by Pa Rock
Imagineer
A few months down the road after Donald Trump and his adult spawn are all safely behind bars - and Mike Pence has been washed out of politics in a torrent of gay sex scandals - and Paul Ryan has lost his seat in Congress to a public school teacher or a retired person on a fixed income - that will be when some ambitious movie mogul - perhaps one of the Weinsteins - will attempt to capture the essence of Donald Trump in a made-for-television movie. In anticipation of that further stain on American life and culture, I have a casting suggestion:
Donald Trump should be played by actor Bill Pullman. Mr. Pullman, who already played a President of the United States in the movie Independence Day, might seem an odd choice to play the bloated blowhard Trump, except for the fact that he has already done it - and done it well!
Torchwood was a British television (BBC) series that ran from 2006-2011. It focused on a group of paranormal investigators working for the British government in Cardiff, Wales. The first two seasons were very clever individual episodes featuring the Torchwood team of five members. They bounced around in time and dealt with aliens in situations that were closely aligned with the BBC's longest running sci-fi program, Doctor Who, and some of the cast members appeared in both shows.
The third season was a six-episode mini-series with three of the original cast members. It was called "Children of Earth," and had a plot built around an alien culture's plan to acquire a quarter of the earth's children to feed an addiction of the alien creatures.
The final season, a ten-episode mini-series titled "Miracle Day" took place primarily in the United States and featured a couple of CIA agents working with the two remaining Torchwood agents to wrest the world from its newest disaster - a booming population which resulted when people all over the world suddenly quit dying.
One of the primary characters in season four was a fellow named Oswald Danes, a pedophile who was being put to death for the brutal rape and murder of a young girl. Danes was injected with his well-earned dose of legal drugs just as people stopped dying around the globe. He was subsequently released from prison and went on to become a spokesman for a pharmaceutical company that was amassing an obscene fortune selling pain medications to people who should have already been dead but now could not die. Oswald Danes was played by veteran actor, Bill Pullman.
That show, "Miracle Day," Torchwood's last, was filmed in 2011. Like all of the Torchwood episodes, it was clever and thought-provoking, but what really stood out to me was Pullman's portrayal of Oswald Danes. He not only nailed the repulsive nature of the fictional character he was playing, he also seemed to be channeling the physical characteristics of Donald Trump into the role. Pullman looked like Trump, and his egotistical manifestations sounded as though they were coming straight from the mouth of Trump himself. Pullman was Donald Trump stepping into the role of a murderer who felt no compassion at all for his victims. He was creepy good.
True, Bill Pullman would have to put on a couple of hundred pounds in order to waddle around in Trump style, but I suspect he would be willing to do it for his art. And while portraying Donald Trump would be about as icky as being Oswald Danes, Pullman could undoubtedly muster the inner-slime necessary to bring his rendition of the petulant man-child to the big screen - or at least to video.
Go for it, Bill - show us your Trump!
(Note: Torchwood streams on Amazon Prime.)
Imagineer
A few months down the road after Donald Trump and his adult spawn are all safely behind bars - and Mike Pence has been washed out of politics in a torrent of gay sex scandals - and Paul Ryan has lost his seat in Congress to a public school teacher or a retired person on a fixed income - that will be when some ambitious movie mogul - perhaps one of the Weinsteins - will attempt to capture the essence of Donald Trump in a made-for-television movie. In anticipation of that further stain on American life and culture, I have a casting suggestion:
Donald Trump should be played by actor Bill Pullman. Mr. Pullman, who already played a President of the United States in the movie Independence Day, might seem an odd choice to play the bloated blowhard Trump, except for the fact that he has already done it - and done it well!
Torchwood was a British television (BBC) series that ran from 2006-2011. It focused on a group of paranormal investigators working for the British government in Cardiff, Wales. The first two seasons were very clever individual episodes featuring the Torchwood team of five members. They bounced around in time and dealt with aliens in situations that were closely aligned with the BBC's longest running sci-fi program, Doctor Who, and some of the cast members appeared in both shows.
The third season was a six-episode mini-series with three of the original cast members. It was called "Children of Earth," and had a plot built around an alien culture's plan to acquire a quarter of the earth's children to feed an addiction of the alien creatures.
The final season, a ten-episode mini-series titled "Miracle Day" took place primarily in the United States and featured a couple of CIA agents working with the two remaining Torchwood agents to wrest the world from its newest disaster - a booming population which resulted when people all over the world suddenly quit dying.
One of the primary characters in season four was a fellow named Oswald Danes, a pedophile who was being put to death for the brutal rape and murder of a young girl. Danes was injected with his well-earned dose of legal drugs just as people stopped dying around the globe. He was subsequently released from prison and went on to become a spokesman for a pharmaceutical company that was amassing an obscene fortune selling pain medications to people who should have already been dead but now could not die. Oswald Danes was played by veteran actor, Bill Pullman.
That show, "Miracle Day," Torchwood's last, was filmed in 2011. Like all of the Torchwood episodes, it was clever and thought-provoking, but what really stood out to me was Pullman's portrayal of Oswald Danes. He not only nailed the repulsive nature of the fictional character he was playing, he also seemed to be channeling the physical characteristics of Donald Trump into the role. Pullman looked like Trump, and his egotistical manifestations sounded as though they were coming straight from the mouth of Trump himself. Pullman was Donald Trump stepping into the role of a murderer who felt no compassion at all for his victims. He was creepy good.
True, Bill Pullman would have to put on a couple of hundred pounds in order to waddle around in Trump style, but I suspect he would be willing to do it for his art. And while portraying Donald Trump would be about as icky as being Oswald Danes, Pullman could undoubtedly muster the inner-slime necessary to bring his rendition of the petulant man-child to the big screen - or at least to video.
Go for it, Bill - show us your Trump!
(Note: Torchwood streams on Amazon Prime.)
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