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[sovay]

Talk to me about supporting characters. When you're supposed to fall for the heroine, and instead it's the second spear-carrier from the left who turns out to have the thorniest moral dilemma or the most fascinating backstory. This happens to me all the time; I can't be the only one. So who are your scene-stealers? Movies, books, operas—your own work—which character roles do you remember long after you've forgotten who played the protagonist?

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Comments

[stillsostrange.livejournal.com]

Or Harold Perrinau. He and John Leguizamo made Romeo + Juliet watchable.

[sovay]

Hm. I have not yet seen that version. Should I, if only for the two of them? (And Pete Postlethwaite, apparently; whom I do like.)

[stillsostrange.livejournal.com]

The first five minutes are very entertaining, and then you can fast forward to the scenes with those three actors. I'd say diCaprio and Danes are dull as ditch-water, but I've never seen or read a version where I didn't think that of Romeo and Juliet.