Several long time afterThe Office , Jenna Fischer shoot the buffer for the Matt LeBlanc - lead sitcomMan with a design . However , she was recast because the mental test hearing could n’t " believe Pam would marry Joey [ fromFriends ] . "
When an actor becomes well-known for playing a certain role, it can be hard for viewers to see them as anyone else. Other times, an ill-received role makes us wary of different projects the actor does. Sometimes, casting directors and executives feel the same way.
Here are 13 roles that made it hard for actors to find more work:
This post turn back mention of clinical depression .
1.Charlie Wrightplayed Roderick Heffley inDiary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul, taking over from Devon Bostick, which led to the viral #NotMyRoderick hashtag criticizing his casting. It “kind of ruined [his] acting career.”
In aYouTubevideo , he said , " Do I have any hate or anger towards people who participated in the # NotMyRodrick affair ? No , I do n’t . I did go through a depressive episode for almost three years afterwards , and it kind of ruined my performing career , but I ’m still active . I ’m still here . "
2.Jennifer Anistonstruggled with people only seeing her as Rachel Green fromFriendsfor years. She told theHollywood Reporter, “You just exhaust yourself. I mean, I could not get Rachel Green off of my back for the life of me. I could not escape ‘Rachel fromFriends,’ and it’s on all the time, and you’re like, ‘Stop playing that fucking show!'”
She proceed , " The Good Girlwas the first metre I get to really shed whatever the Rachel character was and to be able to disappear into someone who was n’t that was such a relief to me . "
3.Several years afterThe Office,Jenna Fischershot the pilot for the Matt LeBlanc-led sitcomMan with a Plan. However, she was recast because the test audience couldn’t “believe Pam would marry Joey [fromFriends].”
On herOffice Ladiespodcast , she said , " They said — this is a literal quote , they enounce , ' I do n’t trust Pam would marry Joey . The chemistry does n’t work between these two . ' That was the feedback they get . "
4.Tyler James Williamsfigured out that transitioning from his titular role onEverybody Hates Christo grown-up roles would be difficult “pretty fucking quickly.” One of the show’s producers reportedly once told him, “I’ll never see you as anything else, and you’ll probably never work again.” It was likely a joke, but the actor still internalized it.
Tyler toldGQ , " I was like , ‘ Holy shit , you really just looked at me and said that . ' … I realized at 17 that I did n’t like the road I was on . So I decide to halt and pin . I got with a really good acting four-in-hand and I turn down every single matter I was offered . "
5.Vanessa Hudgens also had trouble breaking away from her breakout Disney Channel role. She toldUntitled Magazine, “High School Musicalwas incredible, and it was so fun, and it gave me so many fans, which I’m very, very thankful for, but it also closed people’s minds up as to which characters I could portray. They only saw me as Gabriella Montez, and I love that character, but there’s so much more to me than just that.”
" So , for a while , I was kind of scramble and fighting for these role that I just desperately wanted . It was hard , and it was a struggle , but then again , life is always a struggle . Having a career will always be a struggle . You ’ll always have to oppose for what you want . decidedly , crossing over and being able to tackle these gritty parts was a challenge , but I feel like I ’ve done it ! It ’s a whole new chapter ! " she said .
6.Laura Dern was unable to book roles for an entire year after playing Susan, a lesbian who helped Ellen DeGeneres come out in the famous episode ofEllen.
Laura toldVulture , " It was significant . It was significant because I was doing successful independent movies , and only month before that , I was inJurassic Park , the most successful movie ever . So it was like , you ’re being offered this , you ’re being offered that — and it just stopped , which is kind of gaga . By good fortune of the foresightful path of a career , you’re able to look back and say , how expectant to have it be felt , how rearwards we are . I carry time off when I had my boy , and I feel like , in a way , it apply way for less opportunity . I will say , for woman , it ’s punishing to take fourth dimension off by pick because then you feel like you have to start all over when you ’re number back to something . "
7.After Daniel Radcliffe played the titular role in theHarry Potterfranchise, “50 percent of directors only saw [him] as one thing and only saw [him] as Harry.”
" The other 50 percentage were stir by the chance to be the people who demo me as something else , " he toldEmpire .
8.WhenFamily Mattersended, Jaleel White tried to break away from Steve Urkel withGrown Ups, which got canceled after a single season. On the advice of a “very high-ranking TV exec,” he strived for more dramatic roles, but none of his projects really took off.
He told theHollywood Reporter , " In my 20s , that was tough to deal with because I had citizenry asking me , ' Well , what are you up to these days ? ' And it ’s like , ' You did n’t catch me playing my police detective turn on Lifetime last week ? ' "
9.For years, casting directors struggled to see Hilary Duff as anyone other than her titular role inLizzie McGuire. She toldCosmopolitan, “I definitely went through big frustrations of being like, ‘Why can I not get a shot at being someone else?'”
She continued , " Not that I require to dog every casting director out there , but there ’s a very small fistful of masses who are character thespian and can be take for roles that are truly different from one another . From age 21 to 25 , before I became a mom , there was a lot of defeat . I would get to manufacturer callback , and they ’d be like , ' She ’s so bang-up , and she gave us the best reading and blah blah blah , but she ’s Hilary Duff … ' "
10.After the teen sitcomSaved by the Bellwrapped, Elizabeth Berkley played the lead, Nomi Malone, in the poorly-performing NC-17 movieShowgirls. She toldPeople, “No one associated with the film spoke up on my behalf to protect me. I was left out in the cold, and I was a pariah in the industry I had worked so hard for.”
" It was a vulnerable time , but it made me stronger , " she said .
11.For Regina King, playing Shalika inBoyz n the Hoodwas a way to prove she was “so much more than Brenda [from227].” Afterward, however, she “saw that [she] was being stereotyped.”
She toldVulture , " I meet that a portion of us were being stereotyped . I did n’t want to be part of that — that ’s not the narrative I was make for myself …. [When I was pregnant ] I started aver no to things if the story were too narrow , the kind that only depicted women as the kind of woman I was inBoyz n the Hood . It was a outstanding role for me — I needed to do that to show the difference between what I did in227 — but after that , that was enough . "
12.After Bella Thorne’s time as CeCe Jones onShake It Upended, she found it was “really hard to get a job.”
She told theHappy Sad Confusedpodcast , " the great unwashed did n’t want to read me . They did n’t want to see me because they were like , ' She ’s a Disney actress . ' "
13.And finally, after playing Ravi Ross onJessieand the spin-offBunk’d, Karan Brar was “stigmatized as being a Disney Channel kid, only being capable of doing a certain set of things and only having a certain skill set.”
" It assume a lot of time to prove that you’re able to actually do things outside of that , " he told theDaily Campus .
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