Typecast actors/actresses

I think you can put Leslie Nielsen in that boat. If I ever run across one of his earlier TV guest roles on the old 70s detective series where he's playing it straight, I'd probably be laughing my head off.

 

I can definitely see that.

 

Is that typecasting or is he simply incapable of doing anything else?

 

After Reservoir Dogs, he was definitely going to be typecast as a badass. Badass cop. Badass criminal.

He was Tarentino's original choice to play Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction, but went another direction because Madsen had played Vic Vega in Dogs, who was the cousin of Vincent Vega and Tarentino didn't want the same actor to play both parts.

 

Patrick Stewart

 

I had always heard Madsen turned down the role because he didn't want to become Vic Vega and that Vincent Vega was originally going to be Vic Vega but Tarantino changed it to Vincent when Madsen declined the role.

 

I'll bet he's kicking himself on that one.

 

Radcliffe will be a top contender for John Lennon when the definitive Beatles biomovie is made about 2020.

 

What about Stanley Spadowski?

 

It will be interesting to see if Kristen Stewart will ever shake the association with "Bella Swan."

I know she was in the Runaways movie, but other than that, has she done anything well known other than Twilight over the past four years?

 

I love that movie.