Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
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Content is hard. Let's have CASTING!

It's been a while since we've had a good fantasy casting thread, and this promises to be a crazy week at work, so I figure it's time to have a pretty party. This week, we're casting Feed. Feel free to cast other works in the Newsflesh universe as well (so if you want a high-profile actress for Becks, when it's essentially a cameo in the first book, explain how you'll use her in the second). Pictures are a plus!

A few things to keep in mind:

There is absolutely no reason, by the text, that the actors cast for Georgia and Shaun need to be white. George is described as "pale" after she's been inside for a long period of time, but that's it. The only characters that really need to be cast Caucasian are Buffy and the older Masons (Stacy and Michael). Buffy because she's blonde, the Masons because they're a very specific sort of suburban archetype gone horribly wrong.

Your Shaun and Georgia should be similar in age, because they're going to be playing off each other a lot.

Explaining your casting/supplying pictures is a big, big plus.

At the end of the week—well, Thursday; I'm on a plane all day Friday—I'll pick the dream cast I like best and send them a signed copy of Blackout. Because I hate the post office but hate thinking about addresses more, this is open to everyone.

Have fun!
Tags: feed, giving stuff away, mira grant, party games, silliness
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raelee

June 25 2012, 18:19:07 UTC 5 years ago Edited:  June 25 2012, 18:21:36 UTC

Well now... I've never thought of George and Shaun as anything other than white. I'll have to give that some thought. I do like the suggestion upthread of Jesse Williams as Shaun. I'm just not sure who I'd want to see George in that scenario. I'd actually like to keep the uncertain nature of the Shaun/George relationship so I'd want to keep it looking like these two could be genetically linked. Maybe Dana Davis as Jesse William's George? She's got the spunk I associate with George and she looks young (as in I was going to say she was young enough until I looked up her age and realized she's actually older than I thought). I'm not sure I've seen her in enough things to know if she's got the acting chops.

photo of Dana Davis & Jesse Williams

But before I got sidetracked thinking about that and as I was reading Blackout, I realized I kept kind of picturing Ethan Peck as Shaun. Based, weirdly enough, almost entirely on his work as Patrick in ABC Family's 10 Things I Hate About You TV series. I think you'd believe him as the guy who just wants to go poke zombies but also as the guy who can take charge when he has to...

photo of Ethan Peck

Also, I think I like the idea of Dichen Lachman as Becks. Not at all what I pictured as I read the books but she popped into my head as I was reading the other ideas here and now I want to go back and reread with her in mind.

ETA: Can't embed my photos so I just changed those into links for the curious.

taeli

June 26 2012, 00:39:12 UTC 5 years ago

Ooh, I love the idea of Ethan Peck as Shaun. I really can see him being the poke zombies sort and his smile is that charming one that I imagine Shaun uses to get his own way as often as possible.

seanan_mcguire

June 26 2012, 16:54:48 UTC 5 years ago

Oh, NEAT.