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23 actors who will forever be doomed to play the same role in every movie
BEHOLD, THE GREATEST victims of typecasting:
1. Michelle Rodriguez
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We get it. She’s tough. Lost, Resident Evil, an abundance of Fast and Furious titles, Machete, the list goes on and on.
2. Christoph Waltz
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Quite irrationally, we simply cannot trust anyone who looks like this man because it’s so ingrained in our minds that he’s a complete villain. Water for Elephants, Big Eyes, The Green Hornet, Inglourious Basterds. Enough said.
3. Vin Diesel
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Either big strong action man or big strong action man who gets more than he bargained for when he looks after someone’s child.
4. Hugh Grant
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Hugh Grant starring in the role of Bumbling Romantic Man Who’s Probably a Tory.
5. Kirsten Stewart
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Girl who finds feelings very complicated. The entire Twilight Series, Welcome to the Rileys, Adventureland, to name but a few.
6. Michael Cera
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You need an awkward guy with an obscure interest in your movie? Michael Cera’s your guy.
7. Adam Sandler
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If you’ve seen one Adam Sandler movie, you have seen them all. Hollywood’s most prolific man-child character.
8. Jesse Eisenberg
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When you need an awkward guy, but don’t need him to be as quirky as Michael Cera.
9. Emma Roberts
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As a child she had a unique and pretty relatable character for tweens in the early 00s when she played Addie Singer in Unfabulous. But as Emma Roberts grew into an adult she drifted towards roles in American Horror Story and Scream 4 that left her type cast as the pretty girl you thought you could trust but now she’s going to kill you.
10. Seth Rogen
Who the hell played The Stoner before this man got into acting?
11. Helena Bonham Carter
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A woman wearing a very particular type of dress in Harry Potter, Sweeney Todd and basically any historical dramas/fantasy movies.
12. Andy Samberg
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When a movie is supposed to be a comedy but it’s not actually that funny, just call this guy in and get him to shout all of the lines and pretend it’s a little bit better than it was before.
13. Will Ferrell
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See above. Lots and lots of shouting in every role.
14. Zooey Deschanel
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The girl whose whole personality centres around the fact that she can play the ukelele.
15. Steve Carrell
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Goofy loud man usually wearing a suit.
16. Hayden Panettiere
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It feels like no matter what age she is, Hayden will always play a high school student.
17. Jennifer Aniston
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The woman in the romantic comedies.
18. Vince Vaughan
Usually an immature man, but not as bad as Adam Sandler.
19. Jason Statham
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The tough English guy who can not be killed in any movie.
20. Paul Rudd
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The man in romantic comedies.
21. Drew Barrymore
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The hapless but endearing girl who doesn’t know what’s going on half of the time.
22. Zach Galifianakis
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The odd man.
23. Katherine Heigl
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The other romantic comedy woman.
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