LES MIS Cast Complete - Taylor Swift & Amanda Seyfried Offered Roles — Page 9

Even worse, he came from a musical theatre background by way of professional experience ( Oklahoma!, Sunset Boulevard, Beauty and the Beast) - Wolverine would have gone into his famous berserker rage if he knew that the actor who would be portraying him was a song-and-dance man! LOL!

Any word on the girls who would play Young Cosette and Young Eponine?


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And wouldn't it be amazing if they actually switched parts between daytime and evening showings?

Wait, so, like, they're NOT doing a special matinee release of the movie with a different Gavroche and Young Cosette and an alternate Valjean? So sad.

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No, but some of you Queens heads are already spinning.

Would her publicists allow the information to circulate like that, though, if she hasn't been offered the role? I also doubt they'd let it circulate if she wanted to turn down the role, unless it's a ploy to publicly one-up whoever ends up getting the role should Taylor Swift refuse it. I hate to be pessimistic, but it looks like she's going to be part of the final cast...I guess Tom Hooper can always "secretly" autotune her performance (and let the others sing live). What I'm really hoping now is that Taylor Swift will never ever ever ever EVER perform "On My Own" (or any other song from Les Miserables) at one of her concerts, in the style of a country ballad, with her guitar as accompaniment, like she has done with the national anthem on countless occasions...

Updated On: 1/7/12 at 02:42 AM

Wait, wait, WAIT.

They can have people sing live and still fix it in post production...look no further than the "legally blonde" MTV recording, which was sweetened like crazy.

Also, I must be late to the party. Hugh Jackman is Valjean? I thought for sure Crowe was Valjean and Jackman was Javert. BOOOOOOOOOOO. Clearly I have not been paying attention.

"Wolverine would have gone into his famous berserker rage if he knew that the actor who would be portraying him was a song-and-dance man! LOL!"



Actually, you'd be surprised. Wolverine is, in the comics at least, a confirmed fan of musical theatre... It probably has less to do with any modern tastes than the fact that he is about two hundred years old and was alive during the time when musicals were dominant entertainment. He has reportedly seen several shows during his tenure as an X-Man... Including The Boy From Oz, which he attended and remarked on his resemblance to the lead actor.

No joke.

Maybe!! Or even better, maybe by then we'll have definite news one way or the other...

Swift revealed on Twitter that she is not @ the People's Choice Awards. She is @ home in Nashville, so we are probably not going to be finding out any new info on whether she is definitely going to be in this film or not.

Updated On: 1/11/12 at 09:35 PM

I give it a seven already.

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While people are complaining about Taylor Swift so much, I actually think she has the perfect look for Eponine. Not sure about her singing though, but we'll see. Her voice seems kind of right for the role too.

What I'm more worried about is Amanda Seyfried as Cosette?! Now THAT is a miscast. Do they even know what kind of music and notes the character is supposed to sing? And she is not the right type at all. Really weird choice.

None of the soprano girls that showed up at that open auditions were right for the part? None of all those broadway and West End Christines and Cosettes? No other film actresses sang well enough? Like Emmy Rossum? Who actually looks like Anne Hathaway and is the right type for Cosette?

How on earth is she going to pull off the ending of "A heart full of love"? And all of Cosettes notes in the opera register for that matter.

Updated On: 1/13/12 at 06:43 PM

I agree about Amanda Seyfried. I can't believe that none of the young ladies who trained under Rebecca Caine were good enough for the role.

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I may be late to the bitchfest,..But seriously, producers?! Les Miz is my favorite musical of all time. Eponine is my favorite character. And someone thought Taylor Swift was a good idea? I'm crushed, to say the least. Given Lea Michele's Hollywood Bowl performance, she was probably the best celebrity choice for Eponine. And she's the star of Glee, so I cannot see how she lost the role to Taylor Swift. To me, this news is as painful as watching Nick Jonas in the 25th Anniversary Concert.