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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2021 14:43:29 GMT
I’d like to see Johnny Depp in the show.
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Post by grinch on Jul 9, 2021 14:44:09 GMT
Karl Pilkington.
But don’t give him a script. Just let him ramble on for a while.
(And before anybody starts, this is obviously a joke.)
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You know, now that you mention it, I actually do rather like Attack of the Cybermen ...
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Post by lidar2 on Jul 9, 2021 14:44:40 GMT
HM The Queen
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Post by Digi on Jul 9, 2021 14:50:21 GMT
Honestly? None. I find celebrity cameos (regardless of what show or movie we're talking about) lazy and gimmicky. It's different if they're actually in it for a meaty proper role, but just for a 'hey look, it's so-and-so! Isn't that neat?!' cameo? Nah. Pass.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2021 14:58:04 GMT
"I think famous right wing/left wing politician should make an appearance just to annoy those left wing/right wing voters, hur hur". Standard lazy reply there, of which I resisted the temptation...
Seriously though, there would be a certain bit of closure for Graham Norton putting in a filmed appearance for any 60th Anniversary story.
One accidental voice over during 'Rose'. One accidental 'cartoon' cameo. Maybe the third time lucky to appear in person at last.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2021 15:25:38 GMT
Honestly? None. I find celebrity cameos (regardless of what show or movie we're talking about) lazy and gimmicky. It's different if they're actually in it for a meaty proper role, but just for a 'hey look, it's so-and-so! Isn't that neat?!' cameo? Nah. Pass. That is what I meant. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2021 15:32:04 GMT
So more like Lee Evans in Planet Of The Dead then? A small support role rather than a cameo?
Hmm..not sure. There are loads of actors I'd love to see in the show - but number one (Capaldi was my #1 from the early 2000s...that worked out OK!) is Roger Allam.
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Jul 9, 2021 15:45:19 GMT
Deborah Meaden
Tom Kerridge
Lucy Verasamy
Chris Packham
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2021 21:59:42 GMT
For a very, very long time, now that I think about it -- Linda Hunt. People likely know her from NCIS: Los Angeles as Hetti or the narrator from the God of War video games.
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Post by fitzoliverj on Jul 10, 2021 12:14:51 GMT
As actors or as themselves? JNT tried the former, RTD tried the latter. Neither are universally loved principles.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2021 12:20:15 GMT
As actors or as themselves? JNT tried the former, RTD tried the latter. Neither are universally loved principles. As actors. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2021 14:07:33 GMT
Honestly? None. I find celebrity cameos (regardless of what show or movie we're talking about) lazy and gimmicky. It's different if they're actually in it for a meaty proper role, but just for a 'hey look, it's so-and-so! Isn't that neat?!' cameo? Nah. Pass. That is what I meant. I'm not sure I understand the question, then. A cameo is not a proper meaty role. Otherwise John Bishop as the next companion would qualify. Stan Lee in Marvel movies is a cameo. Hale and Pace in Survival is stunt casting. Are you thinking more the John Bishop scenario? |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2021 14:33:28 GMT
I meant meaty roles not simple cameos.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2021 14:48:17 GMT
I meant meaty roles not simple cameos. But surely that is not what a 'Cameo' is by definition? A meaty role is a 'Guest Star' appearance? |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2021 15:29:06 GMT
I meant meaty roles not simple cameos. But surely that is not what a 'Cameo' is by definition? A meaty role is a 'Guest Star' appearance? That’s what I should have said. Sorry. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2021 15:40:59 GMT
But surely that is not what a 'Cameo' is by definition? A meaty role is a 'Guest Star' appearance? That’s what I should have said. Sorry. No worries - (I hope) its rare for me to come on as a pedant here! So apologies from me too. I guess we are looking for a middle ground, something more than Peggy Mitchell (Barbara Windsor) and Hugh Edwards 'on the Telly' cameo's and something in the actual Drama itself. I suppose I get what you mean - maybe the likes of J une Whitfield, John Cleese or Alexi Sayle's appearances maybe? That's what I meant by Graham Norton putting in an acting role ala Father Ted. Finally muscling in on the action after two accidental gate-crashes.... |
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Post by constonks on Jul 10, 2021 16:05:22 GMT
A whole bunch of relatively well-known actors I might have put on this list have already been on the show (ie. Simon Pegg, Bill Bailey, Bill Nighy) so let's go with bigger names...
There are a few who people think will be the Doctor but are so far above/beyond that kind of role - people like Helen Mirren, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Tilda Swinton... all three of them could play compelling, scene-stealing, one-off characters!
I'm a little upset we never got Craig Ferguson in as some weird space pirate or something when Capaldi was the Doctor.
Martin Freeman could easily play his brand of "normal guy" as the focal character of an episode - somewhere between Elton Pope and Ruth Clayton (before the twist).
And, yeah, she's been on the show briefly before, but get Olivia Colman back to do something bigger and better!!
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Post by fitzoliverj on Jul 10, 2021 18:46:31 GMT
Surely, if you're going for big-name stunt casting, it's got to be somebody reasonably recognisable from 'Star Trek'? (Which probably either means Shatner, Takei, Stewart* or Spiner; although I'm still waiting - as I've said before - for Robert Picardo to do a BF).
* Who was rumoured a few years back to be playing the Monk. He didn't.
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Post by constonks on Jul 10, 2021 19:50:48 GMT
Surely, if you're going for big-name stunt casting, it's got to be somebody reasonably recognisable from 'Star Trek'? (Which probably either means Shatner, Takei, Stewart* or Spiner; although I'm still waiting - as I've said before - for Robert Picardo to do a BF). * Who was rumoured a few years back to be playing the Monk. He didn't. I know that he's not the biggest name in Trek, but Avery Brooks would be great as an American UNIT guy who gets stuck working with the Doctor, or something along those lines. |
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