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jimmy from fair city

  • 12-04-2008 8:26pm
    #1
    rope
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10 ✭


    Why does Jimmy look in to the middle distance all the time while talking to another character? I think it was to portray guilt to start with but now he constantly looks like he is staring at a spot on the wall.


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  • #2
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    rope wrote: »
    Why does Jimmy look in to the middle distance all the time while talking to another character? I think it was to portray guilt to start with but now he constantly looks like he is staring at a spot on the wall.

    I think.....and I could be wrong.....it might have something to do with the lack of acting ability.


  • #3
    tk123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,050 ✭✭✭✭tk123


    janeybabe wrote: »
    I think.....and I could be wrong.....it might have something to do with the lack of acting ability.

    lol :pac::pac::pac::pac:


  • #4
    Brian Capture
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 827 ✭✭✭Brian Capture


    Crap actor.

    A f**king joke.

    Looks like Gary Kelly.

    Is the second actor to play that part - which instantly gives him zero credibility.

    In real life, David Mitchell comes across as a scumbag.


  • #5
    kerash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,688 ✭✭✭kerash


    Brian Capture wrote: »
    Looks like Gary Kelly

    Although Gary Kelly would be the better actor:pac:


  • #6
    Saint_Mel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,598 ✭✭✭Saint_Mel


    rope wrote: »
    Why does Jimmy look in to the middle distance all the time while talking to another character? I think it was to portray guilt to start with but now he constantly looks like he is staring at a spot on the wall.

    Reading cue cards... ehhh ... ehh ... ehhhh ... ehhh ... ehhhh ...


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  • #7
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    Saint_Mel wrote: »
    Reading cue cards... ehhh ... ehh ... ehhhh ... ehhh ... ehhhh ...

    That could make sense alright! Although why can't he do it like Jack and Vera and put the lines on cigarette packets, etc?

    I still maintain that he can't act!


  • #8
    kerryview
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43 ✭kerryview


    middle distance? can he see that far?


  • #9
    rope
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10 ✭rope


    poor oul jimbo, sure it must be tough fightin off the wimim.


  • #10
    Lizzykins
    Closed Accounts Posts: 637 ✭✭✭Lizzykins


    Who in the name of God would go for him? He can't act for peanuts. And as for his mother Rita!!!!!


  • #11
    BolBill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,709 ✭✭✭BolBill


    Lizzykins wrote: »
    Who in the name of God would go for him? He can't act for peanuts. And as for his mother Rita!!!!!

    Rita is one of the worst actors in the soap but Leo is the top dog when it comes to inability to act in Fair City


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  • #12
    tk123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,050 ✭✭✭✭tk123


    they should rename it to Product Placement City!


  • #13
    ChuckProphet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 646 ✭✭✭ChuckProphet


    Lizzykins wrote: »
    Who in the name of God would go for him? He can't act for peanuts. And as for his mother Rita!!!!!

    What?? Modern day Brando if you ask me.


  • #14
    J.S. Pill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,149 ✭✭✭J.S. Pill


    My question is why would Jimmy's ex try to top herself because she got dumped by Jimmy?

    He's Jimmy for f**ks sake!


  • #15
    tk123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,050 ✭✭✭✭tk123


    lol well he did dump her for that skank Ally - thats gotta hurt! :D


  • #16
    niceirishfella
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,538 ✭✭✭niceirishfella


    Agreed re; Bad actors!

    Is there one decent actor in all of em????

    - ya man BOB, he's ok, got great voice quality......does loads of VO's on radio ads.


  • #17
    gogglebok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 696 ✭✭✭gogglebok


    Brian Capture wrote: »

    Is the second actor to play that part - which instantly gives him zero credibility.

    In real life, David Mitchell comes across as a scumbag.

    I never knew that. Who was the first one?


  • #18
    toiletduck
    Registered Users Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭toiletduck


    Respect to Jimmy for not paying heed to society and continuing on his denim crusade. I don't think I've ever seen him on screen without jeans or a denim jacket.


  • #19
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    toiletduck wrote: »
    Respect to Jimmy for not paying heed to society and continuing on his denim crusade. I don't think I've ever seen him on screen without jeans or a denim jacket.

    Ah, so that's why he woke up looking so bewildered and, let's face it, stupid the other day in Paul's. The bad acting combined with the non-wearing of denim caused a black hole....in his head.


  • #20
    toiletduck
    Registered Users Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭toiletduck


    I'm awaiting a plotline involving Jimmy in a 'Tobias from Arrested Development' denim underwear scenario.


  • #21
    tk123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,050 ✭✭✭✭tk123


    lol - they 'announced' on the radio this morning that he's leaving! I wonder if he read this thread? :D


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  • #22
    Fast_Mover
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,619 ✭✭✭Fast_Mover


    :D:D:D:D
    Just heard on the radio (Spin south west) that Jimmy's leaving fair city after 16yrs!!


  • #23
    Fast_Mover
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,619 ✭✭✭Fast_Mover


    tk123 wrote: »
    lol - they 'announced' on the radio this morning that he's leaving! I wonder if he read this thread? :D

    SNAP!! Great minds eh?!!:p
    Same time and all!!:D


  • #24
    toiletduck
    Registered Users Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭toiletduck


    Fast_Mover wrote: »
    :D:D:D:D
    Just heard on the radio (Spin south west) that Jimmy's leaving fair city after 16yrs!!

    A national day of mourning is on the cards.


  • #25
    tk123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,050 ✭✭✭✭tk123


    where we all look around randomly to act confused? :D


  • #26
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    Sure all we have left now is Rita, who doesn't talk because of the stroke, Suzanne, who's boring, and Bella One Ball. The Doyle family will never be the same!


