Tolkien Teaches Us to Take Courage

And I have nothing against Daniel Day Lewis. He is a fine actor. I wouldn't necessarily cast Roger Howarth... he was just a starting point.

Because of the lack of preparation... soap operas reveal your acting skill quickly. The good ones are very good... the bad ones awful.

On the soap that Roger plays in I don't watch anymore because it is boring... but the character (Todd Manning) he plays started out rapist... then transcended into some sort of hero. (He actually quit the show because he felt a rapist was being turned into a romantic hero, and felt that was beyond the pale). He's back now... still flawed... yet Roger has the ability to move you by revealing Todd's inability to rise above his faults and the pain that weakness causes Todd. It's very subtle, and powerful to behold.

I wouldn't recommend that you watch the Soap now... because its very stupid. I don't like what they have done with the Todd character... and it would take weeks before you saw the contest between doing the right and wrong thing.

and it would take weeks before you saw the contest between doing the right and wrong thing.

ROFL! So true! I remember some storylines taking MONTHS to develop...

BTW, DDL is also in his 40's, just like SC...

Cool! Where and with whom do you teach? I was very involved in theatre in high school, and have for the last few years been involved (off and on) in community theatre. As a matter of fact, a friend called last December to ask me to audition for the upcoming production of 'To Kill a Mockingbird.' I got the part! (Maudie Atkinson - in this script is the 'narrator' character)

Anyway, I go mostly for their ability to act as well, but looks help, especially if it is going to be a heroic character. In Sydney's case it would be that much more heartbreaking...but you are right about Wood. I just can't help thinking that playing it a bit younger than 'for real' would appeal to the younger audience (just as it did for LOTR)...

I was thrilled that they 'downsized' the ages a bit for those characters...every other depiction I had seen of Frodo was of a corpulent grubby old man. That would work for an elderly Bilbo, yes, but hardly pull the heartstrings for a hero. And its probably a bit more reflective of what actually happens in a war....so many beautiful young men go off and come back forever changed. I remember working for a museum company and helping them put together pictures for an exhibit on Viet Nam. O the beautiful faces! And what were we left with? Filth and idiocy!

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