Twitter Users Ponder Roles Which Actors Clearly Had An Incredible Time Playing

A little while ago I watched the film Bacurau. A Brazilian-French co-production directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles, Bacurau defies easy description. ‘Weird sci-fi’ goes some ways towards it. ‘Weird sci-fi black comedy anti-imperialist eco-Western’ gets closer. However you want to describe it, I thought it was sublime. Exactly the kind of daring and boundary-busting film I love to watch. The titular Bacurau is the name of a small fictional village in rural Brazil, and it’s the canvas upon which the filmmakers tell a story of callously brutal white neo-colonialism and the heroically defiant feats of resistance that rise up to meet it. It would be a spoiler to say much more than that. The film really is best experienced knowing as little as possible about it. The reason I bring it up here is I saw a Twitter thread prompted by this question the other day:

Name an actor who was clearly having an incredible time in a movie. Mine is Oscar Isaac in Ex Machina pic.twitter.com/OawSyxfetc

— blair witch stan account (@ldrinkh20) October 11, 2020

The first thing that popped into my mind on reading that was Bacurau. Why? Because the singular Udo Kier spends a healthy portion of that film having what looks like an absolute blast. As if you needed another reason to give it a go.

Okay now that I’ve smuggled in the praise that I’ve been dying to give Bacurau, here is the rest of that Twitter thread of roles in which actors had a great time:

Two other examples: Daniel Craig in Knives Out and Megan Fox in Jennifer’s Body pic.twitter.com/C5ZRGuorQS

— blair witch stan account (@ldrinkh20) October 11, 2020

Another contender pic.twitter.com/dbTYCSIRlk

— blair witch stan account (@ldrinkh20) October 11, 2020

steven yeun and samara weaving were having such a blast on mayhem, you can just tell pic.twitter.com/wekwkQzIpX

— sorrel kerr-jung, ghost lover (@soholastnight) October 11, 2020

pic.twitter.com/1hxiZ6jJfe

— 🕸☭The Absolute Spookiest Tracer☭🕸 (@ThatPersonEddie) October 11, 2020

Chris Evans in Knives Out. After almost a decade playing Cap the golden boy he was practically giddy while playing an asshole 😂 pic.twitter.com/JUDfqpeJex

— Bonnie, MFA (@HippieScholar) October 11, 2020

Harold Perrineau, Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet pic.twitter.com/4kFWHB1zmQ

— Genie Adagio (@GenieAdagio) October 11, 2020

James Marsden in Enchanted pic.twitter.com/7PMcaW6J5e

— Lethality Jane (@LethalityJane) October 11, 2020

A heavy vote also for Frank Oz and every other muppet performer in any Muppet film. https://t.co/PD6Zv6Fula

— ♥️🎃HallowQueen🎃♥️ (@HallowQween) October 11, 2020

Uma Thurman knew what film she was in when she signed on to play Poison Ivy:https://t.co/9Lo7iMZgPt

— @Lost_tales_podcast (@Losttalespodca1) October 12, 2020

Queen Latifah as Mistress Mama Morton in Chicago https://t.co/TpLXnMhCIE

— Margarethe Gallersdörfer (@smandel_8) October 12, 2020

Song Gang-ho in "Parasite." He's the best. pic.twitter.com/DKMptan8WF

— Won-Gi Jung (@jungwongida) October 11, 2020

Bill Paxton in Edge of Tomorrow. Look at this face barely holding in it's immense glee at getting to chew out Tom Cruise over and over again pic.twitter.com/p7BGfJkDMx

— Mr MacFearsome 🦇🎃👻 (@David_Mac13) October 11, 2020

Jack Nicholson in the Departed. He did no research and was basically just throwing shit at the wall. Everyone having to react is just priceless. pic.twitter.com/QgJz9O6kbD

— Andrew Parker Scott (@drewcifer_2000) October 11, 2020

Nic Cage in Mandy pic.twitter.com/uOIMCHpBWy

— father john shitsy (@stoinksmcquoink) October 11, 2020

Also in Hocus Pocus pic.twitter.com/Q9SdJZv26S

— Minnie Hooper 🌈✡🏜🇺🇲🇪🇸🇭🇹 (@MinnietheMenace) October 11, 2020

Almost everyone in this movie, but obviously and most especially, pic.twitter.com/Q1IPFY03s8

— Charlie Day (@ohyeah_mamaman) October 11, 2020

A late addition but also Billy Bob Thornton in the first season of Fargo. I guess it's just fun to play the devil. pic.twitter.com/bnmNSzJE91

