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He had a prolific career but struggled with feeling typecast, he told BBC News Igbo back in 2021, which made him turn to content creation as a way to find more freedom.

“I am up against two things now — AI and ageism. Being typecast is an industrywide issue, but I did hope that wouldn’t be the case with audiobook narration since the voice is so flexible.”

It’s been typecast as a condiment, a once-a-year flourish for shrimp cocktail or prime rib, when it could be so much more.

Despite this typecasting, she would later go on to make her mark, first in theatre and then in various TV shows and films by the 1990s.

Stamp, with his calm demeanor and pale eyes, proved such a successful villain that he feared he was becoming typecast as one.