Christopher Judge sets a humble new world record

[clearspira]

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2022/12 ... rld-record

I suspect that we are all Teal'c/Christopher Judge fans on here so here's a nice feelgood story. The world record for an Oscars acceptance speech was 5 minutes and 30 seconds set in 1942 by Greer Garson. Judge's acceptance speech at the game awards for God of War? 7 minutes and 59 seconds.

You can argue fairly that it was a bit excessive, but this honestly warmed my heart. This is a grateful and humble man who is showing his emotions. He is looking great as well. Its been twenty-five(?) years since SG-1 and he still looks the same.

There is a comment on this article about how Judge has managed to escape his sci-fi typecasting and I think that is a very important thing to note because Judge probably realises that himself. How many actors make it big in sci-fi only to never work in anything but sci-fi ever again? How many actors make it big in sci-fi and are always remembered just for that one thing for the next fifty years and otherwise have no career? Shatner and Nimoy have had choice words on that over the years.

I'm thinking hard here as to who has jumped from sci-fi to anything else and made it stick - and not coming up with many names. Patrick Stewart (partially), Jason Mamoa, Matt Smith and David Tennant. I guess the likes of Robert Duncan McNeill and Jonathan Frakes became popular directors so they could also count. Honestly, fantasy may be ''cool'' now, but sci-fi still occupies a certain ghetto that it cannot escape from.

He is no longer Teal'c in the minds of Gen Z. He is Kratos, the God of War. And that's lovely.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

Leslie Nielsen made it out of Sci Fi and was able to establish himself as a comedian.

Though, he did do the Dracula movie, so you could say that he didn't stray too far delving into the horror, folk-tale, fantasy genre.

[Frustration]

David Tennant was big before he took on the role of The Doctor.

[Madner Kami]

Exceptions don't disprove a general trend.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

Tom Hardy made it out of Sci Fi.

[hammerofglass]

Can't imagine why they'd want to downgrade anyway.