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alenxa_classic01. Gather up a list of your original characters. They can be from a single story or a series.
02. Make a list of the actors/actresses that you think best represent these characters.
03. Make a post of the characters and the actors who should play them. Explain why.
I've had running cast lists in my head (and in my notes) for ages, and have posted elsewhere about them. Some are updated, some aren't; it depends on whether I've found a good replacement for an actor who's aged out of the role. It'd take me forever to go looking for pictures for all these like![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
eonism did (something I know for a fact, having spent 2 hours on the post linked above), so it's names and previous roles only. Organized by story for your convenience, esp. if you're not familiar with all these.
"A Promise Kept" and "Will":
Tama = Evangeline Lilly. I'll probably have to update this soon, given that Tama is 20 in this story, but it took me almost 10 years to find an actress with the right kind of eyes. Yeah, weird qualification for a blind character, but given the circumstances of the story it's important. And her background in human rights activism and world development projects (of which IMDb just informed me) is perfect for the character. So what if she's a bit shorter than ideal? She could handle the whole roller coaster of the story with...her eyes closed. *groan*
Lesana = DS9-era Nana Visitor. Or, to be more precise, early-series Kira Nerys with long hair and no nosepiece. It's like I transplanted the character wholesale, which, considering I started the story at 17, makes perfect sense. Which I didn't realize until starting to rewatch the series last year, and which made me feel like a complete idiot when I figured it out. I'm going to hope there's enough divergence between the two that I won't feel weird watching the seasons I've never really seen.
Ulith = Anthony Edwards from 1995. Right down to the glasses and the hair patterns. I think he was the first character of mine ever to have an actor attached, and it happened very early in story development. The two are so strongly linked that I've never been able to think of finding anyone else for the role. Yes, I was addicted to "ER" in 1995. Why do you ask?
Irina = Claudia Black. Hair's too long, but there are ways around that. She'd get to be just as badass as Aeryn and as snarky as Vala. Frellin' perfect.
Vance = Eric Bana. I posted about this one on Hyperborea, linked above. He could pull off the balance of awkward and polished, and besides, he looks like the character as he appears in my head.
Ranell = Marsha Thomason. The second she came onscreen as Naomi in Lost, I nearly came out of my seat. Straight dealing, utterly competent, not afraid to rip someone a new one.
Myrithe = Virginia Hey. Also mentioned in my Hyperborea post. She'd basically be redoing the serene Zhaan mystique, with a little bit of Dollhouse tabula-rasa active mixed in.
It's worth noting that I don't have a Yaren, and never have. Oddly, I once drew him by trying to draw a man and seeing what happened. He looked kind of like a cross between Keanu Reeves and Thomas Dekker.
"Prophecy:"
Zari = [Gigi Edgley, Alona Tal]. Kristen Bell was in the running when I first started watching Veronica Mars. Then I found out she's short. Zari is not short. When I learned that Alona Tal (Meg) originally tried out for the role of Veronica, I gave it about five seconds' thought and concluded she was definitely a front-runner. I've only ever seen Gigi in Farscape and in person, but I'm sure it would be no problem for her to play someone who's basically the opposite of Chiana (straitlaced, far from world-wise, societally repressed but unwilling to rebel--generally pretty nerdy). Sadly, both casting choices are a little old for the character, so I'll have to start looking again. Blah.
Temin =? Sendhil Ramamurthy. This is a new addition. I started thinking a while ago that I wanted a white Mohinder type for the character, and then I started thinking, "Why worry about white? Your world's not supposed to." In my head he actually kind of looks like Spike Spiegel, but I'm open to change. And by the time you get from "Prophecy" to Masquerade in terms of timeline, what the character looked like doesn't matter much anyway. Sendhil has the perfect hair and the perfect voice, and can definitely do the out-of-towner research-junkie act. Previous contenders, discarded for various reasons, included Alexis Denisof, Sean Maher and James Callis.
Dassy = Britt McKillip in 2003. The pilot for "Dead Like Me" had me blinking a lot and feeling gobsmacked. Slightly weird blond kid with a slightly weird relationship with her older sister? Absolutely. Even her voice was right: capable of being just a kid, a little creepy, or a lot creepy. It shouldn't surprise me that she's been doing a lot of voice work.
