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Meta Casting

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Meta Casting	comment	Actors are prone to having their own personality... surprise! They may be gifted in being able to portray someone else, but often that baggage of their own distinct personality can cross over into the minds of the general public. There are also past roles that they will be eternally known for. The use of Meta Casting is taking an actor and crafting a role that utilizes their known history to create a resonance between the performance and the audience that makes the whole thing far more dynamic than it could have been in any other way. As an example, take an actor who is famous for having altercations with obnoxious tabloid reporters. Take that same actor and cast them in a role of a famous businessman who kills a reporter for harassing him constantly. In some cases the actual role is almost an expy of themselves, as in they're playing an actor with a suspiciously similar history. This can come in multiple ways: Actor-Shared Background — The role is written with the actual (non-acting) history of the actor in place. A few former criminals with jail time (read: the likes of Danny Trejo) have gained a history of playing hardened criminals. Adam Westing — Using an actor's famous role in a form of self-parody. Contractual Purity often results in formerly child-friendly actors behaving in very much "family unfriendly" behavior. Casting Gag — Using their history with another actor or an older franchise incarnation. Possibly in a Remake Cameo they use The Hero of the original to be a mentor or give their blessing to the new crew. The Cast Show Off — The skills and talents of the actor are integrated into the character, helping the actor feel more comfortable and giving the character more depth. An episode might be written to show a previously non-singing character to have the same vocal abilities as their actor. Cast the Expert — Rather than hiring an actor to portray a professional in some field, they hire someone who actually is in that field, which gives the performance an additional air of credibility with Shown Their Work. Martial artists are among the first people chosen to headline action movies, see Bruce Lee. In many cases this can be And the Fandom Rejoiced; the fans latch on to that resonance and appreciate it. Compare Actor Allusion (a nod to other roles they played), Ink-Suit Actor, Celebrity Paradox, Reality Subtext, Actor-Inspired Element and Enforced Method Acting.
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Meta Casting / int_12b2b8a6	comment	In Unbreakable as a man who is struggling with the idea that he might be Made of Iron and no one else is. Thinking about John McClane while watching the movie makes it that much more thoughtful.
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Meta Casting / int_15d17004	comment	Downey did it again in Sherlock Holmes (2009), playing the titular ace detective with drug and adjustment problems. In fact, this seems to happen to Downey a lot. In Charlie Bartlett he plays a high school principal with an alcohol problem. Zodiac as well and A Scanner Darkly (mentioned below) natch. Less Than Zero actually inverted the pattern, as Downey has stated that it was during shooting that he became a hardcore addict. To quote Cracked, knowing that as you watch Less Than Zero, you are witnessing an actual addiction form, it's hard not to stay riveted.
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Meta Casting / int_1a99afb8	comment	The film 50/50 (2011) is partially autobiographical on the screenwriter's own experiences when he was diagnosed with cancer - and Seth Rogen is his best friend. So Rogen is essentially playing himself doing what he did in real life.
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Meta Casting / int_24c8b6c8	comment	After Earth is an interesting case. It mostly centers around a legendary badass and his son who is trying (perhaps a little too hard) to follow in his footsteps. While the father/son casting of Will and Jaden Smith was certainly intentional, viewers noticed plenty of additional subtext that probably wasn't.
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Meta Casting / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: In The Movie the role of President Schwarzenegger was "played" by Rainier Wolfcastle, The 'Verse's resident No Celebrities Were Harmed version of Arnold Schwarzenegger. In the series proper, Professor Frink is very much a homage to Jerry Lewis' The Nutty Professor. When Frink's father appeared in one Halloween episode, he was, of course, voiced by Jerry Lewis himself.
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Meta Casting / int_27831967	comment	The creators of Parks and Recreation developed the role of April Ludgate basically because they wanted an Aubrey Plaza-type character after meeting the actress.
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Meta Casting / int_2a6ee2b0	comment	In the third season of Slings & Arrows, William Hutt's character is enticed out of retirement to play at the New Burbage theater festival while dying of cancer. Hutt himself had several "retirements" from the Stratford Festival (on which New Burbage is based) and died of leukemia shortly after Slings And Arrows was filmed.
