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Originally Posted by Pudding
Apart from bitch tit Bob, what other roles could be seen as challenging?
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I said that HE sees as challenging as an actor. The character in Focus is a good example, and imo not because it wasn't like his own personality; as an actor he wants to remove his own persona from any role. But to play it in such a way as to convey more than a one-dimensional prejudiced bully, therein lay the challenge imo and he pulled that off with great subtlety. When an actor can convey thoughts/feelings that are in conflict with what he's saying and how he's behaving .. that's skill.
I've not said Meat is the greatest actor that ever walked the stage, nor that he takes on roles other actors wouldn't be able to manage. He is however imo a skilled actor, and when he says (as he has done so often) that he looks for roles which make him think "How the hell could I play that?" I believe him .. only he knows what it is about a role that makes him think that, although in the case of Fred I think I can understand. He takes his craft seriously, and I do not for a moment think he would not mean what he says about how he selects roles.
I'd also like to see him in more roles which exploited his touch for light comedy. There were moments in Everything That Rises that played to that.
Caryl