Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-1828812-20130605133847/@comment-4938206-20140428232407

Since I saw this post, I've been thinking about this and I've had the epiphany,

Laurence's appearance is based off of Nick Cave, when Nick was in his early thirties or so, and Peter Murphy as he appeared in his early-mid twenties. They've both acted in movies. But I can't list either of them because Peter is a recovering meth addict. He's cleaned up since but he's still not looking as he did in his Bauhaus days. He's also 57 or so, and I highly doubt he could portray a young adult male. Nick Cave isn't doing nearly as horribly, but he's also aged quite a bit. I do think that if he had hollower cheeks, though, that he could portray an older Laurence if it wasn't for his voice sounding so dreadfully Australian and a bit too deep.

A little while ago I realized that Matthew Gray Gubler, who plays Spencer Reid on Criminal Minds, looks very similar to how I picture Laurence. There are obvious differences. Laurence has a larger, more snub nose. Darker eyes. He doesn't smile nearly as pleasantly. And he isn't that clean and pretty. But with some scraggly black hair, a torn-up Youth of Today shirt, and some sagging old jeans, he could play a very convincing Laurence. Even his voice is spot-on.