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As entertainment critic Roger
Ebert once said, "If you disagree with something I write, tell me so, argue
with me, correct me--but don't tell me to shut up. That's not the American way."
There are times when an actor becomes so associated with a role that afterwards, audiences seeing that person will only perceive that role. It doesn't matter what they're playing: everyone just thinks of that one show/play/movie, and it never stops.
This trope? Is the reverse.
For today's random draw, we're looking at performers who can't get an audience to accept them in a part because all the viewership perceives is the actor. Not the role: the person playing it. That performer may be too well-known to fade into the skin of another: hardly their fault (some of the time), but that's how the audience sees it. Maybe they keep playing the same part over and over agin in different films, so it's This Woman In A Cop Movie followed by This Woman In Space which leads up to This Woman Trying For Oscar Bait. Some of them just play themselves, and do so repeatedly no matter how badly they fit the script. There are a lot of these actors, and they all seem to keep working -- which makes it a path others will follow.
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