Casting for BBC's re-make
Anna Chancellor as Lucia
Steve Pemberton as Georgie
Miranda Richardson as Elizabeth
Link to the IMDb listing for the new adaptation
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3567536/
A choter peg to the BBC if they can keep Miranda Hart out of it. I mean, she's lovely but ubiquitous. Also, no Etonians please. Who for Major Benjy?
I can't eat fifty eggs
I'm anxious to learn who's playing Diva and, esp., Quaint Irene!
A choter peg to the BBC if they can keep Miranda Hart out of it. I mean, she's lovely but ubiquitous.
It could be worse (Dawn French). I really like her but I'm sick of her getting cast in everything. (Was quite worried she would be cast as Prudie in the Poldark remake, but thankfully we dodged that bullet.)
A lazy casting choice would be Superkins for Quaint Irene. You're right about Dawn French too. Jo Scanlan and Vicki Pepperdine? Just two of my favourites but prolly wrong for this.
It's a mark of the casting success of the older series that apart from the three leads, the most familiar face to me was Geoffrey Chater, one of those classic 'Oh it's him!' faces.
Do producers allow the casting of non-household names these days?
Also, casting seems to depend on the channel. I just hope if it's ITV, they don't stuff it with the usual John Hannah, Robson and Jerome, Matthew Kelly rubbish.
I can't eat fifty eggs
Gawd, no. There's only room for one Miranda on this show and it's the one who can act.
Hmm...don't know for sure how old Quaint Irene's supposed to be as I haven't read the books but I've seen the Channel 4 TV shows...how about Rachel Stirling or Fenella Woolgar?
Either Stirling or Woolgar would be great, I agree. (Like you, though, I have no idea how young she is supposed to be.)
shareWho for Major Benjy?
According to this article it's Mark Gatiss!
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-27254700
Nobody can come close to Nigel Hawthorne's Georgie, but Gatiss will be great. However, I notice he's made no comment about it on his Twitter.
Thanks for that link. Looks like a new pic of Miranda, who in that article may be inferring she hasn't worked for a while.
Totally agree about Hawthorne.
Gatiss is playing Major Benjy, not Georgino. :-)
Oops, yes sorry...oh well, a good choice for either.
shareYes! Yay for Gatiss!
(I'm thinking it'd be better (from now on) to keep the convo about the new version on its own board?)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3567536/board/?ref_=tt_ql_5