Dynamic Rain and Thunder: Always Lookin' At The Bright Side.
DYNAMIC RAIN AND THUNDER FILM CHARACTERS
Yes this is it! The first big list of all Dynamic Rain and Thunder character from 2000 to the present. This list is updated multiple times per week.
You won't find steeley young CSI investigators on this list. No shadowy mafia goons, no coaches trying to inspire, no heroic good guy trying to get the bad guy.
What you'll find are crazy characters who want something they can't have and are usually doing a bad job at getting it. These roles were created to be something unique, something fresh in both comedy and drama.
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Abby is the lead female and Lane's Colorado love interest, best friend and roomate in Temptations Revelations Karma. She's certainly an alcoholic who pushes away the man she loves. Abby gets a second chance by cleaning up her act and meeting Lane's jerk of an ex boss, Mr Kheil.
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MoviesActorSherrie |
| Inspiration (AJ Gonzales): TRK needed three love interests for Lane and Abby served as both his starting point and the woman he felt he needed to get back to. For the story, that meant Abby had to have some faults to drive Lane away. I knew someone similar to Abby who had many of the same traits but nothing on the level that Sherrie brought to the character. Sherrie took the character from "ha ha who who we''ll have some drinks" to "yikes, she loves him but hates herself and she's destroying their relationship". I watched this happen while filming and it was heart wrenching. |
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Ana Cazares is the woman who has $200,000 worth of gold in her head. Yes you read that right. Since all that gold is just waiting for someone to cut her head off, well Ugly Days in Idiotvylle began. At the start of Ugly Days Ana is dating the ever finacially struggling Govornor of Colorado, Clyde Ramirez. She convinces him to fire Pete Lemansky and hire her as the state's treasurer to get things turned around. The reason she chose Clyde for a mate though, was for protection from the many scumbags who would do her harm for the gold in her head. As Clyde faces an uphill re-election, he too turns against Ana.
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MovieUgly Days in Idiotvylle ActorAngi |
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Inspiration (AJ Gonzales): I get asked about Ana's gold more often than anything else. What does it mean? Where did the idea come from? I wanted Ugy Days to be as creatively unique as possible and having people chase a briefcase of cash around just didn't appeal to me back when we were jstarting out. Since Ugly Days was meant to be a surreal dark comedy, I thought what better place to put the gold, then in her head? Her life would be in constant danger and it's so out there we not really killing people. I have never liked the idea of killing people in movies. and the night we shot the scene of Ana's death, I said I would never do it again. I don't know if I will always keep that vow, but that's why Ana's "murder" is the only one in all these years. |
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Annette is one of three "hostesses" working at Casa Roja in Mexico. She becomes Lane's love interest in the story once the plot has moved to Mexico. She's Felipe's favorite employee and works at Casa Roja at the suggestion of her husband Pa-ul.
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MovieActorBig X |
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Inspiration (AJ Gonzales) In 2004 I vacationed in Mexico and met many of the real life inspirations for the "Mexican" cast in TRK. There was a real Annette and she had a very similar life, though her husband wasn't the source for Pa-ul. When filming began for TRK, i was so thrilled about the cast and what they could do with their characters, I made up my mind to leave "who Lane ends up with" open and shoot several scenes with different variations. When we were shooting in Mexico, seeing Lane and Annette together just closed the book on the debate. One of the elements in TRK which is now seen in a very different light is the desire of Annette to leave Mexico for the USA. Illegal Immigration wasn't the flash point in 2005/2006 that it became just a few years later. |
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The Union of Sleepy-Tyme Beddy-Bye Folks! begins with Bordos Badger being once again rejected as a children's story book writer. Since he hates kids and wants to rule the world, he decides to give up writing and apply at The Union to become the New Sandman. When Chester Machogany gets the job, Bordos and his sidekcik Sheila the Filthy Rat decide to destroy the Union of Sleep-Tyme Beddy-Bye Folks!
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MovieThe Union of Sleepy-Tyme Beddy-Bye Folks!
ActorGreg |
| Inspiration (AJ Gonzales): If you have watched the Union and wonder if it was fun to make, I can tell you I still laugh just thinking of the scenes I directed with Greg as Bodos. He was the perfect foil for Darrell's Chester Machogany, knowing just how to layer the differences between the two way over the top characters. Bad without being evil so often comes out as just stupid, but Greg nailed it. |
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Brenda is a documentary filmmaker, eternally past due on her editing studio's rent. She's making a documentary concerning Lane and Abby and what caused their relationship to end. Brenda connects with Abby, Jake, Rudy and her landlord, Stan.
