Re : The Perfect Jay
Camille Scaysbrook (the_globe@hotmail.com)
Sun, 05 Apr 1998 04:30:43 -0700 (PDT)
> So, *in this case*, you see no sin in merging ficticious roles with
psyches
> from the here and now? You think about it. (I decided to withhold the
damning
> exclamation mark.)
> Steve
Acting is a very, very different business to writing. For example,
Gwyneth
Paltrow is unlikely to ever play an ass kicking murderous commando.
Likewise, Arnold Schwartznegger is not going to play the grown up Will
Hunting in `Good Will Hunting II'. I've been in the acting rat race;
done
the casting agent shit and there's no pretty way of putting it. It's a
meat
market. You do get judged totally on your looks. If you are already
famous
and have a set `persona' predescribed for you by the media, you are most
likely going to get typecast in those sort of roles - i.e. Gwyneth is
going
to be playing a lot of sweet love interests and Arnie will be blasting
those baddies for a while yet before embarking upon that series of Kafka
adaptations I know he's been dying to do (: Like I said, it's an
entirely
different ballgame, and with someone like Courtney Love especially, it
is
almost impossible to separate her public persona from any role she is
going
to play (e.g. Althea Flynt) I wish it wasn't so myself, but it is. It's
impossible in many cases to separate an actor from their role (e.g. how
many times is Jack Nicholson gonna get away with playing @#$% Jack
Nicholson in every role he gets ???). An actor always has to put a
little
of themselves into a role, be it as little as the character looks
exactly
like them, or like your Arnies and suchlike, they just play themselves
over
and over again .So yes, a whole different set of rules apply here and I
think it's fair, even imperative, to say that in the case of an actor
there
is an unavoidable interaction between fictional and real persona.
Camille
verona_beach@geocities.com
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