Does Being Typecast Hurt Your Career? Ask These Actors

The Comedy Legend

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Will Ferrell is one of those actors who, despite playing the same role again and again, can keep audiences laughing. He always plays a silly, borderline, if not incredibly stupid character (often times an athlete) who manages to be rude and endearing at the same time.

The thing about Ferrell is that nobody cares that he is playing the same character; he’s just too funny. Children even fell in love with him in Elf. He then shocked fans in 2006 when he nailed a dramatic role in the film Stranger Than Fiction. Whether he will ever venture into something other than comedy again is yet to be known.