Look at this man:
Does he look familiar? Of course he does. That’s Tim Curry, English actor, and he’s been in approximately 6,1042 movies. In addition to being one of the few men on earth who ROCK the goatee, Tim Curry has the unique distinction of serving as the foundation of the most accurate personality tests known to the human species.
Here’s how it works: look at that picture one more time. Study it. Now, try to figure out just where you know him from. Do you have an answer? Check below.
Muppets Treasure Island
I admit, this is the category I myself fall into. I think of this group as the Gryffindors of the Tim Curry Personality Test world: if you see Tim Curry and think of swashbuckling Long John Silver, you’re probably adventurous, impulsive, and have a thing for Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean. You also probably saw the Jason Segal Muppets movie and may or may not know all of the words to “Man or a Muppet.” Also, lets be friends?
Rocky Horror Picture Show
You’re too cool for school. If you think of TIm Curry as Dr. Frank N. Furter, the sweet transvestite from Transexual, Transylvania, I assume you’re one of those kids smoking on the steps outside the Rock or around List, where you’d probably just be coming out from seeing an incredibly deep art exhibit that totally expanded your worldview. You related to The Perks of Being A Wallflower on a level you don’t admit to.
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Yup! That was Tim Curry in Home Alone 2. If this is your first association, you don’t consider yourself really a “film” person – most of the movies you’ve seen are because you were on a plane. You’re the type of kid who still likes to eat cereal for dinner because you’re in college now and you can.
Annie
TAPS concentrator alert! If I say Tim Curry and you think “Rooster, Ms. Hannigan’s friend from Annie!” chances are you know your Socks from your Buskin. Excited about the new “Into the Woods” movie? I bet you are! You’re going around telling anyone who will listen that they should have cast Bernadette Peters over Meryl Streep. I mean, the witch is a role that calls for a real powerhouse singer.
Clue
Tim Curry played Wadsworth in Clue, and if you knew that, you’re a wannabe detective who solved the case of “Who took a scoop from my Nutella jar in the cabinet. And with your finger? Ugh!” Encyclopedia Brown, Cam Janson, Nancy Drew – you read them all, and now your favorite show is Sherlock on BBC because you’re the only one who gets all of the references back to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s original cannon.
Or maybe you’re just weirdly into boardgames-turned-movies and you were the one person who saw that Battleship movie they made with Rihanna.
IT [Caution: Nightmare Alert]
Wow, did you really remember that Tim Curry played Pennywise the Clown in movie/nightmare fuel “It”? That’s really impressive. Tim Curry played creepy clown long before American Horror Story was even a glint in Ryan Murphy’s eye. Remember that scene in Juno where Ellen Page and Jason Bateman are watching old horror movies together? You probably knew exactly what they were watching. In fact, I’ve bet you’ve seen it. You’re the one of your friends who convinced them all to watch The Ring, and come Halloween, you’ll be fighting for a real horror movie to watch at midnight. But your friends are wusses, so you’ll settle for The Nightmare Before Christmas.
The Wild Thornberrys
Smashing! Technically, this isn’t a movie role but I’ll let it pass because The Wild Thornberrys was awesome. If you knew the name Tim Curry and only now you’re realizing that it was because he voiced your favorite Wildlife filmmaker, you’re a kid at heart who still sometimes quotes lines from Spongebob. Heavy Petting on the main green? You’re there, and secretly whispering to the 12-year-old German Shepherd and hoping he understands you.
NOTHING
Either you need to brush up on your English character actor database or you have that condition where you can’t remember people’s faces.
