It is always a problem, if the actor is good enough he (or she) should pull your mind away from their RL and put you totally into the character, but not all actors are that good, and sometimes the emotional reaction by the audience just becomes too much to over-come.
Tobey MacQuire is an interesting example...I think if he did something so herendous that parents wouldn't take their kids to see Spiderman III then they would just have to shut down production, and wait to see if MacQuire could pull himself back from the abyss....
Tom Cruise did alienate a lot of his audience and War of the Worlds and Mission Impossible III both suffered at the box office because of his sudden 'creep factor'... obviously Cruise thinks he can win people back, but the fact is that his Samarii movie stunk too, and that was before the weirdness got out of hand.
I was surprised that Harry Potter movies didn't miss a beat with the death of Richard Harris, they didn't even try to make the replacement look or sound like the old Dumbledor, I really respected the decision.... But of course he wasn't one of the three core characters, I don't think they would find it as easy to replace Hermione!
LOL Obviously I'm not offering any suggestions or ideas how these things should be handled, I'm just enjoying the examples.... I think Grey's Anatomy can survive this, it is a strong ensamble show and he wasn't the lead....
At the Browncoat Backup Bash (the Flan2 that wasn't) Tim Minear came and talked and happened to say that Joss had learned to never name a show after a character...when they started to 'spec' Firefly they refered to it as "air-lock", I'm guessing for the very reason you are writing about : replacing SMG or David would have involved huge problems, and the actors knew it.
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Tobey MacQuire is an interesting example...I think if he did something so herendous that parents wouldn't take their kids to see Spiderman III then they would just have to shut down production, and wait to see if MacQuire could pull himself back from the abyss....
Tom Cruise did alienate a lot of his audience and War of the Worlds and Mission Impossible III both suffered at the box office because of his sudden 'creep factor'... obviously Cruise thinks he can win people back, but the fact is that his Samarii movie stunk too, and that was before the weirdness got out of hand.
I was surprised that Harry Potter movies didn't miss a beat with the death of Richard Harris, they didn't even try to make the replacement look or sound like the old Dumbledor, I really respected the decision.... But of course he wasn't one of the three core characters, I don't think they would find it as easy to replace Hermione!
LOL Obviously I'm not offering any suggestions or ideas how these things should be handled, I'm just enjoying the examples.... I think Grey's Anatomy can survive this, it is a strong ensamble show and he wasn't the lead....
At the Browncoat Backup Bash (the Flan2 that wasn't) Tim Minear came and talked and happened to say that Joss had learned to never name a show after a character...when they started to 'spec' Firefly they refered to it as "air-lock", I'm guessing for the very reason you are writing about : replacing SMG or David would have involved huge problems, and the actors knew it.