8 Great Actors Who Didn't Realise They Were Being Weirdly Typecast

7. Ryan Reynolds Is...A Body Swap Extraordinaire

Ryan Reynolds The Change Up Selfless Criminal
Universal, Focus Features & Summit Entertainment

If you ever need someone's body to leap out of or into, apparently Ryan Reynolds is Hollywood's go-to-guy, considering he's played that part three times in the last six years alone.

Examples: Reynolds has been a fun-loving bachelor who swaps bodies with an overwhelmed parent (The Change-Up), served as the lifeless vessel for a terminally ill man's consciousness to be downloaded into (Self/less), and finally, had his dead CIA agent's memories transplanted into the mind of a violent criminal to help complete a vital mission (Criminal).

It's extra hilarious and weird when you consider that the latter two of these movies came out within 9 months of one another.

Apparently Reynolds just really, really likes the whole body swap genre...even though all three of these films were widely panned and it doesn't make sense for any actor to consciously keep rehashing roles in a very specific type of movie.

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