Thursday, May 19, 2005
La Paglia <=> Malone
Sometimes an actor's portrayal works so well that the person they inhabit affects me as if her or she were a friend or a family member. Anthony La Paglia's Jack Malone on Without A Trace is just such a case. I suppose it's all about the actor having thoroughly developed a back story for his character, but it doesn't feel like technique. It feels like Jack Malone exists. I always want to know more about him, what he's thinking and reading, whether he'd like to come over for dinner and just hang out a while. I find his change of haircuts interesting partly because he never discusses them even when they're extreme. There are so many little touches. Sometimes electricity. Sometimes fear. And sometimes those sharp alert eyes see things they don't tell us about. Is it all La Paglia? the writers? Whatever, I'm an enthusiastic fan. Of both men.
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