11 cases when great actors played in films where they had practically no lines (13 photos)

What is the most important tool for an actor - his face or his voice - is a debatable question. Some can spend the entire film wearing a mask and still captivate the audience with the delivery of their lines. And others feel like they’ve taken their fill of water, but they act out with facial expressions and movements in such a way that no words are required.





You might think that wordless roles are given only to little-known actors, but this is not so. Sometimes the specifics of a film or role forces even the stars not to say anything special, but they still drag it out. We found some quantitative indicators of lines or words of famous actors who were mostly silent in their films. Look, it's interesting!

Tom Hardy in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)



He speaks only 52 lines during the film.

Henry Cavill in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)





Superman, performed by the actor, spoke only 43 lines.

Dwayne Johnson in the movie Faster than a Bullet (2010)



He spoke only 25 lines.

Matt Damon in Jason Bourne (2016)



Also delivered about 25 lines. Both Johnson and Damon are the main characters in these films. Not in word, but in deed because!

Emily Blunt and John Krasinski in A Quiet Place (2017)



In total, there are about 25 lines in the film, which the main stars of the film also shared with the children. Well, they definitely had a good reason to keep quiet here!

Tom Hardy in the movie Dunkirk (2017)



And here the actor speaks even less - he has only 10 lines.

Scarlett Johansson in Walk in My Shoes (2013)



Throughout the entire film, in which the actress has the main role, she spoke only 3 lines.

Ryan Gosling in the movie Drive (2011)



He spoke only 891 words in the film.

Keanu Reeves in John Wick 4 (2023)



He spoke about 380 words during the film, deliberately asking the director to cut a considerable number of his lines from the final version, as it suited the essence of the hero.

Johnny Depp in the movie Edward Scissorhands (1990)



He spoke less than 150 words in the film.

Kurt Russell in the movie Soldier (1998)



He spoke only 104 words throughout the entire film.

Bonus: Amber Heard in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023)



The actress's participation, as expected, was significantly reduced, and she ended up delivering only 11 lines throughout the film.

And there are even fewer normal shots of the actress from the new Aquaman, so we used a shot from Zack Snyder’s Justice League, where Amber also played Mera. Here it was clearly not the heroine’s silence, so we put her as a bonus.