urn:lj:insanejournal.com:atom1:explodeycakes ... so get ready to tongue your meds. incogneato83@gmail.com The Artist Permanently Known as Magz 2007-08-20T19:40:04Z urn:lj:insanejournal.com:atom1:explodeycakes:437949 2007-08-20T19:40:04Z 2007-08-20T19:40:04Z I'm pretty sure Alec McClure's been having a tough time finding work since playing Chris Hobbs on <i>Queer as Folk</i>. 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 <i>four roles</i>. One per year since 2004. However! I totally just saw him for two seconds in a <a href="http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/mgm/larsandtherealgirl/trailer/">movie trailer</a>.<br /><br />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.]<br /><br />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 <i>Queer as Folk</i> 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.