before they were kicking ass they were
spreading the love you know I know your
gang how do you know because you Macra
made yourself a pair of jean shorts
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
action stars who started out in rom-com
before we begin we publish new videos
every day
so be sure to subscribe for more great
content to this list we’ll be looking at
male action stars who while nowadays are
known for their roles in more
action-oriented movies essentially
started their careers finding true love
in romantic comedies their first films
don’t have to be romantic comedies per
se but the genre should show up
relatively early or at least prominently
in the pursuit of their craft before
they became closely associated with
action honey what are you still doing
get out of here go make yourself useful
you don’t be a really big brother to
someone number 10 Channing Tatum
you don’t scare me John no oh you scare
me breaking art and making us laugh it
used to be this former strippers Forte
while most known for his hysterical role
in the Jump Street series or even for
his romantic side in films like Dear
John and The Vow it wasn’t always this
way before all that he appeared
alongside Amanda Bynes in the
Shakespeare inspired she’s a man I’m not
really good at talking a girl that may
not have been the biggest or most macho
a starting point but with the Tarantino
film end result and a slate full of
action flicks things seem to be going
pretty well for him yeah young hallway
boss number 9 Robert Downey jr. he could
do a run place okay nowadays we all know
and love our DJ for breathing new life
into the formerly second tier character
of Tony Stark a marriage of roland actor
that kick-started the Marvel Cinematic
Universe but let’s not forget that mr.
Downey has an extensive filmography that
happens to feature plenty of rom-com
back in his younger years films like the
pickup artist saw him as a hapless
mitten con man while chances are saw
down and getting complicated with both
civil Shepards and Mary Stuart Masterson
Miranda
meanwhile nineties outings like only you
had him light up the screen with future
Aunt May Marisa Tomei
to me I’m in love with you number eight
Chris Pine action roles have sort of
being disguised bread and butter known
today for films like jack ryan shadow
recruit hell or high water and
unstoppable Chris Pine has even found a
place for himself in the DC Cinematic
Universe where we are here in more
danger than you think
yet before all these high-profile role
pine was actually most notable for his
performance in less action-packed
vehicles like The Princess Diaries – and
Just My Luck
Zamir
I’m just get lucky all that changed when
he picked up his first phaser as the
young but ever so suave Captain Kirk in
the rebooted Star Trek film series and
he’s been travelling at high warp ever
since and absent friends
number 7 Chris Pratt will never gonna
cross paths oh yeah he served as the
wisecracking member of the Magnificent
Seven a freakin Velociraptor trainer in
Jurassic world and of course the one and
only star-lord in guardians of the
galaxy star-lord
finally as you can tell Chris Pratt
knows how to mix badass with solid humor
and has done so in a lot of his most
successful performances but before he
was lined up for a place in the infinity
war he was getting caught between Kate
Hudson and Anne Hathaway and Bride Wars
who locks on to where I was going to do
this and I want to do it here Pratt’s
rom-com path also includes the likes of
what’s your number and ten years
everybody reads you want to read to sing
a song number six Matthew McConaughey
well tonight Ashley is going back to my
place
alright alright alright while these days
this Academy Award winner is well known
for branching out into more dramatic and
violence oriented tricks such as killer
Joe and mud there was a time when
Matthew McConaughey was in a class of
his own when it came to romantic
comedies oh you are already falling in
them back in the 2000 he was most
famously in what some jokingly dubbed
the leaning trilogy consisting of How to
Lose a Guy in 10 days failure to launch
and ghosts of Girlfriends Past there’s
nothing wrong with them per se but then
he’s never got him nominated for an
Oscar either
pulled off a great wedding we pulled off
a great wedding
number 5 Ryan Gosling
still over
he may have said hard to blades in the
notebook but Hollywood’s golden boy also
lent himself to some highly successful
rom-com such as Lars and the real girl
and Crazy Stupid Love
kanae huh yo cool pan he could easily
have continued down this path but as we
all know Ryan Gosling could not stay
away from the grittier role drives
Gangster Squad and only God forgives all
show that this Canadian actor is more
than happy to take a punch to that oddly
perfect face of his and sometimes even
