Doug Jones wrote:
> Rubén Blades was Sherriff Montoya in the Milagro Beanfield War, but if
> you're talking about the original Kung Fu series, David Carradine is
> rather long in the tooth at age 65. Blades isn't much younger at 53.
"Long in the tooth" might be a point in favor; Prof Paz is supposed to be frail.
My problem is that he's also supposed by many to be a roman-a-clef for Robert leFavre.
The player has to speak the part "I pray you, trippingly on the tongue". I'd cast Vincent Price in a heartbeat if he
were still alive. How about Martin Landau? I still think Lithgow is a win.
> Casting would have to take into account
> the melting pot ancestry of the lunies, of course.
Yup. Why does a professor with such a surname have to appear clearly to be a Mestizo or Castilian? Why couldn't he be of
mixed German-Argentinian extraction, say? Or maybe just from New Orleans? How much do we _know_? I haven't got the text
available.
Are we casting for PC cartoon diversity roll call ["Negro!" "Here!" "Asian!" "Here!" "Girl!" "Here!" "Redhead!"...], or
for the best actor for the part? Hmm? I mean, that might be what happened to Juan Rico in the mostly execrable _John
Verhoeven's Starship Troopers_ [sic].
M, slightly nettled...
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