Fans Are Sharing Movie Cameos They Never Noticed Until Years Later
I’ve loved movies my whole life, but when I was a kid I was mostly just along for the ride. I wasn’t scanning the background for surprise cameos or recognizing actors buried under makeup, I was just trying to keep up with the story and hoping there were enough explosions to hold my attention.
Now that I’m older, it’s wild going back and realizing how many cameos completely flew over my head. Case in point, I had no idea that was Glenn Close in Hook for years. Absolutely missed it.
That’s exactly what makes this Reddit thread from CommerceOnMars69 so fun. People are sharing the movie cameos they didn’t catch until way later, and once you see them, you can’t believe you ever missed them in the first place.
1. “Glenn Close’s cameo in Hook.”
2. “Didn’t recognize Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder ’til the end credits.”
3. “My brain still does not compute that Brad Pitt was in Deadpool 2. For some reason, I don’t recognize him.”
4. “I didn’t notice the two truckers Cable meets in Deadpool 2 were Matt Damon and Alan Tudyk.”
5. “Matt Damon as the lead singer in Eurotrip.”
6. “Matt Damon as Loki in Thor: Ragnarok. Took me a minute.”
7. “Elon Musk in Iron Man 2. I had heard his name a lot circa 2010, but I didn’t know what he looked like until a couple years later.”
8. “Growing up, I watched Hot Shots! Part Deux religiously, and it wasn’t until I was in high school, and had seen both Apocalypse Now and Wall Street that I understood Martin Sheen’s cameo, and how incredible and truly hilarious it was.”
9. “Happy Gilmore. It was years later when I realized Ben Stiller was the manager of the nursing home.”
10. “Sean Connery in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. I was 9 and not sure why everyone else was freaking out.”
11. “The John Hurt cameo in Spaceballs. As an 8-year-old, I hadn’t seen Alien yet.”
12. “Adam Lambert in Bohemian Rhapsody.”
13. “Not a cameo, but only as teen did I realize that Michael J. Fox also played his own daughter in Back to the Future Part II.”
14. “Dan Aykroyd in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.”
15. “Franco Nero, reprising the titular role from Django (1966) in Django Unchained (2012), went over my head the first time I saw the latter. It wasn’t until I watched the original Django that I realized what I’d missed, and understood the ‘D is silent’ joke.”
16. “Lots of people missed Mike Myers in Inglorious Bastards.”
17. “Quentin Tarantino in Little Nicky.”
18. “Dumb and Dumber To. Didn’t realize the guy cooking meth was Bill Murray until the credits rolled.”
19. “Val Kilmer in True Romance.”
20. “Edward Norton in Alita: Battle Angel. I’m usually good at spotting actors in movies but I completely missed him. At the end when we were leaving the theater my wife mentioned it and I was like, ‘What? That was Edward Norton?'”
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