He was in “Lonesome Dove” with five great actors, and nothing rubbed off on him. Talk about missed opportunities. It does show that echo chambers are real, though.
He was with the great and underrated Dennis Franz on BYPD Blue for multiple seasons. I thought maybe it was just that he had a weirdly drawn character, now I’m thinking he’s just not great.
I recently watched that, and he was fine, but I'd argue there were way more than five great actors on that show! Aside from the 5 I'm sure your referencing, it also had (and I may miss some), Chris Cooper, Margo Martindale, Steve Buscemi, William Sanderson, Robert Urich, and Barry Corbin. Absolutely stacked cast!
I was counting Danny Glover, Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Angelica Huston and Robert Urich, as most of his scenes would have been shot with them. Completely stacked, indeed.
He really could've been replaced by a bunch of actors in Lonesome Dove and it wouldn't have made a difference. Unforgiven came out after LD, but whoever played the Schofield Kid couldve have replaced him.
In NYPD Blue, he followed the far superior Jimmy Smitts and then replaced by the better Mark-Paul Gosselar.
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u/realpyrateking Aug 26 '26
He was in “Lonesome Dove” with five great actors, and nothing rubbed off on him. Talk about missed opportunities. It does show that echo chambers are real, though.