10 Actors Who Played The Same Character In Completely Different Movies
4. Gary Farmer - Nobody
The Character: Nobody
The Movies: Dead Man and Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Indie director Jim Jarmusch’s 1995 revisionist western Dead Man stars Johnny Depp as a city slicker who takes a new job in the fictional frontier town of Machine in the Wild West of late 19th century America.
After incurring the wrath of the locals and getting himself shot, he soon finds that the West is indeed very wild but meets a Native American man named Nobody who was abducted as a child and raised in England and guides him on a spiritual journey that takes the pair even further westward.
Jarmusch’s next film Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai was a very different beast set in modern-day New York City and starring Forest Whitaker as an African-American mafia hitman who practices the ancient code of the samurai but linked by the shared theme of hybrid racial identity and of course by Gary Farmer who briefly reprised his role as Nobody.
To the casual viewer, Farmer’s role in Ghost Dog might seem like an entirely different character given that his Native American garb is gone and he pops up as a pigeon fancier as opposed to a spiritual guide although he does utter a rather memorable line of dialogue in both movies that links the two incarnations of Nobody together – “Stupid f**king white man”.