I like Grant Show but he hardly seems like an oil tycoon in this trailer, more like a restaurant manager banging one his waitresses. He did pronounce “Cristal” normally.
I thought the exact same thing when I saw that old dude from the OC! “Why isn’t he Blake?”.
LMAO @ MLK BLVD Comment! I agree with your observations. When I saw the pilot of Dynasty, Fallon was mesmerizing, this chick? I watched one ep of the Leary show, she seems like she’s playing the same character, practically (trashy rock n roll chick).
On the New Dallas, Christopher was boring as hell, if they’d killed him off sooner maybe they wouldn’t have been cancelled, John Ross was ok, oh well.
The banging of the next wife on the desk is out of character for both and just plain cheap and trashy (and not in a good way). Krystal/Cristal is supposed to be the stabilizing force, not a desk-banging slut.
I would toss out everyone and start from scratch. Make Steven straight. Why ? Because THAT’s edgy today. Make him a Conservative, too. Because that is also edgy and unique.
As for Fallon, might be better making two daughters. One legitimate, the other illegitimate and “foreign” from Blake’s days surveying the Middle East. Sofia Boutella would be fantastic as that daughter. The French accent explained by being raised and brought up in France or Algeria and away from the family. She’s harboring dark secrets and epic-level resentment for the rest of the family.
Make the legit daughter (Fallon or rename her after a town not in Nevada) like a Kennedy kid: batshit crazy behind a veneer of reserve and even innocence. Make her bisexual, with a preference for seducing young attractive women who are straight, even if she has to drug or blackmail them to get them in her bed. Cast someone like Olivia Wilde or even Rooney Mara, who while not conventionally beautiful, has a mesmerizing and intense persona when unleashed. Make an intense rivalry between the half-sisters, perhaps even more. If you’re going to go trashy and degenerate, go whole hog.
As for John Ross on “Dallas”, he acted way too bitchy and always pissed off/scowling. Utterly charmless and I couldn’t see one iota of his dad within him. Terrible casting. The only one who showed some promise were a few of the actresses, Cliff’s daughter and the deranged one that was the daughter of Bobby’s third and present wife (except for Jordana Brewster, she just wasn’t right).