8 Great Actors Who Didn't Realise They Were Being Weirdly Typecast
6. Paul Giamatti Is...A Doctor...All The Time
Paul Giamatti is without question one of the greatest actors of his generation, so why the Hell has he been getting cast in forgettable roles as doctors so much recently?
Examples: He's played a Doctor of Medicine (The Congress), a seismologist (San Andreas), a therapist (Love and Mercy), a sports psychologist (The Phenom), and most recently a psychiatrist (Morgan).
While there are plenty of actors who carve out fine careers for themselves playing cops, doctors and so on, this one's especially weird considering that Giamatti is better known for playing slacker schlubs than professionals, yet over the last four years, he's played a doctor of some kind five times.
More to the point, of his six most recent theatrically-released roles, four of them have been as a doctor. It's an odd pattern, but at least Giamatti's upcoming credits don't list anymore doctor roles...yet.