10 Brilliant Tweaks That Suddenly Made Actors Cool As F***

[@azohundred1353]

Whatever the quality of Nicolas Cage's movies were during his "debt"phase, he always gave it his absolute all.

[@quabityazhuance]

110% even

[@alastorcorvus]

He may or may not be a good actor (depends on your personal preferences) but he is always a professional and takes his job seriously

[@myheartiswriting]

@@alastorcorvus I've always had a soft spot for Nicolas Cage because he takes all his roles so seriously. In some ways I think he's more of an artist than an actor, and even his bad roles are infused with heart.

[@gateauxq4604]

One of the world’s best nepo babies

[@benmcfee]

@@alastorcorvus We can argue about whether or not he's a good actor (I personally think he is, because even his "bad" roles are incredibly watchable) but there is not doubt that he is professional AF!

[@gateauxq4604]

Keanu’s career arguably had two comebacks because before trenchcoats and kung fu he was being typecast as Ted and ‘teen heartthrob’ types.

[@jeffscott3186]

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (also Leathal Weapon, Last Action Hero, Long Kiss Goodnight, Iron Man 3 etc....) writer was Shane Black not Shane Blake.

[@TheGeekViper]

I was about to blame it on her accent 😜 j/k, I'm glad I'm not the only one that caught that.

[@bbsy1]

@@TheGeekViperyeah she messed up. Editor should have caught that.

[@jeryth057]

I've heard they include deliberate mistakes to increase viewer engagement

[@LyfaLeeZhure_DavidShawn]

...and "Predator"...

[@jimhuber]

These videos always seem to have one error that they should know better to make. That viewer engagement theory sounds credible.

[@jessecarliner7733]

If you are not familiar with it, there is nothing more delightful than the audio version of the "children's" bedtime book "Go The F*** To Sleep" as read by Samuel L. Jackson.

[@RedCharlie1000]

I only wish I had it as a child. Lol.

[@kieranhair37]

I really want him to read the sequel, You Have to Fucking Eat. They got Bryan Cranston instead. Who I'm sure does a great job, but it's a hell of a change. Either way, props to that author for getting two of Hollywood's biggest current legends to read his books.

[@alastorcorvus]

This is just not true, Keanu Reeves has ALWAYS been cool and BREATHTAKING

[@jacko666]

Also he had long hair and a beard in 47 ronin 😂

[@carastone3473]

Relax; it's an OPINION video!

[@lynnevetter]

indeed!!

[@Thurgosh_OG]

I really enjoyed 47 Ronin and still watch it at times.

[@connorwilson4357]

Even in Speed and the Matrix he was sick with his short hair. That one was for sure a miss from WhatCulture haha

[@Moochtv]

Who's Shane Blake?!

[@handyzee]

Famed writer/director of Irony Man 3 and Miss Miss, Bang Bang

[@k.x.huxford143]

​@@handyzeelast name is BLACK.

[@handyzee]

No, the writer of classic action movies like Lethal Coupon, The Last Girl Scout Cookie, and Long Kiss Good Morning, Vietnam. He was an actor in Arnold Braunschweiger's classic Matador. That Shane Blake!

[@ItsFreakinHarding.]

​@@handyzeeoh my God your comment made me spit out my freaking beer! 😂😂😂 I was cracking up so hard after reading it! Thank you so much for that! Almost like reading alternate Earth movie names.

[@drstevej2527]

You are running out of material!

[@Tomy_Yon]

'Pulp Fiction' resurrected a lot of carriers. 😊

[@aaron10146]

Tatantino resurrects alot of careers!

[@jeryth057]

And Tarantino resurrects a lot of careers 😀

[@stevenmunden3875]

Er I thought it was Shane Black, not Blake

[@zahirahza]

Right out the bat - when was Keanu reeves ever uncool? That's blasphemous

[@beatrixdobson4795]

Was fully expecting Robert Pattinson to be on this list.

[@gateauxq4604]

They should have included him with Kristen Stewart because he did the same thing.

[@vladtepes97]

When did he get cool?

[@carastone3473]

@@vladtepes97 - AFTER the Twilight Saga. He hated that stuff and got way cooler AFTER that. Check out some of his other work. He's actually a very talented actor...you'd just never know it from watching the Twilight movies because the dialogue was embarrassingly bad. LOL

[@Lu-dm7rn]

​@@vladtepes97 he's simply amazing in Tenet

[@lynnevetter]

@@vladtepes97 Have you seen The Batman?! he did great!

