Derek Thompson's (Charlie) acting
Strangiato
I watch I can't believe what an awful actor Derek Thompson is. It's harder
to act well in soaps because of the number of takes, but you would think
after all these years he could be less wooden!
Stuart
Hmph ,u should see Marlon Dingle in Emmerdale :-)
Stuart
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I can't decide whether Derek Thompson is a bit wooden or whether he's
portraying a character (Charlie) who is a bit wooden at times.
jules
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I get the same feeling watching him. Though I've never seen him in anything
else, I always assumed he was just playing Charlie, who is a bit dim, loves
his family, puts up with a lot of crap from a houseful of women and doesn't
really have any strong male friendships.
jules
Ray Sorsona
> > portraying a character (Charlie) who is a bit wooden at times.
>
> I get the same feeling watching him. Though I've never seen him in
anything
> else,
Oh he's wooden, take a look at The Long Good Friday. Mind you, apart from
Bob Hoskins and ( I still would ) Helen Mirren, you can't see the wooden
for the trees.
Alan
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"Strangiato" <noch...@youmustbejoking.com> wrote in message
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He was in the film Yanks as a British soldier and guess what...yep,
wooden as anything.
G Bell
Job security more like; turn up say whatever shite is on the page and
collect the money, Bill "Boring [insert expletive]" Roach has been doing
it for 40 years.
Graham
steven x brown
> On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 09:30:35 -0000, "Strangiato"
> <noch...@youmustbejoking.com> wrote:
>
>
>>I've seen casualty off and on since the show originally started. Every time
>>I watch I can't believe what an awful actor Derek Thompson is. It's harder
>>to act well in soaps because of the number of takes, but you would think
>>after all these years he could be less wooden!
>
> Hmph ,u should see Marlon Dingle in Emmerdale :-)
LOL!!!! He's the opposite of wooden. Totally over the top. I watched
the recent episodes where his missus is squished under the falling
rubble and she's brain dead in hospickle (a perfect match for him?).
His mouth goes all over his face doesn't it? Hard to take seriously.
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Wooden you know it!
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> Stuart wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 09:30:35 -0000, "Strangiato"
> > <noch...@youmustbejoking.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I've seen casualty off and on since the show originally started. Every
time
> >>I watch I can't believe what an awful actor Derek Thompson is. It's
harder
> >>to act well in soaps because of the number of takes, but you would think
> >>after all these years he could be less wooden!
> >
> > Hmph ,u should see Marlon Dingle in Emmerdale :-)
>
> LOL!!!! He's the opposite of wooden. Totally over the top. I watched
> the recent episodes where his missus is squished under the falling
> rubble and she's brain dead in hospickle (a perfect match for him?).
> His mouth goes all over his face doesn't it? Hard to take seriously.
>
It *is* hard to take seriously, isn't it? I always feel bad for giggling
when Marlon goes into his crying mode. But then I've seen people cry
uncontrollably IRL and it's never pretty. I think he's genuinely trying to
act his little socks off, bless 'im.
But yeah, he was beaten with the ugly stick as a child, which prob doesn't
help.
:)
jules
steven x brown
To be fair, his acting is at least memorable. Someone like Charley
Farley (or Fairhead) just doesn't register.
> But yeah, he was beaten with the ugly stick as a child, which prob doesn't
> help.
Aw... he's kinda cute looking. A bit like Stan Laurel. But less
intelligent looking:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/puresoap/soapcelebs/panews/images/soaps_news_media_9-0.jpg
jules
> To be fair, his acting is at least memorable. Someone like Charley
> Farley (or Fairhead) just doesn't register.
Was just speaking to someone about Marlon and his crying and they brought up
a fair point. How on earth do you even pretend that the person who you love
most in the world is brain dead? How do you begin to go about emulating the
emotions? I think fair play to the guy, actually - if that were my husband
there on the bed with tubes and machines, I think I'd lose the plot much
like he is. Acting out episodes of the stuff can't be easy. And I've always
thought that soap actors are only as good as the written material and the
direction they're given. I shall no longer laugh at Marlon. No,
really....<snigger> I won't!
>
> > But yeah, he was beaten with the ugly stick as a child, which prob
doesn't
> > help.
>
> Aw... he's kinda cute looking. A bit like Stan Laurel. But less
> intelligent looking:
>
>
http://www.bbc.co.uk/puresoap/soapcelebs/panews/images/soaps_news_media_9-0.jpg
>
Scary similarity! Yeah, he does have that lost-mongrel-scruffy-but-cute look
about him. If I found him on the street, I'd take home and put him by the
fire. (Before calling the RSPCA).
jules
mick
steven x brown wrote:
> Ray Sorsona wrote:
>
>>>> I can't decide whether Derek Thompson is a bit wooden or whether he's
>>>> portraying a character (Charlie) who is a bit wooden at times.
