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Originally Posted by Taxi
But don't you think that Oldman played well against his type in the Harry Potter movies? They tried to get us to think that Sirius Black was a crazed killer by casting Oldman. But I thought he played the role of "cool godfather" just as well.
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I'm not as familiar with his Harry Potter roles but I have scene him in 1 or 2, but I think that the HP roles prove my point perfectly, although he(gary oldman) without doubt has the skills to cover the vast spectrum of roles, he does the "crazy" so well that it's tough to cast him for a role that doesn't in some way utilize what he's best at. Allow me use sports as a metaphor.Take Kevin Garnett or LaBron James for example, these guys have enough well rounded abilities and talents that they can effectively play any position, But they work so well as forwards that it would be an obvious procedural flaw and a blatant display of inefficient usage to not utilize them where they are strongest. So they get "type casted" into their roles. If you look closely most actors have their respective typecast which the majority of thier roles fall under. And its usually based around some emotion or a set of emotions that they have a particular knack for conveying. Yeah they get work outside the box but their best work usually happens in the box, because thats their bread and butter so to speak. To find actors like Elijah Wood, Johnny Depp, DiCaprio,Gosling,Day Lewis to name a few who can be completely unrecognizable without the necessity for makeup from one role to the next is rare! And it is only for actors of this caliber that the unwritten law fo necessary typecasting does not apply.