Theatre folk are often touchy-feely. Hugging happens.
Willow ,'Bring On The Night'
The Minearverse 4: Support Group for Clumsy People
[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.
Tim, I think I get put off a little becasue he is saying basically what Smg , Db and even Eliza have said, yet they were all called ungrateful, while he is being called smart. Whatever. That is why I am the fan not the writter or director.
Diagnosis: Fandomitis.
and the cure,please.
See your user name?
Health insurance?
No cure has yet been found.
While I was disappointed to hear that SMG didn't want to do any Buffy movies, I wasn't disappointed in her, if that makes any sense. It seemed perfectly reasonable that she might be tired of the character after 7 years and not want to return to it. Ditto for DB being tired of playing Angel 14 hours a day year round and only wanting to continue in a new format.
Not wanting to return to a character unless the co-workers whose show added a year to your career are shunted to the side to give you center stage seems rather more self-aggrandizing to me. And I think I'd still feel that way if the comments were coming from Alyson Hannigan, J. August Richards, Amy Acker, or another actor whose character I'd actually be interested in seeing more of.
I think he was saying, I have played this character as a sidekick for 8 years. if I am going to commit to returning to him, I want to play him a the center of a the story. I want to play Spike as the person who does things, rather than the guy who snarks at people doing things. That doesn't seem odd to me. If any of the Scoobs said the same thing I would understand it.
I agree. I think Tim makes a good point too, in that most actors would be thinking the same thing, and JM had the candor to say it, and it's not like he said it in a nasty way.
I'm not so much put off by his wanting to be the main character as his specifically mentioning other actors and saying it would be okay if they were in his movie but only if they don't upstage him. It seems a pointlessly petty way of getting his point across.