Masquerade:
Darica = Britt McKillip in 2009. Seriously, I did the same double take while watching the DLM movie and said tokelson afterward, "Well, it looks like Dassy grows up into Darica." The character is mentioned in APK, briefly; she's the POV for this story. Because of something I had another character say, I've been looking for a non-blonde actress to represent her, but she was just too perfect...and hair can be fiddled with. Darica is a normalish teenager, thrown waaaay out of her depth when she joins a group of revolutionaries in order to try to escape the wholesale destruction the group is causing to her hometown. She stays in that overwhelmed place for pretty much for the whole story, which is easy to say in third person narrative but would be hard to convey on screen. Watching DLM, watching the character of Reggie, I'm surer about this choice than several others in this post.
Irina = Tania Raymonde. Another case of "Actor Appears, Viewer's Jaw Drops; Film at 11." All the sneaking around the Lost island and pointing guns at people just cemented it. It was actually this realization that led me to think of head-casting Claudia Black as the older Irina, when I noticed the resemblance between the two actresses. The character is a badass at this age too, but not quite as people-smart. Comes of being homeschooled at Secret Revolutionary Academy.
Ralis = a real problem. All the actors and performances I've noticed that put me in mind of the character are temporally wrong in some way. Either the actor is twice the character's age (BSG's Aaron Douglas), or the role that strikes me is from years ago (David Boreanaz in 1st-season Buffy). I'm really annoyed that the current trend in casting young male actors leans more toward metro, because there are so few not-too-cute jock types who get to show that they can do more than leer at the protagonist. Which is probably why I see more of the character in 30-somethings and beyond. Odd thing: I started writing the very first draft of this story in Driver's Ed in 1993, and just a few months ago realized DB had pretty much the look and the voice I'd been thinking of all along...even before I ever saw an episode of Buffy. He's a tad too cute though.
Agera = [Kristen Bell, Alexandra Krosney]. More diminutive blondes! More, I say! Give them really big guns, snarky dialogue, black spandex, and kissing scenes with Tania. Well, actually, only give all that to one of the two. And given that Agera's not 28 I'll probably be going with "Young Eloise Hawking" from that one ep of Lost where they time-shift to 50 years in the past and she's pointing really big guns at people. Appropriate that I noticed her on the same show as her putative co-star. This character is NEVER to be played by Hayden Panettiere. NEVER.
Sekarin = Kyle Gallner. The "Beaver turns evil" episode of Veronica Mars totally sold me on this. He went from whiny PITA to supervillain in five seconds flat and it amazed me. Sekarin's the type who thinks he needs to rule absolutely in order to be respected, and doesn't believe he ever does anything unequivocally evil. He just doesn't understand why people don't like to listen to him. I've also considered Vincent Kartheiser (Connor from Angel) and Nicholas D'Agosto (West from Heroes).
Chanya = Nora Zehetner. I started watching Heroes at about the same time that I picked up this story, and about ten minutes after this character was created, Eden just sort of waltzed in and made herself at home. Chanya is Sekarin's girlfriend of sorts--more like a fuckbuddy if you ask him when she's not around. She doesn't much like Darica, but there are other people she ends up not-liking even more. She prefers her switchblade to a gun; popular opinion has it that she's just a horrible shot, though no one seems to have thought to ask her.
Raylie = Leven Rambin. Just realized this on Friday with the latest episode of Sarah Connor Chronicles. Raylie, Riley, yeah yeah yeah I know. Again with the wrong color hair, but so the hell what. Raylie is a strategist and a genius, graduated the world's equivalent of high school at 15, and loves to tease people. She's been with the revolutionaries almost since the movement's inception and is high-ranked on the command staff.
Chasri = Samantha Krutzfeldt. The character is pretty much a pacifist, hanging out with the Revolutionaries' Local 101 because she believes in human rights and the current government really doesn't. It's not what she expected, and it's not easy for her, but she eventually finds her strength. Originally I had her down as Jewel Staite, but the Sarah Connor episode "Alpine Fields" convinced me to recalibrate.
Taber = Thomas Dekker. The character's not major, but even before SCC started to air I knew who had to play him. Once I had that, I realized I could do some really cool stuff with a background character whose actor could handle it, and started giving him more bang for his screen-time buck. He's the group's newest recruit and youngest regular member, and has had personal run-ins with the monolith they're assaulting. Passion and drive in spades, but not much in the way of prep for the reality of the situation.
