Fandom mindfuck
So, um, OK, I was just innocently fast-forwarding through "Sweet November" on TBS tonight (god bless TiVo -- man, this movie was *bad*) looking for the promised appearance of Jason Isaacs who, along w/ Hugo Weaving, has recently been added to my list of "British actors I have a thing for". ANYWAY ...
I finally get to something promising, which is the appearance of a gay neighbor, this being a de riguer thing in turn-of-the-millennium "romantic" "comedies" apparently. And he looks way too young and his accent is totally different, but I check out the eyes and yep, that's Isaacs alright.
So, cool, right? Then fast-forward some more and it's Isaacs in drag! Very convincing drag, too. Yummy. So, scene continues and we meet Jason Isaacs' friend, who's also in drag, and who sympathetically gives Charlize Theron an ibuprofen which seems to me to be way undermedicating for spending a whole movie opposite Keanu Reeves and anyway, cool, watching, watching and ... wait, WTF?
I'm all, wait, wouldn't I know if this were true?? Wouldn't someone I know in fandom have told me about this before? But then I close my eyes and the voice convinces me -- yep, no doubt about it. That's Michael Rosenbaum alright.
A quick search of google does not reveal any existing stories of this sort, but should someone ever be drunk enough to write a drag fantasy crossover of Lucius Malfoy and Lex Luthor, they'll have a ready-made illustration.
(And don't even get me started on "Bad Apple", TNT's latest movie, which not only has 2 of my favorite actors from DS9 and X-Files, but stars Chris Noth and a cameo from Elliott Gould. Fandoms collide, man.)
I finally get to something promising, which is the appearance of a gay neighbor, this being a de riguer thing in turn-of-the-millennium "romantic" "comedies" apparently. And he looks way too young and his accent is totally different, but I check out the eyes and yep, that's Isaacs alright.
So, cool, right? Then fast-forward some more and it's Isaacs in drag! Very convincing drag, too. Yummy. So, scene continues and we meet Jason Isaacs' friend, who's also in drag, and who sympathetically gives Charlize Theron an ibuprofen which seems to me to be way undermedicating for spending a whole movie opposite Keanu Reeves and anyway, cool, watching, watching and ... wait, WTF?
I'm all, wait, wouldn't I know if this were true?? Wouldn't someone I know in fandom have told me about this before? But then I close my eyes and the voice convinces me -- yep, no doubt about it. That's Michael Rosenbaum alright.
A quick search of google does not reveal any existing stories of this sort, but should someone ever be drunk enough to write a drag fantasy crossover of Lucius Malfoy and Lex Luthor, they'll have a ready-made illustration.
(And don't even get me started on "Bad Apple", TNT's latest movie, which not only has 2 of my favorite actors from DS9 and X-Files, but stars Chris Noth and a cameo from Elliott Gould. Fandoms collide, man.)