Actors Who Unintentionally Created Their Own Movie Subgenres

Sometimes an actor gets typecast, and it’s bad for their career, but sometimes it’s not that they’ve been typecast, it’s just that they’ve found a particular, comfortable niche, and it’s neither good nor bad, but simply strange. This is how accidental subgenres are born .

Eight well-known actors have unwittingly embarked upon the establishment of such subgenres. In one case, the martial arts star in question was dead before it spawned. In other cases, the star simply went back to the same well repeatedly until it became their thing.

There are also cases of stars playing basically the same role more than once , seemingly by coincidence, until it feels like they have some weird itch they’re unconsciously scratching.

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