Of all the casting news in the month of June so far, the one that interests me the most isn’t Charisma Carpenter’s stint on Greek, or James Tupper’s (from Men In Trees–Tupper isn’t quite a household name) role on Samantha Who?, or even Madchen Amick’s cougar role on Gossip Girl. Nope, none of those. Who needs to read about beautiful people being cast to play beautiful people? I’d rather hear about random, off-the-map actors like Michael Badalucco being cast on the smart and full of beautiful people show, Bones. According to tvguide.com, he’ll play one of many candidates for Zack’s old position at the Jeffersonian. I’m interested only because I was expecting a much younger candidate (I’m sure we’ll have our fill of younger candidates though). TVGuide mentioned that casting Michael Badalucco was similar to the casting of Edward Herrmann (aka Richard Gilmore) to play an old(er) intern on Grey’s Anatomy. I, for one, don’t see the similarity between the characters other than being older than interns typically are. Michael Badalucco is no Edward Herrmann. What has Michael Badalucco even done since The Practice? Appear on Bravo’s now defunct Celebrity Poker Showdown? Yes, but not much else. According to his filmography at IMDB, he’s done a few random things here and there (i.e. the ABC Family Channel monstrosity, Pizza My Heart). Maybe he can save his dying career with this turn on Bones.
