How To Use Typecast In A Sentence

  • The only real answer I have to that, you know - it is asked a lot is that I really wouldn't want to work with someone who would typecast me based on what I'm doing in this job.
  • After playing the caped hero in two sequels, he knew there was a danger of becoming typecast.
  • This movie was her first effort to stretch beyond the sweet girl typecasting she had been stuck with.
  • If I go on in this part much longer, I'll be typecast as the pert ingenue for the next ten years. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
  • But as the RADA-trained actress sees her reputation grow, she fears being typecast in roles as brassy northerners.
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  • The cast are all excellent, but Rickman is superb as the hate-filled and bitter typecast thesp, desperately trying to retain some dignity with a prosthetic rubber lizard glued to his head.
  • Yet both brothers could not be typecast merely as jazz-rock players. Times, Sunday Times
  • As seems to happen with American soaps, the cast grow bored with being typecast, get bolshy, and push for stories where they can showcase their skills.
  • I think Harry's problem is that we all willy-nilly typecast him as the naughty younger brother.
  • The other is Ifans, who for too long has been typecast as a loveable rogue.
  • Do you see Twilight as a blessing, or are you afraid of typecasting with such a huge franchise?
  • He has become typecast for the role as a scholar.
  • Although she later complained that she was typecast for writing about insanity, when she returned to this theme it gave her writing a sharp focus and brought vivid life to her fictional characters.
  • Increased rationalization of the stock system thus leads to more codified systems of casting and increased typecasting.
  • He is practically typecast for the role of a gangster.
  • Three or four years had gone by, and people immediately tried to typecast me.
  • So you want to show what he's done in the past, suggests where that might go in the future, and then also remind viewers of how wrong individuals have sometimes been when they tried to typecast a judge as a lower court member.
  • You cannot typecast her and that's what makes her music transcend all geographical and age barriers.
  • Not only is he typecast as a robot named Sam Thinko who is, for the most part, relegated to the background and given corny interactions with actress pronounced “breathy jiggler” Mamie van Doren, poor Elektro spends the movie broadcasting pseudo-sexy dialogue that writes checks his aging circuits and gears can’t pay. The ULTIMATE guide to ELEKTRO the Moto-Man, essay by M. Sweeney Lawless
  • Perhaps the studio knew what it was doing, typecasting him the way it had. NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
  • He has typecast me using his media network in the worst possible way.
  • Stiller departs from his typecast of an awkward intellectual, which is to his credit.
  • As someone else mentioned, Romeo comes from a very wealthy family and though his public image is ‘urban’, saying ghetto and trying to typecast him as some thug from the inner city is really offensive. Twilight Lexicon » Lil Romeo Wants In On Breaking Dawn
  • He is practically typecast for the role of a gangster.
  • This changeability has served her well – she is not an actor who gets asked to repeat herself much, or is often typecast, though, if pushed, she thinks the thread running through her work is probably something about women being tested. The Saturday interview: Anne-Marie Duff
  • Just as young actresses who are typecast get more film roles, a person pegged as a retail banking marketing assistant will find it easier to get a new job than someone with more general marketing experience.
  • Due to small stature, which made costuming him as a woman fairly easy, Carlisle was typecast in female roles. HOUR OF THE HUNTER
  • Ironically, while some blues musicians are frequently typecast as ‘authentic’ Delta musicians, most performers do not play what is commonly referred to as the Delta blues.
  • The evidence should convert any jaded industry people that still typecast him as ‘that rock guy from Triumph.’
  • I know there are pockets of resistance out there where we're still typecast as ideologically doctrinaire, but it isn't supported by the evidence.
  • ‘A lot of people have wanted to typecast me as an Asian-inspired designer, but that alone doesn't really define what I do,’ she says.
  • I'm reliably informed that most actors like to stay away from typecasting in roles.
  • It's the same with how Brits are typecast abroad: not everybody in Britain goes out, gets absolutely trollied and walks around in an England shirt abusing foreigners!
  • For someone typecast as hot totty in action pictures, the role of Laticia is a gift.
  • Other kinds of stigma, not all resulting in typecasting a person as ugly, are: disability, membership of an ethnic group, and criminality.
  • Other than her hairstyle she is the same Marina—loud voice, big eyes my mother calls photogenic, and a pudgy nose that my sister says typecasts her into character roles. A Mountain of Crumbs
  • Yet both brothers could not be typecast merely as jazz-rock players. Times, Sunday Times
  • Yet Ferdinand's art extends beyond the ‘gangstas' that to a degree have typecast him as an artist.
  • It's amazing that such a talented actor is so strongly typecast and can only secure sidekick roles.
  • I probably wouldn't have had a career if I hadn't been initially typecast in those roles.
  • Often you are typecast, or passed over simply by the way you walk into the room.
  • This is not merely a result of typecasting, as when Melanie Griffith plays bimbos, or when Sean Connery plays gruff, adventurous old codgers.
  • I'm reliably informed that most actors like to stay away from typecasting in roles.
  • One of the major problems I felt in T1 was the death of Jazz, one of the core recognizable autobots was reduced to a typecast token black guy who gets killed easily by the big bad evil guy. New Transformers 2 Details Revealed at Hasbro Licensing Summit | /Film
  • George said he was a current victim of abuse by the media group, which had typecast him in a newspaper smear campaign which was then promoted continually on TV.
