Casting for Angel
Apr. 7th, 2004 02:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwynHow cool is it that my beloved Adam Baldwin is going to be on Angel? I'm terribly excited -- before he was Jayne, he was a long-time favorite, back from his first movie. It's a lovely litle early '80s gem called My Bodyguard, and if you've never seen it, you should so rent it. He plays this tortured hulking kid who is hired as a bodyguard by another kid in high school who is being tormented mercilessly by the class thugs (led by infant Matt Dillon!), and his terrible, sad secret slowly comes out as he's befriended by the kid who hired him, and the friends in his small circle of fellow picked-on students. It has a lovely cast full of old pros like John Houseman and Ruth Gordon, and Clifford's dad is played by Martin Mull, and there are performances by not just baby Matt Dillon but baby Joan Cusack as well.
I remember being seriously annoyed when I found out that Adam wouldn't be the lead in Firefly like I'd thought he would be when I read of the casting. I'd never heard of Nathan Fillion (and if you think this is your cue to write to me and be hipper than thou because you've been in love with him since you saw him on some obscure Canadian thing or a soap or the pizza show, please don't, because to quote Tommy Lee Jones, I don't care!), and so I was all grumbly about how many movies Adam had been in and how talented he was and it was just because he was so big and blah blah. Then, of course, I saw my first ep of Firefly and never thought of it again -- Nathan had me at hello.
But I still adore Adam, and he was just so wonderful as Jayne. Few people could play that level of irritating, stupid macho bullshit and humanity, and he was often just so funny I howled. But he was good with the dramatic stuff, too -- that lovely scene at the end of Jaynestown with Mal is still my favorite, as is the way he hovers behind the window when Kaylee is being operated on in Serenity. I love the way Joss keeps recycling his Firefly actors! This is why I love the man.
Sigh. Must go watch Firefly eps, and see if I can dig up the crummy 7th season X-Files eps he's in.
I remember being seriously annoyed when I found out that Adam wouldn't be the lead in Firefly like I'd thought he would be when I read of the casting. I'd never heard of Nathan Fillion (and if you think this is your cue to write to me and be hipper than thou because you've been in love with him since you saw him on some obscure Canadian thing or a soap or the pizza show, please don't, because to quote Tommy Lee Jones, I don't care!), and so I was all grumbly about how many movies Adam had been in and how talented he was and it was just because he was so big and blah blah. Then, of course, I saw my first ep of Firefly and never thought of it again -- Nathan had me at hello.
But I still adore Adam, and he was just so wonderful as Jayne. Few people could play that level of irritating, stupid macho bullshit and humanity, and he was often just so funny I howled. But he was good with the dramatic stuff, too -- that lovely scene at the end of Jaynestown with Mal is still my favorite, as is the way he hovers behind the window when Kaylee is being operated on in Serenity. I love the way Joss keeps recycling his Firefly actors! This is why I love the man.
Sigh. Must go watch Firefly eps, and see if I can dig up the crummy 7th season X-Files eps he's in.
