5 bronze badges.
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