Thanks for posting this. It really was a very good article. I’ve noticed a lot has been said about what excellent actors Carroll O’Connor & Jean Stapleton were. I haven’t seen as much about the dynamic between them. They really did seem to play off each other to a rare degree. Each of them gave the other an extra spark, so that together they were inimitable.
Yep. Mike and Gloria could have probably have been played by anyone. Apparently Richard Dreyfuss sought the part of Meathead.
“I’ve noticed a lot has been said about what excellent actors Carroll O’Connor & Jean Stapleton were.”
Another couple that were really good were Ed O’Neil and Katy Sagal in “Married with Children”. Now that show was awful in a lot of ways, but if you watch it you see how good these two did, they really played their parts to the hilt and yet never crossed that very, very fine line where it would have become just burlesque and been not believable at all.
I realize this about them one day and I must say I am gratified to see the success they’ve had since. Ed O’Neil on Modern Family pretty much makes it believable that Sofia Vergara would marry him; and he’s excellent as the dad of the 2 adult kids and step-dad of the little weisenheimer; and Katy Sagal can do anything. She rocks it in “Sons of Anarchy”.
If I ever hit mega-lotta my dream would be to put her on Broadway as Lady MacBeth. Hubby laughs at me, but I’d be looking for some Tonys right there.