>>>
>>> I get the same feeling watching him. Though I've never seen him in
>>
>> anything
>>
>>> else,
>>
>>
>> Oh he's wooden, take a look at The Long Good Friday. Mind you, apart from
>> Bob Hoskins and ( I still would ) Helen Mirren, you can't see the wooden
>> for the trees.
>
> <Beavis and Butthead>
> "Hhehee... Helen Mirren... wood... hehehhe..."
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;-)
mick
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> >
>
> Scary similarity! Yeah, he does have that lost-mongrel-scruffy-but-cute
look
> about him. If I found him on the street, I'd take home and put him by the
> fire. (Before calling the RSPCA).
No, the council have a budget to deal with stray dogs, that's why they have
dog wardens. The RSPCA can't accept stray dogs. They will take other animals
however. The RSPCA will never put a healthy animal down, however I think Dog
wardens might. So if you do ever find Marlon wandering the street take him
to a Dog warden not the RSPCA....... ;)
steven x brown
> "steven x brown" <steven...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
>>To be fair, his acting is at least memorable. Someone like Charley
>>Farley (or Fairhead) just doesn't register.
>
> Was just speaking to someone about Marlon and his crying and they brought up
> a fair point. How on earth do you even pretend that the person who you love
> most in the world is brain dead? How do you begin to go about emulating the
> emotions? I think fair play to the guy, actually - if that were my husband
> there on the bed with tubes and machines, I think I'd lose the plot much
> like he is. Acting out episodes of the stuff can't be easy. And I've always
> thought that soap actors are only as good as the written material and the
> direction they're given. I shall no longer laugh at Marlon. No,
> really....<snigger> I won't!
I shall only laugh inwardly. ;-)
>>Aw... he's kinda cute looking. A bit like Stan Laurel. But less
>>intelligent looking:
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/puresoap/soapcelebs/panews/images/soaps_news_media_9-0.jpg
>
> Scary similarity! Yeah, he does have that lost-mongrel-scruffy-but-cute look
> about him. If I found him on the street, I'd take home and put him by the
> fire. (Before calling the RSPCA).
I read that first as 'put him /on/ the fire'!!!
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> In article <GpcLb.146$IY6...@newsfep4-winn.server.ntli.net>,
> cough...@totlise.co.uk says...
>
>><Steven X Brown>
>> "Hhehee... Helen Mirren... wood... hehehhe..."
>></Steven X Brown>
>
> No, she wouldn't. I asked.
What about Victoria?
Bliss
> "steven x brown" <steven...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> > To be fair, his acting is at least memorable. Someone like Charley
> > Farley (or Fairhead) just doesn't register.
>
> Was just speaking to someone about Marlon and his crying and they brought up
> a fair point. How on earth do you even pretend that the person who you love
> most in the world is brain dead? How do you begin to go about emulating the
> emotions? I think fair play to the guy, actually - if that were my husband
> there on the bed with tubes and machines, I think I'd lose the plot much
> like he is. Acting out episodes of the stuff can't be easy. And I've always
> thought that soap actors are only as good as the written material and the
> direction they're given. I shall no longer laugh at Marlon. No,
> really....<snigger> I won't!
I'm not an actor, but I guess you try and think of a tragedy that's
really happened to you in life, to drum up the appropriate emotion, or
you try and place your real life girlfiend/wife in a similar
situation. It's hard to do, but he is an actor fer crissakes.
HOWEVER someone should've said 'less is more' at some point. I've
never seen such an OTT performance, but that's why he's in a soap, I
suppose, and not in a prestige movie or TV series.
Thanatos
<mustb...@shawsMYPANTS2000.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 09:30:35 -0000, "Strangiato"
><noch...@youmustbejoking.com> wrote:
>
>>I've seen casualty off and on since the show originally started. Every time
>>I watch I can't believe what an awful actor Derek Thompson is. It's harder
>>to act well in soaps because of the number of takes, but you would think
>>after all these years he could be less wooden!
>>
>>
>
>Hmph ,u should see Marlon Dingle in Emmerdale :-)
Unfair to single out Marlon. Many of the Emmerdale cast act like
they're in a pantomime. ;-)
JNugent
> "Strangiato" <noch...@youmustbejoking.com> wrote:
> > I've seen casualty off and on since the show originally started. Every
> > time I watch I can't believe what an awful actor Derek Thompson is.
> > It's harder to act well in soaps because of the number of takes, but
> > you would think after all these years he could be less wooden!
> I can't decide whether Derek Thompson is a bit wooden or whether he's
> portraying a character (Charlie) who is a bit wooden at times.
Some years before the "hospital drama" started, Derek Thompson was a
familiar face in fairly serious UK television drama (often playing someone
involved in "The Troubles" - for obvious reasons - and sometimes playing
Scots). He was being touted as the next big thing.
