Talk:David James (actor, born 1972)

News Article Translated
The following is the news article used as footnote reference #1, via Google translate:

'District 9' s Koobus was quick in his blood

In his life he has cleaned pools, elderly care, car washing, dog steps, taken for, car sales, outfits made of people served... But what David James has ever wanted to do since he was nine years old, was to shoot monsters in the future remains. And 27 years later, he got it right. David played Koobus (sic) Venter, the hateful weermagwindgat in the international science fiction hit District 9. "Here I am 37 years old, and I am paid to make sure I'm 12." David, a South African, was as if he still can not believe it. "I was up there hanging from the helicopter," he said, pointing to the sky where our outside his home in Parkview chat. "We have a whole day long to Johannesburg and flew with me to the helicopter, hang out with an R5 rifle. And I'm paying for it! "Can you believe they did pay me for it?" To top it all, the producer Peter Jackson, who is also The Lord of the Rings made. Since David his mind, his dream was to become part of a Peter Jackson production. "If somebody when I was 12 told me that I do, that I have a great producer to work in an international movie about the world number one will be... Around the world, I would say the 'mother, uncle talk k * k' "

'In my blood'

The day he heard he got the role, David was in a beauty salon. He was embarrassed. "I've got a pedicure - my feet do for a German ad which I had to play, a product for your heels. There I sat that afternoon in a ladies room with incense burning when Carlynn (his agent) a call. " When she tell him he had the role of Koobus (apparently no one knows why this is not spelled), he just there in the room was flying and started screaming. "My phone has the side pulled the bowl of water that way, and I screaming in the hallway ran and shouted: 'Yes, yes, yes!" Someone called Lindiwe behind me were running and trying to silence me for the sake of others. But how do you say something? " Where he sits in his garden, with a light blue oopknoop-shirt and a big smile, he looks anything but what the breëborsbreker Koobus in the movie. In person is much friendlier and David thinner than the muscular on screen. "I have to roll a short course steroids made at 10 kg to lift my upper body wider to make me stronger to sit down. There's still a bit of it in my shoulders, but most are gone. " They made the film began filming in June. "Within three weeks we started with hardegatgoed. Shoot, kick, donner, lightning. " All the military orders and things like guns was very difficult for him, because he was years ago in the Army. "I know a R5, an AK47, a 9 mil, a shotgun." What is very difficult for him was the gevloekery. "We have reached a stage where Koobus's entire dialogue consisted of f ** p *** and lightning." It was no different, as Neill (Blomkamp, the South African born director) wanted to portray him as - "an almost emosielose bosbef ** too mercenary. And "those off button" has not worked for him, says David. "Within the first two weeks, then put Koobus in my blood."

"No son of mine '

As a child he wanted three things: I wanted an architect, I wanted to explore the Titanic and I wanted one of the first people on a lunar station have been. When I realized it's probably not happening, it was actor best option. " He went on a wine farm in Paarl in the Cape grew up and his father had said plans for a less good idea right. "My dad was a real Dutch Reformed man. You know... "And he makes a deep voice to," no son of mine... So I can not dance it. "

But he and his father have an agreement in place: "If I get WP colors or school colors or get first team, then I'll do what I want. Then they were all afgetick and said 'Thank you, I will now studying art. " As actor he has children's theater, musicals, advertising and corporate work done, but never his big break had not. It was District 9. Now the doors at such speed that he opened hardly know which way it. My emails have gone from 70 a day to 250 a day. People call me recognize me on the street, I was completely overwhelmed. "

In TV

David is a loner. "Not a girl, not a boyfriend, none of it." He laughed. "You met my boyfriend, Gypsey (his gemmerkat). The other day he joined his sister, Lorraine, in Cape Town visiting. She stays in the house next door my mom she's old house. I could clearly remember how we watched TV for our neighbors and as a child wanted to know what it is - what it is like in the TV live. When the rise, I said to Lorraine, "You know what? I live my dream. " Bobbyandbeans (talk) 02:08, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

Adding External Link to Charity
Yes, I think the external link to the charity "Faces of Hope" should stay in the body of the article; it does not violate Wiki's policy:

"Sites that contain neutral and accurate material that is relevant to an encyclopedic understanding of the subject and cannot be integrated into the Wikipedia article due to copyright issues, amount of detail (such as professional athlete statistics, movie or television credits, interview transcripts, or online textbooks), or other reasons."

The policy does not say that links cannot be included no matter what. This is a charity, not a commercial site or fan site or other irrelevant site, with more information about his involvement; it's not selling a product and the information is neutral and accurate.

This is also the only external link in the body of the article.Bobbyandbeans (talk) 01:28, 5 December 2010 (UTC)


 * External links never go in the body of the article. They go in the external links section, that's what it's for. And they even don't go there if the site is already linked as a reference, which this one is. Our rule is one link per site. You are only quoting what the policy says about what kind of links are permitted. WP:EL clearly states "External links should not normally be used in the body of an article. Instead, include appropriate external links in an "External links" section at the end of the article..." and "Sites that have been used as sources in the creation of an article should be cited in the article, and linked as references, either in-line or in a references section. Links to these source sites are not "external links" for the purposes of this guideline, and should not normally be duplicated in an external links section." So the link as a reference is sufficient and further links violate policy. Yworo (talk) 01:30, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for clearing that up. I wish I had known that before; I wouldn't have worked so hard to find those links.  My reason for concern for this one is that the owner of the photo included is the administrator of that charity and allowed it to be used bc she figured on the link.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bobbyandbeans (talk • contribs) 04:02, 5 December 2010 (UTC)


 * There is a link, it's in the references section. If the charity is notable, an article could be written on it then it can be Wikilinked from the same spots. Basically, Wikipedia actually tries to avoid sending people to other sites while they are reading the article. That's why all links go in References, Further reading, or External links sections. Also, with images, any link to the site contributing the image go on the image page itself. Yworo (talk) 04:14, 5 December 2010 (UTC)


 * I checked the Commons image page and there was no link, so I added one. Yworo (talk) 04:18, 5 December 2010 (UTC)