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Casting + Typecasting

posted 16 years ago by stormrider57
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I thought Lifetime could do better than to typecast people who've portrayed such similar characters in other works. But then, they do that a lot. Sam Waterston, though a fine actor, seems to always end up playing the upstanding, grieving parent. Ditto for Stockard Channing, who practically dominates Lifetime. The girl who played Daphne, Justin's fag hag friend in QAF also plays one of Mattew's school friends. But what takes the cake here is Aaron McKinney being played by Philip Eddols, who also portrayed Calvin Glover, murderer of Barry Winchell in Soldier's Girl. After seeing him in these two horrible characterizations, I never want to see him on the screen again.

[–] flotusit77 14 years ago

Actually Lady Stockard Channing does not always play the upstanding grieving parent. In fact, she rarely does. She is perhaps one of the few actresses that is not typecasted, as every single piece that she does is quite different than the last. She's played a witch, a deaf stunt-woman, a crazy pyromaniac, a doctor, a First Lady, a newscaster, a businesswoman, an attorney, a cop, a psychiatrist, an ugly duckling turned goddess out for revenge, a car thief, a slutty teenager, a detective, an abused housewife, a wicked step-mother, an heiress, a murder victim...just off the top of my head. And, of her 80-something performances (not counting about 20-30 plays on and off Broadway), there were probably a handful of them for Lifetime. No offense, of course.

[–] Ripshin 8 years ago

This was on NBC.