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Meta Casting / int_2b0ada22	comment	WandaVision: Episode 5, "On a Very Special Episode...", takes a lot of visual inspiration from Full House. Elizabeth Olsen (Wanda) is the younger sister of the twins who played Michelle Tanner.
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Meta Casting / int_2f65eeb2	comment	Gunpowder stars Kit Harington as his matrilineal ancestor Robert Catesby.
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Meta Casting / int_306d0e86	comment	The Fall Guy: Lee Majors plays a stuntman and was also roped into actually singing the show's theme song, in which his character proclaims he's been seen on screen with Farrah. Farrah Fawcett was formerly known as Farrah Fawcett-Majors and had in fact divorced Majors by the time Fall Guy came along. Another episode had a meta moment where Majors' character, Colt Seavers, has to break into a bad guy's lair and does so using the same catapult device used to simulate bionic jumps for Majors' own stuntmen in The Six Million Dollar Man.
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Meta Casting / int_369e7a11	comment	Rocky films: Mr. T and Hulk Hogan in Rocky III. Scandinavian double black belt Dolph Lundgren as Drago in Rocky IV. The casting of Tommy Morrison as Tommy "Machine" Gunn in Rocky V. Rocky Balboa cast a real-life boxer to play Mason Dixon because according to Stallone it is easier to teach a boxer how to act than to teach an actor how to box.
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Meta Casting / int_3949632e	comment	In Spring Breakers, Selena Gomez, one of the few remaining tween superstars of the 2000s not to have transformed into a raunch queen, need rehab, or otherwise spark controversy (other than dating Justin Bieber) was cast, appropriately as the innocent member of the female gang in the film. Most tellingly, her character disappears from the narrative when things get serious and the other girls start getting out of control. After all, we couldn't have Selena Gomez engaging in a three-way or killing people.
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Meta Casting / int_3a09ed23	comment	The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent stars Nicolas Cage as a fictionalized version of himself, attending a wealthy Loony Fan's birthday party. Said fan is played by Pedro Pascal, who's cited Cage as one of his inspirations as an actor.
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Meta Casting / int_3c7b5d43	comment	Trejo wasn't the only actor in the Machete films who was cast like this. Former Disney star turned tabloid trainwreck Lindsay Lohan as a naughty nun, famed playboy Charlie Sheen as a self-absorbed, hedonistic US President, post-meltdown Mel Gibson as an utterly despicable villain (i.e. the sort of role that he never played at the height of his career)... really, it's easier to list the cast members who aren't either this trope or Adam Westing.
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Meta Casting / int_41052e2e	comment	In Sunset Boulevard, the character of Norma Desmond, a forgotten silent film star was played by Gloria Swanson, a forgotten silent film star. Her butler, Max von Mayerling who used to be a leading silent film director is played by Erich von Stroheim, who used to be a leading silent film director. Norma used to work with Cecil B. DeMille, who used to work with Swanson and appears in the film playing himself. (Needless to say, Swanson took her fall from stardom with much more grace and sanity than Norma.)
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Meta Casting / int_4320d945	comment	The Wrestler casts Mickey Rourke, a down-on-his-luck actor looking for a comeback, as a down-on-his-luck wrestler looking for a comeback.
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Meta Casting / int_43c9273b	comment	Gypsy: Natalie Wood as a budding entertainment artist whose life is made hell by her Stage Mom. Just like her early years in the business in real life.
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Meta Casting / int_43da6f7f	comment	Memento required a Smug Snake type character for the antagonist, so they hired Joe Pantoliano, whose career is virtually nothing but. Except, of course, that his character is innocent of the crime he's killed for in the film's opening. The role relies heavily on his typecasting to make the audience assume he's the bad guy when he's the closest thing the protagonist has to a real friend. Virtually anyone but a typecast actor would have given the audience room to doubt.
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Meta Casting / int_44127c7c	comment	Power Rangers often searches for skilled martial artists, to begin with, but along the way often integrates the background of the actor into the actual character. The most famous being Kimberly's gymnastics, where Amy Jo Johnson was an Olympic hopeful at one point, and Zach's hip hop kido, which was designed and performed by Walter Jones.
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Meta Casting / int_4cc690b2	comment	In a similar vein, Thirteen (2003) is based partially on actress Nikki Reed's own experiences at that age. Though the character that is based on Reed - Tracie - is played by Evan Rachel Wood, Reed playing the best friend Evie instead.
