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*** [[Nightmare Face|There may be reasons other than his past]] for why Trejo is typecast this way.

** To a lesser extent, Charles S. Dutton, who took up acting while serving a prison sentence for a gang-related murder, is often cast as a murderer or tough guy.

* ''[[Memento (Film)|Memento]]'' required a [[Smug Snake]] type character for the antagonist, so they hired Joe Pantoliano, whose career is virtually nothing but. {{spoiler|Except, of course, that his character is innocent of the crime he's killed for in the film's opening. The role relies heavily on his typecasting to make the audience assume he's the bad guy, when he's the closest thing the protagonist has to a real friend. Virtually anyone but a typecast actor would have given the audience room to doubt.}}

* In the [[R Emake]] of ''[[The Karate Kid]]'' a lot of people initially scoffed at casting [[Jackie Chan]] as the Mr. Miyagi counterpart, Mr. Han, largely because it sounded like a fanboy's wish list. But when the movie itself came out people noted that because of Chan's reputation as a martial arts master, it gave a great deal more validity to him as a teacher and to the idea of 'Dre becoming so good in such a short period of time. [[Instant Expert]]? He was trained by Jackie Chan!

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