In the recently released About Time, Rachel McAdams plays the love interest, and eventual wife, of the main character, who has the ability to travel through time. In Midnight in Paris, Rachel McAdams plays the fiancee of the main character, who has the ability to travel through time. In The Time Traveler’s Wife, Rachel McAdams plays the love interest, and eventual wife, of the main character, who has the ability to travel through time. I haven’t seen Midnight in Paris, but in the other two movies her characters are also the fairly passive recipients of the affections of the main (male) characters.
The love interest of time travelers seems like a fairly extreme form of typecasting. Is it too much to ask that somebody make a movie (or three) in which Rachel McAdams plays a time traveler?
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