10 Typecast Movie Roles That Totally Ruined Major Plot Reveals

6. Charlize Theron €“ Hancock

The Big Reveal Charlize Theron is actually a super powerful, essentially immortal being, just like Will Smith. Why It€™s So Obvious Some actresses get typecast as the loving wife. Others the sultry mistress. Theron has had the uncommon fortune of being typecast as a strong-willed and powerful woman. The trailers did a good job of keeping her character out of the action and saving that for the movie (I€™m not sure Sony€™s marketing department would be so willing these days). But it was still easy to see coming a mile off. Charlize Theron doesn€™t really do the uncomplicated domestic life. She€™d been a prostitute-turned-killer in Monster. She was a safecracker in the remake of The Italian Job. And she€™d starred as a skilled warrior/assassin in Aeon Flux only a few years prior to Hancock. So when she was revealed as a second god-like being in Hancock, it wasn€™t a huge surprise. (But that doesn€™t mean it wasn€™t still cool when the big reveal came.)
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