5 Actors Who Do The Same WTF Specific Thing In Every Movie

In Total Recall, Arnold's wife-stealing fears play out in the most nightmarish way possible: He finds out the woman he thinks is the love of his life is actually a double agent who's secretly with Richter, a villain who implanted fake memories into his brain to make him think he and his wife had a life together.

All three cuckolders get their comeuppance, though. Arnold uses a vast amount of CIA resources to illegally stage a prank to get Paxton to pee his pants, Hartman gets rejection eggnog thrown on him when he goes full creep, and in Total Recall, Arnold shoots his fake wife in the head, says, "CONSIDA DAT A DIVORCE," then tears Richter's arms off and drops the rest of him down an elevator shaft. So in each case, love won in the end.

They seem all right, as far as eyes go. Nice brown color, good spacing and symmetry ... no real problems worth mentioning. And yet for some reason, every filmmaker's reaction when they see those eyes is "I must annihilate them at all costs. Cut them out! Burn them out! Bring me the weeping children of Mads Mikkelsen's eyes so they can look upon their father's destroyer!!!"

We ... we should probably start explaining.

The trend started in Casino Royale, Mikkelsen's introduction to the world outside Scandinavia. In that film, his character's left eye is horribly scarred, leaving him weeping blood in moments of high stress.

Mads' gooey eye isn't a plot point, or even a setup for one of Bond's one-liners. Instead, someone just looked at Mikkelsen and demanded that they fuck up his left eye before filming. And then someone completely different decided the same thing two movies later in Valhalla Rising. Mikkelsen's character not only has a wad of elbow skin for a left eye in the film, but he is actually called One Eye.

Mikkelsen's rising star meant his agent had more power to bargain, so they must have reached a compromise in the film after that. In The Three Musketeers, his character is absolutely still missing a left eye, but he gets to wear a cool eye patch over it instead of a prosthetic ball sack.

But instead of quenching their hatred of Mikkelsen's eye, such an affront only made Hollywood's anger grow. The Union of Hollywood Theatrical Artists Specifically for Mads Mikkelsen's Eyes protested, and so in Doctor Strange, Mikkelsen's eyes are two burning embers at the center of eight pounds of makeup.

It's obvious that Hollywood will not rest until it has pried those orbs right from Mikkelsen's head, so Mads made the wise move to branch out to other media. He became best friends with Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima and agreed to star in his next game, Death Stranding. And if you'd like to see the new and interesting direction Kojima is taking Mikkelsen, here's a screenshot of what his character will look like!

Later, Reeves starred in The Matrix, in which most of the plot and interior sets were made up of cyber chairs. Keanu was quickly becoming Hollywood's go-to star for stories about people whose bodies are in chairs but whose minds are absolutely not.

Keanu even manages to find a way to incorporate cyber chairs in movies about magic. In Constantine, the title character has a chair called "The Chair," which lets him get glimpses of Lucifer's son Mammon obtaining the Spear of Destiny. It's another film we shouldn't try to explain in a paragraph. The point is, he's a wizard in a world of magic, and Keanu still found a way to shoot his brain into virtual reality while strapped into a chair.

Keanu doesn't always send his mind away when he's strapped into a cyber chair. In The Day The Earth Stood Still, he plays an alien named Klaatu. The story sees him tied to an ordinary chair and pointlessly covered in sensors by government agents who had to have been waiting their whole lives to fuck with an alien, yet still manage to screw the whole thing up.

The Day The Earth Stood Still marked Keanu's growth as an actor. He demonstrated he could get strapped to chairs with fewer and fewer devices. He went even further in Knock Knock, in which he gets tied to a chair that only includes headphones.

Reeves finally "made it" as a fully cyber-free chair actor in the acclaimed action film John Wick, which has him tied to a chair with absolutely no electric wires or cables. It is attached to zero cyber dolphins and no alternate digital realities. It was a long and confusing road getting here, but here he is ...

... living the dream!

In Me, Myself, And Irene, Jim's face and mouth get covered in bugs, and he absolutely doesn't care. Oddly enough, in Dumb And Dumber, he mentions swallowing a junebug off-camera as a reason he's not hungry. We're not sure what this means, but Carrey's characters seem to be the only people who are totally fine with live insects flying into their mouths and eyes. Are all his movies secretly zombie movies? Candyman spinoffs?

Here's a fun GIF from How The Grinch Stole Christmas, and we're beginning to suspect this wasn't even in the script. This is simply what happens when Carrey stops moving his mouth for more than five seconds.

The man is covered and filled with insects in a way that may account for his inhuman gyrations. It doesn't seem to be limited to the set, either. He once told a Jimmy Kimmel audience all about the mites that started living in his beard. When it comes to Jim Carrey, the question isn't whether or not he has a bug on him; it's where, how many dozens, and how many eggs they are laying.

And here he is in The Man In The Iron Mask, a movie where they put the highest-paid actor on the planet's head inside a bucket for most of the running time. He's toasting to his mother and his own reign as king.

His next cinematic cup-hoist came in Gangs Of New York, in which he disguises his threat to kill the man who murdered his father as a toast.

Next, in the smash hit everyone surely saw, Revolutionary Road, DiCaprio makes a toast to Kate Winslet being pregnant, right before Michael Shannon manages to shatter the facade and reduce DiCaprio to a screaming, violent wreck. The point is: Nothing good ever happens after a DiCaprio toast.

Leonardo loves toasting so much that he does it even when it's not appropriate. Here he is explaining the rules of Inception. It's one of the most important and complicated speeches anyone in a film has ever had to give, so he of course does it by standing up and raising a glass of wine.

In Django Unchained, they had DiCaprio's curiosity, and then they had his attention ... a line that might have been clunky and overwritten had he not punctuated it with a ridiculous drink.

In The Wolf Of Wall Street, Leo sarcastically toasts the impotent FBI agents to show them that dickheads can do anything they want if they're rich enough.

Every single one of this man's toasts leads to dark and terrible things, but he keeps doing them. You cannot stop him. Here he is in the Departed, giving a quick toast right into the side of another man's head.

The point we're trying to make is that if you see Leonardo DiCaprio start to raise his glass, run.

It really was only a matter of time before someone put Leo on a wine glass.

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