Do you ever sit and wonder who could be cast as your favorite characters? (Please feel free to give examples!)
What actors do you think have done particularly excellent jobs with some of your favorite characters?
Honestly, not that much. Sometimes, I will sit down with someone and hash out a casting list (my friend Natalya and I once put together a cast for The Lord of the Rings completely selected from sixties and eighties rock and pop stars; the sixties, obviously, is for The Hobbit), but rarely on my own. I think there’s plenty of room for many actors’ interpretation of a character, so it’s hard for me to think of the choice. I will nod along with great casting choices I find online—such as Jessica Sula as Hermione, or this brilliant genderflipped cast for The Lord of the Rings. (Judi Dench as Gandalf? Oh, my heart!)
A tiny selection of actors doing good work with good characters, then. Lois Maxwell as Moneypenny leaps to mind, but I don’t read the Bond books, so I suppose that doesn’t count. I love her out of her literary context. Ian McKellen is Gandalf, and I obviously adore the cast of The Lord of the Rings as a whole. While I haven’t seen seasons two or three of Game of Thrones, I think Emilia Clarke is doing very good work as Daenerys. While Jude Law is my favorite “classic” Watson, I also adore Lucy Liu’s Joan Watson, as well as Johnny Lee Miller’s Sherlock Holmes.
Oo I love Jude Law as classic Watson he’s great as well as Ian McKellen as Gandalf.
My BTT
Ian McKellen is Gandalf. He’s just so perfect…
Interesting cast choices..
Here is my BTT post.
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Nice choices.
http://tributebooksmama.blogspot.com/2013/06/booking-through-thursday_13.html
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I also enjoyed “Elementary” a lot even though Jeremy Brett is always going to be “real” Holmes to me.
I had little to no hope for Elementary, and then it turned out so well! Thanks for swinging by.
Yep, Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke will always be my Holmes and Watson, but two actors I’d like to see play Holmes are Hugh Laurie and David Tennant.
I haven’t seen any Brett, but I imagine I’ll quite like him. I’ve heard wonderful things.
After playing House, I don’t know if Laurie would pick up the great detective, but I’m sure he’d be wonderful.
Oh how cool would it have been if they’d cast a black actress as Hermione? I’d have loved that! I’m not familiar with Jessica Sula but she looks like she has the perfect face for telling Ron and Harry what to do.
It would have been supercool! I look forward to the inevitable BBC miniseries in twenty years because it might do this.
Lucy Liu does a good Watson and the back story they wrote for her works well. Here’s mine http://backchattingbooks.wordpress.com/2013/06/13/booking-through-thursday-dream-cast/
I adore her. Thanks for swinging by!