Hehe, something similar happened with me too in the last month or so. As a kid I thought about him as a weird, kind of a creepy guy, with an odd hairdo. (I guess Buckaroo Banzai didn't help this image much). I've never seen 3rd Rock before, but I've started watching it and come to understand what a great guy he is, with killer comedic sense.
If you grow up seeing a great actor mostly as an evil bad guy, like him in Cliffhanger, you can't separate the actor from a character, and i guess I somehow hated him how vile and slimy he was... Seeing him as the nicest and funniest guy is such a relief. :)
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