10 Actors Who Are Unrecognisable In Upcoming Movies

9. Stephen Lang - Avatar: The Way Of Water

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The recently released first teaser trailer for Avatar: The Way of Water dropped jaws around the globe, enough that you may not have clocked an actor's presence seemingly hidden in plain sight.

Take a close look at one of the seemingly antagonistic Na'vi characters in the teaser and you might notice that they bare a physical resemblance to the first film's primarily villain, Colonel Quaritch (Stephen Lang).

Notably, this character has the very same military crewcut and arm tattoo, basically confirming it's Quaritch beyond all doubt.

While we don't yet know precisely how Quaritch, who died at the end of the original Avatar, will come back, giving him his own Na'vi body is certainly an intriguing way to up the stakes for the sequel, while transforming him - and his actor, Stephen Lang - basically beyond recognition.

It remains to be seen whether or not Lang will also appear in his human form, but clearly a large bulk of his role in the sequel will be as a Na'vi through appearance-altering performance capture.

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