I greatly admired Ed Asner as an actor and as an activist…mainly as an actor, mainly as an on-camera actor. Obviously, he was terrific in The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant and other high-profile jobs he had. But when he wasn't being paid what one would assume was Big Bucks for jobs like that, he always seemed willing to act for little-to-no money in anything that had sincere effort behind it — any play in any venue, any reading, any radio drama, any student film. There are actors, including some very fine ones, who'd say "That stuff's beneath me" and prefer to sit home, not acting. Not Ed Asner.
And that's about all I want to say right now.