This kind of years-later-revisit never goes well. The actors are not the same people they were (not to mention older and heavier) and they don’t have the razor-sharp handle on the character that they once did. It ends up feeling like a high school play because the actors don’t have their head in the game on those characters any more. Even when attempted sincerely, like the fourth season of Arrested Development, it ends up being hard to watch. So much of a good performance is about who the actor was and where their head was at the time. It’s lightning in a bottle and it never works to try and reproduce it later. Certainly not with a different lighting, hair, makeup, writing, and production team. All of which are as important to the performance as the actual acting is.
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