"Nothing succeeds like success in Hollywood, and if it's worked well once, casting directors and producers tend to go back to the well again. Actors don't get to choose their roles. They only get to accept or turn them down. I think it's less a conscious decision on his part than it is typecasting," said film critic Leonard Maltin of "Entertainment Tonight."
See what I mean? To the AP Thompson has just been typecast in a fake role that he has no control over, one that is guided by producers, writers, and magic makers and not one that reflects Thompson's "conscious decisions" at all. AP just cannot imagine that Thompson could possibility have a hand in such decisions.
And, as a result of the AP's inability to see Thompson as anything other than a faker sporting a make believe image like anyone else would don a Halloween mask, they cannot imagine anyone else can either.
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People in the entertainment business are narcissists. They falsely believe that their world is somehow more important than the real world, and that their success in that world somehow translates into an ability to manipulate real events. It’s a delusion.
“Thompson has just been typecast in a fake role that he has no control over, one that is guided by producers, writers, and magic makers and not one that reflects Thompson’s “conscious decisions” at all.”
Sounds about right to me.