Have to admit - I only like the show when Ryan O'Neal or Stephen Fry are on it.
To be fair, Emily Deschanel is no Kyra Sedwick either. She's not even a Sarah Michelle Gellar, and that's saying something.
Hugh Laurie is one of those rare actors who can make reading the phone book seem interesting. I used to think James Marsters fit in that category, but have since changed my mind. Same deal with ASH.
Let's face it, acting is not as easy as it looks.
Hugh Laurie was part of that team of Brit actors that came right after Monty Python - and did Black Adder, Jeeves and Wooster and lots of other stuff. Included Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson, Miranda Richardson, Alan Rickman, Kenneth Branagh, and a few others. And almost all of them have popped up on Harry Potter.
I think, Christopher Plummer is correct - if you haven't had theater training, and some British Theater training, you can't quite handle the complexity of certain roles. The really talented A-list actors have all, without fail, had extensive theater training - they all have accents they can pull out of their back pocket.
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Date: 2009-04-12 04:59 pm (UTC)To be fair, Emily Deschanel is no Kyra Sedwick either.
She's not even a Sarah Michelle Gellar, and that's saying something.
Hugh Laurie is one of those rare actors who can make reading the phone book seem interesting. I used to think James Marsters fit in that category, but have since changed my mind. Same deal with ASH.
Let's face it, acting is not as easy as it looks.
Hugh Laurie was part of that team of Brit actors that came right after Monty Python - and did Black Adder, Jeeves and Wooster and lots of other stuff. Included Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson, Miranda Richardson, Alan Rickman, Kenneth Branagh, and a few others. And almost all of them have popped up on Harry Potter.
I think, Christopher Plummer is correct - if you haven't had theater training, and some British Theater training, you can't quite handle the complexity of certain roles. The really talented A-list actors have all, without fail, had extensive theater training - they all have accents they can pull out of their back pocket.