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[somethingwicked]

Posted: 9/12/12 at 2:33pm

Ewan McGregor has been cast as Bill. This is the first piece of puzzling casting in what has otherwise been a stellar match of parts and actors. Isn't he more of a Little Charles? I feel like he reads a little young to be Julia Roberts' husband and Abigail Breslin's father, no?

http://playbill.com/news/article/169954-Ewan-McGregor-Joins-Cast-of-August-Osage-County-Film-Adaptation

Updated On: 9/12/12 at 02:33 PM

[random person 112]

Posted: 9/12/12 at 2:36pm

there's only a three year age gap between him and Roberts. I wouldn't say first Streep is quite puzzling to me, she usually isn't one for melodrama, despite her idolization of Bette Davis. Roberts as Barbara is also very puzzling in and of itslef.

Updated On: 9/12/12 at 02:36 PM

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 9/12/12 at 2:43pm

Somethingwicked, McGregor is currently getting stellar reviews for his performance in THE IMPOSSIBLE, where he plays Naomi Watts' husband and the father to three children (one of them is Breslin's age). I think he'd have been a great Little Charles at one point, but I definitely buy him as an aging English professor who never quite succeeded in the same way Beverly did. I'm not sure he'll have much chemistry with Roberts, though if someone can pull it off, it's McGregor (who had so much chemistry with Nicole Kidman, an actress of similar stature as Roberts and someone who struggles to have chemistry with a lot of her male leads). I don't think he's a natural choice in the way that William H. Macy maybe would have been but I'm once again intrigued by the casting.

[somethingwicked]

Posted: 9/12/12 at 2:47pm

I guess McGregor is older than I initially thought. I wonder if he'll play the character as British or not (since he's an academic, I could certainly see the merit of him having a more sophisticated edge.) He sure is talented. I just don't see him as a natural choice opposite Roberts, but I guess we'll see.

[Kad]

Posted: 9/12/12 at 2:51pm

McGregor is 41 and has four daughters of his own.

[AC126748]

Posted: 9/12/12 at 2:56pm

McGregor's eldest daughter is the same age as Abigail Breslin, for what it's worth.

He certainly isn't the first actor who would come to my mind as Bill, but I think he has more than enough talent to pull it off. I certainly like him better for it than the previously rumored PSH.