Colm Meany cast in AMC Western!

[Temis the Vorta]

Hell on Wheels

Colm Meaney is set to star opposite Anson Mount in AMC's period drama pilot Hell on Wheels. The Endemol USA/Entertainment One-produced Western centers on Cullen (Mount), a former Confederate soldier tracking down the Union soldiers who killed his wife who winds up working on the Nebraska prairie's Hell on Wheels' portion of the transcontinental railroad. Meaney will play Thomas "Doc" Durant, a businessman determined to make his fortune building the transcontinental railroad, a man of vision and a self-serving opportunist who is capable of "creative financing."

This is shaping up to be one very interesting sounding series.

 

[Kelso]

Sounding better all the time.

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

No matter how the show turns out, it's always good news when a DS9 actor/actress lands work. Glad to see Meaney's still appreciated in 2010.

 

[DS9 Gal AZ]

Good for Colm Meaney. A lot of Star Trek actors seem to struggle to find work after their Trek shows are over, because they are too identified as w/ST as their character (I think others have this problem, for example David Duchovony and Gillian Anderson always being seen as "Mulder and Scully," etc.). I've seen him in a couple of other things besides Trek and he's quite good. Might have to catch the new series!

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

David Duchovny managed to get that role of Californication, although it sounds like that wasn't completely for the best, either, what with all the... problems he apparently suffered from it for a while...

 

[DS9 Gal AZ]

Jeff I know but I'm saying (aside from DD's personal scandals) that it becomes a struggle when an actor like him becomes so known for a role that he/she is defined by said role. It becomes difficult for audiences to see the actor doing anything else because they so identify him/her with the particular character. This is not something that's unique to Star Trek or even sci-fi in general, and it doesn't mean the actor can't break out of the box, so to speak, and have other memorable roles. William Shatner, for example, will always be known for playing Kirk, but will also be known for (IIRC) T.J. Hooker, and (to some, myself included), Denny Crane. I just think it might be a bit of handicap that some actors might not get past.