Oh, you wouldn't be able to see him in Chess - it was a London Stage performance that I caught in 1988, very few people saw it. He took over his brother Murray Head's part of a limited run. Murray is famous in it and the voice on the CD. But Head was the one I saw and fell for. I didn't know he existed before that performance. Then I found him in the taster's choice commericials and VR5 - which lasted 13 episodes and I don't think is on DVD quite yet. MI5 - that performance was I think six or seven episodes in and one of the few episodes of the series I saw. It also has a cameo by Hugh Laurie. Reason I caught it was someone online announced that it was on A&E.
I know JM is doing something at the moment, besides Torchwood and PS I Love You, but I'm not sure what. It was given as the reason he couldn't make Comic Con or Dragon Con - to promote Shadow Puppets (the film not the comics) and his gig on Torchwood. The problem with acting, like any of the other arts - is you can be REALLY busy but no one knows it unless it gets distributed or marketed. I've known quite a few professional actors in my life-time who are busy, but no one knows them. They jump from gig to gig. And their big breaks? Often fall through. I also have a tendency to follow actors who are struggling like Nathan Fillion, Head, Pierce Bronsan (who FINALLY hit the big time), Marsters, Denisof, Michael Zaslow (a soap actor who died a few years back)...and every time that get close, something falls through.
Even the names struggle - why else is Holly Hunter and Glenn Close doing television series? It's better than the roles they are being offered for films. Hunter's role at least has some meat to it - more than most of the stuff being offered to women her age for films.
My difficulties with Saving Grace are slightly different. I don't mind the characters that much. I'm just having troubles caring about it or getting interested. It bores me. Just uninterested. Can't decide if it's the writing or the characters or a bit of both?
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Date: 2007-07-31 05:33 pm (UTC)I know JM is doing something at the moment, besides Torchwood and PS I Love You, but I'm not sure what. It was given as the reason he couldn't make Comic Con or Dragon Con - to promote Shadow Puppets (the film not the comics) and his gig on Torchwood. The problem with acting, like any of the other arts - is you can be REALLY busy but no one knows it unless it gets distributed or marketed. I've known quite a few professional actors in my life-time who are busy, but no one knows them. They jump from gig to gig.
And their big breaks? Often fall through. I also have a tendency to follow actors who are struggling like Nathan Fillion, Head, Pierce Bronsan (who FINALLY hit the big time), Marsters, Denisof, Michael Zaslow (a soap actor who died a few years back)...and every time that get close, something falls through.
Even the names struggle - why else is Holly Hunter and Glenn Close doing television series? It's better than the roles they are being offered for films. Hunter's role at least has some meat to it - more than most of the stuff being offered to women her age for films.
My difficulties with Saving Grace are slightly different. I don't mind the characters that much. I'm just having troubles caring about it or getting interested. It bores me. Just uninterested. Can't decide if it's the writing or the characters or a bit of both?