I just had a discussion with someone about just this subject (see previous posts in this thread).
I totally agree that it is hypocritical. As I said earlier, when I watch the X Files or a movie with Nick in it, I am not thinking that "Oooh baby, Alex Krycek is hot!", I'm thinking "Christ on a pogo stick, that Nick Lea is Sex.On.Legs!".
It would be very difficult to convince me that people are really, truly thinking of only the characters and not the actor who plays them. There is just NO WAY you can separate them.
And I think the reverse is true as well; that the actor identifies with the characters because it may be something another person thought up, but the actor is the person that brought the character to life. In some cases, they created a wholly different character than the one that was originally envisioned, so it is truly their own. No one else but Nick Lea could or would have made Alex Krycek the wonderful character he was. And no one else but David Duchovny could or would have made Fox Mulder the incredible character he was.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
everybodyliesmd.livejournal.com at 02:26am on 18/11/2005![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
I totally agree that it is hypocritical. As I said earlier, when I watch the X Files or a movie with Nick in it, I am not thinking that "Oooh baby, Alex Krycek is hot!", I'm thinking "Christ on a pogo stick, that Nick Lea is Sex.On.Legs!".
It would be very difficult to convince me that people are really, truly thinking of only the characters and not the actor who plays them. There is just NO WAY you can separate them.
And I think the reverse is true as well; that the actor identifies with the characters because it may be something another person thought up, but the actor is the person that brought the character to life. In some cases, they created a wholly different character than the one that was originally envisioned, so it is truly their own. No one else but Nick Lea could or would have made Alex Krycek the wonderful character he was. And no one else but David Duchovny could or would have made Fox Mulder the incredible character he was.