I agree with the comment about Eddie needing to chase the lead roles less. He's not a natural lead, physically or otherwise. He's still too self-conscious as an actor and I think he finds it difficult being on stage with other people and reacting to them as people, rather than just as an audience. He comes into his own when interacting with an audience. Pride gets in the way of him starting properly at the bottom with acting. But it interests me to see him act, because there IS such potential there. I just don't think he'll ever get the space to breathe with it as other comedians have in straight roles, he's too big and simulataneously too "small" in celebrity terms. If I ever get to interview him, one of the questions I would ask would be how he finds film acting, because there isn't the energy of the audience to bounce off and give him adrenaline and truth (click) -- Eddie Pedantic Gasbag Discussion Group

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Date Posted: 14:49:08 12/26/01 Wed
Author: Penny
Subject: I agree with the comment about Eddie needing to chase the lead roles less. He's not a natural lead, physically or otherwise. He's still too self-conscious as an actor and I think he finds it difficult being on stage with other people and reacting to them as people, rather than just as an audience. He comes into his own when interacting with an audience. Pride gets in the way of him starting properly at the bottom with acting. But it interests me to see him act, because there IS such potential there. I just don't think he'll ever get the space to breathe with it as other comedians have in straight roles, he's too big and simulataneously too "small" in celebrity terms. If I ever get to interview him, one of the questions I would ask would be how he finds film acting, because there isn't the energy of the audience to bounce off and give him adrenaline and truth (click)
In reply to: BZC 's message, "Just a little poll because I'm curious..." on 21:05:00 12/19/01 Wed

when I act, I have trouble with rehearsals because I can achieve at a certain level and I can do farce etc easily in rehearsal or go through a dramatic part but I can't truly laugh or cry, really BE rather than play-act, until the stage lights are on, house lights off and the audience are there and reacting. So it's all voices and gestures up til that point but flying "on the night". I couldn't do film for that reason, because it's several takes and no audience, no "real" and lots of distraction rather than suspension of disbelief. I think Eddie should push the film thing more than the stage thing because of this, and also because at nearly 40 and British and not well-established in the acting field, he's not going to get the mainstream Robin Williams success he craves (although I'd like to see him in a film like Dead Poet's Society or Good Will Hunting - not Patch Adams or Flubber obv! although Eddie has a sarcasm that deflates the sentimentality of RW).

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Hi Penny! yeah I wonder if Eddie wants to do film because he's a film nut and just wants to do it, or if he really wants to tell the story. A good film actor must know exactly what each scene is, how it furthers the story, what the characters are doing on the surface level and what they are doing underneath. In a good movie there is so much going on in a scene, and I get the feeling he isn't always totally prepared. Of course he has been in so many movies which were cheaply done, with extremely tight schedules, and often, bigger stars. MORE (click) -- spoot with diarrhea of the mouth!, 21:51:54 12/26/01 Wed