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[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 28 points 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 months ago (1 children)

YOU SHALL NOT TYPECAST!!

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago

Character actor = ian_mckellan (Dumbledore);

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 4 points 10 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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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 10 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 10 months ago

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

[–] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

I guess it might lead to some snowball effect

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

What we got instead was awful.