Yeah, he should've done like Denise Crosby and Will Wheaton and left the show of he was so worried about being typecast. That worked well for them.
I swear, the more I read about the ole production days of TNG the more I hate the cast. With one or two exceptions it seemed like everybody there was some frustrated artist, irritated because they caught their big break in what they perceived to be a silly little Sci Fi show for young boys.
The only two of the main cast I still like on any level are Frakes and O'Meaney. Frakes is on the record as hating how the new wave of actors wants to "make the role their own", and O'Meaney has ripped Hollywood for how they make really racist stereotypes (all Irish have to have the same accent, act the same, etc.) while trying to portray themselves as being non-racist.
Oh, O'Meaney has talked about how the TNG producers wanted him to do a Cork accent (oh, laddie, d'ye knoo, t' tradeetionahl accent o' t' old Caintry?), and didn't realize that there were more Irish accents than that.
The worst part of the modern era and the destruction of the "real actors vs fake show" line is that so many great performances are just shattered in my mind of their excellence by they being shit people. It's like that Kids in the Hall skit where the mayor is in a jam tasting contest, picks a winner, and the crowd gasps because he picked a child molester's jam.
Not that the acting in TNG is particularly exceptional, but it still captured my imagination.
Yeah, he should've done like Denise Crosby and Will Wheaton and left the show of he was so worried about being typecast. That worked well for them.
I swear, the more I read about the ole production days of TNG the more I hate the cast. With one or two exceptions it seemed like everybody there was some frustrated artist, irritated because they caught their big break in what they perceived to be a silly little Sci Fi show for young boys.
The only two of the main cast I still like on any level are Frakes and O'Meaney. Frakes is on the record as hating how the new wave of actors wants to "make the role their own", and O'Meaney has ripped Hollywood for how they make really racist stereotypes (all Irish have to have the same accent, act the same, etc.) while trying to portray themselves as being non-racist.
O'Brien
Racist stereotype
Made to suffer
Oh, O'Meaney has talked about how the TNG producers wanted him to do a Cork accent (oh, laddie, d'ye knoo, t' tradeetionahl accent o' t' old Caintry?), and didn't realize that there were more Irish accents than that.
Is there even an "O" in his name? I thought it was just Colm Meaney.
The worst part of the modern era and the destruction of the "real actors vs fake show" line is that so many great performances are just shattered in my mind of their excellence by they being shit people. It's like that Kids in the Hall skit where the mayor is in a jam tasting contest, picks a winner, and the crowd gasps because he picked a child molester's jam.
Not that the acting in TNG is particularly exceptional, but it still captured my imagination.