13/05/98
14:15
Casting Couch
Ok, here's my (slightly Eurocentric) two pen'th:
Severian : Jeremy Irons (tall, lean, serious)
Master Palaemon : Sir John Gielgud (old, wise, lovable)
Baldanders : Gerard Depardieu (big, powerful, buried passions)
Little Severian : McCauly Caulkin (because I want to see him get
crisped by Typhon's ring) (in slow motion, ideally) Agia : Sigourney Weaver (one scary adversary) Dorcas : Helena Bonham Carter (lifetime's experience playing
drippy girlies)
Jonas : Donald Sutherland (deadest eyes in the business)
Dr Talos : Richard E Grant (posturing popinjay - did "Withnail & I"
make it across the Atlantic?)
Typhon's head : Alan Rickman (well, he's done every other
OTT villain...)