On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Rob Jensen wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:44:47 -0700 (PDT), seapig@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>
>>>>> * Leonardo DiCaprio almost landed on "Baywatch" as David
Hasselhoff's
>>>>> son.
>>>
>>>> It probably wouldn't have hurt him at all.
>>>
>>> Yeah, I can't see that being a problem. Almost any job is okay at that
>>> young age, and isn't that likely to hurt him in the future.
>>
>> He did play some kid roles on sitcoms; that didn't hurt him. The
>> problem with "Baywatch" would have been that the show went on
>> forever. He could have still been there when Titanic came along. It
>> might not have killed his ascent to movie stardom, but it would have
>> delayed it.
>
> No. Baywatch pretty much killed the careers (and/or respectability)
> of everyone who ever starred in it.
>
That implies they would have headed towards a long career in the first
place.
"Hobie Buchannon" has barely had anything, before or after. If he'd
not been on "Baywatch", he'd be invisible.
Of course, there was "Baywatch" before there was "Baywatch", ie the
original with Parker Stevenson and Shawn Weatherly.
Michael
|
