Progress of sorts

[mrissa]

Numb3rs cast Andre Royo (Bubbles from The Wire) as someone who was not any kind of drug addict at all.

I mean, okay, he was a safecracker and a jailbreak designer. So still a criminal. But not messed up on anything!

Possibly by the time he is 70 he will get to play something lofty like Innocuous Citizen #4. But this confirms my idea that someone should make me a show where Andre Royo is an engineering prof and Francis Capra is his TA. I can just hear them in my head going, "Naw, naw, you set up the matrix all wrong, here's what you gotta do instead."

That'll happen right after the John Cusack Batman movie gets made, I'm sure.

Comments

[laurel]

There's one season of Numb3rs which seems to have an actor from The Wire in almost every episode-- and that's not an exaggeration.

Andre Royo played a soldier in an episode of Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles and that was darn refreshing. He played an interesting and sympathetic character on Heroes and I was disappointed that he only appeared in the one episode.

Francis Capra was in a gang, yet again, on a recent episode of NCIS. Though he was a suspect, I don't think he turned out to be a bad guy, but a nice one.

I know I saw Royo in a small part in an older Law & Order: Criminal Intent and in a bigger part in a more recent episode, but I can't remember the roles very well. Not completely strung out at least, but not especially interesting characters IIRC.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Well, now I'm more likely to get Heroes S3 from the library: Francis Capra and Andre Royo when Andre Royo is an interesting and sympathetic character? Sold. Well, not sold. Checked out. Still.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Oh, also: I have some difficulty with Bunk as Don's shrink, as I keep expecting his recommendations to be...more on the cigars, booze, and cheap women side of the ledger than the synagogue side.