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minus-squareCitizenKong@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoFun fact: McKellen was asked to play Dumbledore after Richard Harris passed but he declined because he didn’t want to be typecast.
minus-squareboredsquirrel@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoTypecast means that after 2 roles he would have only been hired for wizards from now on?
minus-squareCitizenKong@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-24 months agoWell, maybe not wizard typecast, but typecast to play much older than he was. He was only 63 when he first played Gandalf. To put it in perspective, that’s only one year older than Tom Cruise is right now.
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months ago typecast to play much older than he was. He was only 63 when he first played Gandalf Isn’t Gandalf a multi-thousand-year-old immortal angel of sorts? Seems like a bit of a strange concern in that context…
Fun fact: McKellen was asked to play Dumbledore after Richard Harris passed but he declined because he didn’t want to be typecast.
Typecast means that after 2 roles he would have only been hired for wizards from now on?
Well, maybe not wizard typecast, but typecast to play much older than he was. He was only 63 when he first played Gandalf. To put it in perspective, that’s only one year older than Tom Cruise is right now.
Isn’t Gandalf a multi-thousand-year-old immortal angel of sorts? Seems like a bit of a strange concern in that context…