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Post by charmerjosh on Feb 17, 2018 18:10:29 GMT -5
Did anyone ever notice that Julian Mcmahon's character in Nip Tuck is essentially a Cole Turner reboot? Dont get me wrong....Christian Troy was great. But he was also a half good/ half evil character who's demons overtook him at times and who's good side shined through at other times.
IDK its just weird to think that Julian became arguably the biggest star in the world playing essentially the same guy he was playing in Charmed lol.
One thing is for sure though. I soooo wish Cole would have stayed for the run of the show. They could have built the entire show around the interplay between Cole and the sisters. So much was left on the table by his leaving when he did.
That reminds me, I have heard rumors that the actresses who played the sisters were very mad at Julian when he decided to leave. Is this true?
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Post by Esmeralda on Feb 17, 2018 18:26:11 GMT -5
Well, Julian's character, John Grant, in "The Profiler", which ran before "Charmed", was the same way. Obviously that's what Julian does best, so that's what casting directors hire him to play.
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Post by evamarie on Mar 31, 2018 5:23:14 GMT -5
"Obviously that's what Julian does best, so that's what casting directors hire him to play."
I don't think so. He just got typecast to his and his female fans' detriment. I've skipped through the earlier portion of Nip/Tuck (while holding my nose), and he was working overtime to spin all the sociopathic, pornographic dialogue he was given into having some kind of humanity. There was a short stretch of eps in S3 when he got to act like a semblance of an actual person with a tiny glimpses of integrity - and that's when he was at his best. Same with Charmed: he was most entertaining when he was flirting his butt off sweetly early in S3. He also should've been in a straight-up comedy at some point - he has serious comedic talent.
There was a legendary old-school casting director that wrote a note about him in 1993. It said: "He could be a real leading man if he gets the right movie role before TV snaps him up"...and that's exactly what happened. I'm actually quite pissed about his whole career - not because he ended up largely in TV (that's where the good stuff is these days), but because the only place he got to realise that leading man quality is on a brain dead, ultra-sexist soap opera. He and all the women that enjoy him deserved better.
Is it really inconceivable for the big wigs these days to see an actor with swagger and not equate that to "smarmy monster"? Julian was at his sexiest onscreen HOLDING A BABY. Seriously, people. No wonder the whole leading man concept is dead now...the movie producers have seemed determined to kill it. Can't have actual compelling dudes at the center - it'll distract from all the special effects! Grrr....
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Post by evamarie on Mar 31, 2018 5:34:09 GMT -5
He didn't decide to leave Charmed: his contract ran out. Nip/Tuck had nothing to do with it - he landed that later.
Troy was never good in any capacity. He was conceived of as a classic, easily diagnosable narcissist. They even wrote in the serial rapist/murderer father storyline to stress that his vileness was innate. Before the team hired Julian, they weren't even sure whether they could sell a protagonist that awful to the public.
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