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Meta Casting / int_4e45b093	comment	In The Big Bang Theory, neurobiologist Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler is played by Mayim Bialik, a child star on Blossom who became famous for earning a Ph.D. in neuroscience and fading from acting for much of her adult life. It becomes straight on Celebrity Paradox as, while not identified by name, she was referred to in a previous episode. When auditioning for the role the casting department did a double-take at her Ph.D., Mayim expressed amusement that we knew nothing of Amy when she first appeared and it wasn't until later she was given a specialty that reflected her degree.
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Meta Casting / int_4e7cac32	comment	Supergirl (2015): Nia Nal turns out to be transgender, just like her actress Nicole Maines. The casting was planned this way to begin with, in setting up the first transgender superhero.
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Meta Casting / int_54790179	comment	And that's to say nothing of Richard Dawson playing an established game show host who was loved by the fans but was a real jerk when it came to backstage politics. Not surprisingly, Dawson made the film in a period during which he was not hosting Family Feud (though he later returned to the show).
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Meta Casting / int_54cea28e	comment	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance): Michael Keaton plays Riggan Thomson, a washed-up actor remembered only for playing a superhero. Keaton's biggest and most remembered role is a certain superhero, and he had difficulty finding high-profile roles afterward. Fitting with the superhero theme, Gwen Stacy and the Hulk were also cast in supporting roles. Additionally, Edward Norton's casting as a prima donna actor set on undermining the director's vision is fitting, given Norton's own history as a perfectionist who would come into conflict with directors and executives of films he starred in. The most notable examples include his Creative Differences with Tony Kaye over the editing of American History X and his decision to leave the Marvel Cinematic Universe after disagreements with Marvel on the development of his character (hence why Mark Ruffalo was cast as the Hulk in The Avengers). Naomi Watts plays an aspiring actress who, at one point, shows romantic interest in a dark-haired woman. 'Cause that doesn't sound familiar, does it?
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Meta Casting / int_55de417c	comment	What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? revolved around two sisters who were bitter rivals. They cast Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, two actresses with a heated rivalry. Likewise, Davis' character Jane Hudson struggles to make it as an actress in Hollywood, with a scene of producers complaining about her performance. The clip was from one of Davis's own movies, supplied by the actress herself.
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Meta Casting / int_562c8aa2	comment	The Misfits: The film was conceived as a rare dramatic vehicle for Marilyn Monroe, who wanted to transition out of her Dumb Blonde persona in comedies. Indeed, as filming went on, the character Roslyn kept being rewritten to more closely resemble her; in the short story it's adapted from, Roslyn was college educated, but became a high school dropout and also had a difficult relationship with her mother. She's at one point told by the male lead that she's "the saddest girl I ever met", and responds that men usually tell her how happy she is; this was based on an actual conversation between her and then-husband/screenwriter Arthur Miller. There's also a scene where another character finds old photos of Roslyn, and they use some of Marilyn's famous pin-up pictures. This Leaning on the Fourth Wall extends to the character of Perce, played by Montgomery Clift. He's presented as a disaster, with a nasty drinking problem and doing whatever he can to make a living; referencing how a nasty car accident in 1956 had led to him self-medicating and his career suffered. His introductory scene has him assuring his mother that his face is "all healed up", again referencing the accident that destroyed his Pretty Boy good looks.
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Meta Casting / int_585e4559	comment	Fan: Aryan Khanna is Shah Rukh Khan, to the point that the montage at the start of the film showing Aryan's rise to stardom uses several unaltered and barely-altered clips of SRK's own early films, awards, and interviews. This ties in deeply with the themes of the film, which explores the nature and perils of Bollywood celebrity with his Identical Stranger and Loony Fan Gaurav.
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Meta Casting / int_5cad8158	comment	Hilary Duff in War, Inc. where she plays a pop star who is overly saturated as a sex symbol, which while not exactly descriptive of Duff's life and career it does come fairly close to use this trope. Perhaps it is a Casting Gag Take That! to some of her raunchier predecessors.
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Meta Casting / int_61c06ae	comment	In La Horse, Jean Gabin played an aging landowner who owns cattle. Which he was for real.
