Does Being Typecast Hurt Your Career? Ask These Actors

The Good Girl

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As a former Disney princess with doe eyes and an oversized smile, Anne Hathaway has found herself grouped into a category of the sweet and innocent protagonist in G-rated films, like The Princess Diaries, Ella Enchanted, The Devil Wears Prada and Bride Wars. “I had no grit, no sex appeal,” states Hathaway. She’s been struggling to break that mold ever since.

“…It was me and (my manager) against the world.I was seen as this bizarre-world good-girl cartoon that I in no way identified with — very vanilla, very sweet, very accessible and not interesting.”