10 More Actors Who Gave Their Best Performances In Movies Nobody Saw
3. Arnold Schwarzenegger - Maggie
Arnold Schwarzenegger is as larger-than-life as actors get, and though it's basically impossible to imagine anyone else playing the part of the Terminator, few would go so far as to call him a genuinely great actor.
We've seen Arnie experiment around a little more in recent years as he's gotten up there in age and his action chops have unavoidably waned, leading to him starring in a most unexpected project in 2015.
An Arnie-led zombie film doesn't sound like the most unnatural of moves for Schwarzenegger, but Maggie is no normal undead horror romp.
This is more a post-apocalyptic drama than anything, with Arnie portraying Wade, a father who must comes to terms with his daughter's (Abigail Breslin) transformation into a zombie.
This is, more than anything else, Arnie like you've never seen him before - a vulnerable, hurting man pulled between knowing what he needs to do and the love for his daughter.
It's as subtle a performance as Arnie has ever given, and while the film itself isn't doing too much new for the genre, seeing the actor in this more dialled-down mode, lending shocking dramatic nuance to Wade, is a sure sight to behold.
It's a shame that Maggie didn't do much business either theatrically or on VOD, though, as we've seen few similar attempts from Schwarzenegger in the years since.