{"id":13615,"date":"2021-09-09T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itwaslikemagic.com\/?p=13615"},"modified":"2026-08-17T13:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T17:41:08","slug":"actors-or-actresses-playing-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/actors-or-actresses-playing-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Movie Picks: Actors or Actresses Playing Themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wanderingthroughtheshelves.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow external noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Wandering through the Shelves<\/a>\u00a0hosts a weekly movie challenge in which you choose 3-5 movies based on that Thursday&#8217;s theme and explain why you chose those movies.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s theme is Actors or Actresses Playing Themselves,\u00a0so here are my choices!<\/p>\n<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/90.png\" alt=\"Thursday Movie Picks: Actors or Actresses Playing Themselves\" height=\"675\" width=\"1200\" title=\"Thursday Movie Picks: Actors or Actresses Playing Themselves\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n\t<h3><strong>Bill Murray (Zombieland)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I read that other actors were considered for this cameo in Zombieland, including Patrick Swayze (who was too ill to film) and Mark Hamill. But Bill Murray was perfection as&#8230; Bill Murray. He&#8217;s not infected, but he disguises himself as a zombie to get around town safely. It&#8217;s a brief cameo, but it&#8217;s hilarious.<\/p>\n<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/88.png\" alt=\"Thursday Movie Picks: Actors or Actresses Playing Themselves\" height=\"675\" width=\"1200\" title=\"Thursday Movie Picks: Actors or Actresses Playing Themselves\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n\t<h3><strong>The Cast (This is the End)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I can&#8217;t lie; this movie cracked me up. It was so ridiculous, but I can&#8217;t remember the last time I laughed so hard. It probably helped that everyone in this movie played exaggerated versions of themselves. Michael Cera has a hilarious &#8220;cameo,&#8221; and Emma Watson kicks some butt. This is one of those movies that I&#8217;ll get sucked into watching anytime I see it&#8217;s on.<\/p>\n<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/89.png\" alt=\"Thursday Movie Picks: Actors or Actresses Playing Themselves\" height=\"675\" width=\"1200\" title=\"Thursday Movie Picks: Actors or Actresses Playing Themselves\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n\t<h3><strong>Julia Roberts (Ocean&#8217;s Twelve)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>This seems to be a somewhat polarizing scene in Ocean&#8217;s Twelve. People either love it or really hate it! To get close to the Faberg\u00e9 Egg they&#8217;re attempting to steal and swap, Linus (Matt Damon) has Danny&#8217;s wife, Tess (Julia Roberts), pose as&#8230; Julia Roberts. It might have worked if not for the presence of Bruce Willis as himself, realizing &#8220;Julia&#8221; isn&#8217;t quite Julia. Tess also talks to Julia Roberts on the phone &#8211; Julia&#8217;s voice. Got it? Cool. Anyway, it&#8217;s a bit silly, but you can tell the cast had fun with it.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s theme is Actors or Actresses Playing Themselves, so here are my choices!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2615,2377],"tags":[2569,2570,2505,2571],"class_list":["post-13615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-lists","tag-oceans-twelve","tag-this-is-the-end","tag-thursday-movie-picks","tag-zombieland"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13615"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85654,"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13615\/revisions\/85654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theromcomcatalog.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}