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Have you seen who is going to be playing Narcissa?
Helen McCrory. Look, I don't care how good an actress this is, this is an obvious stitch-up. She was supposed to play Bellatrix last time and got pregnant, so they had to bring Helena Bonham-Carter instead - and I for one am not complaining. But evidently either Ms. McCrory or whoever is her protector is owed a favour, since some moron has announced that she is going to play Narcissa. Is effin' Hollywood colour-blind these days? Narcissa is so pale and blonde she looks like she shines in the dark in the Spinner's End episode. Her utter unlikeness to her sister is stressed. This is the second bloody time that a character described as a natural blonde is given to a most unlikely-looking bottle blonde for no discernible reason. The first was Jessica Alba in FAntastic Four, playing a blonde character from a blonde family with the Nordic name Storm. She looked like a million dollars - in three-dollar bills. Are natural blondes no longer being born, or have they gone out of style?
This may seem a strange thing to get mad about, but characters have their integrity. Even if you are playing something as vile as Wonder Woman - a character I loathe - it would be wrong to cast her as a long, lean redhead in a skirt, shirt and tie. And Narcissa Malfoy and Sue Storm Richards are characters who were designed to have a very definite look; to alter the look is to alter the character, and it is being done for no better reason than because someone in Hollywood is owed a favour.
This may seem a strange thing to get mad about, but characters have their integrity. Even if you are playing something as vile as Wonder Woman - a character I loathe - it would be wrong to cast her as a long, lean redhead in a skirt, shirt and tie. And Narcissa Malfoy and Sue Storm Richards are characters who were designed to have a very definite look; to alter the look is to alter the character, and it is being done for no better reason than because someone in Hollywood is owed a favour.
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You know, after a discussion I had once ona forum about whether an actor was or was not blonde I came to the conclusion that thanks to the repeated use of blnde hair dye in the media no one knows what a natural blonde looks like anymore. Scary!
to alter the look is to alter the character,
That's always bugged me. They'll do the same thing jsut to stick a big name actor ina role. What the characters is describe too look like never matters if you can use soemone who is a big name *sigh*
I have similar rants against Halle Barry playing Storm.
Because yeah . . . . she looks and sounds like she's from Africa oh so very much *sarcasm*
A lot of times I think there are probably far better actors, in terms of looks and acting, but they never get a chance because they are unkowns and studios tend to go for the big names.
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I agree!
Personally, I don't care. All of the Malfoy actors have bleached hair. It's hard enough to find proper actors without trying to match everyone's physical characters perfectly.
Jessica Alba as Storm was a little ... stranger. She's actually a different ethnicity than her character.
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Um. Are there other reasons things are done in Hollywood?
(heh, a million dollars in three dollar bills. I gotta remember that...)
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Personally, I'm indifferent to colorblind casting; IMO, colorblind casting is OK by default, unless there's a specific reason (plot points, historical accuracy, etc) a character has to look a certain way.
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