Yeah, at the end of the day, it matters less what Malone said and believed and more that the actors were picking up on something that made them uncomfortable, and that was eventually going to affect their performances and did lead to RH leaving, twice.
I know KDP has claimed that she always played it like Blair believed Todd was in love with Marty. I doubt that helped matters, and I wonder if she ever disclosed that to RH.
I remember that interview, and what makes me agree and think Malone wouldn't have done it is that, to my recollection, he didn't seem open to the idea. One would think if he were, he would have praised the story. It's not like he would have had anything to lose.
Yeah, it was probably a combination of things, but mostly that time and distance, and maybe also some degree of an actor's professional ambition to reclaim a role that was his. Not that I think RH cared that much what Todd was doing from 2003-2010 or that he had any kind of feeling about TSJ's take on the role, but surely it was at least a little satisfying to sit at that Sun desk and drawl at TSJ's Todd, "It sucks, right? You know the face, but you just can't put your finger on the name."
Yeah, I was naive about how fanbase wars were coloring things when I first started looking around online. Actually watching the episodes, he seems committed to playing the story and not undermining it or her, in spite of things not always being easy between them on set.
I can't totally blame them either. Like you said, it was the way things were.
And even in these early scenes, RH is magnetic and inhabiting the role with force and throwing in subtle little touches/gestures that are evidence of that force. I watched an episode the other day where Suede calls him over to the bar to take a call from Marty, and when Suede reluctantly hands him the phone, Todd subtly puckers his lips at him.
Oh, absolutely, he could be so good, which was what made it so frustrating to watch what that performance devolved into. Not a lot of actors could have made it believable early on that he could be Todd, but he somehow pulled it off.
When I've watched more of 1993 and thus will have seen more of KG's Kevin, I could probably rank the various incarnations of Todd/Kevin, but TSJ's Todd and DG's Kevin would be high on the list.
He really would have made a great psychopathic character. He seemed to have fun playing Mitch's brother, Flynn, that mobster.
Also, about your earlier comment about ES, I remember she seemed less than impressed. Tuc Watkins also said something in an interview once about actors who pull stunts in scenes, and I always thought that was directed at TSJ.
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