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Well, look: there are thousands of actors in Hollywood. And yet the same faces keep cropping up. It's annoying, expecially when there must be thousands of non-American actors living there, and yet shows like Frasier use Italian-Americans, who couldn't do a British accent to save their lives, to play British characters, and we keep seeing everyone in Starfleet - hell, the whole fucking universe in fact - having American accents.
Simple fact is, once you start to get work, you quite often keep working. "He did an episode of Picket Fences!" agents cry down the phone. I love looking up minor actors on the IMDB and seeing how much (or, usually, how little) they've actually done. For instance: everyone, it seems, has at one time or another done an episode of The Outer Limits. Go figure.
It makes you think. All these actors and actresses, sometimes with names or faces you recognise, yet they maybe get two TV guest spots in one year. . . what do they do the rest of the time? Consider Melanie Shatner, someone I saw in some movie last night, in which she amazingly got third billing. But look at her overall career. Not much, is it? And she's done better than most. Try it. Make a note of some guest actor from any show (especially if they're female - you might get lucky and find they've done a Red Shoe Diaries or something!) and ask yourself "why would anyone want to do this?"
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Well not where I'd expect to find them, anyway. Had to go pre-t-t-y deep...
So to summarize, I'm highlighting trek-actors in other productions than Trek, taking with them names FROM Trek. A very unusual procedure, not what I'd expect to see. I don't think it even was Avery Brooks request to get a name after a crewmember in his neighbour-series. *KennethStarrspeak* It does NOT make sense!!
And Doc Zimmerman's girlie-hologram! Why WOULD she want to be called Kira in her next project? "Well it would be fun..." NO! Not fun, weird! Girl, you didn't even work with the DS9-crew!! There must be something more...
Come on, surely you must've thought about this when YOU saw "The Big Hit", guys? Besides, it was a pretty good action-flick.
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Why shouldn't it be? The vast majority of productions using Trek actors don't feature Trek names. . . you seriously believe that, upon seeing there was a Trek sctor cast in a role, they would deliberately change the script? Or even more bizarrely, that upon seeing a Trek name in a script, they would go all out to cast a Trek actor? Come on!
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Now you're getting in to it. And I hear you! Why WOULD they name her character Kira because she happened to have been in Trek for an instant? It makes no sense. Or does it?
So what about the rest of the examples, then? I'm just trying to present this to you guys as best I can... Don't you think I thought it a coincedence when I first noticed? But then I thought, why don't I run this past my amigos at the forums, for all I knew you could've had a list of stuff like what I encountered...
Vogon Poet: Your first post about typecasting/overusing the same actors over and over, was that aimed at this thread or just at the statement about Picardo being typecasted? I'm not being sarcastic, but where you going anywhere with it? Could the patterns you describe in the movie business have anything to do with the overall discussion? Just try and break it down a bit.
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[This message has been edited by Nimrod (edited February 02, 2001).]
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Can I just add another haven for Trek actors (its probably because of the high standard of actors that actually make it through the auditions) "The Practice"!
I was watching one episode the other day - and there were no less than 3 "major" Trek actors in the episode... it was the episode where the defendant attacks Helen Gambol...
"Enabrin Tain" was that crazy old judge "Henry Starling" was the necrophilac professional witness/doctor. "Morn" was the crazy defendant/drug guy who jumped up and attacked Helen.
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I also saw him play a lawyer just a few day's ago. And I don't know if his re-occuring role as headmaster of Buffy's school is already mentioned...
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Er, what? I didn't say anything about Picardo!
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(ref: First Contact)
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