Perfect Casting, part 2

[Rasins]

I've started to watch the last season (I think) of Eureka and am wracking my brains for parts in our little play for the two women who play Allison and Jo.  I was thinking I'd like to see Jo in the part of Susan.  Problem is that she isn't hispanic, but she is italian.  Also she's only 5' 5".

[Griffyn612]

I've started to watch the last season (I think) of Eureka and am wracking my brains for parts in our little play for the two women who play Allison and Jo.  I was thinking I'd like to see Jo in the part of Susan.  Problem is that she isn't hispanic, but she is italian.  Also she's only 5' 5".

I think she's JB's dream-choice for Susan too. 

When I picture Susan in my head, she's more like Jordana Brewster, who was born in Brazil to a Brazilian model and an American investor.  I imagine Susan as part latino and part white.  Maybe its just the way she was written by JB, but she doesn't come across as pure hispanic to me.  (Sorry if that's offensive to anyone)

[Quantus]

Susan for me is Rosario Dawson.  Especially after she goes super-chick

[Rasins]

I could live with that.

[fantazero]

huh?

[Snowleopard]

Fantazero - why are you posting pics of llamas in the perfect casting thread??

[ShadowX81]

When I picture Susan in my head, she's more like Jordana Brewster, who was born in Brazil to a Brazilian model and an American investor.  I imagine Susan as part latino and part white.  Maybe its just the way she was written by JB, but she doesn't come across as pure hispanic to me.  (Sorry if that's offensive to anyone)

Yea, ive never pictured her as pure hispanic either.

Actually Jordana Brewster is a pretty good choice. I could get behind that.

Overall, I've always seen Susan as someone that is very beautiful but in a "smart, girl next door" type of way. Basically the type of girl that every guy dreams of. Attractive but not glamorous or a knockout.

She is someone that is constantly driven by her own curiosity, driving her to seek out the more interesting and exotic. She gets bored easily with normality, making the paranormal a fascinating subject for her. It also explains why she is so persistent with dating Harry, even though he would normally see a girl like that as out of his league. In her eyes, he is much more interesting than all the attention she receives from normal and boring guys.

By making her a caring girl-next-door type it makes it all the more tragic when she is turned, and leads to Harry blaming himself.


Ive always had a very specific idea of how this character should be portrayed as she always reminds me of this girl I knew in college whose description was very close to that of the books. Much like Susan, she was also way out-of-my-league yet romantically pursued me, and to this day I have no idea why.

[Dina]

I really don't understand how you can tell if she is Latino or not for the way she is written. I also always imagined her as gorgeous, not the "smart girl next door". Maybe is because I imagine her as a beauty with no brains.

[ShadowX81]

Probably my own personal bias of knowing someone that reminded me of the character.

Also I think part of it is the stereotype of Latin women being portrayed in the media as "feisty" or "voluptuous" and ive just never seen those qualities in Susan.

[thelordbeans]

My (constantly changing) list, in order of cast choices I feel most strongly about to least (and I'm trying to imagine a cast that could actually be afforded, so being less well-known is actually a plus):

Lasciel / Lash - Tricia Helfer

Anyone who's seen Battlestar Galactica knows Tricia Helfer as the amazing actress who played the cylon Six, whose many varied versions ranged from devious seductress to timid victim, from cruel and imposing to frightened but hopeful. After rereading one of the novels with Lash for the first time after watching BSG, I imagined every line spoken by Tricia Helfer, and it sounded perfect. I know without a doubt that she could pull off the deadly temptation of a fallen angel, whose temptation may not always seem so... unkind.

Johnny Marcone - Jim Caviezel http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001029/

Cold, hard, but handsome; driven to criminal extremes by a tragic past; ruthless, unrestrained, and dangerous to betray. The Count of Monte Cristo, or the gentleman Johnny Marcone. A criminal scumbag with a steely smile that will make Harry look awkward and juvenile in comparison, because, honestly, there's few men cooler or cuter than Jim Caviezel.

Anastasia Luccio (post swap) - Vera Farmiga http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0267812/?ref_=tt_cl_t7

One of my favorite actresses for her performances in Departed and Up in the Air, I can easily imagine her playing the long-in-years Luccio in a more youthful, exuberant body.

Michael Carpenter - Leonard Roberts http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0731346/

I've only ever seen him in Heroes and Drumline, but for some reason I always imagined he'd be a good Michael, though I'm not sure how many readers were like me and imagined the Carpenter family as African-American (Molly's blonde hair was from dye).

Nicodemus - Christian Bale http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000288/

The biggest name actor on the list, the most expensive, the most exorbitant... and completely worth it, when you're looking at a character who might be the most evil.

Bob - Peter Dinklage http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0227759/

Did I say the biggest name actor on the list was Christian Bale? Scratch that. PETER DINKLAGE!

Karen Murphy - Julia Stiles http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005466/
Billy or Butters or, I don't know, somebody - Ben Whishaw http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0924210/

[Quantus]

I really don't understand how you can tell if she is Latino or not for the way she is written. I also always imagined her as gorgeous, not the "smart girl next door". Maybe is because I imagine her as a beauty with no brains.

I think the "Rodriquez" is what most people are cuing off of for that assumption.

[Dina]

I understand the idea that "Rodriguez"= Latino, but not how writing can say "not completely Latino". Perhaps is for the "Susan".

[Chiana]

How about Taylor Momsen for Molly?  She has the goth thing and is realtively tall at 5'8".

[Rasins]

I understand the idea that "Rodriguez"= Latino, but not how writing can say "not completely Latino". Perhaps is for the "Susan".

Actually I got the Latino from the "Rodriguez".  And how she was written is from her Mid-West upbrining.  Latino does not mean Cheech Marin, it means of hispanic descent, to me.  How one looks and how one acts (or are written) are completely different (or can be).

[fantazero]

Fantazero - why are you posting pics of llamas in the perfect casting thread??

What are you talking about?