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"Role Reprisal" trope... but what about this other kind?

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ElGaith Since: Jul, 2017
#1: Jul 27th 2017 at 12:29:51 PM

(First time commenter!)

Okay, so the trope page "Role Reprisal" specifically states "it only counts as a Role Reprisal if the original actor resumes playing the character in a different adaptation or if it has been a while since they last played the character." Okay, but what about actors playing the same real person in two totally different works? It could be an "Intercontinuity Cameo", maybe, but if reality itself is considered one continuity, what about the other work? I dunno. :P

Examples: Timothy Bottoms playing George W. Bush in the sitcom parody "That's My Bush!", and also in the heroic, fawning "DC 9/11: Time of Crisis." David Warner played Reinhard Heydrich in two unrelated TV projects. Also, the guy who played Heydrich in that one scene in 2016's "Anthropoid" had played him in the 2011 Czech film "Lidice". Jamal Woolard played The Notorious B.I.G. in "Notorious", and then reprised the part in this summer's Tupac biopic. Richard Linklater saw Christian Mc Kay playing Orson Welles in a one-man theater show, then cast him in the movie "Me and Orson Welles". I'm sure there are others, but those are the few I know offhand.

KJMackley Since: Jan, 2001
#2: Jul 27th 2017 at 1:08:53 PM

Those would fall under different adaptations. The line you're quoting is to better define the trope in relation to Recurring Character, so we don't get examples of someone who shows up a couple times a year in a long running tv series and being listed as a Role Reprisal.

Now there might be a different trope regarding an actor being Type Casted as a particular real world figure like Maurice LaMarche vocally as Orson Welles, but that's a completely separate idea from Role Reprisal.

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