GQ Presents: Iconic Characters — Season 5

Aired 6 January 2022 • 20 min

Mahershala Ali breaks down his most iconic characters, including his roles in 'Moonlight,' 'Green Book,' 'True Detective,' 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' and 'Swan Song.'

Aired 11 January 2022 • 18 min

Javier Bardem breaks down his most iconic roles, including his characters in 'No Country for Old Men,' 'Skyfall,' 'Before Night Falls,' 'Biutiful,' 'The Sea Inside,' 'The Good Boss' and 'Being the Ricardos.'

Aired 18 January 2022 • 16 min

Djimon Honsou breaks down his most iconic roles, including his characters in 'Gladiator,' 'Amistad,' 'Blood Diamond,' 'Guardians of the Galaxy,' 'Captain Marvel,' 'The Four Feathers,' 'In America,' 'How to Train Your Dragon 2' and 'The Kings Man.'

Aired 31 January 2022 • 18 min

"Great Scott!" Christopher Lloyd breaks down his most iconic roles, including his characters in 'Back to the Future I,' 'Back to the Future II,' 'Back to the Future III,' "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' 'Taxi,' 'Star Trek III: Search for Spock' and 'The Tender Bar.'

Aired 8 February 2022 • 24 min

Robert Pattinson breaks down his most iconic roles, including his characters in 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,' 'Twilight,' 'The Batman,' 'Good Time,' 'The Lighthouse,' 'Tenet,' 'Cosmopolis,' 'High Life,' 'The Rover' and that time he desperately needed a New York City hot dog.

Aired 16 February 2022 • 18 min

John Cena breaks down his most iconic characters, including his roles in the WWE, 'The Suicide Squad,' 'The Marine,' 'Trainwreck,' 'F9: The Fast Saga,' 'Vacation Friends' and 'Bumblebee.'

Aired 22 February 2022 • 28 min

Francis Ford Coppola breaks down his most iconic films, including 'The Godfather,' 'The Godfather: Part II,' 'Apocalypse Now,' 'The Conversation,' 'The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone' and his newest, upcoming film, 'Megalopolis.'

Aired 10 March 2022 • 20 min

John Turturro breaks down his most iconic characters, including his roles in 'Do the Right Thing,' "The Big Lebowski,' 'Barton Fink,' 'Miller's Crossing,' 'Quiz Show,' 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?,' 'Transformers,' 'The Night Of' and 'The Batman.'

Aired 6 April 2022 • 18 min

Michelle Yeoh breaks down her most iconic characters, including her roles in 'Tomorrow Never Dies,' 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,' 'Police Story 3: Supercop,' 'Crazy Rich Asians' and 'Everything Everywhere All at Once.'

Aired 13 April 2022 • 20 min

Kiefer Sutherland breaks down his most iconic characters, including his roles in 'Stand By Me,' 'The Lost Boys,' '24,' 'A Few Good Men,' 'A Time to Kill,' 'Dark City,' 'Designated Survivor,' 'The First Lady' and 'The Contractor.'

Aired 13 April 2022 • 20 min

Bill Nighy breaks down his most iconic characters, including his roles in 'Love Actually', 'Pirates Of The Caribbean', 'The Girl In The Café', 'Underworld' and 'Gideon's Daughter.'

Aired 6 May 2022 • 27 min

Marlon Wayans breaks down his most iconic characters, including his roles 'White Chicks,' 'Scary Movie,' 'Requiem for a Dream,' 'Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood,' 'In Living Color,' 'The Wayans Bros.,' 'Above the Rim' and 'Respect.'

Aired 20 May 2022 • 11 min

Mike Myers breaks down his most iconic characters, including his roles in 'Wayne's World,' 'Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery,' 'Shrek,' 'So I Married an Axe Murderer' and 'The Pentaverete.'

Aired 2 June 2022 • 18 min

Seth MacFarlane breaks down his most iconic characters, including his roles in 'Family Guy' (Peter, Stewie, Brian, Quagmire), 'Ted,' 'Ted 2,' 'American Dad!,' 'A Million Ways to Die in the West' and 'The Orville.'

Aired 8 June 2022 • 27 min

Top Gun: Maverick producer Jerry Bruckheimer breaks down his most iconic films to date, including 'Top Gun: Maverick', 'Beverly Hills Cop', 'Bad Boys', 'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation', 'Amazing Race', 'Pirates of the Caribbean', 'American Gigolo', 'Armageddon', 'Flashdance' and 'National Treasure'.

Aired 13 June 2022 • 15 min

Andy Garcia breaks down his most iconic characters, including his roles in 'The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone,' 'Ocean's 11,' 'The Untouchables,' 'Internal Affairs,' and more.

Aired 15 June 2022 • 14 min

Chris Hemsworth breaks down his most iconic characters, including his roles in 'Thor,' 'Thor: Ragnarok,' 'Rush,' 'Ghostbusters,' 'Snow White and the Huntsman,' and 'Spiderhead.' Chris talks about what it's like to play Thor over a series of films, and when he first learned about the story behind Niki Lauda and James Hunt.

Aired 1 July 2022 • 27 min

John Lithgow breaks down his most iconic characters, including his roles in 'Shrek,' '3rd Rock From The Sun,' 'Dexter,' 'Harry & the Hendersons,' 'The Crown,' 'Footloose,' 'Cliffhanger,' 'The Changing Room,' 'Bombshell,' 'The Old Man,' 'M. Butterfly' and 'The World According to Garp.'

Aired 24 June 2022 • 12 min

Rowan Atkinson breaks down his most iconic characters, including Mr Bean, Blackadder and Man Vs Bee.

