Genre Typecasting

Genre typecasting is when an actor is cast in accordance to other films which they have been in relating to different genre. 

One example of an actor who has been typecasted a lot is Arnold Schwarzenegger. You will usually see him in action films such as the Terminator Series, Predator, The Expendables as well as others. The common thing about all of these films is that they are action films. This shows how clearly he has been type casted. Actors can become bored of playing the same roles repeatedly so sometimes they try to break free of their typecasting.
Arnold Schwarzenegger did this when he got the role for kindergarten cop. Arnold Schwarzenegger wanted to play this role in order to get rid of his typecast of being an all out action film star. The fact that he was a bodybuilder before going into the film industry didn't help as the producers of action movies will be looking for some strong and tough whereas the producers of a comedy movie will be looking for someone with a totally different description. Having a role in this film did not allow Arnold to break free of his typecast. Another film where Arnold was typecast wrongly was Junior, this was a film about   a man who agrees to become pregnant for a fertility research program. This something that the audience does not expect to see in this kind of film genre. As we are so used to seeing him in action movies it will make it awkward seeing him in a totally different genre of film and come sometimes be unsatisfying for the audience.

Another Actress who is strongly typecast is Sandra Bullock. She is generally typecast in Rom-Com's. She usually just plays herself when acting and does not generally have to alter her character to much in order to fill a role. The film industry has given her the title America's Girl Next Door. Again in this case Sandra Bullock has tried to get rid of her typecast however Sandra Bullock was more successful than Arnold Schwarzenegger when doing this. Sandra was cast in the sci-fi film Gravity which is different to any film genre she has had before. So strong was her performance in gravity that she was awarded the best actress oscar award for her role in the film. This shows that although an actor is type-casted a lot of the time they will be able to fulfil a different role to a strong extent and maybe even broaden their type cast.