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Usually when Topher Grace makes an appearance in a movie he’s either a surpporting or lead character, and has a major role in the movie’s action.

So it was interesting to see him appear in both Ocean’s Eleven and Ocean’s Twelve, not as a main character, or even as a fictional character, but as himself. Yes, Topher Grace plays Topher Grace in two of the three Ocean’s Eleven movies.

But it’s not a spot-on Topher Grace. Rather he plays an exaggerated, almost loserish version of himself. In the first he’s trying to learn how to play poker among a group of other celebrities and manages (along, of course, with the other celebrities) to fail spectacularly at understanding teacher Rusty (Brad Pitt)’s tips. And, in the second, he’s so deeply enamored with a girl that he locks himself in Rusty’s apartment and trashes the place. It’s a fun example of self-satire and Grace carries it off with, well, grace.

Unfortunately Grace didn’t get the chance to reprise the role in the third movie as he was busy making Spiderman 3. A shame, because the movie could have only benefited from his presence.