For people who think Ioan isn’t a very good actor judging by his more recent work, back in the ‘olden times’ he was a very good actor, not just pretty. Hornblower, Great Expectations, Another Life, Peacekeepers/Warriors, Solomon and Gaenor, Happy Now, some of these are pretty hard to find but definitely worth watching. For me, his acting started to get a bit…I don’t know, forced maybe? Too ‘stagey’? Coincidentally or not, it seemed to happen right around the time the Ugly Shoe Demon showed up.
So her mouthpieces saying that she made his career is hilarious. After she got hold of him it started to crash. For one thing, I know the celebrity couple thing is really big right now (I can’t wait for that to die off personally) But back then it was weird to have him talking about her so much in every interview and for her to be there stuck to him in a lot of them. She was fuckin nobody, and no one gave a tit what she had to say other than the usual celeb couple shippers. Those people she latched onto like a giant barnacle and look how that turned out. If he had dumped her ass the minute she decided she was also entitled to his fans’ adoration I think he would have had a better career and probably a better life too.
Silver lining, at least now he has a lot of personal pain to draw from for his acting.