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Meta Casting / int_653e6c9f	comment	The Michael J. Fox Show has even more of a Reality Subtext, since he's playing a beloved television personality with Parkinson's who returns to TV after a long retirement.
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Meta Casting / int_6a7e6314	comment	Thor: Ragnarok: Early on, we see a stage play put on by Loki (as Odin) depicting his supposed "death" in Thor: The Dark World. Loki took great care with casting, seeing as he made sure he was played by A-lister Matt Damon while casting Sam Neill as Odin, and Chris Hemsworth (Thor)'s older brother Luke as Thor.
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Meta Casting / int_70838b39	comment	In the series proper, Professor Frink is very much a homage to Jerry Lewis' The Nutty Professor. When Frink's father appeared in one Halloween episode, he was, of course, voiced by Jerry Lewis himself.
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Meta Casting / int_72262aee	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender: Mark Hamill plays Firelord Ozai, superpowered Evil Overlord with a rebellious son, who mutilates said son during a battle in a twisted attempt to teach him something. Oh, and he shoots lightning from his fingertips. Basically, Luke Skywalker has become a composite of Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine.
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Meta Casting / int_75584731	comment	Tropic Thunder runs entirely on this fuel, because it plays with the actual personalities of the actors portraying fictional actors. Robert Downey Jr plays an obsessive method actor who goes to extremes to play a role, to the detriment of his peers. Jack Black plays a comic who only plays obnoxious buffoons in Toilet Humor movies. In fact, some people expressed disappointment that Ben Stiller wasn't an expy of himself (A sympathetic everyman who is a Cosmic Plaything) instead of the Stallone-like action hero he was in the movie. Jay Baruchel plays the little-known actor who isn't even mentioned on the poster, which is often what he is in real life. Stiller's part was originally going to go to Keanu Reeves. One of the plot points is that he has trouble expressing emotions, which would've made it this trope.
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Meta Casting / int_761a48d7	comment	Iron Fist (2017): Given the duality motif of Typhoid Mary, it only seems appropriate that for her live-action portrayal, she's played by Alice Eve, who sports heterochromia (her left eye is blue and right eye is green).
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Meta Casting / int_7b4f72fd	comment	In Dreamgirls, BeyoncÃ© plays Deena, one of the members of a '60s Girl Group who ends up getting promoted more than the other band members (partially because of her relationship with the manager) and even leads to original lead singer Effie being fired from the band. In real life, Beyonce was the most prominent member of Destiny's Child and is the one who had the most successful solo career afterward. Some people feel that the only reason that's true is that Beyonce's father was the manager. What takes this to another level of meta is that Beyonce actually got top billing over Jennifer Hudson, who plays Effie, the main character of the story.
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Meta Casting / int_81706932	comment	The Running Man: Jesse Ventura; Retired hunter becomes play-by-play commentator. And that's to say nothing of Richard Dawson playing an established game show host who was loved by the fans but was a real jerk when it came to backstage politics. Not surprisingly, Dawson made the film in a period during which he was not hosting Family Feud (though he later returned to the show).
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Meta Casting / int_81bbe24	comment	Jesse Ventura; Retired hunter becomes play-by-play commentator.
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Meta Casting / int_86904ab8	comment	Also for Iron Man, Jeff Bridges is also a great choice to play Obadiah Stane, because it plays against the roles he is normally typecast as. Stane comes across as friendly and likable, albeit a bit of a smooth talker. And when we learn he was behind everything, we empathize with the betrayal Tony is feeling, because we're feeling it as well.
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Meta Casting / int_8d81bb26	comment	Everyone's favorite goth girl, NCIS lab tech Abby Sciuto, has a lot in common with her actress, Pauley Perrette. Not just the tattoos, but the story Abby tells Kate in the first episode, about poking around in an old junkyard being the start of her forensics path, is actually straight out of Perrette's life. In another example from the same show, Michael Weatherly plays Tony DiNozzo, who comes from a rich family but has been cut off. This is actually true of Weatherly's own family, as his own father cut him off when he dropped out of college and became an actor. Various other bits of his real-life history have been used as gags (including how his family made their money and that he was once engaged to Jessica Alba) and Tony's movie references became a character element after a few too many of his ad-libs were movie-based. A meta-meta example. Robert Wagner has appeared in numerous episodes as Tony's father. Weatherly once portrayed Wagner in a TV movie and does an eerily accurate impression of the actor which has been posted to YouTube among outtakes from a CBS promo bumper he recorded. Sean Murray is also almost as much of a geek as McGee.
