He did make a great Douglas Jardine in *Bodyline[/]
… and yes, if you give him the wool he’ll make you one too 
Yes, I have seen TMR, Mr Patronising. Smith has significant screen time in only three scenes; the Burly Brawl, the fight in the Portal and the scene where he infects Bane. He also appears very briefly after the first fight and off-camera when he hands over his earpiece - and that, SFAICR, is it for the entire movie. His total screen time is maybe 15 minutes, maximum.
You do not get 5% of the gross when you only appear in 10% of the movie.
Dark shades or pointy ears, Weaving will always be a '‘cock in a frock on a rock’ to me.
Thank you, skateboarder87. That’s what typecasting is. But I did say that in my opinion, I think that he will not be so typecast by The Matrix or its sequels, and I said why I thought so. He still managed to get cast in another major motion picture trilogy, which in my opinion is evidence enough that he’s not liable to suffer greatly.
FISH
Fish I’d have to agree with you on the limited market idea, at least about the 2nd one and at least to an extent that people don’t realize. At the movie theatre where I work we got 3 prints of Reloaded (that’s the first time we’ve ever gotten 3 prints of anything) and chaos ensued. People came and saw it 3 times within the first couple weeks it was here. But the majority of its dollars came from Matrix freaks who saw it multiple times I think. More people have never heard or don’t care about it than fans would like to think. Those three prints quickly dwindled down to one and it’s doing just as well or worse than movies like Italian Job, Bruce Almighty, and even X-Men 2 (which came out a week or 2 before it).
No, he won’t be typecast he’s a great actor and loves his work. He does lots of little odds and ends - he bobs up uncredited in comedy bits on TV. He once spent 3 days working on a short film with people he didn’t know. He had bumped into them walking to the shops, they recognised him and asked him to star in their student film and he did… for nothing. Two of his earlier films that are more character driven are The Interview and Proof. Both are well worth catching.
But you could get $1 million for less than 5 minutes of screen time, if you were Marlon Brando in Superman in 1978.
Does anyone know the table that will adjust that into today’s dollars?
Found it- it would be $2,762,430 in 2002 dollars. For four minutes or so of screen time.
Now that’s making a living!
Yes, but Hugo Weaving wasn’t coming into TMR off the back of a 25-year career including two Best Actor Oscars and five other nominations, was he? He was coming off the back of - well, the first Matrix movie, really; his part in LotR may be significant, but it’s also small.
Speaking as a guy who has just, in reading this thread, realized how many movies I’ve actually seen which featured this guy I’ve never really heard of, I can assure you that he’s in very little danger of being typecast.
I remember the characters. They were good. Apparently, they were all the same guy.
He may well have the potential to become a Gary Oldman type. On occasion I have seen a film he is in, known he was in it, and had to check out the credits to determine what part he played.
There are worse things than typecasting, too. Just ask Al Leong.