Awesome to have one of my favourite author pairings, fab mother and daughter duo Perdita and Honor Cargill, here today to talk about Waiting For Callback: Take Two!
It’s Day Three of our Take Two movie-themed blog tour and today we're talking Casting.
We indulged in a
bit of fantasy casting when Waiting for
Callback came out, check it out on the Maximum Pop site here. Our
original choices mostly stand except that now we’ve been writing more Carlo (also known shockingly as ‘Hot
Carlo’) we’d probably go more for Kofi Siriboe (he played Tyler in Awkward) than a young Will Smith. (H: I keep changing my mind but it’s no
hardship to keep searching…).
Daisy has a big role in
Take Two but we have to go back to Waiting
for Callback for a description “Daisy was
gorgeous and tiny like a doll – all blonde ringlets and big round blue eyes.
She had a sort of retro-perfect thing going on and never had smudged mascara or
a fist-sized hole in her tights like the rest of us.” This is our Daisy.
Kiernan Shipka (we’ll give her coloured contact lenses).
Amber Leigh and Sam Gross are the two A Celebs that
play the adult leads in Straker. They
were scarily easy to cast.
Sam is short (“He owns forty pairs of red leather loafers with
concealed heels which were handmade in Italy”) but we’re not going Tom
Cruise, Sam’s a bit rawer than that. And
very handsome (“Normal-people-can’t-look-him-in
–the-eye-and-tend-to-forgive-him-everything-including-the-anger-issues
-handsome. That handsome.”) We’re
going with Colin Farrell. We’re not
going to try and explain that choice because we’d probably get sued.
We’re so sorry
Gwyneth Paltrow, we’re sure that you are an amazing and genuine person in real life
but Goop sometimes makes us laugh, so we’re going with you for Amber.
“If Sam Gross had glowed, Amber Leigh was in
a different category. I don’t know what it was – make up? Green juice? Money?
It wasn’t that she looked different to what I’d expected, it was that she
looked exactly like she did on magazine covers. She was a genuine air-brushed
human being.”
(Gwyneth getting through her Goop cleanse)
We said we
wouldn’t cast Archie but we love the Archie on our cover. He’s perfect. (H: and helping select him was
a lot of fun if borderline weird!).
Thank you Jim for
hosting us! And tomorrow we’ll be talking about Direction (actually Co-direction because we’re talking about how
collaborate now) over on Chelley’s site, Tales of Yesterday. Come and join
us!
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