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TiredOfLife 7 hours ago

It would be easier to list b5 actors without drug or alcohol issues.

chasil 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Look at what she has to say.

It is of profound significance.

normie3000 6 hours ago | parent [-]

You've linked to a 50+ minute video. Is it recommending naltrexone for alcoholism?

chasil 6 hours ago | parent [-]

It is, after the well-known book by Roy Eskapa.

https://www.amazon.com/Cure-Alcoholism-Willpower-Abstinence-...

sandworm101 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They are actors, young people paid to display exaggerated emotion while living in a world that values youth and appearance over everything. Then we ask them to constantly adopt new characters and shower them with on-again off-again false praise based on whether or not they are working on a given day. Frankly, i am impressed that any of them manage to walk away without profound mental health issues.

thaumasiotes an hour ago | parent [-]

> Frankly, i am impressed that any of them manage to walk away without profound mental health issues.

My impression is that there's not much causation from being an actor to mental fragility. It's the other way around; the pool of people who make good actors is already prone to mental fragility before they become actors.

danaris 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And sadly, so many of the main cast are no longer with us—far more than one would expect from their ages.

I know that some of them, indeed, died due to substance abuse issues; I don't know the circumstances of all of them. They will all be greatly missed.

Findecanor 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Being a B5 fan, I found it heart-breaking to see Jeff Conaway on the reality show Celebrity Rehab a decade later. (the fact that there even existed a TV show called "Celebrity Rehab" ...)

Too many others of the main cast had died relatively young, of "natural causes" though. Richard Biggs, Mira Furlan and Stephen Furst stand out.

RobotToaster 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The curse of Babylon 5 https://www.imdb.com/list/ls056207990/

danaris an hour ago | parent [-]

Indeed—and Mira Furlan died just a few years ago, at 65.

chasil 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

In the lingo of the show, they have "gone beyond the rim" (of our galaxy).

danaris 5 hours ago | parent [-]

And we will see them again in the place where no shadows fall.