When an actor reaches a certain level, one that demands we respect and consider them among the greatest to have ever graced their profession, you begin to associate them with only taking on certain types of roles. Case in point: wouldn't it be weird if three-time Academy Award winner Daniel Day-Lewis suddenly agreed to star in the next Marvel superhero movie? It's not that he wouldn't be able to pull it off, exactly, it's just that we expect...
different things from an actor of that calibre, especially one who seems to take his work so seriously. C'mon, he was Abraham Lincoln. It's strange, then, when a respected actor - one renowned for prestigious parts, nonetheless - suddenly takes a role that makes it look like they hired Adam Sandler's agent out of the blue. That may sound hyperbolic, but it genuinely happens, and more often that any serious movie fan would be probably like to consider. Take the 10 actors I've assembled here, for example, all of whom decided to bid farewell to the respectable parts they'd been building their filmographies with over the course of many decades, only to take on roles that made them look totally and utterly
insane...