Nice Character, Mean Actor: Difference between revisions

* Averted in ''[[Harold and Kumar|Harold & Kumar go to White Castle]]'', Neil Patrick Harris (then still best-known for ''[[Doogie Howser, M.D.]]'') wanted to be credited "as Neil Patrick Harris" rather than "as himself" so people wouldn't think he was a crazy, coke-snorting womanizer in real life.

* Played brilliantly for comic effect in ''[[Pee Wee's Big Adventure|Pee Wees Big Adventure]]'' when child actor Kevin Morton (played by actual nice guy child actor [[The Wonder Years|Jason Hervey]]) acts like an arrogant prick toward the cast and crew in between takes on a film where he plays an orphan that all of the nuns and fellow orphans love dearly.

** One of the actresses playing one of the nuns so resents Morton's attitude that she threatens to quit.

* Lina Lamont in ''[[Singin' in the Rain|Singin in The Rain]]''. She plays all sorts of glamorous princesses and whatnot (in silent films), but when she actually opens her mouth, you find out she sounds awful and has the personality to match.