Matt Ion wrote:
> Craig wrote:
> 
>> This really begs the question of how much an actor/actress influences a
>> character and the writer/creator of said character.
> 
> That would depend largely on the writer/creator.  In JMS's case, I'd say 
> for the most part, the characters are largely flexible to the 
> personality of the actor.
> 
> I remember when I was recording a "roundtable" interview
with several of 
> the actors from Legend of the Rangers, Warren Takeuchi told an 
> interesting story about his character (and apologies to Warren if this 
> is a little off, it was quite some time ago and I no longer have copies 
> of the transcripts of the interview): seems "Kitaro Sasaki" was 
> originally a character of Chinese descent (and a different name, of 
> course).  After he had the part, Warren went to Joe and pointed out that 
> he had Japanese roots, and that a Japanese-looking character with a 
> Chinese name would be a little strange.  Joe promptly changed the 
> character's name and rewrote him to better fit the actor.

He had done it before when Laurel Chang became Laurel Takashima.


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