All actors have to start somewhere, and not all of them can be Orson Welles in Citizen Kane. Sometimes you've gotta start small. Like, Matt Smith playing younger Ralph Fiennes in In Bruges levels of small. And you don't often get the most accurate impression of what these actors and actresses will be. You watch Harrison Ford as a bellhop and you would never say "Yeah, total badass." You see Sam Rockwell as that mouthy teen in the Foot's warehouse in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but how could you know that he'd become one of the most weirdly underrated actors ever? No, seriously, he's great, go watch Moon.

But sometimes you can look at an actor's debut and see what kind of peformer they are going to be right from the get go. From the first frame of their debut, you know they're gonna accomplish wonders and capture the hearts and minds of entire generations.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Nicolas Cage's first role.