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Old 05-20-2007, 08:18 PM
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People who are going to be insulted for having a scifi role thrown into their faces shouldn't accept the role in the first place. If I accepted a TV role (very unlikely), I'd assume that it was a role I wouldn't be offended for being identified with. It's that simple.
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I can imagine it may annoy you after a couple of years.
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And this is somehow unique to scifi actors?
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Well, the level of obsessive fanboyish is much higher in SF than it is in mainstream fandoms. People may change their hairstyle every week depending on how Jennifer Aniston was wearing it, but they don't go and hang out with other sitcom fans in convention centres and engage in the million and one endearing behaviours that set geeks so firmly apart from normal people.
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Oh, you're talking about fans, I'm talking about actors. Looks like one of our Babel Fish is on the blink.
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Well, the fans are going to be the ones throwing the actor's role in his/her face.
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Hmmm...I've met Tom Baker...It was a somewhat intimidating experience. Partly because being 5'4 and 30 cm from a man who is 6'2 is generally intimidating, partly because he did. not. stop. talking. Nice fellow, though.
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Well, the fans are going to be the ones throwing the actor's role in his/her face.
Plus casting directors and agents. They'll know your big role was Captain Android and you get stuck getting those kind of roles.

"Captain Android wants to play Rick Handsome? I don't see it. Naw, let's go with the lead from Police Lawyer, M.D.."
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Well, the fans are going to be the ones throwing the actor's role in his/her face.
It's completely differently in sports, of course.


Completely.
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