Happy Birthday Adam Baldwin! He has a great genre spanning career in film and television. I would say I first took note of Adam as Animal Mother in Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket (1987). There was something about his soldier, just all out into the rifle life, and you took him for what he was as a person. I also remember him as Captain Wilkins in The Patriot (2000), the colonist who had loyalty to the crown, but not the brutal tactics of Colonel Tavington. Still, the role that I think made his mark as an actor was Jayne Cobb in Firefly which ran from 2002 to 2003. Jayne is a tough mercenary with his loyalty on a razor over money, there is something stupid, but lovable about the man called Jayne, you want him in a gun fight, but not hanging around you.
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| Adam Baldwin at Wizard World, New Orleans, 2012, photo by the author. |
There are two episodes that defined the character, he betrays the team in “Ariel” and Mal at the end is about to eject him into space, this is probably my favorite for his character. Then, of course, “Jaynestown”, where he unknowingly is made a folk hero, to the disbelief of the crew and himself, and the responsibility makes him turn away from the fame. I saw him at a convention in New Orleans and there was true love of the character and the series, he is more of fan than any Browncoat. I was so happy that there was some sort of conclusion to the crew with the Serenity (2005) film, but I still want more, even it’s continuation in comics. Baldwin was also John Casey in Chuck (2007-2012). Adam has done voice work for animated series like Superman in Superman/Doomsday (2007) and video games with Halo and Half-Life. Last year he was Captain Mike Slattery in The Last Ship series that he started in 2014. Happy Birthday Adam Baldwin!
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