It's kind of odd how it's not a problem for Jennifer Aniston to play other characters, but for Schwimmer to play another character it's like "Hey! It's Ross!"
Maybe because all of anistons characters are kind of the same. And for Schwimmer to go from Friends to a Captain in WWII is a bit of a jump I guess.
Anyway, if you try to forget he's Ross and just watch him as Capt. Sobel, he does a pretty outstanding job IMO. He acts like a ###### and comes across as one, and plays the part perfectly.
By the way, so does Cobb. After re-watching, all the guy does is berate other people through the whole series, while not doing a whole lot himself in comparison to other people.
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Cobb had served in the army 9 years prior to enlisting in the Parachute Infantry.[2] During that time, he partook in an assault landing in Africa with the 1st Armored Division.[2] He survived a torpedo attack that sank the troop ship he was on when traveling back to the States.[2]
In World War II, during the drop into Normandy on June 6, 1944, he was wounded inside the plane and was unable to jump.[3] He parachuted into Holland during Operation Market Garden, also fought in the Battle of the Bulge at Bastogne. And in January/February 1945, he was selected for a patrol at Haguenau under Jack Foley.[4]
Cobb was discharged from service after assaulting Jack E. Foley, his platoon commander, in Haguenau, after consuming a bottle of schnapps.[5] While handing the court-martial papers in, Robert Sink said, "Foley, you could have saved us all a lot of trouble.[5] You should have shot him."[5]
Cobb died in January 1990 at Niagara, New York.
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He was portrayed in Band of Brothers as a very unfriendly, bitter, and at some moments a cowardly person. This is thought to be because he served so long in the army but was never promoted. However, he is described in Stephen E. Ambroses's book Band of Brothers as invariably good natured. One controversial note occurred during the episode "The Last Patrol", in which Cobb gets drunk after the patrol and is mildly scolded by Lieutenant Jones and SSG John Martin.
In reality, Cobb was being yelled at by Jack Foley and Cobb eventually charged at Foley. Two men had to restrain him and John Martin pulled out his M1911 pistol and pointed it at him.[citation needed] This moment was not portrayed in the series, but several other events depicting him as bitter were shown in the series but never mentioned in the book.
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