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The Casting Game No. 288
Filed under: Actors, casting, Reflections | Tags: albert camus, casting, humphrey bogart, the casting game
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Humphrey Bogart
AS
Albert Camus
The Casting Game No. 403 – bushy eyebrows
Filed under: Actors, casting | Tags: Actors, ben gazarra, casting, john cassavetes, liev schreiber, martin landau
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John Cassavetes
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Martin Landau
I was watching John Cassavetes’ Opening Night (1977) at the Prince Charles Cinema, Leicester Square last night when this one occurred to me. I’m looking forward to seeing one of my new Red Bull Media House commissions in the same cinema later this week.
As a bonus casting prompted by the same film I offer…
Ben Gazarra
AS
Liev Schreiber
(This one’s a bit harder to capture in photos, it’s attitudinal as well.)
The Casting Game No. 402 – Six Nations Special
Filed under: Actors, casting, films, Movies, Reflections | Tags: casting, ewen bremner, liam williams, rugby, trainspotting, wales
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Liam Williams
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Spud in ‘Trainspotting’
(I worked with Ewen Bremner in one of his very first roles at Melrose Film Productions around 1989)
The Casting Game No. 58 – Messiah Complex
Filed under: Actors, actress, casting | Tags: actress, casting, jarvis cocker, messiah, michael jackson, michelle monaghan, netflix, singer, the brits
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Michelle Monaghan (Eva in Netflix’s Messiah)
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Michael Jackson (singer of Earth Song)
Earth Song at The Brits Awards 1996 where Jarvis Cocker of Pulp accused him of “pretending to be Jesus”
The Casting Game
Filed under: Actors, actress, casting, Cinema, Reflections | Tags: actress, actresses, amelie, audrey tautou, casting, films, gemma arterton, Movies, vita sackville-west
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Gemma Arterton (Vita & Virginia – Vita Sackville-West)
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Audrey Tautou (Amélie)
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
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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
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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