[@ozzyfernandez8228]

Shane Blake! 😂 Shane Black 👍🏽

[@OntarioGuy430]

Reeves basically had the same hair style in 47 Ronin as in John Wick - 47 Ronin was a good movie - not as good as John Wick 1 but probably better than John Wick 3 or 4

[@aroha9090]

Yeah, chalking his 'cool' up to longer hair & beard - um, he had both those in 47 Ronin!! & he's always been cool, even if his movie's haven't been.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

Same hairstyle, less the beard for the Bill & Ted films.

[@trinaderickson9733]

You are aware that Drew Barrymore actually was a wild child right? It wasn't just her "image". Poor girl was an addict by age 13. She had to go to rehab and emancipate herself from her parents and then she got herself on track. It wasn't really a "tweak"

[@BcAngel420]

younger than that, sadly

[@katherineheasley6196]

Yeah. She basically had to drag herself back from hell when all the people who were supposed to protect her failed her spectacularly. She'll always have my respect for that.

[@jimhuber]

Pretty impressive how she went from flashing David Letterman to being America's sweetheart. I'm not sure getting killed in Scream is what did it. But what do I know (other than it's Shane Black, not Shane Blake)?

[@kieranhair37]

Yeah, I feel like they got Downey's entry wrong too. The improv he did on Iron Man just led to a bigger career and a lot of typecasting, but he had to work really hard to get there. He started with a really bizarre movie called The Singing Detective, and a lot of movies he did after that refused to pay him fully until he'd gotten through all of his scenes without going on a bender. Most of Hollywood didn't trust him. He relied a lot on hard work and some pity jobs offered by the friends he still had left after rehab. That's what let him work his way up to the point he could do Iron Man at all. Acting like it's a random tweak he made to his persona is just, like...really downplaying the story of a man whose life got so rough he wound up becoming cellmates with a wife-killer.

[@nekot9274]

A great scene from mark hamill is in Knightfall, where he is standing under an arch and there is like 200 knight charging at him when the camera cut, just to find him being very casually ok after it. The medieval jedi ;)

[@InvertedFreeSolo]

Shane Black, not Blake

[@chaberio1335]

Shane black not blake

[@coreyhelms3019]

Nicolas cage delivered a fantastic movie without speaking a single word!

[@kieranhair37]

If you're talking about the movie I think you are, the scene where he just hands the girl a knife and walks away to play pinball is the kind of stuff I want more of from him. I can't picture anyone else nailing that moment so perfectly.

[@missinglinkevents]

Shane BLACK. Whatculture is always so bad at pronouncing popular names

[@jasonchambers4495]

What a weak list. Lawrence's last 3 movies have been average at best.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

I don't rate her at all. Not sure what all the hype about her was for.

[@kieranhair37]

I think No Hard Feelings mostly got big reactions because it felt like her character was sort of playing against type. That's what got me interested in it, anyway. I liked it, but not in such a way that I'd necessarily put it above most other comedies being released these days.

[@Mpetey123]

Aren't there 4 John Wick movies, not 5?

[@Thurgosh_OG]

There's a film called 'The Continental', about the hotel the assassins use.

[@Mpetey123]

@@Thurgosh_OG No, that's a tv show.

[@BrokenNoah]

WhatCulture, you're drunk

[@kieranhair37]

This is honestly best with just no context whatsoever.

[@jammijam1977]

Shane Black not Shane Blake 😂

[@lynnevetter]

i just watched the sorceror's apprentice last week.. .. I liked it. :P

[@Thurgosh_OG]

it is a fun film.

[@rquinain]

Commenting before watching, God I hope Robert Pattinson is on this!!! Edit: Aw man...

[@benmcfee]

I'll fill in that one for them, then: Robert Pattinson's smartest decision was working with David Cronenberg after _Twilight._ Similar to Kristin Stewart, actually, since both of them went hard indie afterwards, and it seems to have worked in both of their favour.

[@christophermerlot3366]

Speaking of Twilight, you could say the same thing about Pattinson. Made a couple of David Cronenberg movies right after. And now he's Batman.

[@philipbeattie4101]

during that “post oscar slump after winning best actress”, Jennifer Lawrence was nominated for oscars twice in the next 3 years, for American Hustle and Joy. she was great in both.

[@kieranhair37]

I thought I'd hate her in Joy because there was so much talk about her being too young for the role she was playing. But no, she nailed it.

[@earlleeruhf3130]

Samuel L Jackson is a sucessful actor, however swearing to appear cool is something that should be left at the playground back when you were 9.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

@@midaswelby8698 His roles have pushed him that way.

[@earlleeruhf3130]

@@Thurgosh_OG I agree, every role he is in seems to be Be Angry at Everyone and Swear alot.