From what I can remember though, he always played more or less the same
character every time (OK, slightly different takes on the same character) -
rather in the same way as Ricky Tomlinson can really only play Bobby Grant
and all his other parts have been closely-related to that character.
I suspect that both actors only play themselves - or varying facets of
themselves.
Kevin Lee
Co-incidentally I happened to watch "Harry's Game" on video last night
and yes he's just as wooden in that.
Hognoxious
> Evil Noodle wrote:
>
...
> >
> > He was in the film Yanks as a British soldier and guess what...yep,
> > wooden as anything.
>
> Wooden you know it!
Easy for Yew to say.
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Neil Hopkins wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 05:05:05 +0100, "Hognoxious"
> <hognoxious_kosher@!not!so!hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> "steven x brown" <steven...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:btjd0o$7nk4r$7...@ID-130244.news.uni-berlin.de...
>>> Evil Noodle wrote:
>>>
>> ...
>>>>
>>>> He was in the film Yanks as a British soldier and guess what...yep,
>>>> wooden as anything.
>>>
>>> Wooden you know it!
>>
>> Easy for Yew to say.
>
> Oak no! You should get the Birch for that one!
This thread has officially been chopped.
mick
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> On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:06:25 +0000, Tony Walton
> <tony.walton@s_u_n.com> wrote:
> >mick wrote:
> > > Neil Hopkins wrote:
> > >> On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 05:05:05 +0100, "Hognoxious"
> > >> <hognoxious_kosher@!not!so!hotmail.com> wrote:
> > >>> "steven x brown" <steven...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > >>> news:btjd0o$7nk4r$7...@ID-130244.news.uni-berlin.de...
> > >>>> Evil Noodle wrote:
> > >>>>> He was in the film Yanks as a British soldier and guess
> > >>>>> what...yep, wooden as anything.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Wooden you know it!
> > >>>
> > >>> Easy for Yew to say.
> > >>
> > >> Oak no! You should get the Birch for that one!
> > >
> > >
> > > This thread has officially been chopped.
> >
> >Alder right, these puns have become more sick. I'm board with them
> >lumbering on.
>
> You're just a saw loser ...
>
his bite.
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>says...
>> On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:06:25 +0000, Tony Walton
>> <tony.walton@s_u_n.com> wrote:
>> >mick wrote:
>> > > Neil Hopkins wrote:
>> > >> On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 05:05:05 +0100, "Hognoxious"
>> > >> <hognoxious_kosher@!not!so!hotmail.com> wrote:
>> > >>> "steven x brown" <steven...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> > >>> news:btjd0o$7nk4r$7...@ID-130244.news.uni-berlin.de...
>> > >>>> Evil Noodle wrote:
>> > >>>>> He was in the film Yanks as a British soldier and guess
>> > >>>>> what...yep, wooden as anything.
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>> Wooden you know it!
>> > >>> Easy for Yew to say.
>> > >>
>> > >> Oak no! You should get the Birch for that one!
>> > > This thread has officially been chopped.
>> >
>> >Alder right, these puns have become more sick. I'm board with them
>> >lumbering on.
>>
>> You're just a saw loser ...
>>
>Sorry I'm joiner-ing the thread late, but be careful - his bark is worse than
>his bite.
Adze ok - I think he's had his chippys.
Andy Mabbett
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>I get the same feeling watching him. Though I've never seen him in
>anything else,
Try "The Long Good Friday".
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>I can't decide whether Derek Thompson is a bit wooden or whether he's
>portraying a character (Charlie) who is a bit wooden at times.
His style of acting was exactly the same in Rock Follies Of 77 so....
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> I've seen casualty off and on since the show originally started. Every time
> I watch I can't believe what an awful actor Derek Thompson is. It's harder
> to act well in soaps because of the number of takes, but you would think
> after all these years he could be less wooden!
Calum
> I totally agree, he is a dreadful actor, no emotion or facial expressions, and plain boring monologue.
like he's nailed it to me.
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>> On 02/02/2020 09:25, sparka...@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> I totally agree, he is a dreadful actor, no emotion or facial
>>> expressions, and plain boring monologue.
>>
>> Which is exactly what his character his supposed to be like, so seems
>> like he's nailed it to me.
>>
> Perhaps his acting has improved in the 16 years since the original post!
stiff-necked stance - an medical affliction of the actor Derek Thompson that
has developed over time.
Gifty Hammond
> "Strangiato" <noch...@youmustbejoking.com> wrote in message
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> time
> > I watch I can't believe what an awful actor Derek Thompson is. It's
> harder
> > to act well in soaps because of the number of takes, but you would think
> > after all these years he could be less wooden!
JNugent
Casualty, it would seem that he is playing a character who is a bit
wooden: Derek Thompson.
He sometimes changes his accent, but it's the same role every time.