best actor on serenity
POSTED BY: meleaux
UPDATED: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 22:25
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I agree with SevenPercent and Ghoulman, Summer Glau. She has the least to work with to develop her character, and yet she hits her scenes out of the park.
My one technical complaint with her is her laugh - it feels forced sometimes. A couple of the actors in one of the commentaries mentioned how much they hated laughing scenes and how hard they were. That's where experience comes in handy and Summer has almost none.
I'd put Nathan fillion second. He has THE major role and he carries off everything they give him, including the undertones. I'd fault him for one thing, but it may be in the writing, not his portrayal. That would be in how aware he is of Inara's attraction to him. She's shown it often enough, but in HOG and other eps he varies in his awareness of it.
Adam Baldwin is third. It's hard to play a man who's stupid in some ways, but no fool in others. AB pulls it off easily.
The others are bunched closely behind and my ratings change with my mood. I don't know who is actually the best actor of the bunch, by the way. I'm rating them on how much they've done with what they've been given.
Jewel Staite could be higher, for example, but Kaylee's a relatively simple character, so, so far, Jewel hasn't had as many chances to shine. Her work when Early threatens Kaylee was riveting though, as Joss said in the commentary. Given the chance she showed she can do great work. And that's true of the whole cast.
shambleau
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I think I'm gonna have to jump in with the majority here.
Summer Glau
This is pretty much her first ever full time acting job, and look at the job she does.
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It's a toss up between Ron Glass and Adam Baldwin.
Mr Glass... what a wonderful treasure of the entertainment industry. My goodness the quality of his body of work is just brought to full bore in the way he understates his perormance on the show. If you ever saw the episode where he played Satan on the 80's remake of The Twilight Zone it'll make you chill. Excellemt actor indeed.
Adam Baldwin... He's done some real bad movies in his day but he was never bad in them. How can you forget him in Full Metal Jacket! (I have a bias agains Stanly Kubrick) The way he attacks his role as Jayne is so texured and layered. In Ariel when he said that Simons plan was good didn't you feel the insecurities that foreshadowed his actions later in the ep?
More than my two bits... sorry.
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