Casting Ideas
The First Part of Henry the Fourth is ripe with such great characters...
Who would YOU choose to play:
- Hal
- Hotspur
- Falstaff
- Henry IV
- Lady Percy
- Glendower
Hmmmm?
Comment away, people!
Hal: He may be a bit on the old side now, but I would pick Nathan Fillion, and not just because I'm a fan. He has the ability to be both entirely dissolute and entirely funny and then turn to entirely noble, which he can do on a dime and remain likable in all phases. Just watch him on Firefly sometime.
Hotspur: I don't particularly like this actor, but I can't help but think of Christian Bale. He can look more the part of a leading man than Hal, but he has reserves of anger he can draw from. Though I'm less than inspired by the last time he was in Shakespeare...
Falstaff: I'd sort of like to see David Ogden Stiers take on this role. He's witty. He's got the look of nobility, but then seeing him as cowardly and dissolute will work to contrast that look, as if he had the same potential as Hal at one point, but never lived up to that potential.
I wracked my brain on the other roles, but I just could think of anyone that wouldn't be obvious (Anthony Stewart Head as Henry IV, John Rhys-Davies as Glendower). And Lady Percy just didn't strike me in the play.
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LOVE Fillion... I was late to the whole Firefly/Serenity party, but my guilty pleasure is Castle (of course, that may be because of Stana Katic... uh, I mean their chemistry... of course).
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