Bamber's good when he can be incandescent, for want of a better word. It reminds me of some stuff I've heard about music promotion nowdays. If you aren't rock, pop, R&B, or a very few other categories, there is NO WAY for you to be popularized, because the venues for music promotion are so narrow that they only take what fits into one of those limited slots. Oddball artists who are not categorizeable by those standards have, literally, nowhere to go. And actors are absolutely no different.
It's not to say that people who fit into one of those slots can't also be fabulous. But ... the ones who don't are often just as fabulous and are left without venues.
He's definitely in the "hard to categorize" box. Standard leading man? Nope. Ugly enough to be a character actor? Nope. Macho? Nope. Okay, what the hell does this guy have going for him?
Well, he's a fucking good actor, and he can spontaneously self-combust in an intense enough part.
Yeah, but what the hell do you DO with that in a typical Hollywood project?
Period drama, however, is MADE for that sort of ability. I hope to hell he doesn't do what a lot of actors seem to try to do, and swim against the stream of their own best inclinations.
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It's not to say that people who fit into one of those slots can't also be fabulous. But ... the ones who don't are often just as fabulous and are left without venues.
He's definitely in the "hard to categorize" box. Standard leading man? Nope. Ugly enough to be a character actor? Nope. Macho? Nope. Okay, what the hell does this guy have going for him?
Well, he's a fucking good actor, and he can spontaneously self-combust in an intense enough part.
Yeah, but what the hell do you DO with that in a typical Hollywood project?
Period drama, however, is MADE for that sort of ability. I hope to hell he doesn't do what a lot of actors seem to try to do, and swim against the stream of their own best inclinations.