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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Lord of the memes@midwest.socialEnglish · 1 year ago

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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Lord of the memes@midwest.socialEnglish · 1 year ago
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    Fun fact: McKellen was asked to play Dumbledore after Richard Harris passed but he declined because he didn’t want to be typecast.

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

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        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.

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          YOU SHALL NOT TYPECAST!!

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            Character actor = ian_mckellan (Dumbledore);
            
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          Unless you’ve been DuckTypeCast, in which case you can be anything (this is what happened to Gary Oldman)

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        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.

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          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…

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

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        I guess it might lead to some snowball effect

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      What we got instead was awful.

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