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Skriven 2006-06-24 20:33:00 av Robert E Starr JR (3244.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: Actors for the Vorkos
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"Wesley Struebing" <strueb@carpedementem.org> wrote in message 
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> On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:41:54 +0000 (UTC), Jeffrey Kaplan
> <nomail@gordol.org> wrote:
>
>>It is alleged that shawn claimed:
>>
>>> On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 20:49:45 +0000 (UTC), Jeffrey Kaplan
>>> <nomail@gordol.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> >It is alleged that Charlie Edmondson claimed:
>>> >
>>> >> I only watched "Threshold" mainly because Spiner was in it as a
>>> >> supporting role, just like I watch NCIS because of David McCallum...
>>> >
>>> >I saw Peter Dinklage, and thought, "He'd do very well as Mile
>>> >Vorkosigan"
>>>
>>>
>>> I hadn't thought about it but you are right. He would do very well at
>>> that part.
>>
>>Ok, so Peter Dinklage as Miles.  Let's flesh out the rest of the
>>cast...
>>
>>Dame Judi Dench as Cordelia Naismith-Vorkosigan
>>Arnold Schwarzenegger or Harrison Ford as Aral Vorkosigan
>>Sean Connery as Piotr Vorkosigan
>>Luke Perry as Ivan
>>Ashton Kutsher as Bel Thorne
>>
> Not sure about Luke Perry - perhaps Ben Browder (then, again, maybe
> not...)
>
> The one I'm having all sorts of problems with is Ekaterina...
>

It's probably just me, but I can't see some of those.

Dame Judi Dench?  Doesn't seem quite right to me.  She can do the "Force of 
nature" right, but there's more than just that.

Arnold?  Nah.  I don't see Aral that way. Harrison Ford?  Not enough ... 
class isn't quite the right word, but Ford does the "Every man" thing and 
that doesn't quite ring true for Aral. I'm trying to think of a role that 
could possibly be done by either Arnold or Ford.  This one isn't it (for 
me).

You'd have to cast Cordelia and Aral together to try to get the right 
chemistry or the whole thing would fall flat.  Could you see Judi Dench and 
Arnold portraying that kind of chemistry and devotion to each other?

Ashton Kutsher? Not for any project whatsoever.

Having said all this, I can't think of the right people for those roles, so 
you got farther than I did.  I'm particularly fond of these characters, so I 
wouldn't want to see them butchered by the wrong cast.  I'd love to see the 
stories done, but there's this fear that what resulted would cause me to 
have the same reaction of revulsion that I did after seeing the first Dune 
movie.

Carl

I have no artistic abilities.   That makes me particularly well suited to be 
a critic. :)
                                                   
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