loaded question: what’s a notion you hold about pop culture (movies, TV, comics, whatev) that you know is unreasonable but can’t shake?
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Forgive me if I’ve asked this question (or something close to it) recently. I feel like maybe I have, but I also couldn’t find anything like it when I ran a search. I might be feeling this way because this idea has been nagging at me since forever and I’ve always wanted to find an excuse to mention it (and, again, I might have already!). It’s this:
There’s something about an actor portraying a character that has the same first name as them that bugs me. (Oddly, I cannot recall an actor ever playing a character with the same last name as them. I suppose it’s probably happened, but maybe it’s not as conspicuous.) Obviously(?), I am not talking about actors playing some version of their actual selves, like — for an extreme example — John Malkovich in Being John Malkovich. But in other instances, the thing that springs to mind when I try to figure out why this bothers me is that I end up with the sneaking suspicion that this means that the actor is unable to lose themselves enough in a role so that they respond to the character’s name rather than their own name.
I know this is completely unreasonable of me! Especially since when I do come across an actor playing a character with their same name, they have inevitably done very well portraying other characters with whom they do not share a name. What I’m thinking makes no sense at all, is completely absurd, I know… and yet, there it is, always in the back of my mind, a dark earworm that I can’t not hear.
So: What’s a notion you hold about pop culture (movies, TV, comics, whatev) that you know is unreasonable but can’t shake?
loaded question: what’s a notion you hold about pop culture (movies, TV, comics, whatev) that you know is unreasonable but can’t shake?
loaded question: what’s a notion you hold about pop culture (movies, TV, comics, whatev) that you know is unreasonable but can’t shake?
loaded question: what’s a notion you hold about pop culture (movies, TV, comics, whatev) that you know is unreasonable but can’t shake?
Forgive me if I’ve asked this question (or something close to it) recently. I feel like maybe I have, but I also couldn’t find anything like it when I ran a search. I might be feeling this way because this idea has been nagging at me since forever and I’ve always wanted to find an excuse to mention it (and, again, I might have already!). It’s this:
There’s something about an actor portraying a character that has the same first name as them that bugs me. (Oddly, I cannot recall an actor ever playing a character with the same last name as them. I suppose it’s probably happened, but maybe it’s not as conspicuous.) Obviously(?), I am not talking about actors playing some version of their actual selves, like — for an extreme example — John Malkovich in Being John Malkovich. But in other instances, the thing that springs to mind when I try to figure out why this bothers me is that I end up with the sneaking suspicion that this means that the actor is unable to lose themselves enough in a role so that they respond to the character’s name rather than their own name.
I know this is completely unreasonable of me! Especially since when I do come across an actor playing a character with their same name, they have inevitably done very well portraying other characters with whom they do not share a name. What I’m thinking makes no sense at all, is completely absurd, I know… and yet, there it is, always in the back of my mind, a dark earworm that I can’t not hear.
So: What’s a notion you hold about pop culture (movies, TV, comics, whatev) that you know is unreasonable but can’t shake?
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