Actors who you struggle to dissociate with one character
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The Paramount+ thread got me thinking about this topic...
Actors play characters; it's the whole point of an actor. However, some actors become so renowned for one particular character either in your own mind or the collective mind, that it's hard to see them in a different role without constantly thinking of that earlier character. I'm not talking about situations such as Arnold Schwarzenegger playing cigar-smoking tough military/former military guys and kicks bottom in an action movie, that's simple type-casting. I mean the situation where you associate an actor with a particular character, and then they are cast as someone so wildly different, or in something so wildly different, that you struggle to think of them as the new character when you watch the new programme/film.
For me, the one I'm finding bemusing at the moment is Melanie Scrofano. She plays the hard-drinking swinging Mrs McMurray on the Canadian classic "Letterkenny"...
...and I'm now trying to see her as the serious, sober Starfleet Captain-cum-Public-Prosecutor Captain Batel...
Her acting is fine, she's clearly skilled and versatile, but I struggle to dissociate her from Mrs McMurray.
Anyone else have any actor/character combos they find this with?
Actors play characters; it's the whole point of an actor. However, some actors become so renowned for one particular character either in your own mind or the collective mind, that it's hard to see them in a different role without constantly thinking of that earlier character. I'm not talking about situations such as Arnold Schwarzenegger playing cigar-smoking tough military/former military guys and kicks bottom in an action movie, that's simple type-casting. I mean the situation where you associate an actor with a particular character, and then they are cast as someone so wildly different, or in something so wildly different, that you struggle to think of them as the new character when you watch the new programme/film.
For me, the one I'm finding bemusing at the moment is Melanie Scrofano. She plays the hard-drinking swinging Mrs McMurray on the Canadian classic "Letterkenny"...
...and I'm now trying to see her as the serious, sober Starfleet Captain-cum-Public-Prosecutor Captain Batel...
Her acting is fine, she's clearly skilled and versatile, but I struggle to dissociate her from Mrs McMurray.
Anyone else have any actor/character combos they find this with?
donkmeister said:
The Paramount+ thread got me thinking about this topic...
Actors play characters; it's the whole point of an actor. However, some actors become so renowned for one particular character either in your own mind or the collective mind, that it's hard to see them in a different role without constantly thinking of that earlier character. I'm not talking about situations such as Arnold Schwarzenegger playing cigar-smoking tough military/former military guys and kicks bottom in an action movie, that's simple type-casting. I mean the situation where you associate an actor with a particular character, and then they are cast as someone so wildly different, or in something so wildly different, that you struggle to think of them as the new character when you watch the new programme/film.
For me, the one I'm finding bemusing at the moment is Melanie Scrofano. She plays the hard-drinking swinging Mrs McMurray on the Canadian classic "Letterkenny"...
...and I'm now trying to see her as the serious, sober Starfleet Captain-cum-Public-Prosecutor Captain Batel...
Her acting is fine, she's clearly skilled and versatile, but I struggle to dissociate her from Mrs McMurray.
Anyone else have any actor/character combos they find this with?
Arnie when he went from serious action actor to doing comedy crap. Actors play characters; it's the whole point of an actor. However, some actors become so renowned for one particular character either in your own mind or the collective mind, that it's hard to see them in a different role without constantly thinking of that earlier character. I'm not talking about situations such as Arnold Schwarzenegger playing cigar-smoking tough military/former military guys and kicks bottom in an action movie, that's simple type-casting. I mean the situation where you associate an actor with a particular character, and then they are cast as someone so wildly different, or in something so wildly different, that you struggle to think of them as the new character when you watch the new programme/film.
For me, the one I'm finding bemusing at the moment is Melanie Scrofano. She plays the hard-drinking swinging Mrs McMurray on the Canadian classic "Letterkenny"...
...and I'm now trying to see her as the serious, sober Starfleet Captain-cum-Public-Prosecutor Captain Batel...
Her acting is fine, she's clearly skilled and versatile, but I struggle to dissociate her from Mrs McMurray.
Anyone else have any actor/character combos they find this with?
The bloke who played Chris Finch in the office.
I can’t watch anything else with him in, which is a shame because he’s been in some decent stuff.
Basically his portrayal of the aforementioned Mr Finch was so accurate haring his voice or seeing his face is enough to cause me PTSD due to the characters similarities to t
ts I have worked with.
I can’t watch anything else with him in, which is a shame because he’s been in some decent stuff.
Basically his portrayal of the aforementioned Mr Finch was so accurate haring his voice or seeing his face is enough to cause me PTSD due to the characters similarities to t
ts I have worked with.
robemcdonald said:
The bloke who played Chris Finch in the office.
I can’t watch anything else with him in, which is a shame because he’s been in some decent stuff.
Basically his portrayal of the aforementioned Mr Finch was so accurate haring his voice or seeing his face is enough to cause me PTSD due to the characters similarities to tts I have worked with.
Me too - he has such a distinctive face and voice that I can't see him in anything without expecting him to start throwing shoes over buildings.I can’t watch anything else with him in, which is a shame because he’s been in some decent stuff.
Basically his portrayal of the aforementioned Mr Finch was so accurate haring his voice or seeing his face is enough to cause me PTSD due to the characters similarities to t
ts I have worked with.
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