Who are the most typecast actors?

[Reno]

Since Rushmore Bill Murray seems to play the same character in every film.

 

[ICB]

Wesley Snipes

Can't see him being cast as an incurably romantic lisping homosexual pacifist librarian somehow

Of course he may well play a disabled person if he's after an Oscar but that's a bit different...

 

[Reno]

Wesley Snipes

Can't see him being cast as an incurably romantic lisping homosexual pacifist librarian somehow

Of course he may well play a disabled person if he's after an Oscar but that's a bit different...

Have you seen To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar ?. Crap film, but he plays a drag queen in that. He was also rather good in more romantic roles in Jungle Fever and One Night Stand.

 

[Cid]

There're a lot:

Tom Cruise - The overtly (or sometimes brazenly) homoerotic hero with 'more to him that meets the eye'.

Keanu Reeves - Silent, mature, one facial expression.

Will Smith - Haha, the 'jive' hero. who can't act (except in Fresh Prince of course).

Captain Jean-Luc Picard - The other kind of typecast (which isn't type cast of course), a good shakespearian actor but you can't help but think he's about to say 'get those phase-resonators realigned with the plasma core'.

Scott Bakula - will always be Sam Beckett from Quantum leap, despite his disastrous turn as the clearly republican captain of Enterprise in... Enterprise.

etc etc

 

[Dubversion]

i agree about Steve Buscemi, especially the way he's used to inject some indie quirkiness into shitey blockbusters.

 

[Dubversion]

Ray Winstone always plays big gruff east end gangster type.

what, like Sweeney Todd, Henry VIII, that sort of thing?

(isn't he in some Beowulf movie coming out too?)

 

[Cid]

Wesley Snipes

Can't see him being cast as an incurably romantic lisping homosexual pacifist librarian somehow

Of course he may well play a disabled person if he's after an Oscar but that's a bit different...

'That bookth a week late, prepare to tathte cold thteel!'

 

[Reno]

Will Smith - Haha, the 'jive' hero. who can't act (except in Fresh Prince of course).

He was great as a gay hustler in his first film Six Degrees of Seperation. I think he can act, unfortunately just like Wesley Snipes above he mostly chooses roles for the pay check and that don't challenge him.

 

[Cid]

He was great as a gay hustler in hi first film Six Degrees of Seperation. I think he can act, unfortunately just like Wesley Snipes above he mostly chooses roles for the pay check and that don't challenge him.

Have to remember to see that at some point - but, as you say, picks the roles that fill his pockets so one of the proper kinds of typecast.

 

[ICB]

Have you seen To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar ?. Crap film, but he plays a drag queen in that. He was also rather good in more romantic roles in Jungle Fever and One Night Stand.

I thtand cowwected, thorry Mithta Thnipes

 

[kakuma]

morgan freeman - wise old black man

for the real victiims of typecasting you have to have the ethnic thugs

that chinese guy with a bald patch on top and long hair at the back as the chinese thug (in every hollywood film with a chinese thug) or the dude from 187/dangerous minds etc latino thug

also the guy from the beggining of devils advocate who was typecast as a paedophile, must be pretty rough

 

[zenie]

what, like Sweeney Todd, Henry VIII, that sort of thing?

(isn't he in some Beowulf movie coming out too?)

Well I haven't seen them so ner

 

[Iam]

for the real victiims of typecasting you have to have the ethnic thugs

that chinese guy with a bald patch on top and long hair at the back as the chinese thug (in every hollywood film with a chinese thug) or the dude from 187/dangerous minds etc latino thug

Bolo Yeung, quintessential kung fu bad guy

 

[jugularvein]

tom cruise's formula - earned him millions.

pool player, pretty damn good one too, until he has a crisis of confidence. he needs a good woman to restore his confidence and he wins the tournament.

barman, pretty damn good one too, until he has a crisis of confidence. he needs a good woman to restore his confidence and then he goes on to make drinks at alarming speeds.

nascar driver, pretty damn good one too, until he has a crisis of confidence. he needs a good woman to restore his confidence and he goes on to win the race. (she was so good at restoring confidence they got married)

fighter pilot.....

irish(?!) fist-fighter...

lawyer... takes on the general and has crisis just before he has him in the stand. thank god he fell for Demi Moore the night before. he was gonna quit! oh no!

sports agent... thank you renee!

there are exceptions.... maybe i can think of some more...

 

[jugularvein]

morgan freeman - wise old black man

for the real victiims of typecasting you have to have the ethnic thugs

that chinese guy with a bald patch on top and long hair at the back as the chinese thug (in every hollywood film with a chinese thug) or the dude from 187/dangerous minds etc latino thug

also the guy from the beggining of devils advocate who was typecast as a paedophile, must be pretty rough

i know exactly who you mean. i've seen him as a serial killer in one of segal's movies... he gets shot in the church at the end. that's rough.

 

[kakuma]

not him Iam

and jugularvein - see also bruce willis

he must have it in his contract that he has to fly out of an explosion and go AAAAARRRGGGHHHH!!!!1 at least once

and be seperated from his wife

 

[jugularvein]

not him Iam

and jugularvein - see also bruce willis

oh i remember, yeah. my one's another though. rough typecast as the 'social hermit who emerges once in a while to kill little girls' type character. does he approach these characters method style?

 

[DRINK?]

Danny Trejo.....tattooed hispanic bad guy...he's your man

 

[Iam]

not him Iam

I didn't think he was the one you meant, but he's another example. Unless I've just missed the films in which he played the good-hearted, world-saving whale biologist...

 

[Flashman]

 

[Wintermute]

 

[Wintermute]

 

[Cid]

Random director: Hey we need an old oriental guy to look wise.

Casting director: Japanese, Chinese... Korean maybe?

Random Director: I went to the Kevin Kostner School of Geography and Culture, I know not of these things...

Casting Director: No worries, I'll give Pat Morita a call!

Sadly died last November though.

 

[poului]

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May I nominate this fella?

Michael Wincott, the baddie in every film that he's in.

 

[chooch]

tom cruise...
there are exceptions.... maybe i can think of some more...

Respect the cock!

 

[Reno]

It's not so much that Tom Cruise gets typecast, the problem is that he plays every part the same way.

 

[Ms T]

I've just realised that all of these actors are blokes.

How about:

 

[boohoo]

Anyone in any star trek series;

for example in the movie Crash, the Iraqi man's wife is Councillor Troi.

 

[Reno]

I've just realised that all of these actors are blokes.

How about:

The same goes for other actresses who mostly do romantic comedy (Sandra Bullock, Julia Roberts, Drew Barrymore, Reese Witherspoon)

Getting too old to do "perky" Meg Ryan has recently made attempts to get away from her rom-com image, but to little success.

 

[kakuma]

poor old steven seagal, cast as an utter utter arrogant fucking bully cunt in every film he made