Casting Couch

Tony Ellis · 13 May 1998, 14:58 · from urth-v0011.mbox · original

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From: tony.ellis at futurenet.co.uk (Tony Ellis)
Subject: (urth) Casting Couch
Date: 13 May 1998 15:58:35 +0100
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13/05/98
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 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...)



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