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May 26 08 7:31 AM
sxpnce wrote: Simon Woods is another gay actor, yet it did not detract from his role as "Bingley" in Pride & Prejudice and "Edward" in Penelope. He was completely adorable in both movies and convincing as a male suitor.
Funny that you posted that - at first I thought you'd gotten another actor mixed up, but you didn't! LOL....anyway, this prompted me to look up the actor Simon Russell Beale, who played Charles Musgrove in the 1995 Persuasion, an almost perfect movie. Beale has never been in the closet, and even after I learned he was gay, I still thought his character study of Charles M was fabulous. I could see myself as Mary, Charles' cranky wife. So not fantasizing s*xually, but really enjoying the character that Beale presented. Well, anyway, googling him, I find that he's considered Britain's greatest living theatre actor by many, and has received wild acclaim even though he's a pudgy li'l fella, not the kind of person you normally think of as the tortured Hamlet, for instance. But my point in writing this is, he becomes his characters, and his fans love that about him. It's the same way really about N.Kidman. In every dadgummed movie I see her, I think, "Oh, this must be what she's really like, look how she really *is* her character." In Moulin Rouge, the irritating Cold Mountain, The Hours, Practical Magic -- she was that character. I had a crush on a First Nations actor who played a good-hearted meddler in a little movie called "Medicine River." I thought, man, he and I together would make quite a pair! I later learned that the actor is a brooding, angry person .... but that doesn't keep me from thinking of his character in MR as the kind of guy I could realy have some adventures with, fixing up everybody else's life on the reserve. Heh!
Somebody wrote that it's now hard to watch Angie Jo and/or Brad believeably because we simply know too much about them, and because the characters they play are pretty much....action heroes, not very dimensional. Same goes for CTC, and, if she ever gets another film role, KAK. Neither of them really honed their acting chops, opting for "staring into the camera and running" in his case and the "easy" way to fame and fortune in hers. Good discussion, guys!
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