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If there were an off-broadway performance of Dooku: Jedi Lost starring a young(ish) Christopher Lee, who would you cast as Sifo-Dyas, Ventress and Ky Narec? (They can be anyone, dead or alive, at any age.)

I've been agonizing over this ask for days because I'm TERRIBLE at this kind of actor headcast thing.

An example: Sifo-Dyas is easy because I literally can't not picture him as Warren Fu anymore… Warren Fu who... is now predominantly a music video director/producer, not an actor, and historically hates being in front of a camera, so this performance is already running into problems. ALTHOUGH this does present the tantalizing possibility that all of Sifo-Dyas's scenes have the same vibe as Fu's Shakira music videos, so he's dressed really hot and surfing on a pyrotechnic surfboard while he softly sings us the plot.

Okay, see how I'm bad at this? :D I don't know, I'm turning this over to my much smarter mutuals in the mines and abroad. Who are your headcasts for Sifo, Asajj, and Ky??

#headcasts #dooku: jedi lost #⛏️⛏️⛏️

Help??

Does anyone have any good, exciting headcasts for Andrew Rannells? I’m writing a thing and I could really use suggestions!!

A couple of shots of June Duprez and C. Aubrey Smith from The Four Feathers for fic reference, as I often headcast Aubrey as Yahya ibn Khalid al-Barmaki (so, yes, he’d be her father-in law). He was such a popular go-to guy whenever you needed a grizzled, powerful old family patriarch, so he fits the part well.

But more than that, it was this that clinched it:

The old geezer’s shown expert skill at wrangling the family’s sword-happy douchebag, basilisk (Bazilisk?) stares be damned.

#headcast #headcasts #c aubrey smith #june duprez #thief of bagdad #basil rathbone #yahya #fadl #meta #writing #reference #barmakids #of roses unfurling #and pretty much all the other fics tbh #but he's always dead long before yassamin's even born so #even having them in the same picture is an au #i pretty much invariably have had harun al-rashid murder yahya #sometimes reducing the barmakid tragedy to just that #the funny thing is the barmakids were actually meant to be shortarses #and have slanted eyes #as they had roots in kashmir and indian people looked different then #so for a brief while there was a beauty ideal 'beautiful in the barmakid fashion'#and that meant you had to be short and have golden brown skin and slightly slanted eyes #so it's the complete opposite of these tall blue-eyed buggers #but what with jaffar's looks i had to cast them with people who could conceivably be his relatives obvs #also i apologise for that bazilisk pun i'm sure it's been made a hundred million times since baz decided to start acting #obviously only his brother beats him in the death stare stakes and fadl's never forgiven jaffar for the fact #because he was too restless to ever sit down to study magic himself so he couldn't be bothered to develop the skill #so fadl's stares will always remain just normal human death glares whereas jaffar...#well we've seen that he just spurts out djinn-fire from those eyes doesn't he

Another reference picspam of Bonita Granville manifesting Laura Erika Barring.

No, I’m not okay with there being 14-year-old swimsuit pinups or deliberately dodgy ”18-year-old ageplaying a little girl in a doll-like costume to entertain creepy old men at a carnival show because her mother is probably a madame” reference photos of her either, thanks for asking.

What the fuck, 1930s/1940s. What the fuck.

On the other hand, this just goes to show I’m *not* exaggerating about how creepily she works for Laura, having created her years before I had any idea these movies (or such an intelligent child-woman actress of the 30s and 40s) even existed. It really is extraordinary.

#bonita granville #laura erika barring #devilry #ocs #because the world belongs to the devil #headcast #headcasts #dance with the devil #the fall of angels #some of these match what i thought of laura in her costumes #those ones torsten has her pose in in the first novel especially #the swimsuit looks horrendous but jfc i was creeped out when i saw that one so of COURSE i have to share the creepage #i mean i get that it was just an innocently meant teenage swimsuit fashion thing #but considering the amount of creeps perving over this kind of stuff it *was* dirty old man fodder #another example of the sort of stuff you'd never find today and thank god for that #but ficwise it was too frightening a coincidence for me not to note #also the one where she's staring up with gloves in hand and all dreamy and shit #is just like laura welcomes torsten at the harbour at the start of the second novel #the youth runs wild one with the fag and the lace/satin dress is more like the older tfoa laura #about to go and kill segert with her daddy... she really tarting herself up deliberately to challenge segert #the one in the evening dress with her hair done up is laura at her most elegant and decent-ish #i can imagine her dancing with torsten in paris wearing something like that (or posher)#(of course torsten would wear a dress too and probably outpretty her...)#anyway all this eerie coincidence stuff is probably just connie's ghost fucking with me again #or rather torsten's if connie just happened to leave him in the aether to molest all of us the bastard #ah well