  • #27
    Lizzykins
    Closed Accounts Posts: 637 ✭✭✭Lizzykins


    What happened to Bela????!!!!


  • #28
    sam34
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,073 ✭✭✭sam34


    didnt he have cancer a few years back? prostate i think


  • #29
    gogglebok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 696 ✭✭✭gogglebok


    tk123 wrote: »
    lol - they 'announced' on the radio this morning that he's leaving! I wonder if he read this thread? :D
    That's why he was staring off into the middle distance. He was looking for the bus stop.

    Maybe he'll take another few with him.


  • #30
    Dellboy2007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 812 ✭✭✭Dellboy2007


    He's going to be killed off. He wakes up one morning and sees Ali with no make-up on and dies of a heart attack.


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  • #31
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    More like Ali kills him with her skanger death stare. "Silence! I kill you!" *skanger death stare* Bye bye Jimmy.


    I may have confused Ali with Ahmed the Dead Terrorist though.


  • #32
    rope
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10 ✭rope


    maybe robin kills him by whisking off her artfully placed beret and holding it over his face.


  • #33
    hiscan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,105 ✭✭✭hiscan


    Dellboy2007 wrote: »
    He's going to be killed off. He wakes up one morning and sees Ali with no make-up on and dies of a heart attack.

    :D:D:D:D:D


  • #34
    Brian Capture
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 827 ✭✭✭Brian Capture


    gogglebok wrote: »
    I never knew that. Who was the first one?

    no idea. He only lasted one season, 1990 I think.

    they also changed Yvonne, Darren and loads more.

    Three Farrah Phelans in three seasons. A joke.

    Did I mention that David Mitchell is a scumbag in real life ?

    Well he is.


  • #35
    Poochie05
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,260 ✭✭✭Poochie05


    Apparently he's going to the States to study... wait for it..... acting! :D


  • #36
    lee_baby_simms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭lee_baby_simms


    Lizzykins wrote: »
    What happened to Bela????!!!!

    Bela is a scumbag in real life.

    I does be always seein' him smoking outside Kielys in Donnybrook.


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  • #37
    gogglebok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 696 ✭✭✭gogglebok


    Brian Capture wrote: »
    Did I mention that David Mitchell is a scumbag in real life ?
    QUOTE]

    What did he do? Is it something you can tell us?


  • #38
    Brian Capture
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 827 ✭✭✭Brian Capture


    gogglebok wrote: »

    What did he do? Is it something you can tell us?

    General behaviour anytime I've been in his presence.
    Plus his appearance on Celebrity You're A Star or whatever,

    It's laughable the way people minds work

    He plays an asshole = automatically he's sound in real life

    Not true.


  • #39
    lee_baby_simms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭lee_baby_simms


    Brian Capture wrote: »
    General behaviour anytime I've been in his presence.
    Plus his appearance on Celebrity You're A Star or whatever,

    It's laughable the way people minds work

    He plays an asshole = automatically he's sound in real life

    Not true.

    Duh. He was obviously staying in character like any method actor worth his salt would.


  • #40
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    chaz kelly raises the bar for everyone on fair city with his brutal acting


  • #41
    lee_baby_simms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭lee_baby_simms


    Anyone remember that dope who looked like a monkey and worked in Pizza Action?

    What a dope.


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  • #42
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    lee_baby_simms wrote: »
    Anyone remember that dope who looked like a monkey and worked in Pizza Action?

    What a dope.

    Is that Hughie? Christy's brother? I think he's coming back for Eunice's funeral.


  • #43
    gogglebok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 696 ✭✭✭gogglebok


    janeybabe wrote: »
    Is that Hughie? Christy's brother? I think he's coming back for Eunice's funeral.

    Please don't let them bring his wife back. She was so screechy. Listening to her was like having rats strangled in your ears. They shouldn't bring back old characters anyway. It never works. Remember Bet Lynch on Corrie? A disaster.


  • #44
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    Maybe it's just for an episode or two?


  • #45
    gogglebok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 696 ✭✭✭gogglebok


    janeybabe wrote: »
    Maybe it's just for an episode or two?

    Right. He could be there literally for the funeral.

    I think I saw him in the Clinic last year. He was a motorbike courier or something?


  • #46
    lee_baby_simms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭lee_baby_simms


    gogglebok wrote: »
    Remember Bet Lynch on Corrie? A disaster.

    Total disaster.

    Then we had Dirty Den making a comeback in Eastenders but he shot himself in the foot by getting his junk out on a webcam in his dressing room.

    Getting rid of Harry Molloy was a mistake. He was the real deal. I once saw him shootin the breeze with that old bloke who sells the herald on exchequer street.


  • #47
    Aldini98
    Closed Accounts Posts: 142 ✭✭Aldini98


    To be honest Jimmys not the worst on the show when it comes to acting.

    Rita is, by a stretch. She couldnt even act asleep the other day.


  • #48
    I'mamuppet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭I'mamuppet


    Reading this is the best giggle i've had all day. Sure if we didnt have fair city what would they talk about on gift grub?

    Bring Billy Mehan back from the dead is all i can say. If they can do it with Dirty Den they can do it with Billy ;)

    As for Ritas sleep acting... pretty poor effort


  • #49
    whadyasay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭whadyasay


    He is bartending in midtown Manhattan. No word of a lie.


  • #50
    SWEETCAN2000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 66 ✭✭SWEETCAN2000


    whadyasay wrote: »
    He is bartending in midtown Manhattan. No word of a lie.

    Who? David? I'd well believe it. How does he expect to make it in the US?
    He's not exactly talented.......................or handsome.
    He came on to me when I was 15 (he was 17) at a friend's 21st. I fobbed him off as I was up for school the next day - that was my excuse anyway. The 'Durty Jimmy' plot thickens.


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