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iirc her being Bing's daughter didn't come up a lot in interviews intentionally as she was touchy about it
I thought she was okay enough for her sort of type. Not life-changing acting but decent enough for 80s procedural drama tv or stuff like that
 
She's lucky to have the name since her mom had to sue for support. Not what I'd consider a nepo baby. But it sounds like she lucked out meeting/marrying Blake Edwards' son on the posthumous Inspector Clouseau movie (who was an actual nepo baby.)

Her biggest contribution to Trek is Trekkies, a fascinating film that shows the kind of goodwill that real Star Trek engenders. Imagine a documentary about the nutrek fans. Wonder where the dentist and the spiner-femmes are now.
 
XYZpdq Jr. said:
iirc her being Bing's daughter didn't come up a lot in interviews intentionally as she was touchy about it
I thought she was okay enough for her sort of type. Not life-changing acting but decent enough for 80s procedural drama tv or stuff like that
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I like Bing, but let’s be honest, he wasn’t exactly Joaquin Phoenix-ing it up. He's just kind of half-drunk all the time.

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I like Bing, but let’s be honest, he wasn’t exactly Joaquin Phoenix-ing it up. He's just kind of half-drunk all the time.

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having a thing you do in movies and doing it in seventy three movies as ostensibly different characters most of the time was a pretty common thing
 
Daily Fail being trash as usual.

I notice the article failed to mention her home burnt to the ground in the Palisades fire last year.
 
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His IMDb just says: 1943 – Flustered Man. 1944 – Stressed-Out Man in a Tuxedo. 1945 – European Who Cannot Finish Sentence.
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I recall an interview with white bald military guy who was in SG-1, he played the old white bald military guy in who knows how many movies and tv shows. he observed on questions about being typecast "it's better to be typecast than not cast"
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  1. I recognized her right away.
  2. My big takeaway is that she's 68.
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yeah I bothered to click, she looks pretty reasonable for 68
tbh looks like she hasn't gotten a ton of work done
 
XYZpdq Jr. said:
I recall an interview with white bald military guy who was in SG-1, he played the old white bald military guy in who knows how many movies and tv shows. he observed on questions about being typecast "it's better to be typecast than not cast"
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Don Davis was replaced with Beau Bridges, who is also typecast to an insane degree. I saw him turn up on the new Matlock and he's just playing the Dad who's about to betray you or already did.
 
Aight I'm almost done with DS9 season four and I'm curious - did any boomers that watched the show as it was coming out suspect Eddington was gonna be a bad actor or was it a shock? I was birthed into this world between seasons six and seven so I missed out
 
Platonic Ideal said:
Aight I'm almost done with DS9 season four and I'm curious - did any boomers that watched the show as it was coming out suspect Eddington was gonna be a bad actor or was it a shock? I was birthed into this world between seasons six and seven so I missed out
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I thought Eddington was terrible, easily the worst part of DS9. The actor does not have the face or hair for that charisma, and for some reason no one running the show ever got that. Eddington calling Sisko Javert was retarded. The hologram on the bridge as a communication method was retarded. He was sympathetic when he was pathetic, but they needed a far better actor to be the face of the Maquis. So far the most charismatic ex-Maquis is Torres. Beltran is a sleepy Mexican cosplaying Native American.
 
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I thought Eddington was terrible, easily the worst part of DS9. The actor does not have the face or hair for that charisma, and for some reason no one running the show ever got that. Eddington calling Sisko Javert was retarded. The hologram on the bridge as a communication method was retarded. He was sympathetic when he was pathetic, but they needed a far better actor to be the face of the Maquis. So far the most charismatic ex-Maquis is Torres. Beltran is a sleepy Mexican cosplaying Native American.
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I felt he did an alright job. Though I thought the flaw of his character wasn't his projected beliefs but the fact what he was doing was for vanity more then conviction. He wasn't really meant to be inspiring.
 
m1ddl3m4rch said:
Eddington calling Sisko Javert was retarded. The hologram on the bridge as a communication method was retarded.
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I don’t know how you’re supposed to judge Eddington because every time the Maquis show up they are just libertarians with phasers.

And Sisko can’t decide if he hates them or not. At the end he’s like, I hope they’re still alive somewhere.

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Why? Sisko’s like, I love underdogs, and then immediately puts the dog down.

The whole Maquis arc is so dumb. At first they're like We just want our land back. Okay. Then it’s Let’s break the ceasefire until Cardassia gets mad and starts a war. Eddington then pivots into Joe Rogan wellness influencer. We only eat non-replicated food. We want to live off the grid. You can live off the grid anywhere. He’s like The Federation is oppressing me because I can’t homestead in active war territory.:punished:

This is kind of Ron Moore’s stock and trade: he likes to push buttons and make the audience uncomfortable, which can be great, but sometimes the dilemma collapses under mild scrutiny. You have the designated “Federation Critic” giving a speech about cultural imperialism while benefiting from Federation warp drives, medicine, and not living under a fascist lizard regime.

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The holo-communicator is the funniest part though, I agree. It looks like Emperor Palpatine, but worse, because Star Trek holograms are always super clean, so they can’t even make it look fuzzy. It’s just a guy under a spooky light.

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And Sisko has to rotate his chair 180 degrees every time. He’s just spinning around to yell at Ghost Zoom.
 
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m1ddl3m4rch said:
I thought Eddington was terrible, easily the worst part of DS9. The actor does not have the face or hair for that charisma, and for some reason no one running the show ever got that. Eddington calling Sisko Javert was retarded. The hologram on the bridge as a communication method was retarded. He was sympathetic when he was pathetic, but they needed a far better actor to be the face of the Maquis. So far the most charismatic ex-Maquis is Torres. Beltran is a sleepy Mexican cosplaying Native American.
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Eddington was Tarkinmaxxing.
The Maquis was an interesting take on the Federation then on VOY they all shake hands after the pilot episode.

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I forget, but didn't they sorta shuffle that back away after a little while?
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They thought it was a cool thing to add to Trek on paper but the final product was cringe and didn't feel like Trek. That's why it's only used in a couple of episodes.
 
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