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Meta Casting / int_90b916ba	comment	Batman: The Animated Series: Adam West (but of course) plays a washed-up actor who is frustrated that nobody can think of him as anything but his most famous role. Other actors might have been able to portray it better, but no one else could have given it that added level of irony. And then producer Bruce Timm playing the crazy fan in the episode (complete as an Ink-Suit Actor) really hits it home. While the episode wasn't written specifically for West - The producers originally planned to cast Gary Owens as the Gray Ghost until series director Dan Riba suggested casting West instead - everyone agreed that West was the perfect choice.
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Meta Casting / int_92ef018a	comment	Ben Stein as a high school economics teacher in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
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Meta Casting / int_97a4211c	comment	The casting of Tommy Morrison as Tommy "Machine" Gunn in Rocky V.
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Meta Casting / int_98e64a08	comment	Futaba, Ichigo, and Rin from Seiyu's Life! were all voiced by relatively new voice actresses since the characters are also rather new to the industry (well, Futaba and Ichigo are). There's also an in-universe example. Rin was cast as Mina in Weekend Patissier because the director wanted someone who could naturally play a normal 15-year-old girl. Unfortunately, Rin has been acting almost her entire life and doesn't have much experience with being normal.
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Meta Casting / int_998cbda3	comment	Daredevil (2015): Deborah Ann Woll plays Karen Page, the official love interest of blind lawyer Matt Murdock. Her husband EJ Scott is going blind as a result of choroideremia, and she raises public awareness of the disease as a pet cause. This was lampshaded by Woll, as EJ actually dressed up as Matt for the season 1 premiere. And the show takes this full circle partway through season 2, once Matt and Karen start dating. Just like Matt Murdock, Charlie Cox was raised Catholic. Vincent D'Onofrio incorporates a good amount of his own social anxieties into his portrayal of Wilson Fisk, like difficulty maintaining eye contact, odd speech inflections, and, despite taking precautions, having a set routine. He has trouble "clearing his head" at times, and is insecure when out in public. A lawyer like Marci Stahl makes sense being played by Amy Rutberg, whose dad is a judge.
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Meta Casting / int_a1b66a3a	comment	Undeclared inverted this trope where the characters' personalities, and even their home city/country, were based on the actors they hired. The DVD Commentary would frequently point out that a recurring actor really did have that kind of slightly-off personality.
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Meta Casting / int_a1b9a8bb	comment	Spider-Man: Homecoming: "Karen", the onboard AI in Peter's Spider suit, is voiced by Jennifer Connelly, who is married to Paul Bettany, who voiced JARVIS (Tony's first AI) and now plays The Vision. Michael Keaton is Adrian Toomes, AKA the Vulture. Again, Birdman is the Vulture. (Also, this film could be considered Batman vs. Spider-Man, except not made by high schoolers. And most likely not to the death.) Not only that but the reveal that Adrian Toomes is Liz Allan's father. Because in Birdman, Riggan's daughter Samantha was played by Emma Stone, who played Gwen Stacy in The Amazing Spider-Man. So not only is Michael Keaton playing another bird-themed costumed character but he's also playing the father of Spider-Man's love interest again!
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Meta Casting / int_af77b267	comment	Strategic Air Command featured Jimmy Stewart, a decorated World War II bomber pilot and U.S. Air Force Reservist, playing Colonel "Dutch" Holland, a decorated World War II bomber pilot and U.S. Air Force Reservist. The main difference between actor and character is Stewart was an actor, and Dutch a baseball player.
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Meta Casting / int_af99e848	comment	In the film Targets, Boris Karloff, a horror icon approaching the end of his career, plays Byron Orlok, a fictional horror icon about to retire who becomes involved when a psycho sniper attacks the audience at a drive-in cinema showing his last film. The film has a strong metafictional element referring to the eclipse of the traditional supernatural horror movie in favor of the more naturalistically disturbing Psychological Horror.
