It would have been better if we had started out the history of films by never using the same actor more than once.

For a lot of films it’s more about watching Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Jennifer Anniston etc. play a new character with the focus on them instead of seeing a fresh unknown face and the focus on that character’s personality.

I wouldn’t mind a world where once you were in one movie you were never cast again. It would make movies more unique and mysterious. Personally, I like Indie films with unknown actors more than many Hollywood mainstream movies with recycled actors.

I will concede that an amateur actor would probably not have crushed the role of Daniel Plainview in “There Will Be Blood” like Daniel Day Lewis did. But that is an exception where the actor disappeared into the role and I never thought I was watching an A list actor. The majority of actors don’t disappear into the role.

Also, a bonus to never using the same actor is that more people would be able to be in a film at least once.

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    7 months ago

    That said, yeah, I could do without the same type-cast folks getting to basically play one character in movie after movie, for instance.

    Say what you will about Michelle Rodriguez, but she definitely applies the Unix philosophy to acting. And I’m okay with that.