My primary fantasy as an actor is that I would one day be able to exist - financially and artistically - on acting jobs.
My secondary fantasy as an actor is that I could get a role in some movie or TV show that would subsequently result in my likeness being reproduced in the form of an action figure. I would take him everywhere with me. When I went to a restaurant, I would let him sit on the table. When I went to my accountant to take care of my complex financial matters, I would bring him out of my pocket and let him be part of the action. When I rode the bus, which I would never do because famous and successful actors (the kind that have action figures fashioned after them) never use public transportation, I would let my little plastic doppelganger take up the whole seat next to me. Unless there was a really pregnant woman on board and the bus was really full; then they could share a seat. And when I die, I would ask that the action figure in my likeness would be taken to the top of Mount Everest, and glued to the highest peak.
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I keep getting flashes of Steve Martin in The Man With Two Brains and the "statue" of his late wife.
Those few people I know who have had action figures made of one of their characters are always really, really amused by it. It's a good aspiration to have. It does, however, usually mean that you have to lower yourself to appear in a movie based on a comic book, a video game, or a theme park ride.
alex has an action figure.
need I say more?
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