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Post by jjpor on Feb 24, 2009 22:12:31 GMT
So, I don't know about anybody else, but the TV show Law and Order is one of my guilty pleasures - I find the wisecracking police-procedural stuff enormously entertaining for some reason, and the courtroom stuff is okay as well. It also has about a million more-or-less identical spinoffs as well, the Torchwoods to its Who, if you will.
So, Law and Order UK, the latest such spinoff, and set here in good old Blighty for some reason, started last night. And the only reason I mention it is that there was some sort of cavalcade (well, three) of people from TV SF showing up in it. Firstly was our very own Freema in the sidekick-lawyer role (she was quite good); ex-footballer, sometime comedian and SJA creepy clown guest-star Bradley Walsh as the world-weary senior copper on the case, and Jamie Bamber out of the remake of Battlestar Galactica as his junior partner. Quite strange really; I kept expecting the main suspect to turn out to be a Slitheen or something.
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Post by Stripes on Feb 24, 2009 22:15:47 GMT
So, I don't know about anybody else, but the TV show Law and Order is one of my guilty pleasures - I find the wisecracking police-procedural stuff enormously entertaining for some reason, and the courtroom stuff is okay as well. It also has about a million more-or-less identical spinoffs as well, the Torchwoods to its Who, if you will. So, Law and Order UK, the latest such spinoff, and set here in good old Blighty for some reason, started last night. And the only reason I mention it is that there was some sort of cavalcade (well, three) of people from TV SF showing up in it. Firstly was our very own Freema in the sidekick-lawyer role (she was quite good); ex-footballer, sometime comedian and SJA creepy clown guest-star Bradley Walsh as the world-weary senior copper on the case, and Jamie Bamber out of the remake of Battlestar Galactica as his junior partner. Quite strange really; I kept expecting the main suspect to turn out to be a Slitheen or something. I understand singers going into acting but ex footballers going into acting seems weird. Sports and Art are two different things.
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Post by jjpor on Feb 24, 2009 22:22:44 GMT
It is a strange career arc, actually. To be fair, I think his footballing career was literally years and years ago and cut short by injury (I think he played for some lousy lower-division club like Gillingham or something...I could google it, but I'm not that bothered...). He was the face of about a hundred cheesy gameshows in the 90s, and then turned up in Coronation Street, which is really what he's best known for. And then he was a killer clown in SJA...
But then there's former Arsenal player Ian Wright, who built a career for himself in light entertainment after he stopped playing. And Man Utd legend Eric Cantona has appeared in quite a few films in his native France, apparently. So, it's not unheard of. Possibly the only reason to watch the film Goal! and its sequels is to watch the likes of Liverpool oldboy Steve McManaman embarrassing themselves pretending to act...
And then there's the film Escape to Victory, which has to be seen to be disbelieved. Michael Caine! Sly Stallone! A load of real-life 70s-era footballers! Playing a match against the Nazis! In World War Two! So very wrong and yet so right...
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Post by Stripes on Mar 1, 2009 21:35:55 GMT
I am not saying that it hasn't happen before (Footballers going into acting). I just don't think it should go together.
Ian Wright, I found out about that footballer when I was googled Ian Wright hoping to find Ian Wright from Lonely Planet.
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Post by jjpor on Mar 1, 2009 22:29:40 GMT
No, I think you have a good point there, Newton - I said various footballers have done a bit of acting - I never said any of them were any _good_ at acting! ;D
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