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Which do you like better: a very good athlete who struggles in an acting role for TV or movies, or an actor who struggles with the athletic aspect of the character?
This became an issue for me because I was watching "The Cleaner" last night... solid television show by the way... where a young basketball prospect got into herion. Here's the part that made me angry:
1. They found some 5'8 white boy to play a senior in high school that all the colleges are fighting over. Really?
2. They had terrible slow-motion shots of his shooting form... which looked like all the wrong parts of a Shaun Marion three pointer... followed by cutaways to the ball going in. I think the editor of the show was hired from Saved By The Bell.
I couldn't help but wonder why The Professor of And I couldn't have tried out for the role... he can at least sell me on his role in the first few scenes, even if his acting is as dry as Shaq in Blue Chips.
Then I thought about Micheal Phelps on Saturday Night Live the previous evening... Phelps on stage was nearly unwatchable and probably limited his future sex partners from the millions to the tens of thousands.
So which is better: Actor trying to be athletic, or athlete? Has anyone ever gotten it just right?
This became an issue for me because I was watching "The Cleaner" last night... solid television show by the way... where a young basketball prospect got into herion. Here's the part that made me angry:
1. They found some 5'8 white boy to play a senior in high school that all the colleges are fighting over. Really?
2. They had terrible slow-motion shots of his shooting form... which looked like all the wrong parts of a Shaun Marion three pointer... followed by cutaways to the ball going in. I think the editor of the show was hired from Saved By The Bell.
I couldn't help but wonder why The Professor of And I couldn't have tried out for the role... he can at least sell me on his role in the first few scenes, even if his acting is as dry as Shaq in Blue Chips.
Then I thought about Micheal Phelps on Saturday Night Live the previous evening... Phelps on stage was nearly unwatchable and probably limited his future sex partners from the millions to the tens of thousands.
So which is better: Actor trying to be athletic, or athlete? Has anyone ever gotten it just right?