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Meta Casting / int_b6b24d18	comment	In The IT Crowd, the socially-awkward and nerdy character, Moss, who has no people skills, is played by Richard Ayoade. In Real Life, Ayoade is also something of a socially awkward, shy geek, who is open about his social anxiety issues. He has often stated that he hates the limelight and hates being interviewed, and when appearing on British panel shows he often plays up this persona. According to Ayoade, Graham Linehan wrote the character specifically for him, having met him at university and knowing his personality quirks.
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Meta Casting / int_b7ad91c	comment	Less Than Zero actually inverted the pattern, as Downey has stated that it was during shooting that he became a hardcore addict. To quote Cracked, knowing that as you watch Less Than Zero, you are witnessing an actual addiction form, it's hard not to stay riveted.
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Meta Casting / int_c43df4d8	comment	Virtually every actor to have played the Doctor in Doctor Who has incorporated a lot of their own personality quirks and idiosyncrasies into the role, although some more than others. Although Patrick Troughton did not play the character as a version of himself, his natural personality still formed the backbone of the Second Doctor's. There was a lot of despair over the first actor switchover. Should he play the character as the same as William Hartnell's Doctor? Should he go with Sydney Newman's Charlie Chaplin-inspired 'cosmic hobo' idea? Should he go psychedelic as Gerry Davis wanted? What about the sea captain gimmick or making him a Sherlock Holmes Expy? It was all up in the air until one very important meeting to discuss this, when Gerry Davis noticed that despite everyone else shouting at each other Troughton was sitting in the corner, quietly puzzling out all the power dynamics between the writers and executives with an expression of obvious interest. This immediately inspired Davis and he asked everyone else to leave so he could tell Troughton what he'd observed. "The Power of the Daleks", Troughton's first story, includes a scene inspired by this where he explains to Polly that he's mapped the power dynamics among the colony officials just by watching their faces. Jon Pertwee was cast as a comic actor and was intended at first to be a comedy character, but eventually, they settled upon basing the Doctor's personality on Pertwee's just, enthusiastic, serious and elegant natural one. This came as a big shock to people used to his comedy roles. Another bit of meta came out after his death. Three's secret agent antics and love of gadgets? Turns out Pertwee was in British Intelligence during World War II, as part of the SOE a.k.a. 'The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare', instructing spies on the latest and greatest espionage gear of the era and working alongside Ian Fleming and Christopher Lee (which means he served as a partial inspiration for James Bond, who Fleming based on his wartime colleagues). The most extreme example is Tom Baker, who played the Fourth Doctor. He insists (although there's ample evidence against it) that he just performed his lines as himself at first and was surprised that people kept sending him fanmail praising his outrageous and over-the-top persona; when asked in an interview by Horror Channel to describe his Doctor in a word, answered "I can do it in two: Tom Baker". He was cast in the role due to Barry Letts being impressed by Baker's naturally loopy personality and, as neither Terrence Dicks nor Robert Holmes had much of an initial direction for the Fourth Doctor's personality, both of them admitted to having just written the character to be like the actor. This, combined with Alter-Ego Acting (he disliked appearing publicly as himself while playing the role and tried to stay in character as much as possible) did lead to him becoming Lost in Character, so none of the others have done it to quite the same extent. The Eleventh Doctor's actor Matt Smith bought his own... astonishing physicality to the role. Behind the Scenes stuff shows that he's even more of a clumsy loon than his character. He broke sonic screwdrivers on a regular basis and impulsively kissed his co-star Arthur Darvill in a Throw It In! moment, and as a boy, he was on the books of Association Football teams Northampton Town, Nottingham Forest, Leicester City, captaining the latter's youth team before injury forced him out of football - though he did demonstrate his skills during one episode. Peter Capaldi (the Twelfth) has said that the Doctor has a lot more of his natural personality in him than his other famous role, Malcolm Tucker.
