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Was catching up on an episode of Friday Night Lights (and if anyone had ever suggested I'd like a show about small town Texas football culture this much, well....) and realized there is a pretty rich vein of young actors there. The most obviously transferrable one, to me, is the actor who plays Landry, a character with some attitude in common with Pemulis. I have no doubt he could play Pemulis in a heartbeat, althoug, strangely, I am curious if he might actually be able to pull off Hal. That ETA is so male and white on the page means that the actor who plays Smash (though I wouldn't fault Hollywood too much if they pulled the otherwise cheesy trick of deciding to read "the darkness" as an excuse to make Ortho black -- this actor has a playfulness that might match the character who is apparantly able to crack up fellow students easily with imitations of Tavis, for example) or several of the actresses would be harder to use, but the rest of the high school cast could populate the academy easily. And some damn good adult cast there, too, although, except for casting the actor who plays Buddy as Joelle's "own personal daddy," I'm not sure what to do with them.
Elsewhere, there is one actor I'm not sure how to use but would like to for the simple reason that whenever I see him, I think he looks like DFW (though doesn't act like him), and I always kinda think of Gately as looking like DFW....don't know his name but he plays the fighter guy on Leverage and I first noticed him on "Angel" where he played Lindsey...Come to think of it, how about Amy Acker as Madame Psychosis?
If Forrest Whitaker was younger, I'd put him in as Gately. Who is the young (and, I guess, white) Forrest Whitaker of today?
ETA: reading another post on another thread, which reminded me that both Weeds and Supernatural also have some good fodder for ETA
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