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Sometimes an actor is so iconic, famous, or interesting that their celebrity casts a shadow over the roles they play. That's not Hancock in skin-tight leather flying around saving people; that's Will Smith! In Hitch, that's Will Smith giving dating advice. Independence Day has Will Smith as a fighter pilot! Audiences are unable to commit to a Willing Suspension of Disbelief; they simply see the actor on screen rather than the character. Sometimes this occurs because the actor is a media darling or tabloid punching bag, constantly in the news. After a while, audiences become so familiar with the actor's personal life that they can no longer see him or her as another person. Other times this is the result of movie stars becoming typecast or having limited range. Audiences come to expect the actor to play the same role over and over again, which becomes part of the actor's larger-than-life persona. Polar opposites of this trope are actors such as Geoffrey Rush, Gary Oldman, and — to a lesser extent — Brad Pitt, who are capable of putting masks on and completely becoming another character or person entirely. Hence, this isn't an inherently bad thing; some of the most successful actors in history have been of the "As themselves" type. So they can still be very good; they just tend not to be very versatile, and you'll usually only see them in the same (or similar) types of roles. For an actor's career, this can be a double-edged sword. If people like the actor, they'll stay loyal to him and see his movies regardless of what they're about. On the other hand, if audiences turn against the actor, they won't be able to appreciate his work no matter how good the material is. And if they really want to be taken seriously and play Hamlet, it's a real (but not impossible) obstacle to overcome. The complete opposite of this trope is I Am Not Spock, where an actor is unable to step out of the shadow of their most famous role. See also Typecasting and Adam Westing, when an actor falls into this and cultivates it willingly. Important Notice: On this wiki, please try to avoid saying, for example, "Jeff Goldblum's character" instead of the character's actual name. It's usually very easy to find the character names if you're unfamiliar or can't remember by going onto the actual work page to double-check. |
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Even his most iconic role falls into this, as fans will sometimes refer to the individual T-800 units as "Arnold" to differentiate them from other Terminator models. | |
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On the other hand, he's also Dirty Harry half the time, to the extent that Gran Torino has been called "the sixth Dirty Harry film". Arguably, though, Gran Torino is more successful for it. | |
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Elvis Presley, similarly to Elton John, is primarily known as a musician, and pretty much was playing "Elvis" no matter what the role. It didn't help that most of his films were formulaic "Elvis musicals" as his manager, Colonel Tom Parker, had contracted him to play, and much to Elvis' eventual frustration, he rarely got to break away from the formula (though films like Love Me Tender and Flaming Star showed he had potential as an actor.) Eddie Murphy in Delirious observed that it was easier to get Elvis to sing than act. "Lemonade... That cool refreshing drink." Equally, too, so had The Beatles, at least together, but at least John Lennon and especially Ringo Starr showed themselves capable of different roles years later. |
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And Foxcatcher, where he played a mentally-ill millionaire and got himself an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. | |
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The Cracked article "4 Things [Which] People Mistakenly Think Are Automatically Hilarious" discusses this trope at length while discussing the tendency for reviews to attempt to add cheap comedy by simply referring to a character by their actor's name or the name of a character that actor is more famous for, noting how when this sort of thing is done right, it's done to point out this trope. It goes on to speak on Arnold specifically, and how basically every role of his was "here's Arnold if he were an <insert movie-worthy occupation>", ending by noting that saying something like "here's the scene in Junior where Arnold Schwarzenegger is about to give birth" isn't a forced joke formula, that's actually what the scene comes across as. | |
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There is apparently no such thing as Obadiah Stane in Iron Man. The movie's villain is Jeff Bridges. He probably falls into the opposite trope when it comes to the Dude, however. | |
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In his appearance on The Muppet Show, he claimed to have had his "real self" surgically removed. | |
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Whether he's in outer space, an amusement park full of dinosaurs, or the Wild West, you can usually count on Chris Pratt to be playing the same kind of friendly-but-snarky action hero. One notable exception would be the hapless naive everyman Emmett, to which the "snarky" descriptor does not apply whatsoever. | |
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Except for the time he was a borderline psychotic anti-hero. | |
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And Liam Neeson wearing a catsuit as Golden Lion Jesus. | |
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Also, Liam Neeson is your dad. | |
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And Bewitched where he did a near perfect Paul Lynde as Uncle Arthur impersonation. | |
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Most of the lead actors in The Expendables. They're not Barney Ross, Lee Christmas, and Yin Yang. They're Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, and Jet Li. | |
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Look! It's Owen Wilson as a spy! Check it out, Owen Wilson as a Cowboy/Cop/Model/Racecar/Pseudo Sergeant! Occasionally averted, since he is rounded enough to play other roles; he just doesn't very often. | |
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Taken to the logical extreme with the Taiwanese title for The Running Man, which is simply "Arnold the Devil" (devil means badass here). | |
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As well as Liam Neeson Vs. the Nazis. | |
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Even the case when he was cast as the dad in the English dub of Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea. | |
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And Liam Neeson, M.D. | |
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Except Little Miss Sunshine, where he's a wistful, suicidally depressed and very withdrawn gay man who nevertheless becomes the film's center. | |
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And Liam Neeson Fights Wolves. | |
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One review of Last Action Hero pointed out that the idea Danny is a fan of Jack Slater, not Arnold Schwarzenegger, is interesting, but Arnie is entirely the wrong actor for the point. | |
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From Blue Velvet to the end of his life, Dennis Hopper basically played the same guy who always seemed at least a little crazy, in a possibly dangerous way. Even when he played King "Bowser" Koopa, gaming's most iconic villain, he was still just playing Dennis Hopper. | |
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Perhaps it was by being good enough to play three different characters in the same movie? Twice? | |
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And don't forget Liam Neeson is literally a Good Cop/Bad Cop. | |
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