10 Infuriatingly Stale Actors That Should Try Something Different For A Change

10. Tom Hanks

It might verge on the sacrilegious to include one of the world's most popular and beloved stars on a list of stale actors, but when was the last time you can remember Tom Hanks venturing out of his comfort zone?

Since playing characters with shades of grey in Road to Perdition and The Ladykillers, Hanks has generally reverted to type and embraced one of his two established screen personas as either 'determined everyman' or 'America's Dad'. His multiple roles in Cloud Atlas made for a refreshing change of pace, and he played a nefarious tech mogul in The Circle, but most people have probably forgotten that movie even existed.

Hanks admitted that he doesn't play villains because the audience wouldn't buy it, but surely the entire point of being an actor is proving that you're good enough at the job to convince people to suspend their disbelief?

Seeing someone of his caliber go all-in on playing a bad guy could be something to behold, and he's roughly the same age as Liam Neeson was when he decided to reinvent himself as an action hero, which is another genre the two-time Oscar winner has largely avoided.