I would really love to see Alexis Denisof in more things, I have gotten to be such a big fan of everything he does!
Yeah, there are so many talented people out there who don't get breakthrough roles because the networks and studios want big names... and of course they do, people go to the movies to see (for the most part) movies with the stars they like in them, most people wait for DVD for the smaller films with unknown actors.
At the BSG panel (which was great, all the strong women) someone asked Mary McDonnell (Pres Laura Rosslyn) why a movie star like her was doing a TV show, and she said it was a fallacy to think of TV as '2nd rate', that she hasn't seen any roles in any movies which would give her the range of characterization and great writing (that was the sense of it, I didn't write down what exactly she said). She loves this role just as much or more as anything she has ever done. Except the costumes, she doesn't like the clothes. LOL
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Date: 2007-07-31 05:59 pm (UTC)Yeah, there are so many talented people out there who don't get breakthrough roles because the networks and studios want big names... and of course they do, people go to the movies to see (for the most part) movies with the stars they like in them, most people wait for DVD for the smaller films with unknown actors.
At the BSG panel (which was great, all the strong women) someone asked Mary McDonnell (Pres Laura Rosslyn) why a movie star like her was doing a TV show, and she said it was a fallacy to think of TV as '2nd rate', that she hasn't seen any roles in any movies which would give her the range of characterization and great writing (that was the sense of it, I didn't write down what exactly she said). She loves this role just as much or more as anything she has ever done. Except the costumes, she doesn't like the clothes. LOL