Casting Couch

[age]

Been trying to get into my Bad Guy's head and I decided to pretend like I was setting up his journal for RP purposes. This means finding him a PB

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[kittydesade]

I want to say Norman Reedus just so I can tell him about this at Dragon*Con.

Are we just going for nasty looking or a particular kind of nasty? (Lecherous, manipulative-charming, manipulative bastard...)

[age]

He's manipulative-charming-bastard? He's....um.

He's one of those ones who starts off okay, possibly on the fringe of his peers, but not a loner, that ends up finding a book that not only helps him to learn how to use magic to do things, but will ultimately contact and summon the Ultimate Big Bad (who, for lack of a better description, is my world's devil/Satan).

He starts out as a scribe in the Royal Cathedral's Library, then ends up using his magic and cunning to elevate him to Royal Advisor. He's basically being used by "Satan," who's been enprisoned and seriously wants out.

So really, my Saruman/Sauron analogy isn't really too far off the mark.

[kittydesade]

Hm. None of those, all too overt. Maybe Norman Reedus, but.

Michael Fassbender. Michael Massee? James... wossname. Um. Callis. Scott Glenn maybe, if he's not too old.

[viridian]

FASSBENDER YES THIS.

But only if your bad guy is supposed to be unreasonably attractive.

I had to Google Norman Reedus because I couldn't remember who he was, and I think I like him best of your original choices.

[age]

So do I. I was thinking of picking Reedus and swapping the two roles around, actually. But then Jag mentioned two other very viable choices...

[age]

If one could take Michael Massee and James Callis and smoosh'em into one man, he'd be PERFECT.

Massee has the look I want, I think, but I'm not familiar with his personality (I don't even remember him in his SPN eps, or from Carnivale).

Callis is perfect for the role in terms of personality, from what little I recall of BSG S1.

Blast it all...

[kittydesade]

Michael Massee has also been in a movie called Momentum where he played a rebel telekinetic... if you've seen The Crow he played Funboy, that was his very early work. *wry* And he might have been more famous if not for that accident. Um.

Most of the time he plays cunning, clever if not all that erudite in their intelligence bad guys, kind of smarmy but not in an oozing sexual way. Quick thinking and sort of ruthless, not stupid but not always necessarily book-learned. But damned dangerous. He's guested in Criminal Minds, Human Target, um... a whole lot of things. Quiet spoken, usually. With a very distinctive voice.

Actually damned and dangerous more literally, in a mini-series called Revelations with Bill Pullman and some other people. I think he played an incarnation of the antichrist.

[age]

Looking at both of them again, I think Callis is the character's younger self, and Michael Massee is his older-self. The bit I'm working on now is foundational for the guy and will probably never see the light of day, but in the actual novel he's much older.

So I guess that settles that?

Part of me still wants Norman Reedus in this thing and now I have to find him a part to play. I...oh. Oh, I think I know what to do with him.

Okay then.

Thanks!!!!!

[kittydesade]

Callis grows into Michael Massee. That's a terrifying thought.

'welcome! XD

[age]

Then our work here is done! I only hope I can write it well enough to do them justice.

:D