What are the best 'retroactive' cameos? Those times when you're watching a movie and you're completely distracted by a sudden appearance of a famous actor/actress that was a nobody at that time.
Jean Claude Van Damme in Breakin' is probably my favorite. He shows off some of those dance moves he'd make famous in Kickboxer. If I remember right, he said in an interview that he purposely tried to draw attention to himself by doing flips and shit (the flips were unfortunately cut out), it must've worked.
not because he was good, but it was weird seeing him younger and in shape
Isaac Thompson
This one is impossible to spot on your own but now that you know it you'll never forget
Dean Norris (Hank Schrader from Breaking Bad) as the mutant with the vagina face in Total Recall
Elijah Gomez
He looks like AJ here.
Gabriel Anderson
Raymond Cruz is in a MILLION movies. Any time there's a Hispanic soldier, it's him. Clear and Present Danger The Rock Alien Resurrection And a bunch of others.
Kayden Butler
Like in the Sixth Sense. You find out that the dude in that hair piece the whole time . . .that’s Bruce Willis . . . the whole movie.
Grayson Martin
D.P.O., that's a classic episode
Gabriel Myers
Don Draper and Coulson before they were known as such.
Lucas Edwards
Jack black in every movie he's in.
Joseph Hughes
There's a shitload of retroactive cameos on Seinfeld and ST:TNG, too.
Camden Gutierrez
I think the one that stands out the most to me would be Danny DeVito in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. It's almost hard to tell that it's him due to the amount of hair and lack of leathery skin
Connor Brown
The X Files had A LOT of retro cameos.
>Ryan Reynolds >Seth Green >Shia LeTry Hard >Countless more
Elijah Roberts
Fuck it weirds me out that Rowdy Roddy Piper was in a John Carpenter movie
Jose Ward
Jim Carrey in the 80's movie The Dead Pool with Clint Eastwood. Jim plays a famous rockstar named Johnny Squares.
Levi Turner
off the top of my head the x-files also had retro-cameos by giovanni ribisi in that very episode, then there's tony shaloub, shia labeouf, bryan cranston and aaron paul, ryan reynolds, jane lynch, dang i'm gonna rewatch some of those, especially 'soft light' with tony shaloub. sidenote, i want to go back and rewatch every episode of the x-files vince gilligan wrote, now that i think of it
Robert Jones
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Gavin Martin
Arnold in The Long Goodbye
Jacob Martin
He dies in it and is a somewhat serious role
Adam Phillips
Most of you guys are just naming random movies various actors were in before they became household names.
Hunter Rodriguez
He was also a cameo in Star Trek Ds9 as "hispanic space soldier" in the episode Seige of AR-558
Really? Genuinely curious, what did he star in before '93?
Adam Cooper
JLH is so fine. I wish I could marry a girl with her features, in that she ages so well.
Also, that footwork is sped up.
Jack Bailey
River runs through it Thelma and louise Johhny suede
Thats about it besides tv show cameos
Liam Brown
Heather Graham in License to Drive
Liam Morales
The Simpsons on The Tracy Ullman Show.
Henry Fisher
I fucking miss the 90's. I was only 7 when this film came out, but I really like 1994 to 1999. The movies, shows, fashion, music were comfy as fuck back then.
Christian Harris
>Look this up to see if it's true >Discover he's the SWAT team leader in T2 as well >Won't be able to watch two of my favourite films ever again without thinking of minerals
Welp
Dylan Parker
Charlie Sheen in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. It's a pretty minor role but it establishes his acting ability really nicely.
Logan Torres
Jeff Goldblum in Annie Hall
Chase Cooper
Best so far. His presence is highly distracting in a way Allen could not possibly have intended.
Asher Parker
Holy crap never noticed this...is my life a lie?
Mason Cook
Wow never realized that until now. He truly was "the guy" of the child acting world
Hudson Kelly
I hope I get to keep my hairpiece in the afterlife.
Alexander Sanders
Jeff Goldblum in Death Wish
William Murphy
Tobey Maguire in SFW (underrated pre-millenial social commentary kino)