Actors & Actresses

ACTORS & ACTRESSES

So, a little bit of Fantasy Film Making, These are the actors/actresses I could imagine playing some of the parts, and are in fact the people I imagine whilst I'm writing the story.

Let me know your thoughts guys!

Cheers

S.

Anjali – Imogen Poots

Where as with almost all of the other characters I had an idea of who could play them almost right away, Anjali was much harder to define. She needed to be tom-boyish, but not too boyish, on the edge of womanhood, with a beauty that is just about to burst out, but not just yet. A trawl of the internet found almost the ideal image of Anjali, and the woman in that image was Imogen Poots. She's played varied roles, and almost all of them seem to have an inner strength to them, (28 Days and Week Later), something that Anjali is going to need in buckets!

Ashmita – Liam Neeson

Ashmita is moody at the best of times, and has a deep hidden history, that we will find out about as the story progresses. He has seen and done things that he would rather forget about. He also commands great respect, just by being in a room. I think, from some of his past performances, thinking of films like Taken and The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe, that Liam Neeson is almost Ashmita before he even has to get into character. There's a depth to both his voice and his eyes that hints at something hidden, something he doesn't want the outside world to know about. And he definitely won't be another Qui-Gon-Jin!

Janaka – Brian Blessed

Janaka is plain old over excitable, and defiantly larger than life.

Put those characteristics together, and you get just one person, Brian Blessed.

You could just imagine him, at the fireside after dinner, lit by just the fire itself, telling tales of great deeds, and acting most of the parts out himself too.

Not forgetting of course that he has done great deeds himself, climbing Mount Everest to name but one!

Jananii – Tilda Swinton

Jananii is the antithesis of Janaka. It's very much a case of oposites attract. To his boastfulness, she is calm and serene. But there was once a wilder side to her, the side that attracted him to her, it's just that working for the Makarium she has lost herself in the propaganda and rhetoric of politics. Will she find her wild side again?

Tilda Swinton seems to the the natural choice for Jananii, with her past roles such as Archangel Gabriel in Constantine, firm, yet somehow un-tamed deep down.

Pellsim – David Suchet

Grand Lawyer Bhrataa Pellsim is the head of the Makarium. Sly and deceitful, he has a bad case of small person syndrome, and well balanced chips on both shoulders. His actions are always well thought through, and subtle.

But, there is another side to him, he wants to do the right thing, he's only a bad guy by circumstance, he's not “naturally” evil.

Subtle bad guys are always hard to cast, as you can very easily end up in a stereotype trap.

Even though I have only ever really seen David Suchet play Hercule Poirot, that characters actions were also subtle and well thought through, just add an attitude to that, and you have Pellsim. I think that David has the right physical presence as well.

There is a little easter egg here too, I won't give it away just yet, perhaps in the next non-story post.

Vedas – Geoffrey Palmer

Vedas, is to all intense and purpose, a Monk, a Monk with an almost encyclopedic knowledge, of what the Makarium want him to have a knowledge about anyway. He tows the state line for the most part, but can have the odd act of rebellion when he's pushed the right, or wrong, way. Although his part in the story as a whole is small, it is vitally important. We need to know already that he is academic, and Geoffrey Palmer is just such a guy. More famous for his TV roles that film perhaps, As Time Goes By for example, he seems to exude knowledge from his pores, and you can just imagine that when he's pushed, he will snap!

Great Grandfather – John Rhys-Davies

By making Brian Blessed into Janaka, I set myself a problem, who on earth could play his Grand Father? It had to be someone with just as big, if not bigger, personality, someone as fun loving and excitable, and physically large. And then I watched Lord of the Rings again, and he was there before me, some what shrunken, Gimli. Or rather John Rhys-Davies. Watching the appendices, you realise he's just as bonkers (in a good way) as Brian is, so who better?

Agni Kai Adhithee – Hayley Atwell

A character not yet met in the story, this Femme-Fatal has a major role to play, all be it apparently in the back ground, a shadow, undefinable, but always present. A woman to be admired and feared at the same time. Hayley Atwell has the physique to pull off such a role, beautiful in many ways, but you could imagine her as cunning and calculating underneath the facade.