virtual casting, part umpetieth

[lagilman]

Actually I don't really play this game, because my characters come to me with their faces already on, as it were. But:

http://spectacle.provocateuse.com/images/spectacles/jack_davenport_01.jpg
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Film/Pix/gallery/2006/06/20/norrington3.jpg

It's official - Jack Davenport is Sergei Didier. Except for the eye color, everything else works, including the height and body build. Ad, based on some of his quotes, he's got the mindset to play Sergei, too.

Now I just need to find a Wren.

Anyone got any ideas?


And yeah, yeah, I'm supposed to be working. I got distracted. Deal.

Comments

[nick-kaufmann.livejournal.com]

The picture didn't load for me. You may need to do a link instead, or host the picture on a separate site from the original one.

[lagilman]

argh. It loaded fine the first time...

[hilleviw.livejournal.com]

Actually, the actress who played opposite Jack Davenport as Susan in Coupling - Sarah Alexander - might work. She's got the petiteness, and the intelligence. She'd need a wig or dye job to fix her hair, and make-up, but the body type and movement are right. Plus, the two of them have the chemistry and working history. The downside, of course, is that pairing them up again will beg comparisons with Coupling, and Retrievers is so entirely different.

[hilleviw.livejournal.com]

p.s. when I read Retrievers, I actually picture Sergei more as Peter Wingfield: http://www.peterwingfield.com/

[lagilman]

I adore Petey, but he's too slight (relatively speaking) to be Sergei. IMAO, anyway. ;)

[fakefrenchie.livejournal.com]

I couldn't access the first picture so I did a Google search. I agree. He could be SErgei, though I was imagining him with a broader face, like Checkov in Star Trek. *ducks to avoid the rotten tomatoes* Then I looked at the second picture and couldn't see Sergei at all.

Of course, you didn't ask for my opinion, but I gave it anyway.

As for Wren, I picture a young Jody Foster.

[lagilman]

Then I looked at the second picture and couldn't see Sergei at all.

In the first book, there is a mention of one of their earlier (unwritten) adventures, wherein they ended up being tossed in jail for a few days. THAT is what he looked like when they finally got home.

He plays at being civilized, but he's not, always.

And yeah, a young Jody Foster, brunette, would work. Alas, she is well past Wren's age now...

[fakefrenchie.livejournal.com]

*THAT is what he looked like when they finally got home.*

Aha! I see. I'll have to reread that section.

[jperceval.livejournal.com]

Don't ask me why, but I've envisioned Clive Owen as Sergei.

Wren's trickier, but perhaps Eliza Dushku (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0244630/)?

[anisosynchronic.livejournal.com]

I saw a Didier in person--not the Retrievers one--last week, doing a food preparation demonstration at the Trader Joe's in Burlington, MA, he was cooking rack of lamb with ginger-something sauce for two, using ingreidents all from Trader Joe's. His shape was not that of Sergei--he was short and chunky, and with a definite Francophone accent, and strong indications that English was not his first language.

[lagilman]

*laugh* It's a common French name.

And why is Sergei's last name French if his father was Russian? There's a story in that, oh my yes....

(and no, it hasn't been told. Yet.)

[vincam.livejournal.com]

I'm still stuck on Mitch Pileggi.

[lagilman]

Heh. Well, me too, but like Jodie Foster, he's passed the proper (character) age...

[vincam.livejournal.com]

I hate when that happens.