The boy that plays Tony Costa is such a terrible actor
I cringe whenever he delivers his lines. Absolutely no emotion in his facial expressions or through his words. How he got through the casting process is a mystery.
shareIn all fairness he doesn't have much to do. He's more of a motivating factor for Lyra than an important character in his own right. They never give him good lines or try to flesh him out in any way, he's there to be a hostage who needs rescuing.
shareNo, the OP is right. The kid can't act and that's all there is to it.
The gods have spoken!
Have you seen this kid in anything else, besides the handful of scenes he's been in here?
It never ceases to amaze me the lengths some people will go to to deny something that is obvious. Oh yes well maybe he can't act here but that wasn't his fault. It was the lines or the scenes or the lack of motivation blah blah blah. It is so infantile and so tedious.
As tedious as someone who insults you instead of defending his own position? Clearly any reasonable person would agree with you. Shine the light of your wisdom upon us poor wretched fools, oh great and wise one, that we may learn!
I don't know what this kid's range is as an actor. Just that I wouldn't base my opinion solely on a few short scenes, playing a tertiary character who isn't meant to be anything more than motivation for the story's young heroine. Let's see him try a more ambitious part before we pass judgment, shall we?
And what's worse is that the only reason he was cast was to tick the ethnic diversity box. Whether he could act or not wasn't even a consideration. This is what the BBC has come to, left wing propaganda over artistic merit.
The OP is about Tony Costa, Billy’s big brother, my old friend. Billy is the McGuffin, as you said.
shareI can't believe anyone could have thought the OP was talking about the little Billy Costa actor. The boy was only about five years old ffs and barely had any lines to speak anyway.
Okay, my mistake. Still kind of a bit part though. He wasn't entirely believable as a kid whose little brother has been kidnapped, and his best friend killed. Should've felt guilty considering how he abandoned him. But the performance wasn't so bad (at least imo) that I found it too distracting to ignore. Some of the characters, Mrs. Coulter especially, come off a little differently in the show than in the books, but overall the leads are excellent and none of the changes (again imo) detract from the story.
shareIt was an easy mistake to make. I thought the OP was about Billy, too, till I came back another day and read the topic headline more carefully. I did not recall any Costa males other than Billy, so small was the brother’s effect on my memory.
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