voice-casting, anyone?

[glass_icarus]

So I've been thinking about this, in a semi-parallel to our previous casting discussion, on and off while rereading: every character in the novels has a distinct voice in my head- clearer than their actual physical characteristics, in fact- but I can't quite correlate them to people in real life. Who do you guys think everyone should sound like?

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[canadianstudies]

I hadn't seen that discussion- I agree with John Barrowman and Anthony Head, though!!! (both for physique as well as voice)

[glass_icarus]

hmm, for which character? (i'm not particularly familiar with either of those choices, so.)

[canadianstudies]

but he's been replaced in my mind by Aaron Douglas

Oh, yum. I agree!

[glass_icarus]

usually if I pick the right physical actor, I can usually agree that their voice fits- this is how i work too, most of the time! it's just that it's easier for me to "hear" the SotT characters than it is to "see" them, for some reason.

[jayellebee]

Ya, the characters all have very distinct voices in my head too, and it makes trying to find voice actors for them insanely hard. >.< I've settled on Anthony Head for Ethan though, and this decision was made with much glee. As for the others though... *shrugs*

Also, good luck to whoever tries to find Bran's voice actor after the way Chandler described his accent. I believe she said something along the lines of it sounding "like nothing on earth".

o_o

[glass_icarus]

hee, i'd forgotten about that line! in my head, Bran's accent is a particularly bastardized/partially unintelligible Irish one; kind of like Brad Pitt's in Snatch. i think that may be close enough? :D

[jayellebee]

.... Omg. I just watched a clip of that on Youtube... and omg. It was so hard not to lawl until my throat hurt. *giggles* I couldn't undertsand a word he was saying! *squees* I'm so amused right now. That is definately a well bastardized irish accent. And I should know.

[gaycrow]

I find it hard to come up with actors for the roles ... most of the ones I know are too old.

For Bran I imagine Sean Bean, who I remember from "Patriot Games". I think he was Irish in that.

There's a picture of Sean here. (I have to take off a few years to see him as Bran.)

Jeremy Irons would make a good Ethan ... I'm not really familiar with Anthony Head, apart from seeing him in a couple of Buffy episodes. I imagine Ethan to be leaner, somehow. Jeremy's voice is perfect to me.

I have problems with the others. I see and hear them clearly in my head, but can't think of any actors off-hand that match up.

[glass_icarus]

ah, interesting pick for Bran! actually, when i first saw that picture, i thought he might make a passable Johnny, with a wee bit of aging/uglifying. *g* he and Ethan are particularly difficult to pin down for me.

i think i mentioned in that other discussion that i was leaning towards James McAvoy for Jeremy, and he seems to have stuck. go figure. :D

[jayellebee]

Mm. I'm not sure I like that picture of Sean Bean, but after watching the trailer for Patriot Games, he's growing on me rapidly for Bran. ^-^ It helps that he had short blonde hair in it as well. >.>

As for James MaAvoy... I dunno. He's just not working for me. *eyes him* Maybe I should look at some more pictures of him.

[glass_icarus]

haha, i just had a thought- Paul Bettany for Bran, perhaps? the paleness is definitely there, and the skinniness.

[gaycrow]

Okay, now I'm going silly, trying to match actors with characters. ;D

I've only seen James McAvoy in "Atonement", so I don't have a good mind picture of him for Jeremy.

How about Jamie Bamber as Jeremy? I don't think I've seen him act in anything, but his pictures look nice! :D

And yes glass_icarus! I agree that Paul Bettany would be a very good Bran. Good choice!

[glass_icarus]

ah, good point! my mental image of him is from Wanted, so that probably explains why he's so stuck in my head. *g* Jude Law is also still floating around in there, but... is he a bit too old for Jeremy now, perhaps?

and yes, Jamie Bamber is quite pretty. hmm.

[jayellebee]

OH MY GOD YES.

I seem to have developed caps locks syndrome, but nevermind. JAMIE BARBER IS MY JEREMY. *squees* I wasn't sure about the first picture, but I looked at the second one for literally one second before I came to squee. /That/ is the Jeremy in my head. Fu fu fu....

Now I can visualize both Jeremy and Bran. ^-^ This will make my perfectly innocent fangirl fantasies much easier...

[jayellebee]

Oh, typo. I meant Bamber.