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Often plays high school bullies?


One of his trademarks in his bio is "Often plays high school bullies (Superbad (2007), Fright Night (2011), 21 Jump Street (2012))"

What? In Superbad, he certainly wasn't a bully: if anything Jonah Hill's character bullied him in the 5-seconds of screen time he had.

He wasn't a bully in 21 Jump Street; he was a drug dealer, sure, but he was a super nice, academically-minded, environmentally conscious drug-dealer, not a bully.

I've never seen Fright Night so I can't comment, but even if he was a bully in that movie, then there is one movie he was a bully in... hardly consider that "often."

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I have seen a lot of his movies and I think he tends to just play a lot of characters that he is in high school and he tends to play *beep* roles. I don't really think his characters are so much as bully characters but more of the *beep* bag roles.
High school roles: The Shortcut, Fright Night, 21 Jump Street, Charlie St. Cloud, and Superbad. I know in Townsies he'll be playing a character in a college fraternity and from what I see I really hope he isn't an *beep* in that movie.
I know his age isn't expressed in Now You See Me but that would be the first role that he actually is playing a character close to his age and that he's not an *beep* in the movie.
Warm Bodies was a very small role b/c he dies at the beginning of the film. So much can't be said about his character in that film.
Superbad was a super small role where I agree he was the person receiving the bullying as opposed to being the person bullying others.
I think the only movies I haven't seen that he was in was After Sex and I never have seen Broken Tower. Granted in Broken Tower he is just playing the younger character that his brother plays so I never watched it.

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Personally I think his voice makes him sound like a bully. It's a combination of a country and ghetto voice:P It's just so amazing!!

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