(04-03-2024, 03:48 PM)Caldrac Wrote: Hunter has a ton of talent. I like the show personally. I can respect the fact that she's trying to break the mold. Being typecasted is a death sentence for most actors. Game of Thrones is a good example. Peter Dinklage will never get much work due to his dwarfism but his ability to bring Tyrion Lannister to life was incredibly well done and it was a match made in heaven. With that said, he's a talented actor capable of displaying really good emotion on the big screen. 

I can't think of many actors breaking out from that show since then. Even the actor that played Jon Snow, Kit Harrington, he's fallen a bit into the typecast roles. Hunter I think has the potential to do something Jaye Davidson didn't have in his heart to do after a good stint in the 90's as a gay man. His androgynous look at the time alienated him in the Hollywood circuit but his roles in The Crying Game and Stargate are still remembered till this day and well respected. 

I just looked her up on IMDB and I would never have known she was once a dude by any of those photos. Her boobs are obviously not natural by the shape of them but I am actually impressed. That feels odd to say. Lol.

Mark Harmon is one who was stigmatized for a very long time for his excellent yet super creepy portrayal of Ted Bundy in The Deliberate Stranger (1986). Like, not necessarily in Hollywood because he kept getting work, but from the audience. I know I had a hard time seeing him as anyone else until he started NCIS. 

Of course I lived two blocks from the school where Bundy kidnapped his last victim, Kimberly Leach. Though it was several years later that we moved there and several more when I actually attended that school, stories were told and it was pretty scary for a young girl to hear. He was still alive and on death row when this aired on NBC and because he murdered a local girl he was in the local news. I was 14 years old at the time.  

So yeah, Mark Harmon was Ted Bundy for a long time to a lot of people. 

Back on topic, I'll have to watch something Hunter Schafer is in. I'm curious now. And you're right about Peter Dinklage. Dude is a really good actor but won't be in any "regular" roles because of his stature.

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