10 Actors That Really Need To Stop Repeating Themselves
1. Vin Diesel
Even though he broke into Hollywood by writing, directing, producing and starring in his own features, has worked with acclaimed auteurs Steven Spielberg, Sidney Lumet and Ang Lee during his career and founded the production company responsible for turning the Fast and Furious series into a blockbuster behemoth that boasts both a record label and video game studio as subsidiaries, Vin Diesel sure does love playing it safe.
How safe? Between the year 2000 when Pitch Black officially set him on the road to stardom and the release of the fourth Avengers movie in 2019, Diesel will have only appeared in seven projects outside of his established franchises, which isn't the kind of versatility you'd expect from a big-name star over the span of two decades.
In the interim, Diesel will have made eight appearances as Dominic Toretto, five as Richard B. Riddick, four as Groots of a various age and two as xXx's Xander Cage. The fact that most of his non-franchise projects have tanked at the box office surely factored into his decision to take such a safe route with his career, but for a guy that was touted as a genuine talent at the turn of the 21st Century it simply smacks of an unwillingness to take risks.