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« Reply #15 on: February 08, 2008, 03:18:24 pm » |
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Stunt casting?
Nah.
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« Reply #16 on: February 08, 2008, 04:56:00 pm » |
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Certainly not! Well-respected stage actor and playwright, physically perfect for the part. Sure, he brings a following from some of his other areas of creative endeavor, but I wouldn't call that "stunt" casting.
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« Reply #17 on: February 08, 2008, 05:02:01 pm » |
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Also, that <i>voice</i>. Flexible and trained. Useful in all sorts of roles.
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« Reply #18 on: February 12, 2008, 05:17:15 pm » |
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Frost doesn't need to be tall. She has presence. And Dench does presence better than anyone I can think of. ::shivers::
I think it'd be interesting if Edie McClurg did it. She's just weird enough to do it, too. |
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« Reply #19 on: February 19, 2008, 08:16:46 pm » |
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Well, I don't know about this alternative Judi Dench, but the Dench in my universe has always been a little quirky and up for a different kind of role. When she was much younger she played Titania in a film of Midsummer Night's Dream that also starred Helen Mirren, Diana Rigg, Ian Richardson, Ian Holm, and David Warner, to name just the best known of the actors in it. She was fabulous as a Faerie Queen; even now I'd be thinking about her for the cast of Blood and Iron were I you, Bear. And that movie's available on DVD; I recommend it highly.
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« Reply #20 on: February 19, 2008, 09:46:45 pm » |
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*runs off to update the netflix queue* If I've seen that version it was way way too long ago.
I'm only recently discovering how much I adore Judi Dench. She was heart-wrenchingly creepy in Notes on a Scandal.
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« Reply #21 on: May 22, 2008, 02:34:37 pm » |
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I soooo needed this! I was casting about for who to use in the opening credits I'm (still...) working on. I saw Sean Bean as Brady, a young Denise Crosby (or at least her hair) as Worth, Sidney Poitier (sp?) as Reyes, and Fran Liebowitz as Faulkner. No idea for the others, but I thought it'd be interesting to have Frost done as a voice on the phone.
(No idea who's gonna get this. Still haven't figured out the e-mail system here. (Gimme a break here, I gotta take drugs so's my brain don't work funny.)
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« Reply #22 on: May 22, 2008, 03:12:13 pm » |
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If you post to the main message board, everybody will see what you write. Like this!
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« Reply #23 on: May 22, 2008, 05:05:03 pm » |
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I was re-reading this topic, and it occurs to me that, in addition to my idea of Edie McClurg, an equally creepy suggestion for someone to play Madelyne Frost would be Patricia Routledge http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0746151/, from "Keeping Up Appearances." Mostly the grandmotherly aura (although that came out more in "Hetty Wainthrop Investigates," the mystery series she did with the young Dominic Monaghan, after KUA and before Lord of the Rings), and an odd curiosity to see if she could do creepy. |
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« Reply #24 on: June 18, 2008, 03:44:28 pm » |
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I was re-reading this topic, and it occurs to me that, in addition to my idea of Edie McClurg, an equally creepy suggestion for someone to play Madelyne Frost would be Patricia Routledge http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0746151/, from "Keeping Up Appearances." Mostly the grandmotherly aura (although that came out more in "Hetty Wainthrop Investigates," the mystery series she did with the young Dominic Monaghan, after KUA and before Lord of the Rings), and an odd curiosity to see if she could do creepy. Hyacinth Bucket could definitely do creepy grandma. Although I'm totally sold on Judi. |
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« Reply #25 on: July 10, 2008, 08:51:57 pm » |
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Ah ha. I was wondering if the writers had specific actors in mind. I'm like that most of them are relatively unknown in the Hollywood way. It means that we can see the characters primarily as people, not as Famous Actor playing a role.
Which isn't to say that Famous Actors can't act well. Many of them can, and that is why they're successful. But there comes a point when the audience stops seeing a character who happens to be played by an actor and can only see the famous person. (My stock example of this phenomenon is Tom Hanks. I can't stand to watch his movies because he's always Tom Hanks, no matter what the other actors might call him onscreen.)
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« Reply #26 on: January 07, 2009, 01:02:38 pm » |
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A weird, slightly schizoid part of my brain spoke up last night while I was watching "Fringe," pondering the resemblances between Anna Torv (Agent Dunham) and Camryn Kaufman. I'm having trouble finding the issue of Entertainment Weekly that had the Shadow Unit cast photos in it; does anyone else see a resemblance, or is it just my free association tendencies getting the better of me?
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« Reply #27 on: January 14, 2009, 11:28:35 pm » |
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Personally I think Carl Lumbly would be a great Reyes
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« Reply #28 on: January 15, 2009, 12:33:19 pm » |
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Personally I think Carl Lumbly would be a great Reyes
He would, at that, despite the fact that I can't help but think of him in dreadlocks from "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eighth Dimension" every time I see him. (Yes, that's the full title of the movie. Yes I'm that big of a geek.) |
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« Reply #29 on: January 15, 2009, 01:09:36 pm » |
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And in my head at least, I have recast Julie Kavner in the part of Esther Falkner
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