Does Being Typecast Hurt Your Career? Ask These Actors

Same Ol’ Same Ol’

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For a while, there was no doubt that Vince Vaughn had the comedic chops to keep audiences cracking up. But then it seemed as if Vince Vaughn was always playing Vince Vaughn. If the writing was decent, his performance was entertaining; if the writing was subpar, he wasn’t funny at all. He soon went from making smash hits to box office flops.

Vince has referred to his films as “assembly-line comedies.” He said, “You become a hired gun doing a very inoffensive PG-13 movie and, well, you kind of just go along with it. Like anything in life, you’re either growing or you’re dying. When you get too comfortable you start to decline.”