The clue is in the word itself - it’s actually a spell that prevents you from being selected to portray literally anything else for the rest of your career as an actor.

[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

YOU SHALL NOT TYPECAST!!

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago

Character actor = ian_mckellan (Dumbledore);

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 4 points 2 years ago

Unless you've been DuckTypeCast, in which case you can be anything (this is what happened to Gary Oldman)

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Well, maybe not wizard typecast, but typecast to play much older than he was. He was only 63 when he first played Gandalf. To put it in perspective, that's only one year older than Tom Cruise is right now.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

typecast to play much older than he was. He was only 63 when he first played Gandalf

Isn't Gandalf a multi-thousand-year-old immortal angel of sorts? Seems like a bit of a strange concern in that context...

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, but he's described as having the form of a wizened old man.

[–] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

I guess it might lead to some snowball effect