'Rescue Me': Another Vapid Actor Breaks the Spell

Too much information about an actor’s life breaks the ability for the viewer to believe the character the actor is playing. Daniel Sunjata is one of those actors I wish I knew less about. He’s one of the stars of the hit show “Rescue Me,” and after reading of his beliefs that 9/11 was an inside job, I find it difficult to see his character Franco, as real. Good thing for him the producers decided to write his conspiracy theories into the show so now his acting won’t be a stretch. In fact it won’t be an act at all; it’ll be his truth, which leaves me seeing just another vapid Hollywood actor looking to push the envelope of their stupidity instead of minding to their craft.

Two of the greatest actors of our time, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Daniel Day Lewis are the sort of actors that truly let me enjoy their work because I know next to nothing about who they are as people. And I don’t want to know about them, I just want to experience the joy of their craft.

Daniel Sunjata has been quoted as saying “There’s alternative theories about what really happened on 9/11,” he told TV critics in January. “They’re not discussed a lot in the press … I’m really gratified that they allowed that to be focused through my character, because I happen to subscribe to a lot of those theories and beliefs that 9/11 was an inside job.” Daniel, they’re not discussed, because they have no foundation in reality.

You need only Google Daniel Sunjata 9/11 to read more of Daniel’s inane beliefs.

I’m all for TV producers taking sensitive topics like 9/11 and putting them into storylines. I’m even for actors speaking up if they feel the need, (and we all know actors have lots of needs) but it wrecks their credibility as an artist hired to recreate a life other than their own.

When I know too much about an actor’s life or beliefs, whether it be their religion, their politics, what recovery group they presently attend, who they’re sleeping with or their need to believe that the US is evil, I find it difficult to see the character they’re hoping to create.

Daniel believes 9/11 was set in motion by the US so as to move the world into some sort of “One World Government,” well if that’s the case, then it’s up to his man Obama to now carry that torch of stupidity around the world for him. It’s disappointing that TV producers gleefully put these sorts of storylines into shows, but won’t deal with storylines such as the thousands of people with AIDS in Africa that have benefited by the work of George W. Bush.

So Daniel, let me just put all your 9/11 conspiracies and the Iraq war to rest right now.

If the US Government could bring down the twin towers and kill 3000 US citizens in a single day without anyone coming forward as a whistle blower, don’t you think they could have planted weapons of mass destruction in Iraq for us to find?