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Zachary Quinto
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Neil Flynn
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Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« Reply #2610 on: November 07, 2010, 02:16:10 AM »
I'm not sure he works as Harry for me but I bet you'd have my sister's support - she's been in love with him ever since "Red."  :)

Heck, I've liked him ever since LOTR.
By the by, instead of Harry - how about Tilly the FBI guy?

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Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« Reply #2611 on: November 07, 2010, 03:11:00 AM »
Look down. See the red dot on the tip of your nose.

Oops

He can't see it, but there's another on his forehead.

*looks up* where

I really was just joking to beg for forgiveness on that hole disgusting fiasco. How about Toby McGuire for Harry

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Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« Reply #2612 on: November 07, 2010, 03:15:10 AM »
Heck, I've liked him ever since LOTR.
By the by, instead of Harry - how about Tilly the FBI guy?

Hey, that could really work. I like it!

I really was just joking to beg for forgiveness on that hole disgusting fiasco. How about Toby McGuire for Harry

Haha, very funny. Toby as Harry is worse than Kianu as Harry in my opinion. (Hint: if you're looking for my forgiveness try Jared Padalecki, James Marsters, or Matt Cohen.)  ;)
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Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« Reply #2613 on: November 07, 2010, 03:18:23 AM »
HOW about Jared I like him in Supernatural, or maybe Misha
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« Reply #2614 on: November 07, 2010, 03:53:40 AM »
HOW about Jared I like him in Supernatural, or maybe Misha

Forgiven!  ;D Seriously though, I think he'd make a great Harry. Dean may get the more Harry-esque lines in the show but there are moments when you can see what a smartmouth Jared has. And in some of those interviews he's just hilarious.

As for Misha, love him to death but, even in interviews, he's always a little too quiet of a wiseass to play the overtly,constantly, only-not-a-wiseass-when-he's-asleep Harry Dresden.
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Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« Reply #2615 on: November 07, 2010, 03:58:01 AM »
Are we to trust harry. First he is asked if he is ever not a wiseass. He says only in his sleep. Then he says he utters off color limericks in his sleep. Are we to trust harry.
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« Reply #2616 on: November 07, 2010, 04:13:48 AM »
Are we to trust harry. First he is asked if he is ever not a wiseass. He says only in his sleep. Then he says he utters off color limericks in his sleep. Are we to trust harry.

Maybe he justifies the off-color limerick thing as just annoying and not being a wiseass because its not in response to someone else. Kind of a loop-whole but still...Harry isn't exactly above that.  ;)
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« Reply #2617 on: November 07, 2010, 04:17:28 AM »
Maybe he justifies the off-color limerick thing as just annoying and not being a wiseass because its not in response to someone else. Kind of a loop-whole but still...Harry isn't exactly above that.  ;)

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maybe hatshep maybe
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« Reply #2618 on: November 08, 2010, 06:12:35 AM »
mischa collins I could actually see as harry, he can do grouchy and has a wizardy sort of voice. Might require a different sort of comedic timing than you see with castiel though. Remember, Harry is cool because he is also a total dork Mischa seems more suited to play the straight cool guy.

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« Reply #2619 on: November 08, 2010, 06:24:51 AM »
yeah
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Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« Reply #2620 on: November 08, 2010, 01:37:56 PM »
mischa collins I could actually see as harry, he can do grouchy and has a wizardy sort of voice. Might require a different sort of comedic timing than you see with castiel though. Remember, Harry is cool because he is also a total dork Mischa seems more suited to play the straight cool guy.

Are you kidding?

Seriously, are you?

Misha Collins is probably one of the funniest people on the planet because he does dead pan humor. He's a complete dork. He doesn't act it all the time, but he is one of the few actors I love who would be absolutely perfect for Harry. Not even kidding, go to his Twitter (@mishacollins) and read some of the stuff he puts up. He talks about everything from President Obama needing his help for foreign policy, to Queen Elizabeth wanting to behead him, to having to hide in an underground bunker with only a pony for food. (not seriously, thank God, but it was hilarious the first time I read it).

And then, just to round it off, go look up some videos of him at the Supernatural conventions (just to name a few, Supernatural cons are usually shortened by the name of the con and the city, plus the annual number of the convention -- for instance, JIB-Con Spain 5. JIB stands for one of the episode titles, Jus In Bello, Asylum 5, All Hell Breaks Loose, AHBL -- actually, I still don't know what that one stands for, but you get the idea.)

He plays the incredibly serious Castiel (and he explains it in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUPaGD9zlnc) because the mytharc behind Cas is that, his true form makes people's eyes bleed, and the true sound of his voice could make your head explode -- and more recently, he informed everyone in character that his true form is also as big as the Chrysler Building -- ergo, it seemed only right to make Cas' voice sound deep and gravelly.

He's just too short :)
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Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« Reply #2621 on: November 08, 2010, 05:25:56 PM »
Wow that was an incredibly long goose chase TbF
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Re: Perfect Casting, part 2
« Reply #2622 on: November 08, 2010, 05:57:17 PM »
Oops

*looks up* where

I really was just joking to beg for forgiveness on that hole disgusting fiasco. How about Toby McGuire for Harry



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« Reply #2623 on: November 08, 2010, 06:27:49 PM »
*Considers saying Scorpio*

We need Karl Urban in a large role.  Period.
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« Reply #2624 on: November 08, 2010, 06:48:54 PM »
*Considers saying Scorpio*

We need Karl Urban in a large role.  Period.

I could see him as Kincaid.
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