"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
Oh now come on! Doesn't AUGUST just scream "Make me a movie! Make me a movie!"
I'm excited.
"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
Just because a Hollywood actress can afford to have multiple plastic surgeries doesn't mean she's not still 60.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
I can see Laura Linney as Barbara and Sissy Spacek as Violet.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
Just because Meryl is indeed 60, it does not diminish the fact that she can look much younger (despite any surgery she may or may not have gotten)... I think she could make it reasonably believable. However I love your suggestions as well Wannabe! Updated On: 8/5/08 at 10:57 PM
Critics have ragged on Meryl for being too old to play Donna in MAMMA MIA, a character whose daughter is getting married.
Barbara has a 14 year old daughter. It just won't work. She needs to start playing roles her own age. It's not like she's some unknown actress and people don't know her real age.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
The most realistic possibility, and I doubt this would even happen, would be Oscar winner Estelle Parsons playing Violet in the movie.
If they want the film to make money -- which of course they do (what other reason would there be for making it into a film?) -- then they'll cast recognizable names with Hollywood credit.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
With Letts adapting the screenplay, this has the potential to be one dynamite film.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Meryl Streep is my favorite screen actress but there is no way that she could pull off Barbara. She is much more appropriate for Violet, and I would actually love to see her tackle that role. I also enjoy the idea of Jane Fonda as Violet, another choice that I would love is Sally Field. The idea of Laura Linney as Barb is great, but I would like to see Rachel Griffith tackle the role (Patricia Clarkson and Toni Collette would work as well). Somethingwicked's suggestion of Kathy Bates as Mattie Fae is perfect. Marissa Tomei or Mary-Louise Parker for Ivy, Christina Applegate for Karen (another great suggestion from Somethingwicked), Frank Langella as Beverly, and Will Artnet as Steve.
Kathy Bates has played this role time and time again. I'd like to see an actress play Mattie Fae who can bring something new to the table. It would just be the same old, same old with Kathy Bates. She is the obvious choice because she always plays fat, slobby women. The role needs someone who can bring some humanity to the role toward the end of the story.
Ivy needs to be plain. Marisa Tomei is a knockout. She wouldn't fit into any of these roles.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
WannaBe, you're right about Tomei, she is a knock-out. I just kinda love her subtle acting (her very unglamorous, quiet--Oscar nominated-- performance in IN THE BEDROOM is beautiful), but I know what you mean. I do stand by my Mary-Louise Parker suggestion. Bates has indeed played the role time and time again, but oh she is so good at it! And I do believe she could be quite wonderful during Mattie Mae's final scene with Barb. The other actress that comes to mind for the role would be Jean Smart.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
i wish amy morton could be cast in the film. she's a knockout, and casting anyone else would be disrespecting her part in creating that role and delivering, in this theatregoer's opinion, the performance of the season.