The good part of falling for a show is light upon that the doer in it are just as unashamedly fannish as you are . Lo and behold , there are a lot more histrion eccentric person than you retrieve !
It ’s difficult to separate an actor from her character , specially when the acting is of high-pitched caliber . Of course , actor deserve to have private life just like all other creative professionals , and if some of them do n’t read the Lord of the Rings trilogy every yr ( like Dominic Monaghan ) , well , that ’s just who they are . But it ’s a extra endowment from histrion to fandom when the people who play dear heroes plough out to be more than a minuscule like the champion themselves . They might not push caped evilness in their daily life , but these eight actors have that important bit of understanding that keeps them from phoning in their roles – and convinces their champion that they ’re deserving every jaw - drop and swoon .
Kristen Bell
After three years as teenaged noir super - sleuth Veronica Mars , Kristen Bell had to move on to something different – and she choose Heroes . Having watched the showsince day one , Bell tell the minds behind the show that she was a Brobdingnagian fan ; the eternal sleep , as you get laid , is history . She ’s go validation that part of being a great actress is make a recondite personal investiture in the storey you ’re being pay to secern . audience appreciate the hell out of that . And ina fantastic consultation with the A.V. Club , Bell further showed her respect for her devotee :
The bottom logical argument is , everyone ’s a loser in their own right wing . Here ’s why I like geek culture : People like what they like because they like it . They ’re not trying to accommodate into any mainstream likes or disfavor . You want to dress up like a Star Wars character and go to Comic - Con ? Do it , if that ’s what makes you happy . People might calculate at you as super - weird , but if that ’s your obsession , go for it .
Damn straight , Kristen ! And I expect to see you in our next cosplay round of golf - up .
Wil Wheaton
The man you know as Wesley Crusher just might be the poster boy for actors - in - fandom . Whether or not you like his Star Trek character , you have to admit that his subsequent work as a blogger has made the lives of many geeks , nerds , and fans very happy . He ’s written extensively and thoughtfully on his experience in the world of Star Trek and in tangible life , grow three books : Dancing Barefoot , Just a Geek , and The Happiest 24-hour interval of Our Lives . He presently blog atWil Wheaton dot Net in Exile .
David Tennant
Nobody had to explicate Gallifreyan impost to David Tennant when he took the role of the Tenth Doctor on BBC ’s Doctor Who . He ’d already been watching the program for year . In fact , he is a ego - described “ Doctor Who junkie ” and once cherished a Tom Baker action form . Now an action figure himself , Tennant took us through the production history of the show in a memorable sequence of Doctor Who Confidential entitled “ Do You Remember the First Time ? ” – and by the path , it turns out that pretty much everyone on the team these day was a puerility fan .
Felicia Day
You may know her as Dr. Horrible ’s lost love Penny or a Potential Slayer from Sunnydale , but it turns out that Felicia Day ’s geekiest – and awing – work yet is the creation of the online web seriesThe Guild . Her tribute to gamers is adorable , uproarious , and subtitle in Chinese , Japanese , Italian , French , and German . Yeah , she ’s one of us .
Nathan Fillion
One of the hallmark of devoted sci - fi fandom is allow a fantastic story to become your realism . So Nathan Fillion , who played Captain Malcolm Reynolds on Firefly , endeared himself to me forever when he started make up posts to net sports fan forums and signing them “ The Cap’n . ” The Serenity star is my kind of man : He devoured comics as a child , holds frequent Halo tournaments as an adult , and has this to say about his experience as the leading man of a sci - fi westerly ( fromFirefly : The prescribed Companion ):
I put on my costume in my trailer and took one last look in the mirror . They call me to the set and I think come right from my laggard to inside the door of the readiness . When you walked into the studio apartment , the ship was just to your left with the enceinte loose load bay threshold count at ya . I remember walking up the loading bay door for the first time in costume . I believe it was David Boyd , our director of picture taking , who turned and saw me walking up and deform back around to the crew and said , “ Captain on deck of cards . ” Some people clap and it was kind of bully . It was a reception I will remember always .
David Duchovny
Nothing says commitment like writing two episode of the show you asterisk in , aim three others , and contributing to the story of five more . He may have leave The ecstasy - Files a second too early on for some of our tastes , but Duchovny and creator Chris Carter were very much in cahoot as far as this celebration of unexplained phenomena is concerned – and that demand some deference . As Duchovny told the Los Angeles Times , it ’s an honor to be part of sci - fi refinement :
The X - Files was say to be the first net show . We had chat rooms and buff sites and all that . Look , I ’m normally five or six year behind whatever is hip . So it was around 2000 that I started doing e - mail and finally started realise what all that was about . … My initial reply – and I still prevail this to be true – is that it take the lieu of some of the office of a church building in a modest town : A place where people come together , ostensibly to worship something . But really what ’s happening is you ’re forming a community . It ’s less about what you ’re worshiping and more about , “ We have these pastime in common . ” Someone has a wan aunty and suddenly it ’s about that , raising money to help her or sharing imagination to make her lifespan easier . That ’s what it was about with The X - Files on the Internet .
Ben Browder
Ben Browder ’s starred in the much - loved Australian - American serial Farscape and American - Canadian series Stargate SG-1 . Other actor in his position might bitch about being peg as a sci - fi actor , but not Browder ; he was to a great extent enthrone in both series , and seemed to have as much fun defecate them as people did watching them . He snag a story credit for SG-1 and wrote two installment of Farscape . As you could enjoin from the control board recording below , Browder memorize his stuff while doing it : he says , “ when people evidence you that some long arc show which is five years in qualification is planned in every detail from the rootage , they are full of it ! ”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFE-7O70qic
Simon Pegg
Simon Pegg will be Scotty in the J.J. Abrams Star Trek film , and is one of the creator and adept of the tongue - in - impudence situation comedy Spaced – he plays a sci - fi enthusiast and draw a bead on laughable book writer . He certainly bring a lot of natural endowment to both sides of the screen , and when he guest - star in Doctor Who , Peggtold the BBC :
Doctor Who was a big part of my childhood … I ’d vex into Doctor Who just before Jon Pertwee regenerated into Tom Baker , and as a kid I never recollect the special impression being as primitive as they were . It scared the inferno out of me but I loved it . I particularly call back monsters like the Sontarans , who had very strange heads ; the giant insects in “ The Ark in Space ” and in one episode , Julian Glover pull his face off to become this one - eyed brute .
He ’s speak , of course , of alien threat Scaroth , who manipulated human history for his own remnant in the serial “ City of Death . ” If that brilliantly campy special effect impress Pegg , he had to have been entirely plunge in the story , and that is true sci - fi cred any day .
Salutes all around for these glorious nerdy thespian ! Now – who ’d I overleap ?
Thanks to tout Heather , Sarah , Ellen , and Lily !
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