vintagegeekculture:iftadwascool:vintagegeekculture: Stuntwoman turned actress Patricia Tallman in&nb
vintagegeekculture:iftadwascool:vintagegeekculture: Stuntwoman turned actress Patricia Tallman in “Tales from the Darkside.” No stranger to horror makeup, she was also the “She-Bitch” from Sam Raimi’s Army of Darkness. Compared to these makeup heavy part time jobs in the early 90s, where monster makeup often takes hours to apply, her “day job” at this time as Nana Visitor’s stunt double on DS9, only wearing a Bajoran nose crinkle, must have been a relief. she was also Lyta Alexander in Babylon 5 Here’s a question….and you should think long and hard before you answer it: is it better to be a no-dialogue security officer on Star Trek….or a main character on literally any other scifi program? I don’t know, but ask Pat Tallman, because she did both. It’s strange and unfortunate, but Babylon 5 left such a negligible pop culture footprint for something that, at one point in the mid 90s, was the second biggest fandom in scifi. If I had to give an explanation for this, I think it is because it had the bad timing to be the last major sf fandom to appear in the days when geek culture was ghettoized to the Android’s Dungeon comic store people, and blinked out before all of this went mainstream and became the center of pop culture post Lord of the Rings. For example, and I hope this isn’t too morbid a speculation for most people, but if any cast member from that show dies (except Peter Jurasik) Babylon 5 will be eventually mentioned in the first few paragraphs of their obituary, yes…but probably not the headline. Little Billy Mumy’s headline will be something like “Original Will Robinson turned novelty musician” (Barnes & Barnes, “Fish Heads,” and even Dr. Demento will be in there, because that trajectory is too interesting not to note). Even at scifi cons, Bruce Boxleitner is mostly billed as the mighty Tron, and the millennial generation primarily knows Claudia Christian as Aela the Huntress from Skyrim (“If you wish to hunt with me, your feet need to be quick, and your eyes quicker” – admit it, you just read that in her voice). Andrea Thompson’s obit headline will possibly be the most interesting of all: “CNN Headline News Anchor who covered 9/11 live.” -- source link