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Post by queenzod on Mar 1, 2017 7:20:07 GMT
Re: Infinity Wars, he just said on ET Online that he'll be there, he has the script, and he's very excited about it.
I'm convinced he's making clones of himself in his basement. If that's true and you're listening, Ben, can I get on the waiting list for one of those? K,thanksbye.
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Post by igs on Mar 1, 2017 7:29:58 GMT
With a TV budget making a 40-year-old man look 20 may be a disaster. I remember when Breaking Bad did that with Giancarlo Esposito, he looked awful, and that was for a 10-minute bit. The difference that 20 years makes is massive. I'm sure Benedict would like to play Melrose in those formative years, but bending the realities of age is something even he can't do lol.
I'm on board with Colin Morgan as the younger version of the character. He's talented and looks like BC. If Melrose is supposed to be early-20s (I haven't read the books) then even Morgan is a bit old, but he's still 10 years younger than BC and let's be honest, it's not like there's an abundance of actors out there who look like them!
And to roverpup who suggested Thomas Vinterberg, hell yes! The Hunt is fantastic.
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Post by coolclearwaters on Mar 1, 2017 8:01:58 GMT
With a TV budget making a 40-year-old man look 20 may be a disaster. I remember when Breaking Bad did that with Giancarlo Esposito, he looked awful, and that was for a 10-minute bit. The difference that 20 years makes is massive. I'm sure Benedict would like to play Melrose in those formative years, but bending the realities of age is something even he can't do lol. We'll see. In all fairness, Giancarlo Esposito is almost 60 years old. Even five years ago, he was in his 50s. Actors play younger all the time. Jake Gyllenhaal did it recently for some segments of Nocturnal Animals. I don't want to give too much away, but the young Patrick Melrose in the second book (Bad News, not Mother's Milk) is not healthy because ...I can't make spoilers work and it's driving me nuts! Let me try this: {Spoiler:}
He spends the entire book on a truly epic drug bender. In fact, when the book begins, he is recovering from one of many ODs. He will also probably spend most of his time all bundled up to hide tracks. If Benedict is this enough and has hair that falls over his forehead, I think he can pull it off.
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Post by igs on Mar 1, 2017 8:23:05 GMT
In all fairness, Giancarlo Esposito is almost 60 years old. Even five years ago, he was in his 50s. True. Although in the flashback I mentioned he was supposed to be around 30 not 20, I just meant that making someone look 20 years younger than their age is pretty tricky if the project doesn't have a massive budget. It's easier to make a younger actor look older with make-up than the other way around. I don't know what's happening with the spoilers, but I can't make them show. :/
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Post by coolclearwaters on Mar 1, 2017 8:36:41 GMT
Sorry. The problem seems to be with the idiot (me) trying to post spoilers. I can't seem to do it. Now I can't even delete the spoiler warning for the non-existent spoiler.
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Post by coolclearwaters on Mar 1, 2017 8:44:36 GMT
I sort of fixed the spoiler.
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Post by sgev1977 on Mar 1, 2017 12:08:34 GMT
I think he was convincing like teenager Richard in The Hollow Crown. Of course he looked physically much bigger than the actor playing his little brother (a real teenager) but still he really looked very young and credible in those scenes. The actors playing his bigger brothers looked all the time like like forty-something but somehow he is very good playing the "growing old" thing (when he was a twenty something he did the opposite, going for a young man to a forty-something man in Amazing Grace).
Also just 3 years ago he played a twenty-something and forty-something Alan Turing.
Daniel Day Lewis was almost 40 when he played the hero of In the Name of the Father from 20 to 40. He also looked very big to be that age in the early scenes but the performance was convincing enough and like BC he is very good playing characters who go from really young to mature men.
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Post by roverpup on Mar 1, 2017 12:49:33 GMT
The Hollow Crown did not have a massive budget and I think they pulled it off making BC look younger in the different stages of his life throughout the two episodes he played Richard (which spanned a considerable amount of time, if I recall). And I think BC is still young enough (and seems to have an uncanny ability to become a lot "younger" through his body language and expressiveness of his eyes and facial movements) to erase quite a few years from his character. If they went the route of using another actor for the salad days of the character I think they would have to be very mindful of just who they picked to be a younger version of BC - he has a unique look about him that is hard to convincingly reproduce (I thought a very credible job was done with choosing Alex Lawther as a young version of BC's Alan Turing, but they did have the advantage of showing someone as a teenager compared to someone at post pubescent stage in life). I guess we will just have to wait and see how they handle this sort of thing. :-))
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Post by mllemass on Mar 1, 2017 13:01:14 GMT
We recently saw him in a blond ponytail playing a construction worker/stripper in a skit on SNL, so I think he can be believable playing someone in his 20's. If he had to do it for all 5 episodes, then it might be a problem. But the audience will accept it if the character ages throughout the story. I also don't think that North Americans are familiar enough with him to know his age. There are people tweeting all the time saying they didn't know that the actor playing Doctor Strange was also in The Imitation Game or Sherlock. So if this is meant to be shown outside the UK, a lot of the audience won't know who he is.
Look at those guys on the Big Bang Theory! They're probably 10 years older than the characters they play.
And other than in Risky Business, where he was only 4 years older than his character, I don't think Tom Cruise has ever played anyone close to his actual age. I've actually kept track of it because he's slightly older than I am in real life - but not in movies.
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Post by ellie on Mar 1, 2017 13:03:59 GMT
Personally I hate it when they change actors for a character during a story which requires the person to age. I think I'd rather accept BC as slightly old looking twenty-something than have two actors play the role. I think it really needs one actor from start to finish.
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