Every once in a while, a performer hangs up the mic and goes Hollywood. The results can be brilliant, entertaining, disastrous or just downright stupefying.
1. Elvis Presley
One of the greatest tragedies over the loss of Elvis wasn’t merely that the Fried Peanut Butter, Honey, Banana and Bacon Sandwich Society lost its key spokesman. It’s that Elvis could have had a critically successful acting career, instead of just a lucrative one. The King had a promising start in films such as Love Me Tender, only to be sucked into a string of mediocre musicals.
2. Mark Wahlberg
You did good in dramatic roles in films like Boogie Nights, and you were fun to watch in the remake of The Italian Job, and you purely kicked ass in The Departed. It’s almost as if you radiant good vibrations.
3. Frank Sinatra
Ol’ Blues Eyes will likely be remembered as a rat pack prince, but he done good in work such as The Manchurian Candidate.
4. Will Smith
Someone gave him a sitcom, a few parts where he blew up aliens, and a heck of a good dramatic turn as Muhammed Ali and that’s great. But, lest you forget: the nightmare on my street and the parents who just don’t understand.
5. Madonna
Just kidding. I’ll start that again.
5. Mick Jagger
No, seriously, let me give you a real Number 5.
5. Beyoncé Knowles
Who could forget her immortal role as Foxxy Cleopatra in Goldmember? OK, for real this time …
5. Dwight Yoakam
Yoakam will always be a country crooner, but he also has an extensive filmography, including a brilliant turn as a perpetual asshole in Sling Blade.
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While you could say that this example uses the terms musician and actor loosely, one of my favorite appearances of this kind was Billy Ray Cyrus as Gene the Pool Man in one of my favorite films, Mulholland Drive. It was a bit part, but extremely memorable, not to mention surreal. I was trying in vain to locate the scene on YouTube to link here, but alas, it was not to be found. Perhaps it is best not to ruin the experience for those of you who have not yet seen it, however. Ah David Lynch, you’ve done it again…
I don’t suppose Cyrus’s mullet got caught in the pool filter, leading to an achy breaky tragedy? ‘Cause I’d totally pay to see that.
No… not that… but it’s still really entertaining. You need to see Mulholland Drive. Let’s add it to the list :)