Word: typecast
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...formed Sub Sub, playing disco-club tunes and garnering great success with their single “Ain’t No Love (Ain’t No Use).” However, despite the group’s efforts to explore new sounds, they could not break their typecast as a disco-club group. While Sub Sub matured musically, its audience didn’t. In a desperate move, the three eventually decided to change their name and scrap their history...
Most of the time, that's all right with him. "I'm not a very fashionable actor," he says. "I know this. I've come to accept this in my life." He doesn't want to be typecast. "There are certain actors, they're the same person in different scripts--I just think, 'Aren't you bored?'" But he does have a specialty--lower-class characters who are inarticulate about their deeper, darker feelings. It is easy to respect the work that goes into these portrayals--and, indeed, LaPaglia won a Tony for his performance as Eddie Carbone, tragically haunted...
...feel typecast...
...than once, you get to know a range of different people. One day she'll tell you "she's only in it for the money"; the next she'll say she gets "pissed off when people say I'm greedy." She'll tell you she is sick of being typecast and yearns for art-house fare, but that she's comfortable in "the small film world" she inhabits, meaning the commercial world of Hong Kong. And she'll do it all from a theatrical trunk of varied voices and styles: Marilyn Monroe one day, bare-midriffed and yet innocent...
Though (I warn you) this narrative authority may be misplaced. I have no hope of objectivity and am no font of knowledge; my words are already typecast. My theory precedes my education (putting the Barthes before the course). I am continually dragged down by the undertone...