Does Being Typecast Hurt Your Career? Ask These Actors

The Sweet and Ditsy Love Interest

Photo by Christopher Polk/Getty Images

In The Wedding Singer, 50 First Dates, Never Been Kissed and The Perfect Catch, Drew Barrymore played nearly the same character: the sweet, silly and somewhat innocent romantic interest of the leading man. And it seems as if she is just playing herself in each role.

In 2009, Drew finally landed a more serious role in the HBO drama Grey Gardens. According to Drew, “The director didn’t even want me for that movie.Oh no, please not her, not the rom-com girl.’ And I was like, ‘I can do it! I can do it.’”