{"id":3488,"date":"2005-09-09T11:34:57","date_gmt":"2005-09-09T18:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/09\/09\/why-im-not-a-hollywood-casting-agent\/"},"modified":"2019-12-18T14:57:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T22:57:34","slug":"why-im-not-a-hollywood-casting-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/09\/09\/why-im-not-a-hollywood-casting-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I&#8217;m not a Hollywood casting agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing as how they&#8217;re both horribly typecast these days and just seem to play the same characters over and over in every movie&#8230;I think Sam Jackson and Morgan Freeman should switch agents for a few years. Shake things up a little bit. Let Freeman play the &#8220;permanantly pissed badass with whom you do <em>not<\/em> want to fuck&#8221;, and give Jackson a few of the &#8220;heartwarming kindly older wise man&#8221; roles.<\/p>\n<p>Put Jackson in the Miss Daisy&#8217;s driver&#8217;s seat. Partner Freeman up with John Travolta, guns a-blazin&#8217; and Bible a-quotin&#8217;. Let Jackson battle institutionalization at Shawshank. Drop a bright purple lightsaber in Freeman&#8217;s hands.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re both great actors, and I love seeing each of them do their thing, but&#8230;just do something <em>different<\/em> for once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing as how they&#8217;re both horribly typecast these days and just seem to play the same characters over and over in every movie&#8230;I think Sam Jackson and Morgan Freeman should switch agents for a few years. Shake things up a little bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2037],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-3488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-and-films","tag-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}