— Mike Truk (@TaitVahooey) October 11, 2020

I’m pretty sure Javier Bardem loved every second of his performance as Anton Chigurh. pic.twitter.com/eyKAiv1lB7

— jorge a. hdz barba (@jorgeahdzbarba) October 11, 2020

Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe in the Nice Guys pic.twitter.com/giTSxgGFlA

— Depressed Politics Skeleton Guy says ACAB 🌹 (@DankKingMc) October 11, 2020

Also Paddy Considine seems to have si much fun it Hot Fuzz pic.twitter.com/WCYdBbL8Ck

— GalFiery (@cath_monast) October 11, 2020

And the indelible Ellen Greene too pic.twitter.com/pUIsEkyFQs

— Abraham Lincoln (@SurrealALincoln) October 11, 2020

Vinny D just contorting his body in the weirdest ways for 90 minutes pic.twitter.com/Pger32n7eS

— matilda the hun (@mat1ildathehun) October 11, 2020

Pretty much everyone in this movie pic.twitter.com/LFxe5k6oNK

— pokey pup (@Whatapityonyou) October 11, 2020

Daniel Craig in Logan Lucky. He’s clearly just so happy to not be playing Bond pic.twitter.com/oN7t95F7KR

— Scott Carey (@scarey102) October 11, 2020

Paul Newman in Slapshot

— lizzy unlocked (@_lizzythecat) October 11, 2020

Sam Rockwell in everything I've ever seen him in.

— Gizmo: Sorcerer Supreme (@GizmoSupreme) October 11, 2020

Michelle Williams in “I Feel Pretty.” It’s not a good film but it’s worth it just to watch her wild out pic.twitter.com/QmOXs2H3Ct

— Allie Pape (@alliepape) October 11, 2020

Samuel L Jackson in any Tarantino movie pic.twitter.com/J70VzlNr8n

— 𝕎𝕖𝕒𝕤𝕖𝕝𝕠𝕚𝕕 (@WeaselFidget) October 11, 2020

Toni Collette in Hereditary

— bob of ganoush (@rachelmillman) October 11, 2020

My pick too. The whole cast really, Pitt clearly had the time of his life doing that movie, but Waltz most of all pic.twitter.com/nsAeT6nYOt

— Melissa Martin (@DoubleEmMartin) October 11, 2020

I feel like Lance Reddick as Charon in the John Wick movies, but particularly John Wick Chapter 3, is a good answer here. pic.twitter.com/O1Kzgo8jIg

— Justin (@J_Crann) October 11, 2020

Alan Rickman in Dogma pic.twitter.com/0zUA3PloUh

— David and Spencer (@DavidAKAButtons) October 11, 2020

The Rock in Be Cool! pic.twitter.com/N61klBtjkm

— svuk (@sophvuk) October 11, 2020

Margaret Hamilton as the wicked witch I heard she loved it a lot with the exception of the day she got burned but other then that she loved this role pic.twitter.com/dNRhEGUIYA

— eric friend (@ericfriend5) October 11, 2020

Bronson is Tom Hardy just fucking going for it for two hours and it is a blast. He is most himself in this movie imo, and it is glorious to behold. pic.twitter.com/5IjbdpIUHf

— 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕾𝖐𝖚𝖑𝖑 (@john_heathen) October 11, 2020

Jack Nicholson in Mars Attacks pic.twitter.com/I3COSCHraL

— Melinda (@mindamaureen) October 11, 2020

Gene Wilder was having so much fun on Young Frankenstein that Mel Brooks had to stop him from writing more scenes to shoot pic.twitter.com/LBgw79n3uU

— Mackenzie Parker (@whenyougomac) October 11, 2020

Chris Tucker in The Fifth Element pic.twitter.com/vQIuL5XjKS

— Walrus Gundam (@walrusville) October 11, 2020

The entire cast of Drop Dead Gorgeous pic.twitter.com/RPy5hLFjF5

— Maren (@MissMaren5) October 11, 2020

Alan Tudyk always seems like he’s simultaneously enjoying himself and having an existential crisis pic.twitter.com/DPE5HJARFF

— Honestly, M (@honestly_m_) October 11, 2020

Jason Statham parodying himself and his own career in Spy. pic.twitter.com/WNMF2Ujtip

— Kevin M Mangan (@kevinmmangan) October 11, 2020

I’d have to go with these seven pic.twitter.com/96kdDX7a68

— 👻 (@Lifes_Not_Foehr) October 11, 2020

Tim Curry in anything pic.twitter.com/3FDI5D8Cv3

— Mama BOO-thulhu 👻👻👻 (@MaMaCthulhu) October 11, 2020

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