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MovieTemptations Revelations Karma ActorAngi |
| Inspiration (AJ Gonzales): If I were to analyze Brenda's character, I'd say she represents DRandT in TRK. The outsde filmmaker looking in, and of course we have to goof heavily on ourselves which is why Brenda's work and life is such a trainwreck. |
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Carmen is one of three "hostesses" working at Casa Roja in Mexico who become involved with Lane and his friends during their vacation. The wildest of the three, she sets the tone for the party atmosphere then shows regret about her life while drinking the "Rudy Special" with Gabe. Carmen has important scenes with Lane, Gabe, Rudy, Jake, Felipe and George.
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MovieTemptations Revelations Karma ActorLaura |
| Inspiration (AJ Gonzales) There was a real Carmen and she was as every bit sexy and incredibly wild as Laura's portrayal. What Laura brought to the role was the courage to play it as written, and there' s no doubt in my mind had we cast an actress with less confidence, the Carmen character simply would not have worked. |
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Chester Machogany is a tornado of energy that tears through everything and everyone he meets. Chosen by Santa as the New Sandman, (he beat out Bordos Badger for the job) Chester's just getting settled at The Union of Sleepy-Tyme Beddy-Bye Folks! when Bordos vows to destroy them.
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MovieThe Union of Sleepy-Tyme Beddy-Bye Folks!
ActorDarrell |
| Inspiration (AJ Gonzales): I wanted the Union's hero to be just like a kid, a high energy kid that doesn't listen too well. I wanted the character to be so volitile he posed more of a threat to the bad guys than they posed to him. |
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Chuck's Girlfriend appears in three key scens of TRK and adds the layers of social continuity needed to establish Lane's friends lives before Mexico. She's supportive of Chuck but not demanding that he quits drinking, which brings the ire of Chuck's Mom.
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MoviesActorKristina
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| Inspiration (AJ Gonzales): Kristina really took a small role and ran with it with this character. It would have been so easy to just play it as the "neglected mate to a an addict" and from watching her do it, I only ever get the sense she's in love with the guy and her own emotions about his lifetsyle take a backseat to his needs. Bravo once again to Kristina. |
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Chuck, the friend too sick to go to Mexico, dies during Lane's trip. Chuck's mom appears at the funeral. Her first appearence is in the beginning, when she analyzes Lane's partying lifestyle and his effect on Chuck.
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MoviesActorDiane |
| Inspiration (AJ Gonzales): I don't see it happening in the near future, but I'd love to explore more of Lane's life with his friends before the events of TRK. In my pre script notes, Lane, Rudy, Chuck and Grover were lifelong friends with Chuck's Mom servcing as den mother to the group. . |
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Colorado Governor Clyde Ramirez is one of the main antagonists in Ugly Days in Idiotvylle. He's decided the only way to relieve the state's budget shortfalls is to kill his girlfirend Ana Cazares for the $200,000 worth of gold she has in her head.
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MovieUgly Days in Idiotvylle ActorPhil |
| Inspiration (AJ Gonzales) Still the big one after all these years! Wow, watching Darrell play Clyde was a lesson in watching a professional go to work on his craft. Darrell's Clyde came out of nowhere, he took what I wrote and increased the insanity, the anger, the frustration but somehow made the guy understandable. I based having three antagonists in Ugly Days - Clyde, Gary and Selso off The Good The Bad and The Ugly's three leads, so I was prepared to let Darrell pull a Tuco and upstage the other characters, but it sertainly wasn't planned that way. |
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Evil Ray Montoya is Colorado Governor Clyde Ramirez's right hand goon and all out dimwitted pyscho. Not bright but very deadly.
Evil Ray (R) Clyde (L) |
MoviesUgly Days in Idiotvylle ActorPam |
| Inspiration (AJ Gonzales): Evil Ray was written with someone much larger in mind, and a guy, but having Pam do the role made the character exactly the type of henchman Clyde would have in his frustrated world. |
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Felipe owns a popular strip joint/brother called Casa Roja in the unnamed Mexican resort town that Lane and his friends visit in TRK. Tough, protective and business minded, Felipe shows his fathely side when it comes to helping his girls find better lives.
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MovieActorPhil |
| Inspiration (AJ Gonzales) There was a real Felipe who inspired this role and Phil's portrayal is so close to the real guy. Phil took it further though, creating a character who wore his emotions on his sleeve and adding the layers of sentimentality to the Mexico scenes the story really needed. |
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Gary Two Trips is one of the three main antagonists in "Ugly Days in Idiotvylle". The character also appears in "Beware of The Captain" and will be featured again in "Grab it N Growl". Gary's a scumbag, cheap con artists and a true villian. He often partners with Selso Martinez. Gary's younger brother Mickey is more successful in crime with a more polished image. Gary has a sister named Molly who's alluded to in Ugly Days, but she's never appeared as a character. Will Gary change? Gary's habit of smoking cocaine foilies was shown in Ugly Days and is written into the BTC script. There are no plans to continue this in Grab it N Growl.
