Word: typecaster
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...Showtime had a hard time recruiting actors from big agencies, fearful of their clients' being typecast as gay. ("Yeah, I can see how that hurt Billy Crystal's career," sneers Showtime president of programming Jerry Offsay, referring to Crystal's groundbreaking role in Soap in 1977.) Several fashion designers (of all industries!) even refused to have their products placed in the series. The producers eventually cast almost all unknowns, with the exception of Sparks, a former Talk Soup host on E! who concedes he had "some long talks" with his agent, and Cagney & Lacey's Sharon Gless, who pleaded...
...while covering the important, R-rated swath in the middle)? I mean, wearing these outfits is a shade less deameaning than, say, doing carnival midget porn, but then carnival midget porn is probably going to be seen by a smaller audience than this film is. If she wants to typecast herself as eye candy, she'd better be careful: while on 35 in human years, she is already in her late forties in anorexic years. I can only assume that she was attracted by the same thing that convinced Max von Sydow to play Leland Gaunt in Needful Things...
...Emmyis first job was a shoot for Leviis. The problem? She couldnit roller skate. As a solution, one of the camera crew pulled her around the rink backwards. Though she has moved on from roller skating rinks, Emmy says that she is still often typecast as the short, cute 17-year-old. Despite some disappointment from agents that she is not six feet tall, Emmy has never let anything hold her back. At an event earlier this year to model formalwear for J.C. Penney, Emmy was once again placed into the teen-queen mold. iOther models...
Jennifer Y. Hyman '01, who is also a Crimson editor, asked Tomei if she felt typecast because she always seemed to play characters with "attitude...
...Uncle Mikey, if there's anything I can do for you, anywhere in the world, you come to me.' Some of these tabloid editors here should be looking over their shoulders." And the role lets Grant hone his dazed-and-confused act. While he disputes that he has been typecast, he concedes that he is looking forward to working on the new Woody Allen film in July, in which he gets to play a villain...