10 Type-Cast Actors Who Have Much More To Offer The general rumbling when an actor is described as type-cast is usually one of dismay, but in truth, there's nothing wrong with being type-cast: Cary Grant made a career out of playing extravagantly charming gentlemen, and if Cary Grant is not a good actor then I don't know who is. At the other end of the scale, Jason Statham will always play the hard man who looks good in a suit, and can crack off a roundhouse kick without breaking a sweat -- we wouldn't want anything else from him, because he is the best at what he does. Jason Statham knows what his limitations are and what his audience wants, he's never going to be in a period drama set during the French Revolution. Other actors, who are traditionally type-cast in one way or another occasionally stray outside of their typical limitations to give the performance of a lifetime before toddling back off to make some more vacuous and dull movies, just because the box office returns weren't necessarily as eye-catching as the powers that be might have wanted. As a film fan, it's frustrating to see an actor finally come good and show their true potential, only to abandon their artistic integrity in pursuit of a cheap buck. This article then, will look at ten of those very actors: limited by type-casting but who very briefly transcended those limits to show that they too could hang out with the