I still think The Toe-Pick Girl was the better Donna...

Moira must be a great actress.  My first viewing of FWWM was marred by the thought of "toe pick" for the first five minutes that she was on the screen, but eventually that passed and I came to accept her as Donna.  LFB was the real Donna, but I'm not sure anyone else could play imitation-Donna as well as Moira.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOhhhh!

...I still don't get it.

i mean, i know the scene, but i don't get what i would do...okay, i'm shutting this thread down!

Easy, make Jean Renault shoot first so Coop doesn't have a choice and has to kill him... I mean, obviously Coop wouldn't shoot first, he'd first try to arrest him, right?

I'm just kidding, man, it's just that your Donna changes are IMO far better done than Han Solo moving and Greedo shooting first...

Moira must be a great actress.  My first viewing of FWWM was marred by the thought of "toe pick" for the first five minutes that she was on the screen, but eventually that passed and I came to accept her as Donna.  LFB was the real Donna, but I'm not sure anyone else could play imitation-Donna as well as Moira.

  Agreed....I think the reason I prefer Moira over LFB is that *gasp* I saw FWWM before the series.  I mean I remember all the type of the series when it originally aired but didn't watch it then. One day I was in the video store I picked up FWWM, watched it and was blown away.  Then I became very intrigued so I rented the pilot and went from there.

Me, too, pineweasel. Then I saw the pilot and was like, well, it was easy to suspend disbelief because they are both romantic Nancy Drew types.

Did you know that Lara Flynn Boyle desperately wanted the role of Audrey from the start, and the reason she was able to be vampy with the cigs and shades was because she was jealous of Fenn'ss media image and Lynch showed pity by writing her to be a little sexier? (It probably didn't come free... ;) )

Funny how everyone mentions that The Cutting Edge detracted a little from accepting MK as Donna, but no one mentions Wayne's stalker ex in the neckbrace from Wayner's World talking about LFB!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcntsWDtyEM

Me, too, pineweasel. Then I saw the pilot and was like, well, it was easy to suspend disbelief because they are both romantic Nancy Drew types. Did you know that Lara Flynn Boyle desperately wanted the role of Audrey from the start, and the reason she was able to be vampy with the cigs and shades was because she was jealous of Fenn'ss media image and Lynch showed pity by writing her to be a little sexier? (It probably didn't come free... ;) ) Funny how everyone mentions that The Cutting Edge detracted a little from accepting MK as Donna, but no one mentions Wayne's stalker ex in the neckbrace from Wayner's World talking about LFB! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcntsWDtyEM

  You're right!  Maybe because LFB has a minor role in Wayne's World...thank goodness!

I don't think Boyle wanted the role of Audrey. She got the lead part, and with the romance.  Certainly front and center.  Audrey and Shelly (and others) weren't as thought out initially, and certainly on paper, Donna is the prime character a young actress wants, hoping the show gets picked up as a series.

And probably while filming the first season, she was perfectly happy -the character is active on paper.  But while it aired and it was gaining a lot of popularity, and the public was responding to Audrey, it probably set off angling.

I don't think Boyle wanted the role of Audrey. .

 

Again, I wasn't guessing. This bit of trivia is direct from my sources.

I don't know- but probably meant as the series went on, not initialially off of the pilot script.

I think it was lara flynn boyle.

LFB preferred here.   Moira in the topless scene though!

MK was great but she served an entirely different purpose to the Donna's developing character in her role in FWWM than LFB did in the series. Moira's Donna spent all her screen time trying to draw Laura and herself closer and I saw nothing of the deepening link between her and James. Lara had the opportunity to stretch her character from the best friend to lover to understanding woman waiting for her man to return.Two acting instruments playing for different effects to advance the plots.

If Moira had played Donna in the scene where Mr. Smith threatened Donna with violence, then as an audience member I would have expected her to deck him with extreme measures that might have led him to a career singing in the local  boy's choir. Different actresses palying different aspects of a developing character.