Comments | burntcopper: what if casting

burntcopper

what if casting

Sep 05, 2007 16:37

Over here, they're pondering the 'what if so and so wasn't available for casting at the time' game for Jack Harkness. Some er... *interesting* responses. And several stuck on american actors. My thoughts below ( Read more... )

tv: dr who, pretty, ads: john barrowman, tv: torchwood, jeeves, captain jack, recs

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burntcopper September 5 2007, 19:14:30 UTC

yeah, that's my thing - I can see stuff like the torture and most of Torchwood, just not the Dr Who stuff that he'd have to initially be cast for - which is pretty damn athletic. Only I don't know if they had the character be athletic because JB is essentially a gymnast due to the leading actor in musicals - where you often have to be able to dance like a nutter and be impossibly limber. (see Adrian Lester from Hustle in Loves Labours Lost) Like I said, don't know how the role might have changed with a different actor playing to different strengths.

(and I love and adore Gangster #1. My Bettany love is of the strong.)

munchkinott September 5 2007, 20:26:38 UTC

I started running the Captain Jack Harkness lines if spoken by James Puresex through my head on the way home. I... er... um. You know how we joke about Jack being a sexual harassment suit waiting to happen?

In the name of science I've just tried the same thing... My brain is now completely scrambled. *slaps side of head* I... I... Conc-- Agre-- Know what you're talking about. OH HELL YES! *thud*

burntcopper September 6 2007, 20:01:42 UTC

I mentioned this to megolas. She gibbered. 'Not a sexual harassment suit pending, this would be filed, restraining order, bloody everything!'

And then she really broke me. James Puresex. And Matt Rippy. I couldn't form words for for several minutes. Kept opening mouth to say something and then it broke again.

munchkinott September 6 2007, 20:58:52 UTC

Dude, we're talking about all that in a class action; with Timeboy named as co-respondant.

James Puresex. And Matt Rippy.

*IMDBz 'Matt Rippy'*

*squints at burntcopper's icon*

oooooooooooh! You mean him? *points* I must be immune, I've still got control of my voicebox. Say 'Puresex + chained up in the Valiant's engine room for 12 months' to me though and... *makes squeaky noises that might've been words before her voicebox went 'keeeeeeeeeee-runch!'*

xenaclone March 27 2008, 18:58:02 UTC

What about the other bits of loveliness from 'Rome'?

Ray Stevenson [Pullo]. WOOF!

XC