Does Being Typecast Hurt Your Career? Ask These Actors

Don’t Mess With This Chick

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From her first feature role in Girlfight, Michelle Rodriguez has played the “tough chick.” It didn’t take long for her to be pigeonholed, but she apparently has no qualms about being typecast and has even claimed it was her choice.

“I’m here to entertain people and make a statement about female empowerment and strength and that’s what I’ve done for the last 10 years, and people can call it typecast, but I pigeonholed myself and I put myself in that box for saying no to everything else that came on my plate. Eventually, I just got left with the strong chick that’s always being killed and there’s nothing wrong with that.”