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Type cast actors.

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Somebody mentioned Morgan Freeman on another thread, and it strikes me that whenever a role called for a sage, benevolent, statesman-like black guy, they'd just get straight onto the phone to Morgan's agent.

Ditto a tough, Cockernay gangster with a heart of gold role. Pick up the phone to Ray Winson. Mind you, can't really imagine anybody considering him for a Rudolph Nureyev biopic....

Who else is a shoe in for a certain type of acting role?
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Freeman was a baddie in Wanted.
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KungFooBob wrote: Mon Feb 26, 2024 11:01 am Freeman was a baddie in Wanted.
Sage, benevolent and statesman-like baddie?
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gremlin wrote: Mon Feb 26, 2024 11:04 am
KungFooBob wrote: Mon Feb 26, 2024 11:01 am Freeman was a baddie in Wanted.
Sage, benevolent and statesman-like baddie?
I dunno, I was too busy watching Angelina Jolie's tits.
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gremlin wrote: Mon Feb 26, 2024 10:45 am

Ditto a tough, Cockernay gangster with a heart of gold role. Pick up the phone to Ray Winson. Mind you, can't really imagine anybody considering him for a Rudolph Nureyev biopic....
The first thing I recall seeing Winstone in was the 80s 'Robin of Sherwood' series - but TBH he played 'young Will Scarlet' like a cockernee gangsta too really.
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Jason statham, some ludicrous role or another. Liam neeson aging old geezer who can take anyone on in any situation. Nicholas’s cage, simpering, gurning softly spoken idiot. I better stop now or I’ll work my way through most oh hollywoods finest…
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Jason Statham - tough guy bit rough round the edges
Liam N - old tough guy, but mysteriously Irish
Tom Cruise - when you want a superstar that runs a lot and is Tom Cruise
Sienna Miller - blonde posh totty
Simon Pegg - geek with a heart of gold
Dominic West - posh baddie
Rupert Sewell - Posh baddie who beds all the chicks
Rebecca Ferguson - hot older woman who fights a lot
Eddie Marsan - cockney geezer when Ray Winston is too busy or too old
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Vin Diesel, when you want a shortarse, toughish sort that isn't Jason Statham.
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And Peter Fonda was right upto Once Upon A Time In The West. Which he hated playing.
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Taipan wrote: Mon Feb 26, 2024 11:21 am Jason statham, some ludicrous role or another. Liam neeson aging old geezer who can take anyone on in any situation. Nicholas’s cage, simpering, gurning softly spoken idiot. I better stop now or I’ll work my way through most oh hollywoods finest…
Great minds think alike. Add Tom Cruise and it's almost complete, bar a few dozen or so. :obscene-birdiedoublered:
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demographic wrote: Mon Feb 26, 2024 1:27 pm Brian Flyingblondonarocketcycle Blessed.
He shouts really well though. :obscene-drinkingcheers:
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Kevin Alejandro. He played a blithering fucking idiot in Lucifer & now he's playing the same part in Fire Country (A truly abysmal series about forestry fire fighters in Calizuela)
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demographic wrote: Mon Feb 26, 2024 1:29 pm And Peter Fonda was right upto Once Upon A Time In The West. Which he hated playing.
Shurely shome mishtake....that was his dad, Henry.
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Count Steer wrote: Mon Feb 26, 2024 6:47 pm
demographic wrote: Mon Feb 26, 2024 1:29 pm And Peter Fonda was right upto Once Upon A Time In The West. Which he hated playing.
Shurely shome mishtake....that was his dad, Henry.
Yeah, him as well...

Ahem.
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John Inman always played the same type
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Mark Rylance, when you need a man who can appear quiet and innocent as a mouse, and yet have dirty hidden secrets.

Anyone seen "The Outfit" yet?
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Toby Jones - much as I like him - if you want a world-weary but still vaguely optimistic, decent, Mr Everyman with determined streak.