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So I was trawling the intarwebz for Bunnies and Junes, and Google throws me a Fairuza in with all these Junes (dunno who the woman on the bottom right is). That’s... pretty epic what with the way I’m mentally headcasting Fairuza as an adolescent Salsabil all the time o_O

#wtfffffff #headcast #headcasts #salsabil #salsabil and anwar #june duprez #fairuza balk #maybe someone had the same idea #as in 'if ze pwinzezz chose jaffar and had kids with her who would they look like'#because it's hard to not think fairuza if you want piercing blue eyes and pouty lips and sexy evil

Dangerous Liaisons, Old Hollywood headcast update

Might as well give you guys an updated list of my casting plans for that Old Hollywood version of Dangerous Liaisons I aim to make a gifset of at some point, if possible:

-Marquise de Merteuil: Marlene Dietrich

-Valmont: Conrad Veidt

-Madame de Tourvel: Greta Garbo

-Cecile de Volanges: Bonita Granville

-Mme de Volanges: Gale Sondergaard

-Chevalier Danceny: Douglas Fairbanks Jr. or Tyrone Power

It’s Danceny I’m still iffy about, so if you have any ideas of that type of 30s/40s actor who could play a young, dashing, heroic but foolish guy, I’m still taking suggestions?

#dangerous liaisons #headcast #headcasts #let's see if tumblr won't refuse to make this into an answerable question thingy #i wish you could do polls on this site... or can you do polls but i just don't know of it yet?#i'll take suggestions for mme de volanges as well but i think gale's pretty damn perfect #and i'll consider other characters as well... but i'll need an even number for a neat gifset #i'm pretty 100% sure of everyone else #still slapping my forehead of not having thought of garbo earlier #because she if anyone could do a woman dying of love pretty damn perfectly

Actually

…I’m an idiot.

Do you know who could be even better for an OH Madame de Tourvel?

Greta Garbo, that’s who.

#WHY DID I NOT THINK OF HER EARLIER #headcasts #seriously #she'd be way better than ingrid #and oddly she never gives me that same typical scandinavian lioness feeling #she's far more fragile than ingrid #but still with a fascinating deep profundity #dangerous liaisons #but oh god imagine her dying of love for evil cruel connie #as connie meaows 'ettz bewyondd mein kontwol'#aaaaahhh #p.s. i now only have danceny left uncast #who the hell is young and naive and dashing enough?

Ok, so I *do* want to make a gifset of a Golden Age of Hollywood version of Dangerous Liaisons. I've already decided I'm going to have Marlene Dietrich as de Merteuil, Connie as Valmont and Bonita Granville as Cecile, but I am having trouble casting Madame de Tourvel.

The main problem lies in the fragility of the character (even if she is morally strong and such a good person through and through), because so many OH leading ladies were such tough HBICes. The thing with Tourvel is that she should be played by a really skilled actress who can suffer beautifully, suffer and weep in a way that rings profoundly true. But there are so few famous actresses of that era who would be able to convince me of that--so many of them had such a huge core of strength and such a backbone that I wouldn't be able to believe them basically dying of heartbreak. (For instance, when I think of quality OH crying/suffering, I think of Bette, but she is so damn strong on the inside that it always creates a cognitive dissonance in me to see her being victimised, because she was stronger than that. I can imagine her dusting herself off and walking away, whereas de Tourvel just collapses and withers away. Same problem with someone like Viv--she can suffer beautifully but she's way too strong and reserved, IMHO.)

And then I think of the more fragile ladies but they're somehow too girl-like and/or haven't really got that kind of acting skill (or at least never got to show anything in that kind of range on the screen). So often it’s either just epic HBICes or girls who were good at being pretty and fairly ‘normal’ and that was enough. (I love many actresses like that, so I’m not intending that as a slur--glamour doesn’t grow on trees.) But it makes it damn difficult to find someone who is strong in her way, *but* whom you could also see collapsing because of a broken heart.

So, what the hell. I'm just going to throw it out there and ask if you guys have any suggestions. Who do you think (of the actresses around in the 30s and 40s) would be able to pull it off?

#dangerous liaisons #old hollywood #headcast #headcasts #and of course the actress having appeared in something rococo would be a bonus #i'm going to have some trouble finding suitable bunnitas #but i'm damned if i'm not going to try #with connie and marlene i've got jew suss and the scarlet empress so they'll come in handy #but this is my problem with a lot of OH stuff--the women are so incredibly strong #that it's hard to believe them breaking down even in the movies where they portray that #like nope that bitch is way too hardcore for that... or that...#right now bette is actually still on my list of candidates but #i'd want to see someone slightly younger and 'purer'... someone who could play a saint (jennifer jones?)#because it's the seduction of a saint we're talking about really #and cukor's going to direct obvs

So, what the hell. I'm just going to throw it out there and ask if you guys have any suggestions. Who do you think (of the actresses around in the 30s and 40s) would be able to pull it off?

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