Knots Man
11-04-2001, 12:25 PM
These 3 characters are Sumner Group employees who spend much of the next season hiding in the background doing their work quietly when suddenly, a storm errupts involving each of them sending shockwaves through TSG and paving the way for a shocking entrance in the form of new management!!!
The characters in question are portrayed quite deliberatly as office 'dorks'. I use the word 'deliberatly' because I wanted these characters to be taken advantage of by a certain Knots regular in order that the audience would empathise with their situation even more and truly HATE the character behind the manipulation.
As for the actors, I was delighted at the names forwarded to me from various forum regulars who seemed to recall every dorky office worker from LA Law to Ally McBeal. The 3 I finally settled on were:
Valerie Landsburg - Doris from 'Fame' who plays Gloria. I distinctly recall Landsburg speaking 'through her nose' and thought she'd be perfect for the role.
Maggie Wheeler - Janice from 'Friends' who also speaks as though she has a cold. I can hear Wheeler's infectious laugh circulating round TSG offices. Wheeler 'plays' Angeline.
James Michael Tyler - Gunther from 'Friends' plays Bradley. The office worker with no backbone but a heart of gold.
It's perhaps a little easier now to understand how a certain evil regular tries to take advantage of these 3 - hopefully they will become firm favourites of the FKL audience...
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"I never think of you and Gary as having failed at marriage. It seems it's the divorces that haven't worked"...
Karen Mackenzie to Valene Ewing (1990)
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The characters in question are portrayed quite deliberatly as office 'dorks'. I use the word 'deliberatly' because I wanted these characters to be taken advantage of by a certain Knots regular in order that the audience would empathise with their situation even more and truly HATE the character behind the manipulation.
As for the actors, I was delighted at the names forwarded to me from various forum regulars who seemed to recall every dorky office worker from LA Law to Ally McBeal. The 3 I finally settled on were:
Valerie Landsburg - Doris from 'Fame' who plays Gloria. I distinctly recall Landsburg speaking 'through her nose' and thought she'd be perfect for the role.
Maggie Wheeler - Janice from 'Friends' who also speaks as though she has a cold. I can hear Wheeler's infectious laugh circulating round TSG offices. Wheeler 'plays' Angeline.
James Michael Tyler - Gunther from 'Friends' plays Bradley. The office worker with no backbone but a heart of gold.
It's perhaps a little easier now to understand how a certain evil regular tries to take advantage of these 3 - hopefully they will become firm favourites of the FKL audience...
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"I never think of you and Gary as having failed at marriage. It seems it's the divorces that haven't worked"...
Karen Mackenzie to Valene Ewing (1990)
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