Acting in the Dark: Difference between revisions

* Parodied in the ''[[Hancocks Half Hour]]'' TV episode "The Bowmans", where Hancock is a radio actor and is shocked when he gets a script that kills off his character. (He gets his own back in the end.)

* ''[[House (TV)|House]]'': During the season 4 "reality show" where House was whittling down the candidates as the episodes went on, those who would not make the final cut were not told until the week of filming for that episode began.

* In Season 5 of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]],'' the actor playing Ben wasn't told the exact nature of Ben's relationship to Glory until very late in the game.

* Similarly, on ''[[Dollhouse]]'', Harry Lennix wasn't told that {{spoiler|he was the Big Bad}} until the middle of the second season.

* ''[[Justified (TV)|Justified]]'': During most of Season 1, the audience was wondering if redneck racist Boyd Crowther had really Found the Lord and become a (fairly nutty) backwoods preacher, or was just scamming everyone. It turns out Walton Goggins, who played Boyd, didn't know either. In this case the writers/producers did this to force him to play it ambigiously.

* ''[[Star Trek Deep Space Nine]]'': Alexander Siddig only found out that his character was actually a Changeling impersonator for several episodes until the episode where it was revealed.

* On ''[[Curb Your Enthusiasm]]'', the actress Cheryl Hines is usually unaware of what the character Larry David has gotten himself into during an episode.

* [[Twin Peaks]]. [[David Lynch]] had planned out the identity of the killer of Laura Palmer long before the big reveal, but he didn't tell the actor until the time came to actually shoot said reveal.

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