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Who thinks they did a great job making the Taxi cast look younger?


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Yeah, I thought that was impressive and weird! They don't look 100% like they did back then, but pretty close! ...especially Christopher Lloyd. YR

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I don't...I think they all looked really OLD...especially Jeff Conaway.

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True about Jeff Conaway... he hasn't worn well.

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Years of serious cocaine addiction will do that to a person. Jeff Conaway has had some major issues.

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I never said they looked identical to the original series. Considering the amount of years of passed, the makeup did an incredible job.

Isaac... sounds like their advanced ages really upset you! Aging is a basic fact of biology. Accept it.

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ehhh... No. They definitely looked older to me especially Marilu Henner, who doesn't look old but she is skin and bones and pale, especially compared to before.

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Marilu and Jeff did NOT look like they did in 1978-1983, which makes perfect sense, of course, because it was twenty years later! I mean, it still kind of worked and it was good to see them, but they looked WAY different. Marilu is much thinner now and Jeff, rest his soul, looked very odd with that hair.

Now, Judd and Christopher were older then anyway, so they kind of looked the same. Carol looked close, too.

Marilu and Jeff had just changed in appearance far too much, one for healthy reasons and the other not so much.

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I thought there was a damn fine attempt, though they couldn't make them look exactly like they did. To me, the cast still looked obviously older--but I was pleasantly surprised they got everyone back. That was far better, to me, than simply casting a younger group or really going all-out to make them look like they did so many decades previous.

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People mostly overlook that Conaway was designed to be the "star" of the show. He got first billing in the early series as the hunky, boy next door who got the girls.
The scripts simply didn't favor him and the inventive work of Lloyd, de Vito and Kaufmann, not forgetting Danza being more "interesting" meant that Conaway became just eye candy.

Strange the way these things work out....








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