Good actors with crappy typecasts?

[OneCentStamp]

@Baldwin

The late character actor Brion James occasionally got to play a sympathetic role, but typically played total A-holes – either psycho killers, low-life criminals or a variety of thugs and henchmen. Probably a nice guy in real life, but he happened to make a really good big, scary-looking guy who just might take a length of steel rebar and beat your head in.

And all I have to say to that is: Wake up! Time to die!

[Kythereia]

@Cisco

Morgan Freeman has been typecast pretty badly over the last few years as the wise old fatherly sage. They even made him play God in that Jim Carrey movie a few years back for christsake.

Sadly (I loved him in Lucky Number Slevin), it appears he will be reprising the role in 2007.

[Kythereia]

@OneCentStamp

Whoosh. Van Damme is horrible, even for an action movie star. He’s so bad that they had to write plot elements into all of his movies to explain his accent, which he’s never been able to lose. That was actually the joke of my post.

He’s like a cheap, low-end version of Arnold Schwarzenegger. I never got the appeal.