Yeah, I kept thinking, “Welcome to Rivendell…Missster Anderssson.” 
For us it’s always “Hobbits are a virus, Mister Baggins.”
Chiwetel Ejiofor was awesome as the agent in Serenity, true, but it took a while before I stopped expecting him to come out in drag (Kinky Boots).
When my wife and I see him, we expect him to say, “We’re making perfect worlds. All of them. Perfect worlds.”
I guess I don’t see the disconnect, because they are both variations of the same irritating Gen-X character he seems to always play.
Most nominations in this thread aren’t really typecasts. You might think of David Schwimmer as Ross, but his Band of Brothers-character wasn’t that much like Ross at all.
A typecast to me is to see an actor do the same *kind *of role over and over and then get associated with that kind of role. For example, you have Peter Stormare: in short time he did a rough guy with a German accent (the Big Lebowski), a rough guy with a Scandinavian accent (Fargo), another Scandinavian guy (Seinfeld) and a has-been with a Russian accent (Armageddon).
Nathan Fillion’s lead in the tv show Castle, I just keep waiting for him to say “goram”.
It really doesn’t help that his character is exactly the same.
Not “the hammer is my penis”?
I can’t think of any cases in which I haven’t been able to take an actor seriously because of past roles. I know that (with rare exceptions) no one in a dramatic film film is who they’re pretending to be. What matters is their current performance.
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True typecasting: …
[ul][li]black person as servant (e.g., Eddie Anderson as Rochester)[/ul][/li][/QUOTE]
Okay, I’ll bite. Why is this true typecasting? There are plenty of movies with people of other colours as servants. The English butler, anyone?
True, but I could not find anyother term which described the effect of being so linked to a role or roles that whe you do something else even when you do it well, people find it hard to get the original role out of mind.
Case in point, David Schwimmer, his acting was brilliant in Band of Brothers, but it was next to impossible not to look at him and sa, Ross.
Just because there’s one type that people can be cast in, doesn’t mean there aren’t others. For years, if not decades, the best way to get a part in a Hollywood film if you were black was to get a part as a servant.
Christopher Reeves in anything.
Vin Diesel, although it’s probably his fault, he plays the “Big Italian from Jersey” in every role, even when he’s supposed to be an alien.
Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro have raised this to an art form, imho.
Personally, I just hate Shia LeBouf, he’s way too overexposed like how Chris O’Donnell was in the early 90’s.
My friend hates Tom Cruise for always been the “arrogant hotshot.”
I recommend Find Me Guilty. Diesel’s great in it as an overweight mobster.
I’d like to give an honorable mention for Christopher Walken in ANNIE HALL. When the movie first came out, I imagine it worked perfectly: he’s cast as Diane Keaton’s equally WASP-y brother, who looks for all the world like a breezily straightforward New England preppie until he eventually opens his … mouth … and … starts saying something … unsettling … in an intense manner punctuated by awkward … pauses.
Nowadays, the whole thing is telegraphed; it’s Christopher Walken, of course he’s going to talk like that. But back before THE DEER HUNTER and everything else that followed, back before he was prime material for impressionists, the effect would’ve been doubled and the joke would’ve hit like a danged thunderbolt.
The film is **Rough Night in Jerico **and the actor out of place is Dean Martin. He plays a villain. Yeah, a bad guy - a really bad guy - not just a kind of bad guy with a good heart, but a bad guy. And while Henry Fonda could pull it off the couple times he did it, Dean Martin couldn’t.
I’m not sure if it was because of typecasting from the nice scoundrel roles or because it was too much of a stretch for Martin, but I know of few that quite accept him as the bady in this one.
Now, Slim Pickens who perennially plays a lovable cowboy also made the switch to a really, really bad guy in this. Wow, he is great and very believable in this.
I felt the same way seeing B.J. Novak in Inglorious Basterds. I was waiting for Brad Pitt to glance over at him at any moment and say “Ain’t that right Temp?”
Yes, but using a wrong term for something that you don’t know the right word for is, well, wrong.
The reason why I react is because Schwimmer’s role in Band of Brothers is so *anti *typecast. He’s trying to break the Friends mold he was stuck in, which is the complete opposite of being typecast as a new Ross kind of character.
You’re talking about some kind of actor-character association (I’m sure there is some word for this at TV Tropes), where an actor is permanently associated as a certain character. Elijah Wood was very close to be stuck as Frodo for time eternity, but broke free of it because he took roles that contrasted a great deal (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Sin City). Compare that to his colleague Orlando Bloom, who didn’t mind being typecast as Handsome Fantasy Character (Kingdom of Heaven, Pirates of Caribbean).