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Typecast Michael Cera

posted 9 years ago by retro4
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I don't understand why some people hate Michael Cera so much, people claim it's because he plays the same character over and over but if we're really being honest there's a lot actors who guilty of who don't has much hate as Michael Cera. So if I was wondering if Michael was able to do complete transformation as actor would people star to give him a chance instead of seeing as just playing one type of character? He shows shades of being able to do something different in This Is The End, which makes me think he has more range than people give him credit for. Bryan Cranston was nearly typecasted before Breaking Bad when he completely changed how people thought of him as an actor. Breaking Bad was essentially about transformation in which he starts out as one character then gradually turns into completely different character; or as BB creator Vince Gilligan puts it "taking Mr. Chips turning him into Scarface". If given the chance Michael Cera can do something similar, what if he has a Breaking Bad-like role in which George Michael Bluth turns into Travis Bickle.

[–] isobellaaldridge 9 years ago

[–] retro4 8 years ago

Michael Cera is consistently type casted but he seems to not mind, if he wanted to break the type cast he could turn down the roles of awkward, intelligent sophisticates and try something different. But he's hasn't. It clearly mustn't bother him that some people don't like him.

But the thing is that is has attempted to break out that typecast role. Have you not seen This Is The End? Or the Bill Murray Christmas special? Cera has attempted to play the opposite of his awkward, nice guy role but people still won't accept the fact that his trying to do something different.