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« on: January 17, 2017, 06:26:12 PM »Amazing that I have been in DS fandom for all these years (hell, all these decades ) and still find there are things that I haven't seen before.
Well, so far as Willie being a chauffeur in the first draft, we have to recall that at the time it was written, John Karlen was no longer on DS because he'd moved to LA after his exit from the 1897 storyline and he was pursuing work there. They may have thought they wouldn't be able to get Karlen for the film and would have to recast the role so they decided to take Willie in a somewhat different direction. But then when they were able to get Karlen back and he returned to the fold starting at the end of Leviathans (and continuing throughout the rest of the show), adjustments to the script were made accordingly...
Truthfully is was wonderful that they could get Karlen because Willie is one of the few fantastic things about hoDS. And that's probably why Karlen looks back so fondly on hoDS while many of the other actors do not...