If it were 1994, I'd be shipping this kid so hard.

[horizon_greene]

With whom, I'm not exactly sure, but I'm sure one could find multiple possibilities in his two films.

Which is another thing. I don't understand this career trajectory: being plucked off the street for The Crying Game, earning an Oscar nomination, playing Ra in Stargate, and then essentially doing NOTHING for the rest of his life, to date. Perhaps fame didn't agree with him, which is a shame, because it would mean—after rewatching Stargate last weekend—that I'd have a lot more movies left to watch.

In any event, things in this vid go kind of sideways around the 5:10 mark, including clips of a woman being shot multiple times and an alien disintegrating via radioactive bomb. It's all very Hollywood-style, but still. Just a heads up.

I remember being so enthralled by his Stargate character when I was 13, but since that was pre-internet (at least in my house) and pre-fandom, it eventually tapered off. What did people do with their fascinations back then? Was it all just Star Trek zines and precious little else?

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[littlestclouds.livejournal.com]

I always wondered what happened to him. I remember being fascinated by his characters in Stargate and The Crying Game, and being disappointed I couldn't find him in anything else.

Now I feel the need to rewatch The Crying Game.

[horizon-greene.livejournal.com]

I wish he'd appeared in more movies, too. According to the internet, he didn't like being famous, so instead he's been doing fashion ever since.

I've never seen The Crying Game, but I'm watching it tonight courtesy of my local library :D If you do rewatch, let me know your thoughts!

[lastcatastrophe.livejournal.com]

There was a period of time, round about the time I was 11 or 12, when every single week at the video store (remember video stores?) I would rent either Stargate or Interview with the Vampire. Until, like, 3 months in when my mother refused to let me get either of them again because she was both sick of them and mildly horrified/concerned.

I miss life being that simple.

[horizon-greene.livejournal.com]

They are both great movies! And they've stood the test of time, too.