When I was first starting out, and I was less established, I was really concerned about being typecast.
When I was first starting out, and I was less established, I was really concerned about being typecast.
At this point in my career, it doesn't bother me much that I'm probably hopelessly typecast. I like to work, and horror films definitely keep me working.
Am I being typecast as a horrible person? I don't know. I don't think so. But if it happens, I'd rather get to play that, because there's nothing fun about being sweet. Sweet can be so boring, so I'd be happy staying away from that.
You are still lucky - you have a certain type of people who keep buying your music - but then you can get typecast and have to keep making that same music, and you can change only slightly. It's risky to bounce around and change your type of music.
Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.
I don't feel particularly typecast because I think I do so many different kinds of things. Whether they're seen or not is another issue.
No, the type-casting didn't happen until after Star Trek. I don't think that you get typecast until you've been cast!
As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!
That was my one big Hollywood hit, but, in a way, it hurt my picture career. After that, I was typecast as a lion, and there just weren't many parts for lions.
After The Wizard Of Oz I was typecast as a lion, and there aren't all that many parts for lions.
I don't ever want to be doing the same sort of thing, I never want to be typecast, because I have way too much to give to be sort of, to always be the hot chick in the movie.
I have been typecast in my career, although the type changes with the decades.
I was warned not to do it. Actors who play Jesus are supposed to have a hard time getting other roles to follow, but I felt this was a myth. After all, how can you be typecast as Christ?
Being typecast is a great thing for an actor. I was considered one of the New York mob actors.
If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.
Directors, like actors, get typecast.
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