he has tried, that's the entire point. i'm not white knighting batista or anything, but the entire point of this whole conversation is that either he takes the roles he's offered (as the muscle) or he doesn't work. we've all pointed out several roles where he's been given more to work with and he generally knocks it out of the park. but most hiring directors just see him as a big muscly dude and assume all he's good for are bodyguard type roles. it's very similar for a woman who's extremely attractive getting something other than being hired for being pretty.
and i know what you're going to say, pretty women generally aren't great actors because they don't need to be in order to get roles. so the ones that ARE good actors have to fight tooth and nail to not get typecast. that's the point.
the whole "allowing themselves to get typecast" nonsense is dumb. either they do the job they were hired for, increasing the chances of getting more roles that are copycats of what they've already done, or they turn down the role and don't eat.
