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If you could re-cast Betty who would...


you choose as a actress?

i would cast Danika Mckeller.

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if it was back then? colleen camp or dana wheeler-nicholson.

now.. hard to say maybe kat dennings..

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Hah..

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Back then maybe Marisa Tomei?

Betty was really hot in the cartoon.

Tomei won best supporting actress Academy Award (for a comedic role) a couple years prior.

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Not a bad suggestion.

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If they were going for accurate casting, Tomei would have been a great choice.

Physically, Betty most reminds me of this actress (she's little-known, but I saw her in Crocodile Dundee): https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0582627/

She has the same shape face.

But, honestly, I'm one of the few people who doesn't have a problem with Rosie O'Donnell's casting. Usually I hate significant changes on adapting a two-dimensional character to live-action, but in the context of this film, it made sense that Barney would have a relatively 'homely' wife, seeing how easy-going and secure he was, in contrast to Fred, who was the alpha-male type, and was therefore much likely to be drawn to a more classically attractive woman.

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“Betty was really hot in the cartoon.”

I respect your nerve for being so creepy. Do you have an Elastigirl library?

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Lol she’s literally a child back then. Ur fucken disgusting

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Are you talking about the OP's pick of Danika Mckeller as Betty in the movie?

In 1994 when it came out, she was 19. Hardly a child.

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