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This is where I was bothered by the initial critique in season one. Certain critics had not seen the entire season where they wrote Titus off, or attempted to write him off as this flamboyant, vapid, empty, gay mouthpiece. Titus is more everyman than Lillian, Kimmy, or Jacqueline. He's the one who doesn't have a job, he can't afford his rent, he's been after a goal that seems to be further and further away from him. He's gay. He doesn't fit in anywhere. And the more he tries, the more he seems to fail. It is more a blanket representation of oppression in America than any other of the story lines and all of the superlatives that you would attribute to Titus. All of the quick wit and the selfishness, those are just a residual effect of things that are not working. You know? Miserable people tend to act out.
I got a real job! Well, sort of. I'm a video editor, and that's something I taught myself back in the "Shoes" days. I edited all of my own stuff, so I managed to pick up a skill, and I'm thanking the maker for that because I don't know what else I would do. But I've also been auditioning for things again, looking at my channel and trying to figure out what I could do with it in a smaller way. I have a daughter now, I got married—I grew up I guess. Sometimes I wistfully long for my days of touring the country and all of that, but then it's great that I have this job too. I still get up in front of an audience every now and then to get my fix in.
In other words, which performance is so good that no matter who takes on the role in a future adaptation, your view of the character has already been set? Maybe Tobey Maguire will always be your Spider-Man no matter who's cast in the seventh reboot of the franchise. Or perhaps Keira Knightley's Elizabeth Bennet will never be outmatched in your eyes. What piece of casting is so perfect, it makes all other casting moot?
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