Grangehill1
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Been catching up on CBS Drama of Dynasty - Season 7. Karen Cellini - I mean she's just wrong isn't she? Even her title card is wrong with the strange pose.
That makes one of us.I don't think KC was any worse than Emma Samms as Fallon or Jack Coleman as Steven RE: recasts!
Just the title makes it Emmy-worthy...Apparently Karen Cellini has only appeared in two productions: Dynasty and Seriously Twisted. The thriller is available on YouTube. This way you can judge whether Karen Cellini was unconvincing as an actress in general or only on Dynasty.
i did like her delivery of “Well then, I suppose you better enjoy him while you can.”
It wasn't Karen Cellini's fault, but she was never going to play a British aristocratic character like Catherine Oxenberg, so it wasn't really the Amanda Carrington that we had known.
Is that really true?Dynasty was the first time Karen Cellini had ever appeared on screen.
Is that really true?
Every time the story of her "discovery" is told, she is working in a lower kind of job at HRC. Next time she´ll happen to be the cleaning lady (not that any of these professions isn´t honorable and worth of respect at all).The story i remember put out at the time she was hired is that she worked as a coat check person at a Hard Rock Cafe and had never before acted professionally. How true that a I don't know. However, I've always suspected Spelling hired her as a message to all the actors on Dynasty who thought about asking for more money that they can be replaced by literally anyone. He had enough trouble with Joan and now Catherine Oxenberg wanted more money, he may have felt he had to send a strong message, even if it was to the shows detriment
I think Aaron Spelling shot himself in the foot. Catherine Oxenberg was only asking for the same salary as Heather Locklear, not John Forsythe. Oxenberg obviously calculated that the Amanda Carrington role wasn't easily recastable because of her background, accent etc., so Spelling responded by casting a typical American, even though that's as far away from Amanda as it gets. It shows no appreciation for the character.The story i remember put out at the time she was hired is that she worked as a coat check person at a Hard Rock Cafe and had never before acted professionally. How true that a I don't know. However, I've always suspected Spelling hired her as a message to all the actors on Dynasty who thought about asking for more money that they can be replaced by literally anyone. He had enough trouble with Joan and now Catherine Oxenberg wanted more money, he may have felt he had to send a strong message, even if it was to the shows detriment
I think Aaron Spelling shot himself in the foot. Catherine Oxenberg was only asking for the same salary as Heather Locklear, not John Forsythe. Oxenberg obviously calculated that the Amanda Carrington role wasn't easily recastable because of her background, accent etc., so Spelling responded by casting a typical American, even though that's as far away from Amanda as it gets. It shows no appreciation for the character.