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The Casting Game: Reservoir Dogs
Filed under: Actors, casting, Cinema, films, Movies, Reflections | Tags: Actors, casting, Cinema, films, game, Movies, quentin tarantino, reservoir dogs
Leave a comment To celebrate the arrival of Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood (which has grown on me since watching it last week) I’ve recast where it all began for Quentin, Reservoir Dogs
Jonah Hill
as
Nice Guy Eddie (Chris Penn)
Joss Ackland
as
Joe Cabot (Lawrence Tierney)
Dominic West
as
Marvin (Kirk Baltz)
Chris Isaak
as
Mr Blonde (Michael Madsen)
Malcolm Allison
as
Mr White (Harvey Keitel)
Paul Weller
as
Mr Orange (Tim Roth)
The Casting Game No. 55
Filed under: casting, Reflections | Tags: Actors, benedict cumberbatch, casting, kenneth williams
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Benedict Cumberbatch
as
Kenneth Williams
The Casting Game No.s 102 & 103 – Triple Frontier special
Filed under: Actors, casting | Tags: Actors, casting, charlie humman, ian mcshane, jonny wilkinson, netflix, oscar isaac, third frontier
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Charlie Hunnam
as
Jonny Wilkinson
and
Oscar Isaac (in Third Frontier)
as
Ian McShane (in The Battle of Britain)
The Casting Game No. 101
Filed under: Actors, casting, Cinema, Movies | Tags: casting, cowboys, dean martin, syvlester stallone, victor mature, westerns
Comments (1) Dean Martin
Dean Martin in Rio Bravo (1959)
as
Victor Mature
Victor Mature in My Darling Clementine (1946)
understudied by Sylvester Stallone
Sylvester Stallone in Rambo V: Last Blood (2019)
The Casting Game No. 100
Filed under: Actors, casting | Tags: actor, author, casting, eric ambler, michael caine, writer
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Eric Ambler
played by
Michael Caine
The Casting Game No. 99
Filed under: Actors, casting | Tags: Actors, casting, jason isaacs, kenneth branagh
Leave a comment Kenneth Branagh played by (hello!) Jason Isaacs
Kenneth Branagh (in his latest movie)
played by
Jason Isaacs (who took the Edgware coach to school with me back in the day)
The Casting Game No. 98
Filed under: Actors, casting, rugby | Tags: actor, ewen bremner, forrest gump, liam williams, rugby, tom hanks, trainspotting, wales
Leave a comment Liam Williams played by Ewen Bremner
Liam Williams (of East Finchley) playing for Wales against England last weekend
played by
Ewen Bremner (as Spud in Film4’s Trainspotting)
(I worked with Ewen at my 2nd job at Melrose Film Productions when he was just starting out – lovely fella)
They are both cousins of Forrest Gump
It’s all in the haircut
The Casting Game No. 46 – Apple Pair
Filed under: apple, casting | Tags: apple, apple computers, apple mac, casting, lookalikes, paul o'grady, tim cook
Leave a comment Paul O’Grady as Tim Cook (boss of Apple)
Paul O’Grady
as
Tim Cook
The Casting Game No. 45 – Gumshoe
Filed under: Actors, actress, casting, films | Tags: actor, Actors, actress, actresses, billie whitelaw, brookside, casting, frank finlay, gumshoe, jake gyllenhaal, stephen frears, sue johnston
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Frank Finlay and Billie Whitelaw in ‘Gumshoe’ (1971) dir. Stephen Frears
The Remake: Jake Gyllenhaal as Frank Finlay as William Ginley
The remake: Sue Johnston as Billie Whitelaw as Ellen
The Casting Game No. 76
Filed under: Actors, casting, theatre | Tags: games characters, iago, mark rylance, othello, supermario, theatre
Leave a comment SuperMario
to play
Mark Rylance playing Iago at the Globe (July 2018)