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Meta Casting / int_ca08598f	comment	The Wire: Edward Norris, a former Baltimore Police Commissioner who had a somewhat controversial career that ended in an indictment and a felony conviction, plays a fictionalized version of himself that is a Homicide detective. His lack of respect for the current Commissioner is a running gag. And since the first season was shot while he was still in office, many things he says cross into borderline Self-Deprecation: Sgt. Jay Landsman is the supervisor of the Homicide unit. He is named after a real guy, who was a subject in David Simon's book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets. The real Jay Landsman also appears in The Wire...as Lt. Dennis Mello, Major Colvin's Number Two in the Western District. This results in even more Mind Screw in a season 5 scene that features Mello with John Munch (who was based on the real Landsman) and Gus Haynes (Clark Johnson, Richard Belzer's former castmate from Homicide: Life on the Street). Anthony Collichio is a Western District plainclothes officer who takes the soldier's mentality to policing that Bunny Colvin decries as detrimental to the job. He's played by Benjamin Busch, who is a United States Marine Reserve Corps officer. Melvin Williams, a former gangster arrested by co-creator Ed Burns, was one of the inspirations for Avon Barksdale. Williams himself appears in seasons 3 and 4 of The Wire in the recurring role of the Deacon, a community pillar in West Baltimore who is closely involved in Cutty's and Colvin's storylines. Donnie Andrews, a criminal whose real-life exploits inspired much of Omar Little's character, and who worked as a consultant for The Wire, got to appear in seasons 4 and 5 as one of Blind Butchie's musclemen.
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Meta Casting / int_cb840c8f	comment	Subverted for great effect in The Sixth Sense - the audience expects a Bruce Willis character to shrug off being shot, so when The Reveal comes around, it's a big shock (if you manage to not be spoiled, anyway).
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Meta Casting / int_ceb33261	comment	In Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, former leading man Rick Dalton, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, struggles with playing a hardened villain, but eventually turns in an over-the-top performance going triumphantly above the script's demands. This parallels how DiCaprio handled his role as the villainous plantation owner in Django Unchained.
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Meta Casting / int_d3381e70	comment	Captain America: The Winter Soldier: The film has martial arts-themed mercenary Georges Batroc (Batroc the Leaper in the comics) played by UFC World Welterweight Champion Georges St.-Pierre. More dramatically, it has Robert Redford as, not the unraveler this time, but the architect of a massive (quasi-) government conspiracy. The Watergate Complex is even visible from his office window.
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Meta Casting / int_d34b015e	comment	In Flashback, Dennis Hopper, who had played radical characters, most famously in Easy Rider, plays a former 60s radical under arrest for crimes committed back then.
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Meta Casting / int_d452935b	comment	In Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Lucas Lee (played by Chris Evans) is an action movie star who fights with his cadre of stuntmen. Whether out of deliberately reaching this trope or simple convenience, said stunt doubles happen to be Chris Evans' actual stunt team.
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Meta Casting / int_da25a6a8	comment	The Falcon and the Winter Soldier sees the United States government appoint US Army captain John Walker as the new Captain America. Walker is played by Wyatt Russell, who screen-tested for Steve Rogers during casting for Captain America: The First Avenger but got passed over in favor of Chris Evans.
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Meta Casting / int_daf1860f	comment	Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star had the main character go for a role in a Rob Reiner film and he was considered perfect for the role in every regard except that he never had a normal childhood. So he goes off to quickly get a normal childhood. Essentially he is working to invoke this trope In-Universe to get a role.
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Meta Casting / int_dcb5c19d	comment	Pompo: The CinÃ©phile: first-time director Gene Fini and aspiring actress Nathalie Woodward are voiced by newcomer voice actors with no other major roles on their resumes, while retired actor Martin Braddock (implied to be "the world's best actor" and named after Marlon Brando) is voiced by respected veteran voice actor Akio Ōtsuka.
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Meta Casting / int_de6659ec	comment	Once Upon a Time managed a two-fer. Ginnifer Goodwin and Jennifer Morrison were long noted to have a distinct resemblance - to the point where they began signing autographs and giving interviews as each other. So it was a bit of a Casting Gag for them to play mother and daughter respectively. Additionally, many other cast members have said that Goodwin is The Pollyanna in real life - so it's incredibly appropriate that she be picked to play Snow White.
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Meta Casting / int_e0391109	comment	Magic Mike: Michael "Mike" Lane is portrayed by Channing Tatum, who worked as a male stripper in Florida just like his character.
