Typecasting

While it's a blessing to get regular roles, some actors have talked about typecasting in Hollywood – the effect it has on their careers and how to escape it.

While Mintz-Plasse appears inextricably linked to his role, Hader has avoided similar typecasting.

Do you think there is a fair bit of typecasting?

In a gallery of Hollywood loons, he played the one sane, funny mensch, which was definitely typecasting.

She wanted to appear a fully rounded character – as a mixed-race woman, she is particularly aware of the typecasting around East Asian women – and to use humour.

Typecasting is bound to happen.

Also, Kyle MacLachlan returned reluctantly as he wanted to avoid typecasting, so his presence in the film is smaller than originally planned.

Cagney had been considered for the role, but lost out on it due to his typecasting.

Many dramatic actors gladly participated in musicals as a way to break away from their typecasting.

McGilligan, page 116 Cagney was still struggling against his gangster typecasting.

McGilligan, page 35 Cagney himself was offered grapefruit in almost every restaurant he visited for years after, and Clarke claimed it virtually ruined her career because of typecasting.

This typecasting bothered him, for even when cast in comedies he found he was invariably playing the 'heavy'.

Through the 1930s, he occupied an important niche in popular horror films, with their East European setting, but his Hungarian accent limited his repertoire, and he tried unsuccessfully to avoid typecasting.