Whenever people get to see you, it's a great thing. Once people see an image and see the character, they can get into the music a lot more.
No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences.
Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.