Ming worst actress ever?
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wulfthar — 9 years ago(February 07, 2017 05:06 AM)
Agreednone of this cast is really great, but she'sembarrassing.
It seems they selected actors on the basis of how they look or which kind of acrobatics (for women) they are capable of without regards to their acting skills.
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ivanac-01225 — 9 years ago(February 11, 2017 12:20 PM)
Uh, actors are always cast at least partially on the basis of what they look like. It wouldn't make sense to cast, say, someone who looked like Melissa McCarthy as May, or a guy who looked like Rob Schneider or Wayne Knight as Ward. That doesn't mean that acting ability is disregarded when you're casting major characters that people are going to watch for hours in dramatic and emotional scenes. It wouldn't make sense. You could get away with that with some of the side characters - like, Marc Dacascos mostly just needed to do fights, and the guy who played Creel also didn't need to do much except look terrifying. But the main cast and many of the guest start have had really challenging material - from playing multiple characters to playing different versions of their characters, to playing trauma and mental issues, etc., and they've all been great. I have no idea what your problem with any of them is.
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Valcoran — 9 years ago(February 07, 2017 08:24 PM)
I think you're all completely nuts. She's intentionally playing the character as stoic most of the time, because that's how she's written. When that shell breaks and she's required to be more emotional, the actress absolutely kills it. Notably the stuff with Bahrain, finding out her ex-husband is Lash, etc.
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ivanac-01225 — 9 years ago(February 11, 2017 12:14 PM)
Agreed. It seems that people just like to complain about characters and then confuse that with actors. Like, if you are playing a stoic, emotionally closed off character, you get branded "wooden", which is nonsense.
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ivanac-01225 — 9 years ago(February 11, 2017 12:11 PM)
I don't know what you're on about. Ming Na-Wen is one of the best actors on the show. It just seems like you have a problem because her character is emotionally closed off (and as far from the real Ming Na-Wen as possible - she's completely different in real life). Not to mention that she's actually played a completely different persona (when May was undercover in early season 2) as well as an actually completely different character with a different personality (Agent 33).
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Beren44 — 9 years ago(February 11, 2017 12:19 PM)
I was just about to say the exact same thing. Melinda May is about as far from Ming Na as she can be, it is laughable. She is a joy to watch on the comic-con stuff. So vivacious and bubbly and fun. I would just love to hang out with her!
I guess some people confuse an actor's ability to follow direction, with not being able to act.
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