Cast List - Sins of Jade House

I haven’t written a blog post in almost a month . . . O.o
I can give excuses: coursework, homework, life, Christmas, but heh, they’re just words and don’t really mean much from the other side of my screen, so I’ll just write something and make the snow look useful or something.
I was reading through a friend's blog (all my friends seem to have blogs, it’s cool) and saw she’d done a cast list for her characters, and thought that it was such an awesome idea, that I thought I’d steal it and do one of my own. (Sorry!)
I thought about this for a very long time, because I have lots of stories and lots of ideas of who would play my characters if they were a film or something. But my newest story is hardest, because the characters are all new, except for my main character, Will, and I have had less time to think about it all. So three hours of Googling later, here I am:
William Chance
Will is my main character and was hardest to cast because I’ve never seen anyone that looks completely how I imagine him, and the ‘completeness’ is important because he’s my main character. BUT I found some pictures that work with my imagination and fit him, though the actors themselves may not suit him or look like him in other pictures/films, etc  . . . *sigh*
Ryan Gosling . . . yeah, he looks kind of like (younger) Will in this picture, but not in others, except he’s not got coppery-brown hair, but ehhhhh, I’m a perfectionist. There’s also Paul Bettany, who normally doesn’t look like Will at all, but does in this picture, so I’m going with that.
I do have some drawings I’ve done of (older) Will, but I’m too much of a wimp to post them, and I have issues with all of them.
Issues already, how fun. Moving on . . .
                
Roderick Chance
Will’s brother (younger) isn’t as hard – Andrew Buchan, for sure. He’s got the nice-guy look but can play someone a bit more complicated and mixed up, as well as do the whole banter/argument shebang. Needs to be red-haired though.
Older Roderick is harder, because I figure he’d have a kind of weathered/serious look to him that Buchan doesn’t – my possible idea was Damien Lewis as he’s got all that, plus the gingerness. xD













Isabella Chance
Not an actress, but some picture I found from a bridal magazine. However, this is exactly how I imagine (younger) Isabella to look like. She is beautiful and her hair is amazing, and she’s got the whole sensitive-with-hidden-spirit kind of look, which is great, if that even makes any sense.

Annalie

She’s the hardest, because I still haven’t found someone who looks like her, how I imagine her. However, I saw the BBC’s new Nativity adaption before Christmas, and Tatiana Maslany grew on me, mainly because of her hair. Her voice is all wrong though and Annalie is taller and has a thinner face, but I’ll compromise.

Lady Francesca

After seeing Romola Garai in Emma, it’s without a doubt that I think she’d be awesome playing Lady Francesca. She looks like a lady, can act and speak like one, and carry great emotion. Can just imagine her throwing a riding hat at Will and telling him he’s a pig-headed clown.

Uncle Anton
I spent absolutely forever trying to find a match for Anton, who is currently my favourite character, and thus, has to be perfectly cast. I scoured IMDB for all the cast lists of films where I could remember there being an old man or something in them, and eventually, found Jim Broadbent from the Chronicles of Narnia, Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, (though finding out his name was difficult) and he is PE RFECT. :)

Just look at the expression and the hair and the costume and the glasses! Geeese, I should just steal Digory Kirke, add some madness, alcohol, bad eyesight and hearing, and have done with it.

Lord Chance, Will’s Father (doesn’t have a fixed name yet)

He absolutely has to be Michael Caine, because he’s awesome and hardcore and everything. Seen Harry Brown? Yup, terrifying, right? Michael Caine is one of Britain’s very best actors (in my opinion) and could play Will’s father easily. He’s got the voice, the seriousness, the fierceness, the look, the everything.

Michael Garrett

Annalie’s husband, and my main bad guy for part one, Garrett has to be played by Richard Armitage. He’s one of my all-time favourite actors and can do both the merciless terrifying-ness at the same time as deep sensitivity, and certainly makes an awesome complex character with little to lose, or maybe I just love Spooks wayyyyy too much. xD

Anyway, he’s perfect, without a doubt.

Tomas
Tomas is a minor character, so I wasn’t originally going to put him on here, but I have two actors for him. The first is Matthew McFayden as the younger Tomas and Martin Freeman for the older Tomas. Both of them look, I think, surprisingly similar . . . kind of anyway, and Martin Freeman’s voice is just how I imagine Tomas’, but a bit more whiney. xD
      






The next few are mainly from the second/original story which I haven’t written yet except for a couple really bad and very different drafts two years ago, but I am in the process of planning so it makes sense with the first. The first is:
Adam Chance
Will’s son would definitely be played by Barney Clark if he was still as young as he was in Oliver Twist, but *sigh* this is all make-believe so a little time travel won’t harm me. He’s cute and looks perfect, has the right voice and is the right age (or was), and I can’t imagine Adam any other way. :)
      

Derek Garrett

Hugh Dancy is almost perfect for Derek, though I think that maybe he looks a little too old. I’ve never seen him in anything so I can’t really comment on acting skills or comparisons to character or anything, but he looks how I imagine Derek, so all’s good. :)

Jesse

Jesse is Adam’s accidental gypsy friend, and was very hard to cast as I have a very good picture of what he looks like in my head, and I couldn’t find anyone who really looks like him. He’s supposed to be a bit older than Adam, maybe twelve or thirteen, and more mischievous-looking than quiet. William Miller was the closest I could find, but heh, not really happy.

Hettie Cairns

This is one of those pictures that doesn’t look how the person normally looks in other stuff. But ah well. Amber Heard, as she is here, works for Hettie, but I guess that’s another spell of time travel owed here. xD She and Hugh Dancy would be a cute couple, though.

And, I know it’s not a character, but it’s one of the most important paces in my novel, so I feel I should include it. This is how I imagine Jade House, just with a much larger garden, near a cliff and behind a coastal road:

Woot, all done! Now I really must do less procrastinating and actually do some work . . . *sigh*