{"id":12220,"date":"2009-07-05T12:01:11","date_gmt":"2009-07-05T19:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2009\/07\/05\/12220.html"},"modified":"2009-07-05T12:01:11","modified_gmt":"2009-07-05T19:01:11","slug":"real-people-roleplay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2009\/07\/05\/real-people-roleplay\/","title":{"rendered":"Real-person roleplay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I recently saw Natalie Portman live (well, on a screen, but in realtime, from a nearby location). Which gave me a certain sense of cognitive dissonance&mdash;not because I expected her to be like her characters, but because most of my exposure to her appearance lately has been via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darthsanddroids.net\/\">Darths &amp; Droids<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Minor spoilers for that webcomic follow.)<\/p>\n<lj-cut text=\"So I may as well use a cut tag\">\n<p>So I've gotten used to thinking of someone who looks like her as being roleplayed by a male \"gung-ho roleplayer, interested in action, cool fight scenes, and lucrative spoils\" (as the character description page puts it).<\/p>\n<p>And since that roleplayer previously played Qui-Gon, I have kind of the same thing going on in my head as a poster at the Darths &amp; Droids forum who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irregularwebcomic.net\/draakslair\/viewtopic.php?p=71551#71551\">wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In the back of my mind, ever since the switch I've been seeing Pads as Liam Neeson in very convincing drag.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So when I saw Natalie Portman in real life, I had a momentary weird sense that she was being roleplayed by a hack-and-slash roleplayer who looks like Liam Neeson.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, obviously in the strip, the fictional character of Jim (who presumably doesn't actually look at all like Liam Neeson) is roleplaying the fictional-squared character of Padme, not roleplaying Natalie Portman.<\/p>\n<p>But it was still a little disconcerting.<\/p>\n<\/lj-cut>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently saw Natalie Portman live (well, on a screen, but in realtime, from a nearby location). Which gave me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,44,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-movies","category-roleplaying"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}