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Re-cast the actors!

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  • #52
    username123
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,484 ✭✭✭username123


    PhlegmyMoses wrote: »
    Robert Carlyle as Roose Bolton would have been good.

    I always thought Robert Carlyle would be a good Mance Rayder - he is supposed to be unassuming looking.

    I really want to see James Callis cast as Euron Greyjoy.

    Naveen Andrews works for me for the Red Viper too.

    Totally agree Ser Loras is not handsome enough, he almost has a chubby face, and he is a bit too camp as well. He has a look of discontent as well. Would have preferred someone better looking. The guy who played Viserys could have been a good Ser Loras.

    James Gandolfini for Ser Jorah - are you mad!!! Ser Jorah is perfect as he is - handsome and tough, James Gandolini doesnt look like he could swing a golf club let alone a sword!

    Id like to see Ray Stevenson cast somewhere too - I just like the actor and think he fits the world. He would have worked as Bronn.

    A younger Cillian Murphy would have been perfect for Ramsay Snow.


  • #53
    Ethan Edwards
    Registered Users Posts: 26 ✭Ethan Edwards


    username123 wrote: »

    Id like to see Ray Stevenson cast somewhere too - I just like the actor and think he fits the world.

    If we are casting people from Rome then James Purefoy is a must, maybe as one of Dany's mercenaries.


  • #54
    username123
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,484 ✭✭✭username123


    Ethan Edwards wrote: »
    If we are casting people from Rome then James Purefoy is a must, maybe as one of Dany's mercenaries.

    Apparently he said he wouldnt do GoT, and came off a bit sour grapes about it (later saying it was a joke).

    I dunno, I liked him in Rome, but I dont know if I like him enough to be in GoT, he isnt bad, but there are better people out there IMO.


  • #55
    Pepe LeFrits
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 15,001 ✭✭✭✭Pepe LeFrits


    Ser Jorah isn't supposed to be handsome, at least he isn't described as being that way in the books.

    Personally I think the casting of the Tyrells, Yara etc has been good. Usually television shows are full of actors who are far too good looking for the roles they are supposed to be playing, so I like the reversal. I also think that many of the descriptions of the characters' looks in the books are intentionally hyperbolic, as they typically are a character's opinion, and often a second hand opinion at that. Not every character can be the most beautiful person in the world ever or the ugliest troll in history... and even if the actors cast were, beauty is highly subjective anyway.


  • #56
    username123
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,484 ✭✭✭username123


    Pepe LeFrits wrote: »
    Ser Jorah isn't supposed to be handsome, at least he isn't described as being that way in the books.

    Sorry, I should have said "TV Ser Jorah is perfect as he is" - certainly I didnt picture him fat and unwieldy from the books.
    Pepe LeFrits wrote: »
    Usually television shows are full of actors who are far too good looking for the roles they are supposed to be playing, so I like the reversal.

    I agree. I like that they are casting unusual looking people (whether good looking or not), examples being Brienne (although Gwendolyne Christie is much better looking than book Brienne), Mackenzie Crook for Orell (I think he will be great, he looks so 'skittery'), Lysa Arryn (the actress's name escapes me), The Hound and the Mountain look amazing, and people like Jaqen H'ghar who has had great on screen presence.


  • #57
    Gbear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,775 ✭✭✭✭Gbear


    username123 wrote: »
    The Hound and the Mountain look amazing, and people like Jaqen H'ghar who has had great on screen presence.

    The first Mountain looked amazing. Any mention on what the situation is for him next season?

    I wouldn't go for Mark Strong as Stannis. I think he needs to lack charisma.

    If Mark Addy had been a foot taller he would've been a better Robert.

    There's not many 40-50 year old, 6ft4, white, slightly rotund actors around.

    I suppose that if you didn't know that Robert was as big as he was from the book it would've been less of a problem. It's just hard to picture Addy being this colossus on the field of battle with a massive hammer.

    The only major roles that I didn't buy were Renly and Loras. They look like pansies and nothing like the knights of reknown from the books. I doubt any knight was ever built as slightly as either of them were. As opposed to a sort of Jamie-Lannisteresque arrogance to them brought about by being serious warriors they just seem silly. Renly isn't supposed to be somewhat interchangeable with Little Finger in appearance but that's how he appears.

    If Christ Hemworth had dyed his hair black he'd have been a cracking Renly.
    Dunno about Loras.


  • #58
    Dubhlinner
    Registered Users Posts: 456 ✭✭Dubhlinner


    ^^^

    I thought Coster Waldau made a pretty good Jamie. Jason Lewis may have been good too.

    The guy who played Loras should have been made do some weights before taking up the role, like the guy who played Gendry clearly was. Even a month or two or decent training would have made him look a lot more suitable.

    Completely agree about Robert, was always gonna be a difficult one to cast. Addy did a cracking job with the personality though.

    The mountain was fantastic in Season 1, the one at harrenhall seemed too lanky


  • #59
    Witcher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,638 ✭✭✭✭Witcher


    Saw someone..somewhere suggest Clive Mantle who played the Greatjon would have been a good Robert if he were a bit younger. Someone his size would have been right anyway, Mark Addy was a bit short to be Robert.


  • #60
    Ryu Hayabusa
    Registered Users Posts: 262 ✭✭Ryu Hayabusa


    James Belushi as Eddard Stark


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  • #61
    username123
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,484 ✭✭✭username123


    If they ever did any flashback scenes, Id like to see Aerys II Targaryen, The Mad King, played by Bill Nighy.


  • #62
    rcazzy
    Registered Users Posts: 57 ✭✭rcazzy


    Posted this on another forum not long ago. I know it's a re-cast thread, but this is for some future characters.
    Gonna try and keep within the realm of possibility with these..

    Darkstar is a tricky one..not too sure about that and I don't think they'll cast Penny.


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