Als de bronnen van filmsite IESB het juist hebben, wordt acteur
Kevin McKidd, die je kan kennen uit de hitserie Rome, superheld Thor. Vorige week werd bekend dat regisseur Matthew Vaughn de touwtjes in handen heeft en werkt met het schijnbaar briljante script van Mark Protosevich.
De Schotse McKidd heeft er iig het physique voor de stoere, sterke Noorman te spelen. Het enige dat in de weg kan liggen is dat McKidd net de hoofdrol heeft gekregen in de nieuwe sci-fi serie Journeyman. Dus dat zou nog weleens roet in t eten kunnen gooien. Maar een Britse acteur is zeker een goed begin.
Thor gaat in 2009 in première.
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Kevin McKidd in Tinseltown.
Here we have a man who is a born actor. A man with the striking ability to paint dead sharp portraits on a square inch. A man who can act his socks off and whose performance can leave the spectator breathless. A man, as young as he is, with many accolades behind his name, earned on stage (a.o. Bitannicus, Far Away) as well as on celluloid (a.o. The Acid House, Topsy-Turvy, Anna Karenina, Afterlife, Sixteen Years of Alcohol, Gunpowder: Treason and Plot, Rome).
Alas, Great Britain doesn’t appreciate actors like him and expects that he delivers the good stuff for very little money. And so America becomes the promised land to earn big cash.
But what if it means that America can only offer Kevin McKidd the leadrole as a comicstrip hero called ‘Thor’? And for which part he has to compete with a bulky hulk called tripleH?
Triple Auch!!! from the bottom of my heart.
We could already ‘enjoy’ him as a brute of a Goth in ‘The Last Legion’ who spoke with a slightly Scottish accent every now and then, if he spoke at all. And I mean a real pure brute. The kind that you most certainly don’t want to meet at ten o’clock at night because he has only one mission in life: to kill anybody on the wrong side of the track.
Well, if that were his marching orders then it’s a job well done; in fact he was the only interesting character due to his humorous example of overacting in an otherwise idiotic movie.
But I’m convinced that the world can do very well without these kind of one-sided performances and I’d rather watch him again as an overacting leprechaun.
What a waste and what a shame that an actor like him with his enormous capacities has to end up in sloppy directed crap movies like ‘Hannibal Rising’ and ‘The Last Legion’.
So, please America, give him worthy parts with good directors in exciting movies in which he can show his real potential. Or even better, Great Britain, pay your prominent actors good salaries.
H. Pera, the Netherlands.