asimplegal2 said: "BlackElleWoods said: "are there any performers who y'all think are simply playing themselves in their roles
to me I think that's the case with Platt , he just seems like he's a naturally awkward person , his role in DEH & PP born just seem like he's portraying himself
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Kind of ****ty of you to call him an awkward person, when he has been nothing but pleasant and articulate in the public eye.
In the original production of Arsenic and Old Lace, Johnathon Brewster was played by Boris Karloff and the script made a joke of people mistaking the character as being the actual the actual Boris Karloff--an unusual in-joke for a show written in 1941.