Congratulations to Tanino Minneci — this week’s Actor of the Week!

Tanino is one of the founding members of the company and was on set for the first day of filming on June 8, 1996. He was so awesome as the heroic scholar Esteban in Destiny, that I was compelled to write a second and third movie mostly to explore his character. Tanino also appeared as the melodramatic son in Frumpy Gets It, and in 1999 he returned as a guest star in Episode 16 of Pandora’s Box, playing the “smarmy weirdo” Gregor. Ohter on set achievements include creating numerous running jokes, including the most widespread and long running joke in SFF history — “stir?”. Considering how influential and amazing Tanino has been to Sine Fine Films it’s shocking that he hasn’t been actor of the week yet — so here he is now: Actor of the Week. About damn time. Honestly, what can I say about Tanino that doesn’t involve the words awesome, amazing, or hilarious? One of these days I hope to work with him again in another SFF production, because to be Taninoless forever is just too sad a fate to contemplate.

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