Movies were a secondary actor outshines a main actor by a mile
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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Alan Rickman easily outshined Kevin Costner in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. He tended to outshine a lot of his co-stars in a lot of his movies actually.😄 Miss that guy!
Christoph Waltz in two Tarantinos
Val Kilmer in Tombstone.
Famously, Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs.
Philip Seymour Hoffman in Along came Polly. Only reason to watch that movie.
Man I love Kingdom of Heaven. Its so underrated, it seems like no one has ever even heard of it.
Angelina Jolie outshone Wynona Ryder in Girl Interrupted. And Britney Murphy nearly outshone them both! Lol
Demolition Man. I still watch it for all the side characters and Snipes, not Stallone.
The Dark Knight, obviously.
Ralph Fiennes in Schindler’s List.
Silence of the Lambs.
Nicholson in A Few Good Men.
Hugo Weaving in the matrix. Probably the best vilain ever.
Charlie Prince (Ben Foster) – 3:10 to Yuma
The dude was a straight menace.
Gary Oldman in 5 minutes outshined everyone in True Romance.
Honestly, I’d put Hardy in The Revenant up there.
You could have spent zero effort convincing me he was the main character
Jeremy irons in Die Hard 3
Any time Sam Rockwell gets second billing.
Anything where Robin Williams isn’t the star
Fisher King
Good Will Hunting
Aladdin
Night at the Museum
Dead Again
Christian Bale in Thor: Love & Thunder
Yes, the movie is trash, but that scene on the black & white planet… words cannot even describe the gap in talent between Christian Bale and the rest of the cast.
Shakespeare in Love
Judy Dench owned that movie with 30 second of screen time. She is literally, LIT-ER-AH-LEE, the only thing I remember about the movie.
Does Pirates of the Caribbean count? I periodically forget that Orlando Bloom was the lead in the first movie.
Primal Fear – Ed Norton
Marisa Tomei outshone Joe Pesci in My Cousin Vinny.
Ken stole all the scenes in Barbie.
Doc Holiday in Tombstone. I never saw the movie, but this question get posted once in a while….
Christian Bale in The Fighter
Robin Williams was awesome at outshining everyone, except in The Birdcage. Nathan Lane is the center of that film and steals every scene brilliantly.
Ken Watanabe as Katsumodo in the Last Samurai. Â Sorry Tom Cruise!
Daniel Day Lewis Gangs of New York.
Gary Oldman in Leon and Fifth Element.
And Daniel Day Lewis in Gangs of New York.
Doubt. Viola Davis steals the show from Meryl Streep.
3:10 to Yuma. Ben Foster