He's said similar things before, particularly about the character being inconsistent week-to-week. I don't think he realized that was true of most of the other characters, too, but I'm pretty sure that was his first experience as a regular on a series.

I dunno, I love Connor & S4, but I can't imagine it would have been a fun role to play.

It's weird because there's a cute moment in the page-to-screen featurette on the DVDs where he says that the first thing he did when he got the script was to call the writers and tell them it was all shit. And I thought he was joking. Apparently, there was a little truth to it.

I dunno, I love Connor & S4, but I can't imagine it would have been a fun role to play.

Yeah...I mean, I'm not thrilled that the actor playing one of my favorite characters was miserable on set, but I also kinda can't blame him.

Does anyone else think that he sounds like an asshole?

It happened for me at his answer to this question:

The Scanner: The writers do a fantastic job depicting the gender politics of that era. Do the scripts ever spark any discussion on set?

Kartheiser: Yeah, there are a lot of women on set who look at their characters’ lives and say, “Why did we ever burn our bras? Things were kinda nice.” . . .

Yeah, I agree with Sparky. I had to read that twice to be sure I got what he was saying.

That didn't read as assholey to me, because the women are saying that. not him. And the fact the women are saying that is what he finds interesting.

Yes, it's nice that your psychiatrist tells your husband about your sessions and calls you a child @@

Hmm, it doesn't read to me that way -- my reading of that whole paragraph is that he's using the "a lot of women" strawman (straw-people) to express what he's actually asserting as his opinion -- that he believes women (and men) were better off with those defined gender roles.

Hmm, it doesn't read to me that way -- my reading of that whole paragraph is that he's using the "a lot of women" strawman (straw-people) to express what he's actually asserting as his opinion -- that he believes women (and men) were better off with those defined gender roles.

me too. But I fully admit to a bias against him.

By the end of the paragraph, he's clearly asserting it as his own opinion.

And I'll agree with him that gender roles were more clearly defined at that time. But I can't agree that it was a good thing. A lot of people don't fit their preassigned roles.