Does Being Typecast Hurt Your Career? Ask These Actors

The Bumbling Brit

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Forever the awkward male lead in romantic comedies, Hugh Grant has racked up a number of successful films throughout his career. His characters are nearly all identical; a charming but bumbling Brit who seems to be clueless about life, yet the women seem to fall all over him.

“I never meant to be in romantic comedies, it’s just what ended up happening,” Hugh says. He tried to break away from his persona with a string of dramas in the late ’90s.“I thought I’d show people I’m not just a one-trick pony. As it turns out, I was.” But after About A Boy, he’s proven this to be false.