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Current Talk '24 I / Re:WB ORDERS FILMING OF NEW DS PILOT
« on: March 30, 2004, 11:04:16 PM »Do YOU think they would have hired someone who looked like a young Jonathan Frid for this role? I doubt it.
I'd have to check, but Frid might have actually been a good looking young man (not that he was by any means ugly when he was on DS - but I suppose one could say that he wasn't the conventional idea of handsome).
The thing I come away with from the casting choices that have been made is that, with few exceptions (Alec Newman not being one of them), these new actors have a background in live theater - and truthfully, after having read the article about the WB DS casting director to which I posted a link to in the topic "Out of the 'Shadows'" on this board, I can't say that surprises me in the least. One of the best things about the actors in the original cast was that many also had theater backgrounds - that's one of things that often made their work so strong - and I take it as a good sign that this new cast has similar backgrounds. Yes, they're also attractive people. But, frankly, we shouldn't exactly hold that against them...