[@sundaepoem]

RDJ would have been an excellent loudmouth Spider-Man now, if he was younger

[@carastone3473]

Samuel L. Jackson has ALWAYS been cool, motherf*cker! 🤣

[@davemaynard3826]

Shane Blake. Ha ha ha 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@MrKarkos]

Reeves was cool for the Wick film's not his hair and beard Cage was always a Legend. 😂

[@rome8180]

I would say the change Nicolas Cage actually made was leaning into his meme status. In the 2000s, he was acting in a bunch of bland dramas. But in the last 6-7 years, he's started taking on much weirder and campier roles that better suit his acting talents and public persona. A lot of them are still low budget.

[@kieranhair37]

I think it's a mix of a lot of things. Pig is a bizarre movie idea on paper, so I was expecting a really unhinged performance. The most unhinged part is just how he walks around having clearly just experienced violence yet has no qualms about just going into a nice restaurant and sitting down. But he gave a way more heartfelt performance than I was expecting having read nothing but the general premise of the film.

[@rome8180]

@@kieranhair37 yeah, I'm not really talking about Pig. That was a pretty sincere movie. I'm thinking of movies like Mandy, Prisoners of Ghostland, Willy's Wonderland, etc.

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Details are crucial😊😊😊❤❤❤❤

[@vinniemorciglio4632]

I wish Bluntman and Chronic had had the sequel done.....

[@rgerber]

so the correction is "turned Samuel L Jackson into a cool Motherf*cker"

[@jschap712]

Out of date. Samuel Jackson is now lame AF. Look at his role in Secret Invasion and The Marvels. Wimpass garbage.

[@ItsFreakinHarding.]

Okay, I love your videos, I really do! Some of them are informative, and very entertaining. However, I wonder if any of the actors whom these videos are about ever watch these things and think..."How freaking hard is it to pronounce my name?" Especially Shane Black. I can just picture him cringing when he hears the narrator pronounce his name as Shane Blake, and not Shane Black.

[@judgementalpuddinglondonca7265]

Of all the pointless lists of anything, this is the worst. It should be in the “What-Not-Culture” section. Whoever wrote it managed to attribute the success of a performer to a change in hairstyle/grooming 3 out of 10 times. Even more stupid is to claim that the utterance of a single word made another actor’s success. If this was self parody, well done. If not, I am sorry for the poor writer.

[@kieranhair37]

Not to mention that at least two of these were less what they wrote in the list and more that the actor stopped doing so many damn drugs. I don't really see this as a bad list idea in theory, but they clearly didn't have 10 ideas for this going in.

[@yellalot101]

Mark Hamill IS the definitive Joker!

[@michaeltortorice9876]

"Cool AF" and we all know that "AF" actually stands for "as foretold". Interesting that Samuel L. Jackson had a debilitating stutter in his younger years. Do you know who else had a debilitating stutter as a young man? James Earl Jones. Now that's good company to be in.

[@dasupertramp5855]

Downey as Strauss in Oppenheimer is not "fast talking"

[@elcapitan2293]

Kristen Stewart went to only indies? What was Charlie's Angel's supposed to be?

[@gateauxq4604]

It was a flop and could have destroyed her career if she had chosen to stay mainstream.

[@elcapitan2293]

@gateauxq4604 yeah it was a flop. Still a big budget movie she signed up for, way after twilight ended.

[@filmsociety1311]

Ellie did say "almost entirely"

[@sundalangur3250]

Yes, I don't know about that one. I feel like she leaned into indies because she couldn't get roles in the blockbusters because she was marked as the Twilight girl. It happens all the time with iconic roles. She embraced indies after she found success with them. I guess I'm just being pedantic since indies are giving her success. I just think the idea she embraced them didn't come until she saw some positive results.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

Underwater is a good role for her. She was excellent in that one and it's a good film too.

[@astroturfmatador9119]

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: Shane "Blake"? It's Shane Black.

[@redharvest100]

Lol. It's Shane Black...not Shane Blake. FFS

[@markristin4307]

There are FOUR John Wick films.

[@JG603YouTube]

Did she say Shane Blake, not Black? 😂

[@RedCharlie1000]

I was expecting “what’s in your wallet, motherf@cker?” For the capital one credit card commercial. I say it for him whenever I see it. They missed out on a fabulous opportunity

[@kieranhair37]

I'd say the bigger missed opportunity was Star Wars. Really would've added some flavor to the prequels.

[@carastone3473]

I thought Keanu Reeves looked way better without the beard and with short hair - circa Speed! HOT! Now, I think he just looks unkempt.

[@ItsFreakinHarding.]

Well, when you have the amount of money that he has you can dress and look however the hell you want! And for the amount of money that man has, he is incredibly easy going and leads a very simple life. Keanu Takes the subway, sits and eat lunch on park benches and shares his food with homeless people. He also donated a large portion of his salary to the stunt team, I believe, for the first or second Matrix movie. He also gifted Custom Motorcycles, Harleys I had read somewhere, to his stunt team as well. What a generous, selfless, and all-around amazing man.

