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TELL ME (xpost from Leaky_Cauldron@diagonlemmy.social ) (lemmy.world)

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[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 28 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Fun fact: McKellen was asked to play Dumbledore after Richard Harris passed but he declined because he didn't want to be typecast.

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 23 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Typecast means that after 2 roles he would have only been hired for wizards from now on?

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 23 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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 5 months ago (1 children)

YOU SHALL NOT TYPECAST!!

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 months ago

Character actor = ian_mckellan (Dumbledore);

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 4 points 5 months 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 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months ago

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

[–] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 months ago

I guess it might lead to some snowball effect

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

What we got instead was awful.