I wish there was an acting award for real acting. You know, the kind where someone pretends to be someone who they are so completely not. Michael Emerson is a fantastic Ben on "Lost". He's frightening. But after seeing him at the Emmy's, I realized he's even more frightening when he's just being Michael Emerson. That's not acting, that's just toning down your own creepiness.
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Thank you, thank you for pointing this out. I'm starting to feel like maybe I'm crazy because I keep reading everywhere how brilliant he is and how much he deserved the award. No, no, no. It's like you said - he's just playing himself, and if you've seen anything else he's been in, he plays exactly the same character in everything.
Years ago he played a creepy, crazy serial killer in The Practice, and he was also in one of the Law & Orders playing a creepy murderer. And I know I've seen him in other things that I can't remember off te top of my head. But the point is, he's not acting and he appears to have no range at all.
Yeah, he's totally always the creepy serial killer dude. And I'm sure that any day now TMZ will get a scoop re: a body dump on his property.
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