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thegrenekni3t
Since: Dec, 2009
Vines
Since: Jun, 2011
nrjxll
Since: Nov, 2010
2011-06-09 14:49:41
Actually, I'm not sure if this is Took the Bad Film Seriously - doesn't that state that the actor in question is trying to give a serious performance while everyone else is hamming it up?

Is there an acting trope (probably a YMMV) where one actor is generally chewing the scenery (but in a good way) and obviously giving an orders of magnitude better performance than the actors around him (possibly slumming it in a show that's beneath him but still giving his role 100%)?
Some critics are feeling this way about Peter Dinklage in Game of Thrones for example. Perhaps Robert Carlyle on Stargate Universe although he often crosses the line into Large Ham.
Also this isn't the same as something like Ben Kingsly - a great actor who's a repeat offender at phoning in terrible perfomances into terrible movies for the paycheck - although I'm not sure what that's called either!