Actors and characters
I'm taking a break from work to do a totally pointless post, but some of my NUMB3RS friends may not have seen this little interview package, and I thought it was interesting for what it revealed about actors vis-à-vis characters...
Okay, the first person they talked to was Alimi Ballard. I like him. But it was odd. Why did they open up with the least important character? While Ballard seemed enthusiastic about his character, and clearly had his backstory all worked out and was quick and articulate, it still struck me as a little strange. We got an exaggerated view of his role, I think.
David Krumholtz. With enough hairspray to service the majorette line of your average Texas high school band. But two things really struck me. First, he has absolutely beautiful skin, because with those unflattering lights, well, let's say flaws show up; even more surprising, under fluorescent lights, his skin tone seems darker than it usually does on the show, more like his TV Guide photos (whereas Rob looked pretty pasty). And second, he can incorporate the math-babble into his answers and be very fluid, but when he's just "talking" as David, he stumbles more often. I think his head tends to get ahead of his mouth. He also always seems to work in some comment about being little; I wonder if that's deflection because he wants to say it before others do. So he's small. I don't get the problem. But I do get the psychology.
Rob Morrow. Almost as much hairspray, but then not as much hair. He's cute, there's not getting around it, but I do believe he's more Joel than Don. He was so adorably geeky talking about how cool it was to run and shoot a gun. So geeky, you'd really not want to be around him when he had one. I guess that proves what a good actor he is!
Diane Farr. I've been liking Megan, but Farr just completely won me over with this 30-second interview. As she said, you've gotta love a girl who goes to work with a great big gun. But what I loved was her comment that for some reason on television, if you give a woman a gun, you have to make sure she's a psychologist first!
ETA: or, rather, to correct. I was in a hurry when I did this, and what Diane Farr actually said was that if you give a woman a gun, you have to make sure she's got psychological training. It may be an exaggeration, but it is true that female police officers are often much more psychologized than males. I loved Terry, but I find Megan more believable as an FBI agent.
Okay, back to work.
Okay, the first person they talked to was Alimi Ballard. I like him. But it was odd. Why did they open up with the least important character? While Ballard seemed enthusiastic about his character, and clearly had his backstory all worked out and was quick and articulate, it still struck me as a little strange. We got an exaggerated view of his role, I think.
David Krumholtz. With enough hairspray to service the majorette line of your average Texas high school band. But two things really struck me. First, he has absolutely beautiful skin, because with those unflattering lights, well, let's say flaws show up; even more surprising, under fluorescent lights, his skin tone seems darker than it usually does on the show, more like his TV Guide photos (whereas Rob looked pretty pasty). And second, he can incorporate the math-babble into his answers and be very fluid, but when he's just "talking" as David, he stumbles more often. I think his head tends to get ahead of his mouth. He also always seems to work in some comment about being little; I wonder if that's deflection because he wants to say it before others do. So he's small. I don't get the problem. But I do get the psychology.
Rob Morrow. Almost as much hairspray, but then not as much hair. He's cute, there's not getting around it, but I do believe he's more Joel than Don. He was so adorably geeky talking about how cool it was to run and shoot a gun. So geeky, you'd really not want to be around him when he had one. I guess that proves what a good actor he is!
Diane Farr. I've been liking Megan, but Farr just completely won me over with this 30-second interview. As she said, you've gotta love a girl who goes to work with a great big gun. But what I loved was her comment that for some reason on television, if you give a woman a gun, you have to make sure she's a psychologist first!
ETA: or, rather, to correct. I was in a hurry when I did this, and what Diane Farr actually said was that if you give a woman a gun, you have to make sure she's got psychological training. It may be an exaggeration, but it is true that female police officers are often much more psychologized than males. I loved Terry, but I find Megan more believable as an FBI agent.
Okay, back to work.