doesn’t while making us laugh our asses
off
edgy did in the crime thriller the nice
guys who kidding he got in this number
for Ryan Reynolds her name’s Naomi I’m
on backwards is he handsome undeniably
is he funny one of the funniest so is it
really a shock that Ryan Reynolds has
had a whole plethora of rom-com
throughout his career
granted movies like just friends or the
proposal weren’t exactly the finest
films ever produced and earlier attempts
at action films like Blade Trinity and
x-men origins Wolverine weren’t entirely
well received but Reynolds also showed
plenty of promise and charm okay people
are dead
moving on from Green Lantern Ryan would
eventually find his groove with
safehouse then when Deadpool came along
it pretty much solidified Ryan Reynolds
place as a smartass action star oh I’m
touching myself tonight
number three Gerard Butler
who would have thought that at almost
the same time we got this Aires Spartak
we also get the heartfelt romance that
in PS I love you well back in the day it
seemed that for every action fest this
Scottish actor threw himself into there
seemed to be a rom-com just around the
corner for every gamer we got an ugly
truth for every law-abiding citizen we
have the bounty hunter and robbery
machine gun creatures we had playing for
keeps
nowadays he seems to be mostly focusing
on the action side of things which means
PS I love you too isn’t very likely
sorry but the house track number to
Chris Evans you know me
forever cemented is one of the greatest
interpretations of Captain America we
may ever have Chris Evans transformation
into the first avenger showed that he
was no longer the skinny kid from Not
Another Teen Movie and was instead a
born action star what is that guy’s is
always she could be fun Quentin granted
he’s returned to the rom-com stage in
his later career with likes of what’s
your number and playing it cool but with
such incredible hits like snowpiercer
and the Winter Soldier under his belt
it’s hard not to want to keep seeing and
kick naughty ass and keep the MCU safe
from space we stress people are going to
die I came up there happen before we
reveal our top pick here are a few
honorable mention
[Music]
you’re going to join us
how’d you become an officer of the law
oh I’m a student
[Applause]
[Music]
number one Bruce Willis from Glenn yes
there was a time when Bruce Willis
wasn’t shooting his way out of a life or
death situation before we had John
McClane and the Die Hard series there
was blind date afflicted had Wilson’s
character nearly driven insane by the
likes of an overly infatuated Kim
Basinger the experience was a negative
one to say the least but luckily for
Willis his career picked up and change
direction the next year with die hard
he’d become a mother firmly placed on
the action map realist picked up roles
in Pulp Fiction 12 monkeys the jackal
and Armageddon safe to say it’s doubtful
we’ll see them back in rom-com anytime
soon I’m just pumped I’m gonna start you
on the right one do you agree with our
picks check out these other great clips
from WatchMojo and subscribe for new
videos every day
spreading the love you know I know your
gang how do you know because you Macra
made yourself a pair of jean shorts
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
action stars who started out in rom-com
before we begin we publish new videos
every day
so be sure to subscribe for more great
content to this list we’ll be looking at
male action stars who while nowadays are
known for their roles in more
action-oriented movies essentially
started their careers finding true love
in romantic comedies their first films
don’t have to be romantic comedies per
se but the genre should show up
relatively early or at least prominently
in the pursuit of their craft before
they became closely associated with
action honey what are you still doing
get out of here go make yourself useful
you don’t be a really big brother to
someone number 10 Channing Tatum
you don’t scare me John no oh you scare
me breaking art and making us laugh it
used to be this former strippers Forte
while most known for his hysterical role
in the Jump Street series or even for
his romantic side in films like Dear
John and The Vow it wasn’t always this
way before all that he appeared
alongside Amanda Bynes in the
Shakespeare inspired she’s a man I’m not
really good at talking a girl that may
not have been the biggest or most macho
a starting point but with the Tarantino
film end result and a slate full of
action flicks things seem to be going
pretty well for him yeah young hallway
boss number 9 Robert Downey jr. he could
do a run place okay nowadays we all know
and love our DJ for breathing new life
into the formerly second tier character
of Tony Stark a marriage of roland actor
that kick-started the Marvel Cinematic
Universe but let’s not forget that mr.
