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Re: Recast Foggy?

[(Anonymous)]

also, i'm not TOTALLY sure that he's not a comic book fan at all? the director of chronicle did a short movie a while back explaining the death (and rebirth) of superman and it was a low budget and intentionally terrible film and elden was in it playing doomsday, the monster basically responsible for the death of superman. you can watch it here: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0PlwDbSYicM (i warn you there's one joke made in bad taste about self harm so that may require a content warning but otherwise it's a really informative and funny short)

what i'm saying here is elden is obviously capable of enjoying filming and has agreed to work on a REALLY nerdy short video with the director of Mother Fucking Chronicle so i think the fact that he didn't seem all that into dd s1 can be chalked up to all the bullshit he had going on in his personal life at the time. overall he seems like a really nice person but maybe his overall calmness re:netflix dd is kinda jarring to us because we're so used to seeing actors go on tv shows for interviews and positively gush about doing a marvel movie (also keep in mind elden's character isn't the superhero, and most of the "non-heroic" actors seem about as calm as he does about their job, lol)

Re: Recast Foggy?

[(Anonymous)]

I've seen a lot of interviews with Elden because I liked Foggy and I wanted to know what the actor was like behind the character. TBH my first impression of Foggy was not good. I mistook him for Jack Black at first and the acting kind of cemented it for a few minutes? I was so D: at first. And I know they shot some episodes out of order and maybe it had a lot to do with the Matt/Foggy relationship but I really reallllly appreciated Nelson vs Murdock; I was buying Elden as Foggy by then. But his after S1 interviews? Yeah, he comes off as a little blase, a little indifferent, with the exception of one where they asked him if he liked the new DD suit (augh, not even a question about Foggy, but about DD!) and poor Elden kind of lit up a little and said yeah, everybody on set was all about the new DD suit and he said that he really wanted to try it on but they only made it in one size and Elden said he was too fat to fit into it. :( :( :( iirc he said something similar in another interview previously, except he said that he'd had too many donuts at the craft table and the DD suit was a sample size, way too small for him, but he laughed. And the second interview where he says he was 'TOO FAT' he was smiling but he seemed also a little challenging about it?

Look, OP, I hope he's not a jerk in his after S2 interviews, I really do, I hope he doesn't do the red carpet premiere thing again about DD being just a paycheck but if he does, well, it's cool, he's an actor, we don't all love our jobs, either, and he's entitled to be a normal guy. Fandom won't love him for it, that's for sure, but he's entitled to his opinions. I mean, he said some really appreciative things about Charlie Cox's amazing ass lol so I don't think Elden would have a problem with the Matt/Foggy stuff if he ever got harassed about it, and he seems to be sensitive to gendered issues, so as long as he's not a raging asshole, I'm sure fandom will still appreciate him in the role, yknow? Hey, at least Foggy is a ray of sunshine even if Elden isn't.

Re: Recast Foggy?

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt: YEAH, shrug, idk, i think that his comments about being "too big/too fat for x or y" were understandable? i mean, i'm not fat but i feel like people constantly underestimating your size bc they're used to fitting for smaller people must get kinda irritating? i'm actually impressed he's as upfront about being fat as he is, though, i really appreciate how he talks about himself. like, on top of that the dude braids his hair and paints his nails, he's obviously quite secure in his identity? idk, i admire that, y'know?

AND NOOOO DON'T TALK TO ME ABOUT HIM POSSIBLY TURNING OUT TO BE AN ASSHOLE, i'm still suffering from constant anxiety that someone's going to try and pull a "your fav is problematic" on him or charlie for something minor augh

Re: Recast Foggy?

[(Anonymous)]

Look, fandom is fandom and they're going to put the 'your fave is problematic' on all of the actors in DD eventually, it's only a matter of time. Because fandom is fandom.