Ever wonder if one role can ruin an actor's career?
I'm pretty sure Alec McClure's been having a tough time finding work since playing Chris Hobbs on Queer as Folk. It's a shame -- he's obviously a good actor [and fecking hot, too]. Since that season 4 episode of QaF, he's been credited for four roles. One per year since 2004. However! I totally just saw him for two seconds in a movie trailer.
Maybe things are looking up for the guy who might've made a wee mistake playing a gay-bashing closet case. [To find him in the trailer, skip almost to the end -- he's a little blurry in the background at 2:10-2:14.]
To be all conclusionary and stuff... hate the character. Not the actor. Mr. McClure was brilliant as Chris[tian? according to TV.com and IMDB] Hobbs. He gave life to the character everyone despised. And while it's not horrendously difficult to hate a character that's so outrageously bigoted and loathesome, it's admirable of Alec to have gone onto the set of a show like Queer as Folk and act his little but off in a way that was completely unlike the rest of the cast, because his character was so far removed. That takes balls.
Maybe things are looking up for the guy who might've made a wee mistake playing a gay-bashing closet case. [To find him in the trailer, skip almost to the end -- he's a little blurry in the background at 2:10-2:14.]
To be all conclusionary and stuff... hate the character. Not the actor. Mr. McClure was brilliant as Chris[tian? according to TV.com and IMDB] Hobbs. He gave life to the character everyone despised. And while it's not horrendously difficult to hate a character that's so outrageously bigoted and loathesome, it's admirable of Alec to have gone onto the set of a show like Queer as Folk and act his little but off in a way that was completely unlike the rest of the cast, because his character was so far removed. That takes balls.
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