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Now, about Joe Esteves. He's Martin Sheen's brother. He sounds just like him and I understand that he makes pretty good money doing voice-over work for TV commercials. When you see a commercial and it sounds like Martin Sheen, it may well be Joe Esteves. When things went wrong with Charlie Sheen, Joe offered to temporarily take his place on Two and a Half Men, not taking Charlie's role but just appearing so they'd still have the right number of men.
But what was he doing in this movie?
Over the years, John Carradine appeared in scores of low budget horror movies. Rory Calhoun did the same thing late in his career. Dustin Diamond's main thing is being the only recognizable actor in low budget comedies.
I heard a B movie director who had John Carradine play a mad scientist explain that it wasn't to have a big star in the movie. He didn't think people would rent his video because Carradine was in it. It was, he said, for the morale of the filmmaker. It made him feel like a real director to have a real actor he had seen in real movies acting out his script.
Even then---no offense to Joe Esteves---I don't think that's the case here. I've seen the guy in one or two things, but he didn't make that big an impression. John Carradine was in Stagecoach and Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex* But Were Afraid to Ask.
In this age of digital video, when anyone can make a movie and actually have it look technically competent, what can you do to signify that what you've made is a real movie and not an amateur video? You can make it clear that at least one actor got paid.
I suppose an alternative would be to have actors do things they didn't want to do. Nude scenes, sex scenes, stunts---things they wouldn't do unless there was money involved.
Joe Esteves being in Rollergator did change my impression of the movie.
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