daredevilkink | Discussion/Off-Topic Post #1

This is why I don't like RPF. I like TV shows. I like the characters on TV shows. I don't care about the personal lives of the actors who play them, nor do I think I should, or do I think they would want me to. If they go in and do their job, I'm happy. Elden did a great job as Foggy. Nothing else really matters.

There are only a few cases where I really started disliking a character because I had too many bad associations with the actor. In the MCU it's only been Hawkeye, because Jeremy Renner is a misogynist asshole and he is not remotely apologetic about it despite being given multiple chances to save face. So I have a little trouble with Hawkeye and I'm not too sad that they're obviously setting up to write him out of the MCU. But it's still not a big deal.

The thing about these interviews is they're supposed to be ridiculously scripted. Like when you see an actor on a talk show, being interviewed by the host, that's the second time that interview has been done. It was done in rehearsal (sometimes with a person just in charge of reading off the questions so the guest is familiar with them because the host has other things to do). There are no surprises. So it's actually interesting when you get a panel that doesn't have a clear script, and the actors - whose primary jobs are to read dialogue they didn't write - have to improvise without spoilers. It's why fan questions are discouraged or not allowed. Actors don't like questions about their characters they can't answer, and a lot of them are squicked out by all of the weird sexual stuff fans seem to think is canon and okay to ask questions about. Like, "Do you think [these two characters who aren't written gay] will ever get together?" is the worst question ever. You can go on fandom wank pages and find out about all of the shit the actors from Supernatural have been put through at cons, with teenage girls crying because their fanfic dreams aren't going to come true.

These people are professionals. They're doing a job. Leave them alone.

That said I'm inviting the Daredevil cast to my wedding and I will disappointed if they don't show. And I'm not kidding. I'm doing it as soon as the hall is booked.

PS It's actually not ridiculously hard to just get your lines that day and read them. They do a ton of shots. I once watched a filming of a scene of Matt and Foggy talking down a street in Harlem, and they booked the site for the entire DAY, with breaks every 4 hours because of SAG regulations. They started at the Rite Aid, talked, then paused at the corner of a street and talked more, then stopped. I was only there for half an hour and I saw them do it at least 15 times. So yeah, they're not doing Hamlet on stage here. They have a bunch of lines and they do them over and over and over again until every single part of the shot is right.

Yes. Exactly.

If you're not 100% with your lines to begin with, you sure as hell are by the time you're finished filming the scene.

Yes. They have a patron I comment on it earlier.
They are prepared to anwer this or that but when someone ask something that coughs them umprepared they kinda dont know what to do.
I noticed that Jon talking about the Punisher said the same things in three different interviews, same as when some ask for what they are doing for S2 and Elsen answers "eating doughnuts". Charlie always gets the more serious questions and Deborah is there to hint about the relationship that might or might not happen in s2.
Elden just told the truth when asked about what he did. If He doesnt read scripts well the he doesnt but that doesnt make his work less.

+1

I agree with this whole thing.

Like, I love Charlie but I just can't stand listening to him on panels because he stammers so much. If he knows ahead of time the things being asked, he's be much smother, but otherwise... yeah. ymmv, but I just can't listen to him speak lol.

So I mean, apparently Elden isn't that great with improvising smart answers to questions about his character that he's probably been told not to talk about. *shrugs*

Everyone else was just as awkward, imo. No big deal.

Interviewer: "Can I ask you guys for some questions which would obviously be spoilers for season 2?"
Panel "No dude we work for Marvel! We can't answer any of these questions or we'll be fired. Do you even know what spoilers are?"

There's a reason actors on talk shows spend their allotted time talking about their kids or their recent vacations and stuff.

What do they expect, a weary actor to say "fuck it, I can't stand all this money, having a semi-guaranteed job for the next few years, and money. We're doing x plotline and killing character y"

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