# How do some actors end up type-cast?

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**Created:** [March 13, 2025, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-some-actors-end-up-type-cast/1015542 "2025-03-13T20:06:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-some-actors-end-up-type-cast/1015542/81 "2025-03-19T15:16:56Z")

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> [@dorvann](#):
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> > [@LSLGuy](#):
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> > They started out playing a role on talk-show TV as the loud-mouth firebrand sure of [whatever]. Then they decided they liked the role. They also noticed their audience liked them in that role. So they started playing it in public too.
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> > Now their true personality has become that role.
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> That is pretty much what happened with comedian Daniel Whitney–he pretty much just lives as Larry The Cable Guy now

Not so sure about that. I heard a couple of radio guys talking about him after they did an interview. When the mics were off the accent went away and he only wanted to talk about the stock market. Off air he doesn’t talk or dress like Larry and spends a lot of his time golfing. In the beginning of his career he never dropped character on camera but now he does interviews as himself.

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