  • You do get typecast as an actor and I knew that this role appealed to me and would suit me.
  • Increased rationalization of the stock system thus leads to more codified systems of casting and increased typecasting.
  • He had become typecast as a writer of escapist adventure stories.
  • By striking a balance between being accomplished musicians with a love of retro rock and being the cheeky popsters who brought you the hit single Alright, they avoided being typecast as either terminal dullards or wacky one-hit wonders.
  • No one likes being picked on or singled out due to their appearance, especially when they're dandy actors likely bound for the mediocre lights of a Bollywood typecasting.
  • But that makes me feel stereotyped, typecast in one kind of role and viewed as a spokesperson for an entire race.
  • He has become typecast for the role as a scholar.
  • That proved to be a wise decision - Get Smart only lasted four seasons in the United States, despite a slew of Emmys, and typecast all of the actors, including Adams.
  • Of course, the typecasting doesn't completely disappear in these cases.
  • Anyway, she doesn't want to be typecast as a gay comedienne.
  • A courtly man with an ornery streak and a stately head of white hair, Hooper seemed typecast for the role of southern chief justice, a role he hoped to wrest from the popular Democratic incumbent, Ernest "Sonny" Hornsby. Karl Rove in a Corner
  • While the breadth of Marv Albert's cinematic oeuvre is substantial, he's been narrowly typecast: He always plays a sportscaster — specifically, always himself. Marv of the movies: Always in character
  • African-Americans were often typecast as servants, entertainers or criminals.
  • In effect, his gender typecasting distances fathers from the organic web of relationships stressed in the early sections of the book and traps mothers within them.
  • Even Escovedo's own record company casually tosses off buzzwords like loss, longing and regret in his bio, but he says it is wrong to typecast him as a rather glum fellow.
  • If I go on in this part much longer, I'll be typecast as the pert ingenue for the next ten years. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
  • Throughout the 60s and 70s, Jack Lemmon was typecast as a tense, neurotic, excruciatingly insecure pen pusher.
  • If I go on in this part much longer, I'll be typecast as the pert ingenue for the next ten years. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
  • Do you see Twilight as a blessing, or are you afraid of typecasting with such a huge franchise? Any reservations with being part of such a cultural phenomenon?
  • I think one reason why the movies Hong Kong directors make in Hong Kong are a lot better than what they turn out in Hollywood is because they don't have to typecast their actors into certain roles.
  • In fact, film actors have decried typecasting almost since the beginning of filmmaking.
  • I don't understand this fear of being typecast in gay roles.
  • But as the RADA-trained actress sees her reputation grow, she fears being typecast in roles as brassy northerners.
  • She was always keen to shake off the early typecasting as the empty-headed sex symbol.
  • She didn't want to be typecast as a dumb blonde.
  • We resist getting typecast either as conservationists or modernists.
  • I didn't want to be typecast and I think I've maintained a large variety in the roles I've played.
  • Is she afraid of being typecast as a brunette version of these dizzy dames?
  • Between Koma and The Eye Angelica Lee is running the risk of being typecast as the organ-transplant actress.
  • Like many Scottish men typecast by gender, Max's chosen career is something of a running joke amongst members of his family.
  • It seems like they aimed to typecast every type of musclehead, including Icelandic Olga. Meet some of the new American Gladiators | YepYep - Your Daily Waste Of Time
  • Tyrone Power, tired of being typecast in heroic pretty-boy roles, optioned William Lindsay Gresham's pitch black noir novel himself.
  • Actors being typecast and movies becoming clichéd are not peculiar to Bollywood or Gandhinagar.
  • He was typecast for years as a pugnacious gangster and ornery little SOB.
  • Western actors are routinely typecast into two roles in Korea evil American GIs/officials and comic relief.
  • Due to small stature, which made costuming him as a woman fairly easy, Carlisle was typecast in female roles. HOUR OF THE HUNTER
  • Sometimes you have to feel sorry for actors who play particularly evil roles and are typecast as villains and often spat on in their real lives.
  • For obvious reasons I try not to typecast anyone I don't know, because of the way they look or by what job they do, or by what background they appear to come from.
  • We hear so often that actors fear being typecast if they come out as gay.
  • In some ways it typecast him - he was stuck with a particularly famous book.
  • But I don't think she's ever understood that the public wants her typecast as a beneficent, starched woman with at least two children in tow.
  • No matter how good he is at playing a hayseed, he should start getting a little nervous about being typecast.
  • He seems to defy political typecasting, reveling in the role of maverick.
  • If I go on in this part much longer, I'll be typecast as the pert ingenue for the next ten years. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
  • Curtis was very interested, partly because he saw it as opportunity to break out of the dead-end, pretty-boy roles he was becoming typecast in.
  • He's typecast as the soft posho who writes soppy, lovelorn numbers. The Sun
  • But in those days you were typecast (some actors got typecast for life) and good dramatic parts didn't seek him out.
  • I'd already done the book on Cobain's murder and I didn't want to get typecast in the book world as this wacko conspiracy nut.
  • While computers have thrown up many seemingly ideal jobs for the visually impaired, he cautions employers against typecasting blind employees.
  • Rawal, who has been actively involved in Gujarati and Hindi theatre since 1973, feels that the film industry has a tendency to typecast actors.

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