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That Was THEM??""It never clicked that they were the same actor."by Jenna GuillaumeBuzzFeed ContributorFacebookPinterestLink Sometimes you can't unsee an actor in a role, and sometimes they get so completely lost in it that you don't even realize it's them. Recently, Reddit user dinosaur_dancer asked people to share which actors gave them the biggest "Wait... that was them?!" moments, and the responses highlighted some pretty damn impressive performances... 1. Vincent D'Onofrio as Edgar/The Bug in Men in Black. Ron Galella / Getty Images, Columbia "Just finished watching MIB for the first time in years and said, 'Holy shit.'" -Shit-Talker-Sr 2. Colin Farrell as The Penguin in The Batman and The Penguin. Steve Granitz / Getty Images, HBO "This one spun me out. Colin looked so unrecognizable and carried the evil of The Penguin so well." -Pandoras_Fate 3. Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown in Back to the Future and Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Ron Galella, Ltd. / Getty Images / Universal / Disney "I loved Back to the Future and Roger Rabbit as a kid. Took me years to realize that Doc Brown was also Judge Doom, and it blew my mind." -ittoogami 4. Glenn Close as Gutless in Hook. Ron Galella / Getty Images, Amblin Entertainment "In the movie Hook, the pirate that gets put in the box with the scorpions - 'not the boo box!' - was Glenn Close."-jayblaze521 5. Tom Cruise as Les Grossman in Tropic Thunder. Samir Hussein / Getty Images, Dreamworks "My brain still refuses to accept that Les Grossman was Tom Cruise." -epicpillowcase 6. Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride. Carvalho / Getty Images / Showtime / Act III Communications "Mandy Patinkin being Saul Berenson in Homeland and Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride made me do a full-on double take when I realized." -mvrander 7. Michael Keaton as Beetlejuice in Beetlejuice. Ron Galella, Ltd. / Getty Images, Warner Bros "When I first saw Beetlejuice, my brain had a rough time accepting that it was Michael Keaton." -Bluemookie 8. Anthony Michael Hall as Jim in Edward Scissorhands. Ron Galella / Getty Images / Universal / 20th Century Fox "Anthony Michael Hall in The Breakfast Club and then Edward Scissorhands. From the nerd to the bully." -whole_chocolate_milk 9. Hannah Waddingham as Septa Unella in Game of Thrones. Gareth Cattermole / Getty Images / Apple TV+ / HBO "The football club owner in Ted Lasso and the shame nun in Game of Thrones; it never clicked they were the same actor." -InAppropriate-meal 10. Bill Skarsgård as Count Orlok in Nosferatu. John Lamparski / Getty Images, Focus Features "I didn't know it was him in Nosferatu." -JordanLeigh7 11. Michael Parks in Kill Bill: Vol. 1. Miramax / youtube.com / Miramax "I will give you one that is the same movie. Michael Parks plays both the sheriff Earl McGraw and the pimp Esteban Vihaio in Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and Kill Bill: Vol. 2."-Wavemanns 12. Bruce Willis as Ernest in Death Becomes Her. Ron Galella / Getty Images, Universal -DrPoooooole 13. Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove. Tv Times / Getty Images, Columbia "On first watching Dr. Strangelove, I had no idea Sellers played three parts. Accents were perfect, costumes were elaborate, and the characters were deeply different from one another. Sellers was one of those actors who disappeared so deep into a role you forgot you were watching Peter Sellers." -ImprovementFar5054 14. Donnie Wahlberg as Vincent Grey in The Sixth Sense. Steve Granitz / Getty Images, Hollywood Pictures "Saw his name in the credits and was like, 'Wait, where?' I googled it and was shocked."-elder_mil_spice 15. Ted Levine as Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs and Captain Leland Stottlemeyer in Monk. Ron Galella / Getty Images / Orion / USA Network "Buffalo Bill and Stottlemeyer! What a moment of recognition, absolutely baffling." -Significant-Cloud- 16. Billy Bob Thornton as Karl Childers in Sling Blade. Jim Smeal / Getty Images, Miramax "Mmhmm." -Jimmy_Twotone 17. Stephen Root as Milton in Office Space. Jon Kopaloff / Getty Images, 20th Century Fox "Don't know how that one got by me." -Curtainmachine 18. Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuornos in Monster. Frederick M. Brown / Getty Images, K/W Productions "She was really great in that one, and almost unrecognizable!" -hippiechick725 19. Amy Madigan as Gladys in Weapons. Gilbert Flores / Getty Images, Warner Bros "I had no idea Gladys was Amy Madigan until well into the movie."-NinjaZombieHunter 20. Jennifer Coolidge as Jodi in Seinfeld. Getty Images / Getty Images, NBC "Jennifer Coolidge plays Jerry's masseuse girlfriend in an episode of Seinfeld. That never clicked for me until I went back after learning this. It was before she did the silly voice." -diplion 21. "Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Joe in Looper." Ferdaus Shamim / Getty Images, Sony Pictures "Legit