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MoviesUgly Days in Idiotvylle Beware of The Captain Grab it N Growl ActorKurt |
| Inspiration (AJ Gonzales): I was once in a conference room with four recent Korean immigrants, an heir to a major American company and a Mexican midget watching them smoke cocaine. That's where I picked up Gary's determination to just do whatever the hell he feels like. Just before the surreal meeting, I met a guy named Gary who I still think of when writing the character. This "real Gary" was in his 40's, working a total crap job he hated and waiting on life's next asskicking. When you listened to him though, you heard about a past life where he was in control. If Gary's anything to me, it's that, just a guy controlling the world around him. |
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George is the American cab driver living a life on the low down in Mexico. He drives a cab all over the unnamed Mexican town in TRK, but picks up most of his work driving Americans to and from Felipe's Casa Roja brothel. George befriends Lane and his friends during their trip, hanging out and drinking and smoking pot with his fellow Americans.
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MoviesActorGreg |
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Inspiration (AJ Gonzales): George serves a vital link in TRK as he provides a plausible way for the three Casa Roja women to get between the club and the rental house. The real reason George is in the script is because I just wanted to work with Greg again, he adds so much to any role he has. The back story on George is that he lives in Mexico to avoid problems in the US. His problems aren't discussed in the final version and we plan to have George play a minor role in Grab It N Growl. |
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Grover is Lane's best friend and Yessenia's boyfirend in TRK. In flash backs we see Grover is against Lane remaining with Abby and against Lane drinking so much. He truly has his best friend's interest at heart. When Abby kicks Lane out, Grover invites Lane to stay with him. Lane and Yessenia then continue their affair. Grover doesn't drink alcohol which actually gets him in trouble as he gets horribly sick from drinking Pa-ul's tainted orange juice. Grover spends most of the Mexico trip sick in bed.
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MovieTemptations Revelations Karma ActorKevin |
| Inspiration (AJ Gonzales) Creating Lane's friends was the most rewarding writing process in TRK for me. Who he knew and why he was friends with that patricular personality type was fascinating. Grover was created as he was both a rougher, tougher character than Lane, but also more responsible and moral. I loved the fact that just because someone could or should be a bad guy he turns out to be a better person than the story's actual hero. |
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Henry Viscus plays the satanic temptor to Tony Unger in "Are You Having A Good Day". Raised in a satanist cult, he prowls through life looking for the weak in spirit to sell their souls Satan. In the movie we learn that Henry's mom is now a devout Christian and he begins to regret the pain he' s caused others.
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MoviesAre You Having A Good Day? ActorAndy M |
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Inspiration (AJ Gonzales): Henry Viscus is one of those character I love but have little idea where he came from. Perhaps a lot of Henry came from watching Andy and Ben screw with Darrel (Tony) during the Heya Boogie Man set, those two had so much fun playing pranks on Darrell it was deviiish. When it came time to write Good Day, I wanted to turn Andy loose on Darrell and see how much fun we could have. Henry was vital of course, for Good Day to work, he had to be a total villian at the begining but be able to change his ways by the end. Andy M was perfect for Henry and this is my favorite Andy M role. |
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House Guest Gabe is an American on vacation in Mexico during TRK. Not originally part of Lane's group, Gabe is the current occupant of the house Lane and his friends come to rent. During the course of the Mexican segment of the film, Gabe develops relationships with Lane, Rudy and Carmen. Gabe is also seen as Pa-ul's friend.
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MovieActorGabe |
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Inspiration (AJ Gonzales): Gabe walked away with more comic scenes in TRK than any other actor and that's exactly why I used him to tie up a few characters and storylines. When I got done writing TRK and Gabe wasn't in it, I knew somehow he'd fit just where we needed him, and that's what happened. In real life, I was on the other end of the house guest surprise. Four other American college students were living at the house I was assigned to for intensive spanish classes at the University of Sab Jose, Costa Rica. According to the program's policy, they weren't supposed to be there, but the family was earning needed extra income so I didn't say anything. |
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Jake is the bar owner who supplies Lane and his friends with a paid trip to Mexico in TRK. He sees himself as more of a big brother to Lane than a father figure and uses his relationship with Lane's friends to relive his youth.
