Mental type-casting

I have this problem where when I see an actor in something, the next thing I see them in, I sometimes carry over that last role into the new thing I’m watching. (How was that for mangling English?)

For example, the first movie I ever saw with Edward Norton was Death to Smoochy. Anything else I see him in, I can’t divorce the big pink rhino from, say, the gangster, Norton is supposed to be portraying.

I just saw an advertisement for a movie called Code Name: The Cleaners, starring Cedric the Entertainer - clearly a comedy. But out of the corner of my eye, I saw something - Leoben. That’s right, Callum Keith Rennie, the actor who plays the Cylon Leobin on BSG, will be in a comedy. Something about having seen chopsticks jammed through his throat makes me think that I won’t be able to get comfortable with him in that new role.

Good thing I have a policy against movies with Cedric the Entertainer anyway.

One Response to “Mental type-casting”

Kat Says:
January 3rd, 2007 at 5:24 pm

I am totally like that with every actor who has ever been on the X-Files ever. Obviously with the recurring characters (the Sex and the City episode with David Duchovny is so much better when you’re incapable of accepting the fact that he can be a character who isn’t Mulder), but also with most of the guest stars. Luckily Lucy Lawless looks really different as Three, because otherwise I’d be all like, “OMG you guys, she’s a supersoldier AND a cylon!!!!” I’m like that with West Wing, too, so sometimes I almost expect Adama to start acting like a supreme court judge. And of course, Kristin Bell just is Veronica Mars.

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