Are you kidding? Most actors love playing anyone who's different in anyway. Serial killer, rapist, mentally challenged, blind, missing a limb, schizophrenic, drugged addicted, Nazi, tormented artist (all at once and you're guaranteed some kind of nomination)...it's all good. It gives them tons of meat from which to create a character, and lots of opportunities for costumes, props, and interesting physicality.
Zoe: I thought you wanted to spend more time off-ship this visit. Wash: Out there is seems like it's all fancy parties. I like our party better. The dress code is easier and I know all the steps.
'Shindig'
The Minearverse 3: The Network Is a Harsh Mistress
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Sue - Jun 19, 2005 6:26:05 pm PDT #9657 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 19, 2005 6:36:22 pm PDT #9658 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Oh, no argument it was a plum role with lots of great facets for an actor to explore. It's just the "I wrote this character for you!" element that struck me as having awkwardness potential.
BartlebyFink - Jun 19, 2005 6:50:03 pm PDT #9659 of 10001
One Hot Burrito!
Awesome performance aside, my favorite part about that guy is that he directed PCU.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 19, 2005 7:04:02 pm PDT #9660 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I have to admit the "Afternoon Delight" prank/torture scene is a comedic moment that I've remembered fondly for years and years. Despite a friend actually doing something like that to me with "Party Man."
DavidS - Jun 19, 2005 7:30:40 pm PDT #9661 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
And then, something miraculous happened: The executives at Fox hired Tim Minear to salvage the project. Minear worked his way up the TV ladder as a writer on various shows until he made his mark on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer spin-off, Angel. From there he executive produced the critically-lauded Firefly in 2002 before creating Wonderfalls last year. How good is Minear? It would not be rash to consider him one of the five best minds in television.
Aww man. They got that he didn't work on Buffy, but he wasn't a creator of Wonderfalls. They brought him in as showrunner after it was already together.
BartlebyFink - Jun 19, 2005 10:04:14 pm PDT #9662 of 10001
One Hot Burrito!
He still wrote one of the, for my money, best episodes of that entire series.
tiggy - Jun 20, 2005 2:07:18 am PDT #9663 of 10001
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
Awesome performance aside, my favorite part about that guy is that he directed PCU.
heh. i love that movie. "this penis party's got to go. hey hey! ho ho!"
Daisy Jane - Jun 20, 2005 2:21:35 am PDT #9664 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
One of my all time favorites!
"We will not pro-test!" "We Will not pro-test!"
"Gutter is a tool" "Gutter is a tool"
Vortex - Jun 20, 2005 7:52:05 am PDT #9665 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
he made his mark on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer spin-off, Angel.
This is why people think that he worked on Buffy, it should be "made his mark on Angel, the Buffy the Vampire Slayer spin-off."
Maybe Strong kept the hair to remind himself that he was heterosexual. His hatred of Brandt became twisted up with sex, He wanted to rape Brandt, but it was about the power, not the sex.
Allyson - Jun 20, 2005 8:08:12 am PDT #9666 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I very much disagree. I think Strong was gay, self-hating, and hated his attraction to Brandt so much that he became obsessed with him. Blamed Brandt for that attraction. I think the rapes were a sick way of fucking Brandt, being inside the place he was just inside. These rapes weren't about power at all, I don't think. Not in the sense of the typical rape mentality of exerting power over women and treating them like holes to be used.
This was about being close to Brandt. I don't know why he kept the hair aside from it being useful to the plot. Cutting it was to make the victims more Brandt-like. Spraying cologne on them to make them smell like him.
I think these rapes were really about the sex, about him using these women as a surrogate for Brandt.