• Flying SquidM
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    He started his career playing an institutionalized crazy kid and he was in that movie with… Kai Winn!

  • GratefullyGodless
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    3610 months ago

    Let’s not also forget that he’s also the one who voices the psychopathic doll Chucky.

    • teftOP
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      1710 months ago

      Oh he’s been all over Hollywood. Chucky isn’t a space murderer though, just a regular murderer. So he wouldn’t work for this joke.

        • andyburke
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          1010 months ago

          Hello, fellow person amazed by this - maybe we need to try to set up a pitch meeting because I don’t see how this could go wrong.

          • teftOP
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            1010 months ago

            How are you replying from the future? Do I need to call in a violation of the Temporal Prime Directive?

  • @GraniteM@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    He was also one of the military scientists in Alien: Resurrection, so there’s a pretty good chance he was a sociopathic space murderer in that one, too.

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    Clearly this guy…

    …is not in a good place, mentally.

    • teftOP
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      If I had a nickel for every time Brad Dourif played a psychic murderer I’d have two nickels. Which is also weird.

  • @TIMMAY@lemmy.world
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    1210 months ago

    man I love this dude, mad respect for acting professionals who always get type-cast as wackadoos and crush it every time

  • @wallybeavis@lemmy.world
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    1110 months ago

    Holy crap! I thought I recognized him in B5, and later on Voyager, I had totally forgotten he was the Harkonnen Mentat in Dune. He did a fantastic job the both latter roles, I don’t think he was fleshed out enough in Dune

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    It must be weird being typecast as the “quiet serial killer.” Like you just exude so much quiet serial killer energy that’s all people see you as. Because he has been that character in much more. These just happen to be the times that character was in space!

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    610 months ago

    Easily one of the best “that guy” in Hollywood. He shows up everywhere and I’ve never seen a bad performance.

    I’ll go my grave believing that he was the true main character of One Flew Over the Cukoos Nest.

  • @paddirn@lemmy.world
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    510 months ago

    Another character actor that I would recognize anywhere instantly (“Huh, it’s that guy again.”) and yet I’ve never known his name til just now. There’s so many people like this that seem to show up in all the sci-fi series whose names I never seem to know.

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    He is also the voice of Chucky in 90% of the Child’s Play franchise.

    I really loved his character in Voyager. It was really interesting seeing a psychopath who was aware of his tendencies and knew he shouldn’t be around other people.