Afternoon Delight: Watch Bradley Whitford Replace Your Favorite Actors In ‘Emotional Stuntman’

What better way to prepare for the fast-approaching weekend than by indulging in the some of the Internet’s most well-done web content? Take advantage of your lunch break and treat yourself to Afternoon Delight, Decider’s carefully curated picks of the best short-form content available on the world wide web. This week we’re spotlighting Emotional Stuntman with Bradley Whitford, a Funny Or Die short featuring the one and only Bradley Whitford as some of the iconic screen characters we know and love.

Are you constantly blown away by the motion capture performances of Andy Serkis? Well, what if we told you that motion capture wasn’t just reserved for playing apes and Hulks, but human beings, too? Enter Bradley Whitford, Emotional Stuntman. When your favorite actors can’t deliver the darkest parts of themselves on the big screen, Whitford steps in to save the day. “There are few who do the job at all, but Bradley Whitford is by far the most prolific,” we’re told via voiceover. In the famous green body suit and dot-covered face we’ve come to know and love (?), Whitford delivers some of the most iconic lines in film and television history, saving high-profile projects from disaster.

“Just like a physical stuntman, an emotional stuntman is brought in when things get too dangerous.” Whitford steps in to help actors avoid “spraining their souls”, and is known for doing his job in one take – I mean, give.

Blown away by Anthony Hopkins‘ Academy Award-winning performance in The Silence of the Lambs? That was Whitford. Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting? A knock-out Whitford performance. Walter White’s famous “I am the one who knocks” speech from Breaking Bad? You guessed it. More like Walter Whitford. I could go on and on, but you understand. The man is a master. (A bonus? Whitford’s former West Wing co-star Joshua Malina makes an appearance, and he is not here for all the Whitford praise.)

“The technology is so good now, that he can do virtually anyone. He can do a child, a baby, a man, a woman,” says director Marta Cunningham. Thought you knew who Whitford played in Oscar-winning flick Get Out? Think again. The man was pulling double duty when Daniel Kaluuya couldn’t take the heat. Talk about movie magic.

Watch the short above, and think a little harder about your favorite performances. They may not have been done by the actors you love after all.