I'm always surprised how old people go when casting for Marcone. I know he's supposed to be old enough to run a criminal organization, but he's around the same age as the Beckitts.
In WHITE NIGHT, Harry soulgazes Helen Beckitt. He sees a ten or eleven year old girl killed by a young looking Marcone. In DEATH MASKS, we see that same girl, Amanda Beckitt, as a late teens or early twenties coma patient. That means that, at most, Marcone was youngish looking 15 years earlier.
I figure Marcone was in his late twenties or early thirties when she was killed. That would give him a youngish appearance, still young enough to pull off the leather jacket and jeans with messy hair and stubble that Harry sees in the soulgaze. Even if he was 35 at the time, he'd only be 50 as of DEATH MASKS.
That's why I'd cast him younger, with someone like Adrian Pasdar. He can do cold, shark-like, or a disarming smile. He's fit enough to be the active Marcone, but has a weight to him that makes you feel like he has authority. He played football when he was younger, so he even falls into the "Marcone looks like a football coach" description.
Gentleman Johnny Marcone didn’t look like the sort of man who would have my legs broken or my jaw wired shut. His salt-and-pepper hair was cut short, and there were lines from sun and smiling etched into the corners of his eyes. His eyes were the green of well-worn dollar bills. He seemed more like a college football coach: good-looking, tanned, athletic, and enthusiastic.
You team him up with John Cena as Hendricks, and you've got yourself some mobsters.
Hendricks was still huge, still redheaded, still looked vaguely like a defensive lineman a little too awkward to make it from college to pro ball.
And as for Miss Gard, January Jones
Cujo Hendricks had a date. He had a blond date. He had a gorgeous, leggy, blue-eyed, elegant, tall, Nordic angel of a date. She was wearing a white gown, and silver flashed at her throat, on each wrist, and on one ankle. I’d seen bikinis in issues of Sports Illustrated that might have felt too plain to be worn by Hendricks’s date.
