savagesketch wrote:What's interesting though is hearing yet another director speak of his experiences on a film and mentioning that he felt saddled with Dolph in the lead role (speaking directly to Gary Goddard on MOTU). The only difference there is that Dolph was perfect for that particular role...
That's the "iconic star" stigma. I mean yeah MOTU was different because it was his first starring role and most felt his accent was too heavy (or that he was good enough of an actor) but otherwise most directors will feel the same. Dolph is a human specimen and a typecast "star" of his kind so all his roles has the Dolph Lundgren label stigma to them and it's easy for any director do dismiss him like "oh well he's not a real actor who disappears behind his role and since he's starring in it this has become a Dolph Lundgren movie written all over"... You know what I mean?
I also feel Hickox forgets things, when I talked to him in 2008 he had already forgot many things he said in his commentary, and maybe he gets confused with the editing disagreements they had. Anyway other than that he and his mum (legendary editor Anne Coates who cut MOTU) had the kindest words of him as a human being (as you know it's rare people don't).