WHOA WHOA WHOA

[tilly_stratford]

Haaa, this seems to happen every time I check out a new TV series.

ODO. IS. FATHER MULCAHY. OH MY GOD.

That is, René Auberjonois played both Constable Odo on Deep Space 9 and Father Mulcahy on M*A*S*H. I never would have guessed in a million years! And not because of the prostethics I mean (heck, I've seen DS9-era Auberjonois without the makeup and that didn't clue me in) but those are two such completely polar performances!

So yeah, apparently I'm never going to be able to wrap my head around the fact that actors are allowed to play several characters, and those characters can be fundamentally different. Gee.

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[misscam.livejournal.com]

... OMG, I didn't know that! But now that you mention it, I can sorta see it - something about the eyes, I think.

Wow, mind blown indeed.

[tilly-stratford.livejournal.com]

That disproves that everybody knew all along and thought it was so obvious they decided not to tell me :P

(And for the record it turns out it was Mulcahy in the original movie, not the TV series, that'll teach me to fact-check more thoroughly).

[fyrdrakken]

Only in the original Robert Altman movie, though -- they got another actor for the TV series. (Had to recast everyone for the TV series -- I think Radar O'Reilly is the only movie actor who came to the TV show.)

[tilly-stratford.livejournal.com]

D'oh, that'll teach me to not check properly. It's been a while since I saw the movie too, so that explains it. But still, it's always fun when my interests collide like that :)

[fyrdrakken]

I was a big fan of Rene Auberjonois back in the day, so I went through a lot of his back catalog watching things he'd been in. This was long enough ago that it involved things like programming the VCR to catch obscure movies and episodes (the mailing list I was on warned us when these things were airing) and sometimes copying off VHS tapes (hooking two VCRs together) to share rare acquisitions with other fans. I'm not sure IMDb was up and running then (in the late 90s) yet, either, so no handy list to work my way down. Being able to torrent vid files and burn DVD-Rs for sharing and find entire seasons of a show packaged neatly together (and upload zipfiles of fanmixes instead of physically copying them off to cassette tapes and mailing them out) are some of the many things I love about being a fangirl now.