[@Moonwired]

The absolute stupid and ridiculous things to make a list off.. that literally had zero influence on making actors “cool” here let me try.. Bruce Willis was going downhill as an a-list actor at the end of the 80s, until he started shaving his head. That made him cool as a cucumber and got him hired for a lot of projects that did really well. Mr reeves could have been bald, could have had pink hair, and John Wick would have been just as impactful.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

John Wick was Keanu going back to his Bill & Ted look for the hair.

[@UKProgRock]

Shane BLACK not Blake

[@bubsmp]

4:02 yep, because the dolt sure can’t act.

[@erickmunoz1378]

Shane Blake? My god.

[@nixeleth]

Shane Blake. Oops.

[@trentjameswilkie]

Typo: Black not Blake.

[@danielmiller3596]

It launched David Schwimmer...?

[@kieranhair37]

I don't think it launched most of them, honestly. Like, they've all gotten work. And I guess the Scream franchise was a good get for Cox-Arquette. But most of them have had really small successes at best. Perry was great in The Whole 9 Yards but did a couple of terrible romcoms nearly back to back that nearly tanked him. Aniston's had the most consistent career, usually as the wife of some comedy movie main character. If she made a tweak at all, I'd say it was when she started doing slightly ruder comedies like Horrible Bosses and We're the Millers. Both movies that highlighted her sex appeal, yet did so in sort of odd ways. I feel like that helped put her under a new light that a lot of viewers weren't used to since she'd been taking more innocent roles up til then. But I doubt that's what she's doing with her Mean Girls spinoff, so I wouldn't even call that a tweak that stuck.

[@killah_disciple1]

None of these things really affected careers. Keanu had been rocking that look got a while. He had long hair as Ted "Theodore" Logan. It was John Wick that revived his career. Nothing else. Amy Adams dyed her hair red and now looks like a RED headed sister wife. Her hair has had no effect on her career. She still looks like Isla Fisher's plain older sister. Sam Jackson is associated with that word because yt people.associate him with that word and he capitalizes off of that stupidity along with Tarantino's constantly casting him in racist movies.

[@ariescustom]

Shane Blake? 🤣

[@RicoTheL3g3nd]

Who's in the thumbnail-?

[@SuperSuperman1976]

Amy Adams

[@apollion888]

John Wick is a 5 movie franchise? I do not understand to what you are referring, they stopped at 4.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

The film 'The Continental' about the assasins hotel is in that universe.

[@apollion888]

thank you @@Thurgosh_OG

[@acebone2]

Let's remember folks: Actors equals Hollywood ... f'sure

[@BcAngel420]

Have loved Watching #KristenStewart since #PanicRoom and her movie #Speak is one of my favorites of hers

[@Thurgosh_OG]

She was really good in 2020s Underwater.

[@marlowemichaelson1366]

This is the silliest list you have made in a long time, and I'm here for it lol

[@matticus6821]

In the same way as Kristen Stuart… Robert Pattison did the same too. Now I respect and appreciate both those actors

[@From-North-Jersey]

So you don't like movies?

[@Daeduluus]

5 john wick movies?

[@Thurgosh_OG]

She said John Wick franchise. The film 'The Continental' about the assasins hotel is in that universe.

[@Daeduluus]

@@Thurgosh_OG thanks thought i heard 5 movies myself thank you for clearing that up

[@kieranhair37]

@@Thurgosh_OG Yeah but they're also making a movie called Ballerina or something. So if we're going to count the miniseries as a movie, it should be six.

[@DaddyOfTheSugarVariety]

Keanu looks better with no beard.

[@gabojgt]

Why I only watch Elie Whatculture videos???... I think I have a crush on her

[@mikeasimms]

No mention of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson firing his team and getting jacked and just deciding to be HIM in movies? Even if he’s the same character, I love how dope he is.

[@From-North-Jersey]

You and people like you are why movies are dying. Grow up. The rock is not even a two dimensional character.

[@Pilaspilas911]

You had to show friends... still raw for many of us 🤣🤣

[@bikerdave1274]

acting is the easiest job the hardest is a pet Vet/doc

[@thatlittlevoice6354]

🤨

[@alastorcorvus]

Cool story, no one asked

[@kieranhair37]

Literally every job is as hard or as easy as you make it. Whether that's good or bad is up to interpretation. Example: Heath Ledger and Jared Leto both made playing the Joker very, very hard.

[@smokeyandtheassbandit]

Drew barrymoores changing is definitely poison ivy movie