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« on: November 17, 2012, 07:26:35 PM »
Thanks for all that, MB! I think that "For the life of me, I sometimes wonder what all the fuss is about." was self-deprecating. It seems JF was mainly fixating on his own performance, noting any and all flaws, which a professional would do. That's a necessary but gruelling attitude for an artist to take, who is trying to do his best. Viewers are free to appreciate what succeeded and not require more, but he wasn't.
A daily soap opera that was straining to be much more than that (and so hired a Shakespearean actor for it), but which still had to crank one out every day and move on, had to be galling and frustrating for an actor who is used to thinking in terms of carefully crafted productions where every detail is worked out. Single out any individual DS episode and watch it as a play or film, and you might just notice all the frayed edges and lines that could heve been delivered better in later takes...
I knew someone else must have done that age-mask. That's the best aging of an actor that I've ever seen. The regular guy should have kept silent and taken notes...