Does Being Typecast Hurt Your Career? Ask These Actors

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While he may be pigeonholed into a specific type of role, Christopher Walken’s typecast characters, as a whole, are extremely unique. No one else can play the neurotic wack job that Walken can. His odd way of speaking and cold glaring stare are usually combined with offbeat comedic timing that makes him one-of-a-kind.

Walken has accepted that he’s been pigeonholed, “I have a feeling that actors, especially in movies, if they do something that works, there is a chance they are going to repeat something. Movies are expensive to make and the people that produce movies want to know what they are getting.”