10 Actors You Never Noticed In Movies
These actors totally disappeared into their roles.
Generally speaking, the vast majority of actors desperately want to be seen and recognised in movies because, well, that's how you become a known quantity with audiences and get more, better-paying work.
But some actors also clearly enjoy the opportunity, at least occasionally, to entirely disappear into a role where they just won't be recognised, allowing them to surprise audiences when they finally realise who they are.
And that's clearly the case with these 10 actors in these roles, where one way or another, they were tough for general audiences to spot.
More often than not they underwent a radical makeup transformation which made them tricky to notice, but it might've also been an early role before they hit the big time, or they were simply presented to audiences in an unexpected context.
Whatever the cause, these actors all managed to go totally unnoticed in these films, enough that when folks learned about it years or even decades later, they were left positively shook.
It's a testament to both the makeup artists and the actors themselves that they managed to slink in, do their thing, and slink out without most viewers noticing...
10. Gary Oldman - Hannibal
Let's kick this list off with an actor who evidently loves disappearing as far into his characters as humanly possible - and ideally, it'll involve a metric ton of makeup too.
We're talking of course about the great Gary Oldman, who's never seen a makeup chair he didn't love spending hours sitting in.
And for all of his many stunning transformations over the years, the one that manages to sneak past most people? Mason Verger in Hannibal.
Oldman underwent a radical makeup job to portray Verger, a surviving victim of Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) with a severely disfigured face.
As a result, all of Oldman's most recognisable facial features are totally concealed underneath the scar prosthetics, aided by Verger's near total lack of lips and eyelids.
Oldman spent five hours per day in the makeup chair to become Verger, yet because the actor had a billing dispute with the studio during production, he ultimately requested to be uncredited for his performance, making it even trickier for audiences to initially figure out who they were looking at.
His credit was ultimately restored for Hannibal's home video release, though.