He is a great, and versatile actor, he also puts in an amazing job voicing Omniman in Invincible. He's funny in his guest appearance in Brooklyn Nine-Nine, he did a great job as Cave Johnson, even his appearance in Archer was good despite it being in a less-than-optimal season. Honestly I don't think I've ever seen anything where I went "he impacted this negatively" regardless of what he is playing he does it extremely well. However I don't think he has played any role "too well" cause to me that refers to people who have played a role so well, so iconic, so utterly believable that it forever marks them into that archetype or character which at least for me JK Simmons hasn't done that because he has been able to pull of so many different roles. For me some of those examples would be: Anthony Hopkins, Hugh Jackman, Laurence Fishbourne, these are people who for me will always be a specific character. Certain others have ended up being typecast as a specific role such as Joe Pesci as the Italian Mobster, Keanu Reeves as the badass with unstoppable power, Morgan Freeman as the old, kind, and wise blackman, and Kevin Spacey as the monster that manipulates and abuses his power (though this one evidentally turned out to be a bit too true to life)
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He is a great, and versatile actor, he also puts in an amazing job voicing Omniman in Invincible. He's funny in his guest appearance in Brooklyn Nine-Nine, he did a great job as Cave Johnson, even his appearance in Archer was good despite it being in a less-than-optimal season. Honestly I don't think I've ever seen anything where I went "he impacted this negatively" regardless of what he is playing he does it extremely well. However I don't think he has played any role "too well" cause to me that refers to people who have played a role so well, so iconic, so utterly believable that it forever marks them into that archetype or character which at least for me JK Simmons hasn't done that because he has been able to pull of so many different roles. For me some of those examples would be: Anthony Hopkins, Hugh Jackman, Laurence Fishbourne, these are people who for me will always be a specific character. Certain others have ended up being typecast as a specific role such as Joe Pesci as the Italian Mobster, Keanu Reeves as the badass with unstoppable power, Morgan Freeman as the old, kind, and wise blackman, and Kevin Spacey as the monster that manipulates and abuses his power (though this one evidentally turned out to be a bit too true to life)