Now I know I’m not the only one who gets a huge kick out of identifying the prior roles actors have played when watching a movie…much to the annoyance of the people I’m watching with.
There’s always that one know-all person who thinks they are the human equivalent of IMDB, shouting “THAT GUY WAS IN (insert TV show here)” whenever a new character appears on screen.
It’s annoying, but it’s also me.
…Well there’s one film franchise that kick-started the careers of many A-list actors that we’ve probably all forgotten about.
The cringey tween franchise that we secretly love to watch when hungover: Twilight.
The first Twilight film was released ten years ago this week, and full disclosure: I totally forgot Rami Malek was in Breaking Dawn: Part 2.
I am ashamed, but at least I’ll know for when Bohemian Rhapsody hits our cinema screens.
Here are all the celebrities you also (probably) forgot were part of the franchise:
Michael Sheen
Michael Sheen played creepy Volturi leader Aro, who had the ability to read minds and access people’s memories by touching them. He also rocked a pretty badass cape.
The Welsh actor went on to appear in HBO’s Masters of Sex, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe. He previously portrayed British ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair in a number of biopics, as well as appearing in Tron: Legacy and Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris.
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Michael Sheen was about the only decent thing in the whole damn series. (And maybe Anna Kendrick.) He seemed to realise how ridiculous it was, and was hamming it up for all he was worth. (I’m still annoyed that the big battle scene at the end of the last movie turned out to be a fake-out.)