Pretty easy to tell what TV I watch, no?
02. Make a list of the actors/actresses that you think best represent these characters.
03. Make a post of the characters and the actors who should play them. Explain why.
I've had running cast lists in my head (and in my notes) for ages, and have posted elsewhere about them. Some are updated, some aren't; it depends on whether I've found a good replacement for an actor who's aged out of the role. It'd take me forever to go looking for pictures for all these like
eonism did (something I know for a fact, having spent 2 hours on the post linked above), so it's names and previous roles only. Organized by story for your convenience, esp. if you're not familiar with all these."A Promise Kept" and "Will":
Tama = Evangeline Lilly. I'll probably have to update this soon, given that Tama is 20 in this story, but it took me almost 10 years to find an actress with the right kind of eyes. Yeah, weird qualification for a blind character, but given the circumstances of the story it's important. And her background in human rights activism and world development projects (of which IMDb just informed me) is perfect for the character. So what if she's a bit shorter than ideal? She could handle the whole roller coaster of the story with...her eyes closed. *groan*
Lesana = DS9-era Nana Visitor. Or, to be more precise, early-series Kira Nerys with long hair and no nosepiece. It's like I transplanted the character wholesale, which, considering I started the story at 17, makes perfect sense. Which I didn't realize until starting to rewatch the series last year, and which made me feel like a complete idiot when I figured it out. I'm going to hope there's enough divergence between the two that I won't feel weird watching the seasons I've never really seen.
Ulith = Anthony Edwards from 1995. Right down to the glasses and the hair patterns. I think he was the first character of mine ever to have an actor attached, and it happened very early in story development. The two are so strongly linked that I've never been able to think of finding anyone else for the role. Yes, I was addicted to "ER" in 1995. Why do you ask?
Irina = Claudia Black. Hair's too long, but there are ways around that. She'd get to be just as badass as Aeryn and as snarky as Vala. Frellin' perfect.
Vance = Eric Bana. I posted about this one on Hyperborea, linked above. He could pull off the balance of awkward and polished, and besides, he looks like the character as he appears in my head.
Ranell = Marsha Thomason. The second she came onscreen as Naomi in Lost, I nearly came out of my seat. Straight dealing, utterly competent, not afraid to rip someone a new one.
Myrithe = Virginia Hey. Also mentioned in my Hyperborea post. She'd basically be redoing the serene Zhaan mystique, with a little bit of Dollhouse tabula-rasa active mixed in.
It's worth noting that I don't have a Yaren, and never have. Oddly, I once drew him by trying to draw a man and seeing what happened. He looked kind of like a cross between Keanu Reeves and Thomas Dekker.
"Prophecy:"
Zari = [Gigi Edgley, Alona Tal]. Kristen Bell was in the running when I first started watching Veronica Mars. Then I found out she's short. Zari is not short. When I learned that Alona Tal (Meg) originally tried out for the role of Veronica, I gave it about five seconds' thought and concluded she was definitely a front-runner. I've only ever seen Gigi in Farscape and in person, but I'm sure it would be no problem for her to play someone who's basically the opposite of Chiana (straitlaced, far from world-wise, societally repressed but unwilling to rebel--generally pretty nerdy). Sadly, both casting choices are a little old for the character, so I'll have to start looking again. Blah.
Temin =? Sendhil Ramamurthy. This is a new addition. I started thinking a while ago that I wanted a white Mohinder type for the character, and then I started thinking, "Why worry about white? Your world's not supposed to." In my head he actually kind of looks like Spike Spiegel, but I'm open to change. And by the time you get from "Prophecy" to Masquerade in terms of timeline, what the character looked like doesn't matter much anyway. Sendhil has the perfect hair and the perfect voice, and can definitely do the out-of-towner research-junkie act. Previous contenders, discarded for various reasons, included Alexis Denisof, Sean Maher and James Callis.
Dassy = Britt McKillip in 2003. The pilot for "Dead Like Me" had me blinking a lot and feeling gobsmacked. Slightly weird blond kid with a slightly weird relationship with her older sister? Absolutely. Even her voice was right: capable of being just a kid, a little creepy, or a lot creepy. It shouldn't surprise me that she's been doing a lot of voice work.
