'''Basic Trope''': A celebrity ''not'' known for acting is cast as the lead role in a movie, TV show, or play.
* '''Straight''': Alice, a TeenIdol pop singer, is cast as the lead in a movie.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** Alice is [[AsHimself playing herself]].
** Alice isn't even a celebrity, or even someone who actually auditioned for the role, but some random person off the street.
* '''Downplayed''':
** Alice is an extra in the film, albeit a very conspicuous one.
** The movie is an indie-film, or something that's to go straight to video, not something people would see at most movie theaters.
** Alice plays a starring role in one particular episode of a series (such as a VictimOfTheWeek in a CrimeTimeSoap or a PatientOfTheWeek in a MedicalDrama).
** A standup comedian is cast in a movie; though he gets to make jokes in it, working with other actors and a plot is still a very different way of performing.
* '''Justified''':
** Alice wants to spread her creative wings and/or needs to make more money [[MusicIsPolitics to pay the record company back]].
** The movie is a "teen movie," and [[WolverinePublicity Alice is the big pop star now]].
** The movie is a BioPic about Alice's career.
** Alice is only there as part of [[TheItemNumber a big dance number]] or some other DancingBear.
** Alice is a WhiteDwarfStarlet or a FormerChildStar, who doesn't want to step out of the limelight just yet and will do ''anything'' [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity to stay in showbiz]].
** Alice believes in the movie's CentralTheme/[[AnAesop Aesop]] and is thus [[DoingItForTheArt willing to do it for a symbolic dollar]], [[SugarWiki/DevelopmentHeaven allowing the producers to put more of the budget toward the rest of the movie]].
** It's the [[FilmOfTheBook Film Of The Song]] [[FirstPersonPerspective sung from the protagonist's perspective]], why recast her?
* '''Inverted''': Alice is a movie star, but records an album, despite having never sung outside of the shower before.
* '''Subverted''': Alice seems like she will star the movie [[DecoyProtagonist but fades into the background after the first act]].
* '''Double Subverted''': Alice soon gains back the spotlight.
* '''Parodied''': The record company is also a Hollywood casting agency.
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': Alice does not star in any movies.
* '''Enforced''':
** Alice wants to branch out creatively and/or earn more money.
** MusicIsPolitics
** HollywoodHypeMachine
** [[{{Nepotism}} Alice is the director's girlfriend/fiancee/wife, sister, best friend, etc.]]
** More benignly, the main character was written to be a good singer, and [[CastTheExpert who better to play a singer than]]...[[ShapedLikeItself a singer]]?
** [[RuleOfFunny Alice's inexperience adds to the role's comedic value]].
** Alice may be a little green in the movie (and she's relatively shy in acting in a way that's not her), but acting as a LargeHam TeenIdol means all the director has to do is tell her to BeYourself.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Just because she can sing doesn't mean she can act!"
* '''Invoked''': Alice is a celebrity in universe and the main characters are famous enough to rub elbows with her.
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': Alice turns down the role, and finds another way to make money.
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
* '''Played For Laughs''':
** Alice is a competent (or even excellent) musician, but in the movie she plays the role of a GiftedlyBad singer, whose musical 'talents' get her into all sort of troubles and misunderstandings. [[SelfDeprecation And the role was her idea in the first place!]]
** Alice is a comically ineffective WhiteDwarfStarlet, who also thinks [[SmallNameBigEgo she's far more talented than she really is]].
* '''Played For Drama''': Alice is being exploited, such as by putting her on the CastingCouch and casting her in a porn movie to make for a HotterAndSexier image.
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