Aired 5 July 2022 • 11 min

Ewan McGregor breaks down a few of his most iconic characters, including his roles in 'Obi-Wan Kenobi,' 'Big Fish,' 'Halston' and 'Birds of Prey.'

Aired 5 July 2022 • 13 min

Ewan McGregor breaks down his most iconic characters, from Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars and the spin-off series of the same name to Renton in Trainspotting, Emmit Stussy in Fargo and Christian in Moulin Rouge.

Aired 7 July 2022 • 23 min

Taika Waititi breaks down a few of his most iconic characters and films, including 'Thor: Ragnarok,' 'Thor: Love and Thunder,' 'Jojo Rabbit,' 'What We Do in the Shadows,' 'The Mandalorian,' 'Free Guy' and 'Our Flag Means Death.'

Aired 12 July 2022 • 14 min

'Money Heist: Korea' star Yunjin Kim breaks down her most iconic characters, including her roles in 'Lost,' 'Shiri,' 'Mistresses,' 'Ode to My Father and 'Money Heist: Korea.'

Aired 14 July 2022 • 25 min

Directors Anthony and Joseph Russo break down a few of their most iconic films and television shows, including 'Captain America: Winter Soldier,' 'Captain America: Civil War,' 'Avengers: Infinity War,' 'Arrested Development,' 'Community,' 'Avengers: Endgame' and 'The Gray Man.'

Aired 5 August 2022 • 25 min

Neil Patrick Harris breaks down a few of his most iconic characters, including 'Harold & Kumar,' 'Doogie Howser, M.D.,' 'How I Met Your Mother,' 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch,' 'Starship Troopers,' 'Gone Girl' and 'Uncoupled.'

Aired 11 August 2022 • 21 min

Karl Urban breaks down his most iconic characters, including his roles in 'The Boys,' 'Star Trek,' 'Xena: Warrior Princess,' 'The Lord of the Rings,' 'Dredd,' 'Thor: Ragnarok,' 'Out of the Blue' and 'The Bourne Supremacy.'

Aired 9 September 2022 • 17 min

Ralph Macchio breaks down a few of his most iconic characters, including 'The Karate Kid' trilogy, 'Cobra Kai,' 'My Cousin Vinny' and 'The Outsiders.'

Aired 22 September 2022 • 18 min

Pierce Brosnan breaks down a few of his most iconic characters, including James Bond in 'GoldenEye,' 'Tomorrow Never Dies,' 'The World Is Not Enough' and 'Die Another Day,' 'Mrs. Doubtfire,' 'Dante's Peak,' 'Mamma Mia!,' 'Evelyn,' 'The Thomas Crown Affair,' 'The Ghost Writer' and 'Black Adam.'

Aired 5 October 2022 • 23 min

Christian Bale breaks down a few of his most iconic characters from 'American Psycho,' 'The Dark Knight' Trilogy, 'The Fighter,' 'The Machinist,' 'The Big Short,' 'Vice,' 'Empire of the Sun,' 'Amsterdam' and 'The Pale Blue Eye.'

Aired 17 October 2022 • 22 min

Paul Dano breaks down a few of his most iconic characters from 'The Batman,' 'Little Miss Sunshine,' 'There Will Be Blood,' 'Swiss Army Man,' 'Love & Mercy,' 'Okja,' 'Knight and Day,' 'Escape at Dannemora,' 'The Fabelmans,' 'Ruby Sparks' and 'Prisoners.'

Aired 26 October 2022 • 20 min

Daniel Radcliffe breaks down a few of the most iconic characters, including the infamous Harry Potter Saga, 'Swiss Army Man,' 'Horns,' 'Kill Your Darlings,' 'Guns Akimbo,' 'The Lost City,' 'Miracle Workers' and 'Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.'

Aired 16 November 2022 • 21 min

Brendan Fraser breaks down a few of his most iconic characters from 'School Ties,' 'George of the Jungle,' 'Encino Man,' 'The Mummy' series, 'Bedazzled' and 'The Whale.'

Aired 22 November 2022 • 29 min

Filmmaker James Cameron breaks down his most iconic films, including 'Titanic,' 'The Terminator,' 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day,' the 'Avatar' series, and 'The Abyss.'

Aired 7 December 2022 • 14 min

James McAvoy joins British GQ for part 1 of Iconic Characters. James McAvoy revisits four important movie characters in his film career so far: from playing Mr Tumnus in ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’ to an unexpected role as Lord Asriel in the hit fantasy drama series, ‘His Dark Materials’.

Aired 7 December 2022 • 18 min

James McAvoy breaks down a few of his most iconic characters, including his roles in 'Wanted,' 'X-Men,' 'Split' and 'Glass.'

Aired 19 December 2022 • 26 min

Filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu breaks down his most iconic films, including The Revenant, Birdman, Babel, Amores Perros, 21 Grams, Biutiful, and his latest, Bardo: False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths.

Aired 20 December 2022 • 24 min

Filmmaker Rian Johnson breaks down his most iconic projects, including 'Knives Out,' 'Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,' 'Brick,' 'The Brothers Bloom,' 'Looper,' 'Breaking Bad' and 'Stars Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi.'

Aired 23 December 2022 • 17 min

Danny Trejo breaks down his most iconic characters, including his roles in 'Heat,' 'Con Air,' 'Blood In, Blood Out,' 'Desperado,' 'From Dusk Till Dawn,' 'Spy Kids,' 'Machete,' 'King of the Hill,' 'Rick and Morty,' 'Bad Ass,' 'It's A Wonderful Binge' and 'Breaking Bad.'