But when it comes to character relationships -- I really do not want to know that two actors playing my favorite friendships or OTPs don't really like each other.
Yeah, I get this, I would rather believe that there's some "truth" to the acted out versions of these characters.
Having a wildly different person IRL acting as someone else on screen -- the knowledge of it -- can impact me.
ETA: for example finding out more about Misha Collins severely threw me out of SPN in some ways, to the point I was watching the show for acting choices rather than content.
Another good example is if one actor plays several very similar roles. Even watching those roles makes them all blend in my head, to the point where I don't know where one character ends and where the other begins. That double-vision thing as I said. If the roles are very different I am okay. (eg. I have no problem watching RDJ act in Iron Man vs in Sherlock Holmes because the costumes/setting/etc are very different. I can't ever remember a scene from Sherlock Holmes which would mesh in my head with MCU, for example).
ETA2: Another example, I could not watch the original MacGyver specifically because the main character feels too much like Jack O'Neill to me and I couldn't believe in the 'realness' of Jack anymore if I watched the actor playing someone else.
And I do think it has to do with visual memory. I have less of a memory for voices. I do remember the cadence of words and the style of speech (I don't think you can write anything if you don't have that) but the movies in my head are more visual. I can remember how someone stood or looked at a particular moment, so I'm very sensitive to any images of "same looking" character.
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Yeah, I get this, I would rather believe that there's some "truth" to the acted out versions of these characters.
Having a wildly different person IRL acting as someone else on screen -- the knowledge of it -- can impact me.
ETA: for example finding out more about Misha Collins severely threw me out of SPN in some ways, to the point I was watching the show for acting choices rather than content.
Another good example is if one actor plays several very similar roles. Even watching those roles makes them all blend in my head, to the point where I don't know where one character ends and where the other begins. That double-vision thing as I said. If the roles are very different I am okay. (eg. I have no problem watching RDJ act in Iron Man vs in Sherlock Holmes because the costumes/setting/etc are very different. I can't ever remember a scene from Sherlock Holmes which would mesh in my head with MCU, for example).
ETA2: Another example, I could not watch the original MacGyver specifically because the main character feels too much like Jack O'Neill to me and I couldn't believe in the 'realness' of Jack anymore if I watched the actor playing someone else.
And I do think it has to do with visual memory. I have less of a memory for voices. I do remember the cadence of words and the style of speech (I don't think you can write anything if you don't have that) but the movies in my head are more visual. I can remember how someone stood or looked at a particular moment, so I'm very sensitive to any images of "same looking" character.