Downey has an extensive filmography that
happens to feature plenty of rom-com
back in his younger years films like the
pickup artist saw him as a hapless
mitten con man while chances are saw
down and getting complicated with both
civil Shepards and Mary Stuart Masterson
Miranda
meanwhile nineties outings like only you
had him light up the screen with future
Aunt May Marisa Tomei
to me I’m in love with you number eight
Chris Pine action roles have sort of
being disguised bread and butter known
today for films like jack ryan shadow
recruit hell or high water and
unstoppable Chris Pine has even found a
place for himself in the DC Cinematic
Universe where we are here in more
danger than you think
yet before all these high-profile role
pine was actually most notable for his
performance in less action-packed
vehicles like The Princess Diaries – and
Just My Luck
Zamir
I’m just get lucky all that changed when
he picked up his first phaser as the
young but ever so suave Captain Kirk in
the rebooted Star Trek film series and
he’s been travelling at high warp ever
since and absent friends
number 7 Chris Pratt will never gonna
cross paths oh yeah he served as the
wisecracking member of the Magnificent
Seven a freakin Velociraptor trainer in
Jurassic world and of course the one and
only star-lord in guardians of the
galaxy star-lord
finally as you can tell Chris Pratt
knows how to mix badass with solid humor
and has done so in a lot of his most
successful performances but before he
was lined up for a place in the infinity
war he was getting caught between Kate
Hudson and Anne Hathaway and Bride Wars
who locks on to where I was going to do
this and I want to do it here Pratt’s
rom-com path also includes the likes of
what’s your number and ten years
everybody reads you want to read to sing
a song number six Matthew McConaughey
well tonight Ashley is going back to my
place
alright alright alright while these days
this Academy Award winner is well known
for branching out into more dramatic and
violence oriented tricks such as killer
Joe and mud there was a time when
Matthew McConaughey was in a class of
his own when it came to romantic
comedies oh you are already falling in
them back in the 2000 he was most
famously in what some jokingly dubbed
the leaning trilogy consisting of How to
Lose a Guy in 10 days failure to launch
and ghosts of Girlfriends Past there’s
nothing wrong with them per se but then
he’s never got him nominated for an
Oscar either
pulled off a great wedding we pulled off
a great wedding
number 5 Ryan Gosling
still over
he may have said hard to blades in the
notebook but Hollywood’s golden boy also
lent himself to some highly successful
rom-com such as Lars and the real girl
and Crazy Stupid Love
kanae huh yo cool pan he could easily
have continued down this path but as we
all know Ryan Gosling could not stay
away from the grittier role drives
Gangster Squad and only God forgives all
show that this Canadian actor is more
than happy to take a punch to that oddly
perfect face of his and sometimes even
doesn’t while making us laugh our asses
off
edgy did in the crime thriller the nice
guys who kidding he got in this number
for Ryan Reynolds her name’s Naomi I’m
on backwards is he handsome undeniably
is he funny one of the funniest so is it
really a shock that Ryan Reynolds has
had a whole plethora of rom-com
throughout his career
granted movies like just friends or the
proposal weren’t exactly the finest
films ever produced and earlier attempts
at action films like Blade Trinity and
x-men origins Wolverine weren’t entirely
well received but Reynolds also showed
plenty of promise and charm okay people
are dead
moving on from Green Lantern Ryan would
eventually find his groove with
safehouse then when Deadpool came along
it pretty much solidified Ryan Reynolds
place as a smartass action star oh I’m
touching myself tonight
number three Gerard Butler
who would have thought that at almost
the same time we got this Aires Spartak
we also get the heartfelt romance that
in PS I love you well back in the day it
seemed that for every action fest this
Scottish actor threw himself into there
seemed to be a rom-com just around the
corner for every gamer we got an ugly
truth for every law-abiding citizen we
have the bounty hunter and robbery
machine gun creatures we had playing for
keeps
nowadays he seems to be mostly focusing
on the action side of things which means
PS I love you too isn’t very likely
sorry but the house track number to
Chris Evans you know me
forever cemented is one of the greatest
interpretations of Captain America we
may ever have Chris Evans transformation
into the first avenger showed that he
was no longer the skinny kid from Not
Another Teen Movie and was instead a
born action star what is that guy’s is
always she could be fun Quentin granted
he’s returned to the rom-com stage in
his later career with likes of what’s
your number and playing it cool but with
such incredible hits like snowpiercer
and the Winter Soldier under his belt
it’s hard not to want to keep seeing and
kick naughty ass and keep the MCU safe
from space we stress people are going to
die I came up there happen before we
reveal our top pick here are a few
honorable mention
[Music]
you’re going to join us
how’d you become an officer of the law
oh I’m a student
[Applause]
[Music]
number one Bruce Willis from Glenn yes
there was a time when Bruce Willis
wasn’t shooting his way out of a life or
death situation before we had John
McClane and the Die Hard series there
was blind date afflicted had Wilson’s
character nearly driven insane by the
likes of an overly infatuated Kim
Basinger the experience was a negative
one to say the least but luckily for
Willis his career picked up and change
direction the next year with die hard
he’d become a mother firmly placed on
the action map realist picked up roles
in Pulp Fiction 12 monkeys the jackal
and Armageddon safe to say it’s doubtful
we’ll see them back in rom-com anytime
soon I’m just pumped I’m gonna start you
on the right one do you agree with our
picks check out these other great clips
from WatchMojo and subscribe for new
videos every day
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