Masquerade:
Darica = Britt McKillip in 2009. Seriously, I did the same double take while watching the DLM movie and said to
kelson afterward, "Well, it looks like Dassy grows up into Darica." The character is mentioned in APK, briefly; she's the POV for this story. Because of something I had another character say, I've been looking for a non-blonde actress to represent her, but she was just too perfect...and hair can be fiddled with. Darica is a normalish teenager, thrown waaaay out of her depth when she joins a group of revolutionaries in order to try to escape the wholesale destruction the group is causing to her hometown. She stays in that overwhelmed place for pretty much for the whole story, which is easy to say in third person narrative but would be hard to convey on screen. Watching DLM, watching the character of Reggie, I'm surer about this choice than several others in this post.Irina = Tania Raymonde. Another case of "Actor Appears, Viewer's Jaw Drops; Film at 11." All the sneaking around the Lost island and pointing guns at people just cemented it. It was actually this realization that led me to think of head-casting Claudia Black as the older Irina, when I noticed the resemblance between the two actresses. The character is a badass at this age too, but not quite as people-smart. Comes of being homeschooled at Secret Revolutionary Academy.
Ralis = a real problem. All the actors and performances I've noticed that put me in mind of the character are temporally wrong in some way. Either the actor is twice the character's age (BSG's Aaron Douglas), or the role that strikes me is from years ago (David Boreanaz in 1st-season Buffy). I'm really annoyed that the current trend in casting young male actors leans more toward metro, because there are so few not-too-cute jock types who get to show that they can do more than leer at the protagonist. Which is probably why I see more of the character in 30-somethings and beyond. Odd thing: I started writing the very first draft of this story in Driver's Ed in 1993, and just a few months ago realized DB had pretty much the look and the voice I'd been thinking of all along...even before I ever saw an episode of Buffy. He's a tad too cute though.
Agera = [Kristen Bell, Alexandra Krosney]. More diminutive blondes! More, I say! Give them really big guns, snarky dialogue, black spandex, and kissing scenes with Tania. Well, actually, only give all that to one of the two. And given that Agera's not 28 I'll probably be going with "Young Eloise Hawking" from that one ep of Lost where they time-shift to 50 years in the past and she's pointing really big guns at people. Appropriate that I noticed her on the same show as her putative co-star. This character is NEVER to be played by Hayden Panettiere. NEVER.
Sekarin = Kyle Gallner. The "Beaver turns evil" episode of Veronica Mars totally sold me on this. He went from whiny PITA to supervillain in five seconds flat and it amazed me. Sekarin's the type who thinks he needs to rule absolutely in order to be respected, and doesn't believe he ever does anything unequivocally evil. He just doesn't understand why people don't like to listen to him. I've also considered Vincent Kartheiser (Connor from Angel) and Nicholas D'Agosto (West from Heroes).
Chanya = Nora Zehetner. I started watching Heroes at about the same time that I picked up this story, and about ten minutes after this character was created, Eden just sort of waltzed in and made herself at home. Chanya is Sekarin's girlfriend of sorts--more like a fuckbuddy if you ask him when she's not around. She doesn't much like Darica, but there are other people she ends up not-liking even more. She prefers her switchblade to a gun; popular opinion has it that she's just a horrible shot, though no one seems to have thought to ask her.
Raylie = Leven Rambin. Just realized this on Friday with the latest episode of Sarah Connor Chronicles. Raylie, Riley, yeah yeah yeah I know. Again with the wrong color hair, but so the hell what. Raylie is a strategist and a genius, graduated the world's equivalent of high school at 15, and loves to tease people. She's been with the revolutionaries almost since the movement's inception and is high-ranked on the command staff.
Chasri = Samantha Krutzfeldt. The character is pretty much a pacifist, hanging out with the Revolutionaries' Local 101 because she believes in human rights and the current government really doesn't. It's not what she expected, and it's not easy for her, but she eventually finds her strength. Originally I had her down as Jewel Staite, but the Sarah Connor episode "Alpine Fields" convinced me to recalibrate.
Taber = Thomas Dekker. The character's not major, but even before SCC started to air I knew who had to play him. Once I had that, I realized I could do some really cool stuff with a background character whose actor could handle it, and started giving him more bang for his screen-time buck. He's the group's newest recruit and youngest regular member, and has had personal run-ins with the monolith they're assaulting. Passion and drive in spades, but not much in the way of prep for the reality of the situation.
Pretty easy to tell what TV I watch, no?
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