When we speak of different actor types one movie comes to mind that I can watch over and over again, and that is The Birdcage. The three actors I want to focus on in this blog would be Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, and Gene Hackman. The actor types they represent are the wildcard, the personality, and the star. 
        Although most people would debate the fact that Robin Williams is the star as opposed to Gene Hackman, however as we learn from our text tells us that the wild card is a star but also much more (Goodykoontz, 2014). He can identify as a star as he has won multiple awards for his long career including oscar for Good Will Hunting. He also can be considered an impersonator as he played both Teddy Roosevelt in Night at the Museum and Dwight Eisenhower in The Butler; of course with roles like Genie in Aladdin and the one that made him famous, Mork in Mork and Mindy could only be described as the personality actor. Robin Williams definitely had a big personality but new how to rein it in when the role requires a more introverted personality. For these reasons that is why Robin Williams is the wildcard in the movie of The Birdcage.

        Nathan Lane is also quite the personality actor. In The Birdcage he plays an extremely dramatic flamboyant character. He is also known as Timon in Disney's  The Lion King and the house cat in Stuart Little. He has played in numerous broadway production of which you have to have a big personality to project your character across a large packed theater, I think it can be agreed upon that in The Birdcage, Lane definitely has the biggest personality in the cast. 

        The last actor type in this movie is the star, we get that in the actor Gene Hackman. Gene has a very long career, starting back in the early 1960's with an uncredited role in 1961. In his career Hackman has earned himself two oscar wins and three nominations as well as multiple Golden Globe wins. He has starred in such icon movies like The French Connection, The Poseidon Adventure, Superman, Hoosiers, and Crimson Tide. There can be no doubt that Gene Hackman can be considered a star actor. He can play in Sci-Fi movies like Superman, drama in the military movie of Crimson Tides and of course in comedies like The Birdcage. 

References:

Goodykoontz, B. &. (2014). Film: From watching to seeing (2nd ed.). . San Diego : Bridgepoint Education, Inc.

Andreas Basler (May, 2007) The Birdcage, 1996. Clip retrieved from Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfrhCvDLlCg

DesEquiLIBROS Rafael Ballesteros (Nov, 2008) The Birdcage, 1996. Clip retrieved from Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYLk34GCXbo