Perfect Casting, part 2

[NeuroHeart]

(Has anyone else noticed that we are stacking the deck a bit with Firefly actors?   Speaking of which, Morena Baccarin would do well as Lara.

Well, that's what happens when a show is chalk-full of good actors.
Speaking of, I totally used a picture of Mal to get my vision of Harry somewhat realized. Result, for any interested:


Morena is too olive-skinned to be Lara, though aside from that I could see her carrying the part. Ron Glass would be perfect as Rawlins; I'm sure I meant to put that in my initial list posting.
I don't recall where it said that Marcone looks like a football coach. It's immaterial to me when envisioning Sean, though; it's more about his glare and his sense of containment. He also looks pretty good in a suit. I did acknowledge that my choice was atypical.

[SometimesKate]

I wasn't poo-pooh'ing it just on reflex, I did think about it, because his face works.  I can see his face being that of Marcone, and he'd be an excellent young Marcone, all he'd need would be a set of contact lenses.   

[hank the ancient]

So this occurred to me, what about Milla Jovovich as Lara?

Hell the frack YES! I'll be in my bunk!

[Ziggelly]

^Holycrap. That's the exact picture in my head of Lara. Even the eyes. Hell, especially the eyes...

[NeuroHeart]

^Holycrap. That's the exact picture in my head of Lara. Even the eyes. Hell, especially the eyes...

That's exactly what I thought when I saw it! Glad I'm not the only one.

I can see his face being that of Marcone, and he'd be an excellent young Marcone, all he'd need would be a set of contact lenses.

He would barely need those. His eyes are an incredibly light shade of blue, and I can definitely see a bit of green in them. That 'old dollar bill' color? They're very close, depending on the light.

So this is how I see Marcone (more or less)



*edit* And I think I've decided that Jeff Bridges should be Ebenezer.

[Snowleopard]

Sorry I think too young for Marcone.
Chris Meloni's name has been raised for Marcone.  (Law and Order - SVU)

[SometimesKate]

*edit* And I think I've decided that Jeff Bridges should be Ebenezer.

 

I think he's too tall, but his brother Beau might work.  I know he's old and hairy now, but I have trouble shaking my mental image of Jeff Bridges as being young and cute.

[wolverine83]

I've always pictured Megan Fox as Lara Raith.

Helena Bonham Carter as Mab.

[SometimesKate]

Except that Megan Fox couldn't act her way out of a wet paper bag.  Helena Bonham Carter is a talented actress, but frankly, I don't like her as a person.  However, she does creepy very well.  A younger Miranda Richardson would have been a good Mab.

Has anyone suggested Eva Mendes for Susan?

[Snowleopard]

I agree Megan Fox can't act.
As for Helena Bonham Carter - no, I see her more as Mother Winter - would fit her creepy performances.
Mab has to be both beautiful and an Ice Queen literally.  (And no not Tilda Swinson - she's too androgynous.)

[SometimesKate]

Tilda Swinton is an very talented actor, so she can play sexy as well as androgynous if she wishes, I'm sure.  Granted, they'd have to pad her chest, but it's not like that doesn't happen all the time.  Hollywood wants us to believe that it's possible to look like an 8 year old boy with a generous cleavage, but without silicone, it's really not. 


Emma Thompson for Luccio in her original body?  And that girl from the old Pepsi commercials with the fantastic dimples and curly dark hair for co-ed Luccio?

[wolverine83]

A younger Miranda Richardson would have been a good Mab.

Didn't she play Mab in an adaptation of Merlin?

[bellmaker]

G.K. Simmons for the MErlin, he is the bald actor on the Farmers INS ads he also played a shrink in SVU and a NEo Nazi leader in Oz.

[hank the ancient]

gotta say alexa davalos for coed luccio.

[NeuroHeart]

Here is my mental image of Lea:

Sorry I think too young for Marcone.

Yeah, we've been having this conversation. How old is Marcone, exactly? Because if he was a young tough when the little girl got shot, and she was an adolescent in Death Masks, then he's not that old.
(gee, I feel like I'm repeating myself a page later or something.)

He's described as having crow's feet (hence my giving the guy some crow's feet, which might be more visible full-size, which the forum won't display) and salt-and-pepper hair (hence the smattering of gray hairs) which I take to mean "premature gray" more than "getting old."
Also, this is how he looks in the comic book:

Doesn't look that old to me.

Tilda Swinton is an very talented actor, so she can play sexy as well as androgynous if she wishes, I'm sure.  Granted, they'd have to pad her chest, but it's not like that doesn't happen all the time.  Hollywood wants us to believe that it's possible to look like an 8 year old boy with a generous cleavage, but without silicone, it's really not.

It's possible to be thin (maybe not eight-year-old thin, but thin) and have generous cleavage, it's just rare. I've heard that about 1% of ectomorph women are naturally well-endowed. Example would be Kat Dennings (my pick for Justine) who is slender, but definitely has generous cleavage. (I am 99% certain they're real.)
There's no denying Tilda Swinton's talent, but she's just not all that pretty. It's not just her body that's somewhat androgynous, it's her face. I wouldn't cast her as Mab. Not saying I wouldn't cast her at all, just not as an unearthly beautiful fae.

I have trouble shaking my mental image of Jeff Bridges as being young and cute.

Well, I suggest watching the new True Grit; that'll shake it pretty fast.