In the past two weeks, Samantha and I have watched:
- Pride & Prejudice (BBC)
- Pride & Prejudice (the new one)
- Love Actually
- The Importance of Being Earnest (with Colin Firth)
- Bridget Jones’s Diary
- The Holiday
That means that we have a pretty good working knowledge of casting British movies and/or Colin Firth (lots of overlap). So, we decided to come up with an all-star cast for a (mostly) American adaptation of Pride & Prejudice.
Elizabeth Bennet: Kristen Bell, Ginnifer Goodwin, Alexis Bledel
Mr. Darcy: Taylor Kitsch, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Christian Bale
Mr. Bingley: Robert Pattinson, John Krasinski, James Franco
Jane Bennet: Blake Lively, January Jones, Amanda Seyfreid
Mr. Wickham: Chris Pine, Brendan Hines, Jason Dohring
Mr. Bennet: Tim Roth, Jeff Bridges, Steve Martin
Mrs. Bennet: Meryl Streep, Diane Keaton, Jamie Lee Curtis
Lydia Bennet: Miley Cyrus
Georgiana Darcy: Elle Fanning
Bingley’s Sister: Minka Kelly, Anna Kendrick, Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Lady Catherine: Meryl Streep
Mr. Collins: Jason Segel, Timm Sharp
Charlotte Lucas: Elisabeth Moss
Who would you cast?
I’m violently opposed to Kristen Bell being Elizabeth Bennett…ugh. I just don’t like that girl.
But PLEASE let me watch Tim Riggins try to be Mr. Darcy.
I think he could totally pull it off.
As for Elizabeth, I think vote for Anne Hathaway… or maybe Maggie Gyllenhall.
I also vote yes for:
Blake Lively
Jeff Bridges (even thought that’d be sorta weird if MG was Elizabeth, because I loved crazyheart)
Chris Pine (Or Bradley Cooper?)
Meryl Streep
Miley Cyrus – I LOL’ed at work
Elle Fanning
Anna Kendrick
But I think your choices for Bingley are all a little too sly… What about Zac Levi?
We thought about Anne Hathaway, but I couldn’t decide between Lizzy, Jane, or Bingley’s sister so I just dropped her.
Brad Cooper is a solid choice if we go older on Darcy/Bingley.
We talked about the Bingley thing, too, and we also thought about our boy Chuck. He’s an age where he could be Bingley to pretty much everyone’s Darcy.
We also thought about Tahmoh Penikett (Battlestar, Dollhouse) for Darcy, and Fran Kranz for Collins. Fran was in Dollhouse, as well as movie with Chuck called Shades of Ray.
I still have never seen Battlestar. I know, i’m a bad nerd. I’m avoiding spoilers like the plague until i can watch it.
And Shades of Ray is on my watch instantly queue… waiting to be watched.
I’m really terrible at watching things!
and hey, FNL: 5 isn’t over yet, is it? isn’t it on direct tv? do you know where/how to watch it online?