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Meta Casting / int_e372c716	comment	In The Karate Kid (2010) a lot of people initially scoffed at casting Jackie Chan as the Mr. Miyagi counterpart, Mr. Han, largely because it sounded like a fanboy's wish list. But when the movie itself came out, people noted that Chan's reputation as a martial arts master gave a great deal more validity to him as a teacher and to the idea of 'Dre becoming so good in such a short period of time. Instant Expert? He was trained by Jackie Chan!
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Meta Casting / int_ec52a5b9	comment	The holographic operator of the Decepticon vehicles in Transformers, "Moustache Man", is an actual pilot for the US military who was qualified to fly the various vehicles he appeared in. He even delayed his wedding to play Barricade's Moustache Man at the request of Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg.
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Meta Casting / int_f08092ea	comment	School of Rock cast several child musicians, rather than child actors, to play the young musician characters. Jack Black himself is part of Tenacious D. Bonus points for the fact that Robert Tsai, who played Larry (the keyboardist) had to go through the same classical-to-rock transition that the character did.
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Meta Casting / int_f1f8c1a1	comment	Rocky Balboa cast a real-life boxer to play Mason Dixon because according to Stallone it is easier to teach a boxer how to act than to teach an actor how to box.
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Meta Casting / int_f898d626	comment	In The Killing Fields, Cambodian genocide survivor and journalist Dith Pran was played by Haing S. Ngor, himself a survivor of said genocide. He was not an actor before being cast, and went on to win an Academy Award for his performance.
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Meta Casting / int_ff6a8d79	comment	The three leads of Babylon all have traits that mirror the actors they're played by: Manny is a newcomer to Hollywood with dreams of making it in the movies, much like Diego Calva, a completely unknown Mexican actor in his first major Hollywood production (he was so unknown, in fact, that Damien Chazelle had to lobby for him to studio executives who wanted to cast a more well-known actor for the part). Nellie is an aspiring actress who has a sudden rise to fame after she lands a supporting role that proves to be her breakout and launches her into stardom, which is not unlike Margot Robbie's Star-Making Role in The Wolf of Wall Streetnote In America, at least, as she was well-known for her role in Neighbours in her native Australia. Robbie has, however, had a much more permanent position on the A-list compared to Nellie. Jack is an aging movie star on a career decline who feels like he's losing relevance in a rapidly-changing industry. Brad Pitt has expressed similar concerns and has talked numerous times about considering retirement so he won't be similarly phased out; one can imagine Elinor's climactic monologue to Jack about how he'll be immortalized on film to be directed at Pitt just as much as his character.
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The Crow / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
The Crow (1994) / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
The Disaster Artist / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
The Expendables / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
The Forbidden Kingdom / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
The Killing Fields / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
The Last Temptation of Christ / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
The Man Who Fell to Earth / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
The Shootist / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
The Social Network / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
The Spanish Prisoner / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
The Way Back (2020) / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
The Wrestler / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
Tropic Thunder / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
Unbreakable / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
Unforgiven / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
War, Inc. / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
Winter's Bone / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
Wonder Woman	seeAlso	Meta Casting
Wonder Woman (2017) / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
DC Extended Universe (Franchise) / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
Power Rangers (Franchise) / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
Cast the Expert	seeAlso	Meta Casting
KJMackley	seeAlso	Meta Casting
Metacasting	sameAs	Meta Casting
Typecasting	seeAlso	Meta Casting
Kageki Shoujo!! (Manga) / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
Lone Wolf and Cub (Manga) / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
Sket Dance (Manga) / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
Kimbra (Music) / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978) (Radio) / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
A Touch of Cloth / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
Austin & Ally / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
CharitÃ© at War / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
Covington Cross / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
Danger Man / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
Fantasy Island / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
MonkTropesK-R	seeAlso	Meta Casting
My Name Is Earl / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
Orange Is the New Black / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
Parks and Recreation / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
Powerless (2017) / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
Scrubs / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
Slings & Arrows / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
The Affair / int_978c6799	type	Meta Casting
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
The Flight Attendant / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
WandaVision / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
What Would You Do? / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
The Crucible (Theatre) / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Video Game) / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
Shark Tale / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
The Legend of Frosty the Snowman / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
It Happened In Athens / int_fac4ff79	type	Meta Casting
metacasting	sameAs	Meta Casting

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