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MoviesActorDarrell |
| Inspiration (AJ Gonzales): Jake needed to be a source of comic relief, drama and plausible excuse for the money to go to Mexico. I wrote the character with Darrell in mind and used this role to have a field day harnessing Darrell's depth of talent for the complexity of situation TRK calls for him to be in. |
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Josh the Angel serves as the romantic foil and savior to Tony Unger in Are You Having A Good Day? He saves Tony from being taken by the evil Martin Hess, but also steals Tony's true love and best friend, Vanessa.
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MoviesAre You Having A Good Day? ActorKevin |
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Inspiration (AJ Gonzales): Of course an angel is supposed to be all the things a mope like Tony Unger is not, but having Kevin play Josh was such a great contrast. With Good Day being so dark and depressing, I found it just great fun to use an Angel as a source of redemption for Tony, but only at the cost of the woman he loved. |
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After Abby kicks Lane out, she falls into an alcoholic despair. Stan the landlord brings in Karen, a new roomate to help Abby pay the bills. Karen turns out to be in much worse shape and shows Abby her mirror image.
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MoviesActorElaine
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| Inspiration (AJ Gonzales): We needed Abby to see "herself" in a big, bold and funny way, so she would get her act together. She leaves the house, gets a job and falls in love before Lane's return home from Mexico. To accomplish all that, and do it in a funny way, we had to rely on Elaine to come in and knock everyone over as a rude, crude drunk who would drive anyone away from drinking. |
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Lane is the central character of Temptations Revelations Karma. He's an early 30's American slacker who's facing questions about his maturity while still partying with his friends. TRK revolves around three women in Lane's life and how his relationship choices affect his future.
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MovieTemptations Revelations Karma Beware of The Captain ActorMike |
| Inspiration (AJ Gonzales) I get asked if I have a favorite DrandT character or movie and I have never said more than they are all my favorites. Lane and more specifically, the way Mike played Lane changed that. Watching Mike take the role of Lane and mastering it with his own talents and creative vision is my favorite experience in film producing so far. I'd like to say I had the inspiration for Lane somewhere down deep but to be honest I just provided a platfrom for Mike to come in and really craft a character well. |
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Leigh Reynolds is a supporting female character in Ugly Days, a female companion to first Gary Two Trips and then Pete Lemansky. She's good natured, fun and a little ditzy. Her downfall is her drive for male attention
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MovieUgly Days in Idiotvylle ActorAmelia |
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Inspiration (AJ Gonzales): Leigh is one of the connecting characters to bridge Gary's storyline with Clyde's (via Pete) and the character was one of the most fun to write. Amelia took the role and was able to pull it off by showing Leigh's generous and kind side above the ditz. |
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Mama Viscus is Henry's loving, caring and supportive mother in Good Day. A devout Christian and leader of her small bible study today, she had raised Henry in a Satanist cult. Mama Viscus and her right hand helper Shirley, are keys to the plot as they offer Henry a path to redemption.
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MovieAre You Having A Good Day? ActorFrancie |
| Inspiration (AJ Gonzales) Having Francie play a caring mother is an easy choice, she looks perfect for it and she does it so well. I think seeing her do Henrietta Kissenger in Ugly Days made me want to use her as a loving mother with a dark past in Good Day. |
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Mickey Trip is the younger and more successful but equally criminal brother of Gary Two Trips. Where Gary finds work in thuggery, Mickey gravitates to higher class schemes to obtain power. Hailing from McKee's Rocks, PA, Gary and Mickey find themselves in Colorado during the story set in Ugly Days.
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MoviesUgly Days in Idiotvylle Miyolarosa Beware of The Captain *(unproduced) ActorTyler |
| Inspiration (AJ Gonzales): While writing the early version of Ugly Days I felt Gary Two Trips needed a mirror image of himself to show what he could do if he aimed a but higher. The brothers were never meant to share much screen time, and I hoped people would see that Gary used the dim witted Selso as his surrogate little brother. This relationship was further developed in Beware of The Captain. |
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The second incarnation of Miller Rafferty has the character switching from the male love interest of Toothy in Heya Boogieman to a female housmother in The Union of Sleepy-Tyme Beddy Bye-Folks! Miller ensures a peaaceful homelife for the fairty tale characters and hopes to one day be able to help them, but of course, "they don't need someone who thinks they are a pig".
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MovieThe Union of Sleepy-Tyme Beddy-Bye Folks! ActorE. Blea |
| Inspiration (AJ Gonzales): This version of Miller was born of necessity. We needed a "downtime" version of Peter Pumkineater to serve as the House Mother. That she's a gifted athlete who takes Sheila down for a whoopin' was a way to make her stand out with such a colorful cast of characters already. |
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| The Union of Sleepy-Tyme Beddy-Bye Folks! |
