Huh, interesting. Spotty translation. I wonder what "or so" is supposed to mean at the end of a sentence. It appears in both articles.
Anyway, the idea that his looks obscure his acting is just...wow. Hard to fathom. Are they talking about the same guy? You guys know I think he's smoking hot, but I didn't have that reaction to him when I first saw him, which would have been in the Forever Knight episode, and then later in DS. Yes, he was beautiful when he played that detective in Forever Knight, but...he essentially played a bad guy! Well, a morally compromised person, anyway. And he played him well, so I didn't think, "Ooh, hot!"--I thought, "dangerous guy! Watch out!" :) When I first saw him in DS ("Burning Down the House") I was 1) upset over the loss of Ray Vecchio--yes! me! I was upset! and B) hating RayK's "grunge" clothes, which style was new-ish at the time and annoying to me. I thought he was a twenty-something Gen-Xer because of the clothes. Had NO IDEA he was my age. (Speaking of which! The second article says he's 48. Not so! We are both still 47 until September. :) And mostly I was just trying to follow all the BDtH banter and absorb the HUGE stylistic change in DS. Well, it seemed huge at the time. In some ways it really was.
Er, my point: It was CKR's acting--as RayK--that got my attention and won me over. I can even tell you when. It didn't really happen back when the show aired. It happened when the DVDs finally came out. When I saw the DS episode "The Ladies' Man" again, in 2005, I was bowled over, and that's when I started looking for his other work.
Before that, I was watching DS because of Fraser, not Ray. Totally true! I can hardly believe it now. :)
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Anyway, the idea that his looks obscure his acting is just...wow. Hard to fathom. Are they talking about the same guy? You guys know I think he's smoking hot, but I didn't have that reaction to him when I first saw him, which would have been in the Forever Knight episode, and then later in DS. Yes, he was beautiful when he played that detective in Forever Knight, but...he essentially played a bad guy! Well, a morally compromised person, anyway. And he played him well, so I didn't think, "Ooh, hot!"--I thought, "dangerous guy! Watch out!" :) When I first saw him in DS ("Burning Down the House") I was 1) upset over the loss of Ray Vecchio--yes! me! I was upset! and B) hating RayK's "grunge" clothes, which style was new-ish at the time and annoying to me. I thought he was a twenty-something Gen-Xer because of the clothes. Had NO IDEA he was my age. (Speaking of which! The second article says he's 48. Not so! We are both still 47 until September. :) And mostly I was just trying to follow all the BDtH banter and absorb the HUGE stylistic change in DS. Well, it seemed huge at the time. In some ways it really was.
Er, my point: It was CKR's acting--as RayK--that got my attention and won me over. I can even tell you when. It didn't really happen back when the show aired. It happened when the DVDs finally came out. When I saw the DS episode "The Ladies' Man" again, in 2005, I was bowled over, and that's when I started looking for his other work.
Before that, I was watching DS because of Fraser, not Ray. Totally true! I can hardly believe it now. :)