[Airerûthiel]

I've just come back from seeing <I>X2</I> and I admit to saying to my friend, "Look it's Gandalf!" when Sir Ian McKellen was on screen. I kept expecting him to say something like, 'BILBO BAGGINS!!' or 'All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.' To me he will now always be Gandalf.<P>I only recently saw <I>The Matrix</I> and did exactly the same thing - I wanted to know why Elrond was there. That happened with Sean Bean as well when I saw him in <I>Goldeneye</I> (I didn't know he was until I heard his voice and then I went, "Oh my God it's Boromir!")<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Should actors only be allowed to play a certain type of character?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I have to totally disagree with that. In fact, it's better if they play a really diverse range of characters because then they're not in danger of being typecast (which is bad in any case, but especially for young actors 'cause if they always play teenagers they'll have no career after their mid-twenties).