What? And Give Up Show Business?
July 29, 2015 11:14 AM Subscribe
(Or I CAN Get Arrested in This Town!) Aspiring actor Jason Stange nailed the audition for the role of an evil doctor in the forthcoming horror film Marla Mae. The low budget production was shot in Olympia Washington, where the local paper took an interest.
Unfortunately, the US Marshals Service apparently reads the Olympian, and arrested Stange on a fugitive warrant. Stange, convicted of armed bank robbery in 2006, had walked away from a work release program in Spokane in 2014 and managed to remain below the radar prior to... appearing as the villain in a horror movie. "Honestly, he's been really good. He's been on time, professional." said director and star Lisa Van Dam-Bates. Stange's arrest came on the last day of filming, his part was effectively complete, and Van Dam-Bates reports that he will still appear in the film when it is released in 2016. No word yet on when Stange himself will be released.
Unfortunately, the US Marshals Service apparently reads the Olympian, and arrested Stange on a fugitive warrant. Stange, convicted of armed bank robbery in 2006, had walked away from a work release program in Spokane in 2014 and managed to remain below the radar prior to... appearing as the villain in a horror movie. "Honestly, he's been really good. He's been on time, professional." said director and star Lisa Van Dam-Bates. Stange's arrest came on the last day of filming, his part was effectively complete, and Van Dam-Bates reports that he will still appear in the film when it is released in 2016. No word yet on when Stange himself will be released.
Honest, guvnor, it's not a bank robbery, it's improv.
posted by arcticseal at 11:42 AM on July 29, 2015
posted by arcticseal at 11:42 AM on July 29, 2015
Nice of them to wait for the end of filming, and give him a chance to return his costume before taking him away.
posted by ckape at 11:42 AM on July 29, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by ckape at 11:42 AM on July 29, 2015 [2 favorites]
Oh, this town! (Here's the O's coverage of the arrest, BTW; I found out about the story because I follow the reporter on Twitter.)
posted by epersonae at 11:43 AM on July 29, 2015
posted by epersonae at 11:43 AM on July 29, 2015
Aspiring actor Jason Stange nailed the audition for the role of an evil doctor
Seriously: Doctor Stange?
posted by Shepherd at 11:44 AM on July 29, 2015 [7 favorites]
Seriously: Doctor Stange?
posted by Shepherd at 11:44 AM on July 29, 2015 [7 favorites]
Doctor Lourdes, technically. But point taken.
And I swear to God I thought I recognized him in those photos, though apparently this was his first and only role. Is there some more established actor he looks like?
posted by Naberius at 11:46 AM on July 29, 2015
And I swear to God I thought I recognized him in those photos, though apparently this was his first and only role. Is there some more established actor he looks like?
posted by Naberius at 11:46 AM on July 29, 2015
"Hey, bud. How's the acting going?"
"Don't ask. I couldn't get arrested in this town"
"Oh, I wouldn't be so sure about that... sir"
posted by Devonian at 11:52 AM on July 29, 2015 [1 favorite]
"Don't ask. I couldn't get arrested in this town"
"Oh, I wouldn't be so sure about that... sir"
posted by Devonian at 11:52 AM on July 29, 2015 [1 favorite]
And I just can't get over the idea of the marshals actually READING THE OLYMPIAN. It's a thin little paper, probably would've been shut down by the conglomerate if we weren't the state capital. So maybe it was just in the breakroom (like at my last job) and someone waiting for a microwave lunch being all "oh wait, I think I recognize that guy?"
posted by epersonae at 12:08 PM on July 29, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by epersonae at 12:08 PM on July 29, 2015 [4 favorites]
I suspect it may more be a case of a bot that looks for key names and phrases. Which with his name probably gets a fair number of false positives, but then you see pictures, and identifying marks like his tattoo.
Or it was just a slow day in the Marshalls office.
posted by Badgermann at 12:16 PM on July 29, 2015 [2 favorites]
Or it was just a slow day in the Marshalls office.
posted by Badgermann at 12:16 PM on July 29, 2015 [2 favorites]
Given that the paper has a webpage, I just assume that TPTB have some kind of comprehensive Google Alert setup. Or, the marshals assigned to his case just have individual Google Alerts for the fugitives with even slightly uncommon names on their lists.
I'm pretty sure that if this dude had had the wherewithal to even go with a stage name for anything related to the production, he wouldn't have gotten caught (at least not until Marla Mae became the viral hit sensation of 2016).
posted by sparklemotion at 12:16 PM on July 29, 2015
I'm pretty sure that if this dude had had the wherewithal to even go with a stage name for anything related to the production, he wouldn't have gotten caught (at least not until Marla Mae became the viral hit sensation of 2016).
posted by sparklemotion at 12:16 PM on July 29, 2015
There's an interesting aside in this article about one of the actors who did Beatle voices for the movie Yellow Submarine: "Director George Dunning had overheard [Peter] Batten talking in a Liverpudlian accent in a London pub. He cast him on the spot as George Harrison, although Batten had never acted before. Towards the end of the production, Batten was in bed with one of the young women on the production team when the military police burst in and arrested him for desertion. He has not been seen or heard of since."
posted by LeLiLo at 12:31 PM on July 29, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by LeLiLo at 12:31 PM on July 29, 2015 [2 favorites]
Is there some more established actor he looks like?
Thinking of Toby from The Office, maybe?
posted by Navelgazer at 12:35 PM on July 29, 2015
Thinking of Toby from The Office, maybe?
posted by Navelgazer at 12:35 PM on July 29, 2015
Like a cross between Toby and Nathan Fillon.
posted by kittensofthenight at 12:45 PM on July 29, 2015
posted by kittensofthenight at 12:45 PM on July 29, 2015
LiLiLo, that's a fascinating anecdote. Apparently Batten voiced George for the first half of the film, then another actor replaced him for the second half!
Honest, guvnor, it's not a bank robbery, it's improv.
Not long ago a guy tried something not far off, claiming a bank robbery was part of an art project.
posted by Ursula Hitler at 3:27 PM on July 29, 2015
Honest, guvnor, it's not a bank robbery, it's improv.
Not long ago a guy tried something not far off, claiming a bank robbery was part of an art project.
posted by Ursula Hitler at 3:27 PM on July 29, 2015
Weird. I can't get the article about the movie shooting to do anything but a blank page, either in FF or Chrome.
posted by Samizdata at 7:06 PM on July 29, 2015
posted by Samizdata at 7:06 PM on July 29, 2015
Maybe a Ghostery/Adblock issue? (Ugh, newspaper sites.)
posted by epersonae at 11:29 AM on July 30, 2015
posted by epersonae at 11:29 AM on July 30, 2015
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Also dumb. Just flat-out dumb.
posted by He Is Only The Imposter at 11:37 AM on July 29, 2015 [2 favorites]