Christian Bale=Mark Antony Aaron Eckhart=Marcus Brutus Ian McDiarmid=Julius Caesar Paul Johansson=Cassius Steven R McQueen=Octavian James Marsters=Casca Bob Dylan=Cinna The Poet Ian Somerhalder=Artemidorus Moira Kelly=Calpurnia Maggie Gyllenhaal=Portia Ian Holm=Cicero Christopher Lee=Soothsayer
Patrick Stewart for Caesar (he's an excellent Shakespeare actor ans he has the... hair :D) Brutus... well... Philip Quast. He can be perfectly noble, majestic, and utterly lost at the end. And has gorgeous voice, gorgeous eyes, and he's sexy in a Roman outfit. Cassius: Now why isn't Al Pacino younger... :'( What about Javier Bardem? Antony: no idea. Is there an actor about 35-40, who can talk beautifully, is hot, CAN act, and isn't a Hollywood idol? Calpurnia: Helen Mirren Portia: no idea... just have a nice English stage actress.
Cassius is the difficult role to cast, and probably the best role to play from an actors perspective. He must be smart, eloquent, but more slimy and less physically impressive than the other main characters. I always think of Cassius as sort of a coward, clever and treacherous, not a natural leader. Sort of leaning toward Gary Oldman or Ben Kingsley.