Sundarambal was cast as a man - the untouchable saint Nandanar.
Yet he was more often cast as a character actor than as a leading man.
For the first time, Bogart could be cast successfully as a tough, strong man and, at the same time, as a vulnerable love interest.
His advisers sought to frame this as an advantage, saying it casts him as a sensible man not utterly consumed by politics.
I cast aside all hope and clung to my failing senses as a man hurled into the teeth of the storm.
Gurdeep's big movie break came in 1969 when he was cast as a leading man playing a Sikh in full beard and turban.
In his early movie career, before he gained a great deal of weight, Slezak was cast as a thin leading man in silent films.
Mr. Alda is perfectly cast as a man with a smirk in his voice.
Except for the fact that her ex-stepfather had been cast as a bad man.