Miss Saigon Movie Cast — Page 6

I think Gigi is supposed to be older than Kim.

I don't really think that Charice has the acting chops for any role in this movie. She was terrible on Glee, at least.

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In terms of acting, Joseph Gordon Levitt would be a very good contender for Chris. (Lea Salonga had a perfect description about Miss Saigon "grit, sex, passion, romance...") I'm pretty sure he can deliver the acting which is needed in the film translation of the musical. I know he can sing - just saw him on Oscars stage - but as to how well he can sing Chris' parts, I don't know. I hope he'll audition so the producers/directors/composers can find out!

Aaron Tveit, he'll also be a good choice. Saw some clips of his Graceland show. I think he'll just have to hone more his acting (film).

Who will KIM be? Still a mystery - and unknown

Anna Kendrick for Ellen!

If he can't be cast as an engineer, a robert-downey-jr-kinda actor would be a good one.

Who's your choice for director? Ang Lee won the oscars best director, do you think he can do a musical? lol

Updated On: 2/25/13 at 02:22 AM

The Engineer is Eurasian. He is half French, half Vietnamese. I think it is important that he looks like it. If he looks too Asian or too Caucasian, we lose part of his struggle and what made him who he is. He is a bui-doi and was treated as an outcast by the Vietnamese society.

The Engineer's racial blending being visible fits with the character interpretation though- he's decidedly "half and half." Implied to be bisexual (halfway through his American Dream fantasy he gleefully welcomes in the dancing boys, as well as some of his patter during What A Waste), he is neither Asian nor White, neither gay nor straight, neither patriot nor rebel.

His plight, from an academic standpoint, is liminality- falling into the cracks BETWEEN easy classifications. He isn't the subaltern, the helpless and powerless "victim class" exemplified in Kim and the other casualties, but he isn't the power broker Americans or militant full Vietnamese either.

That's why I've suggested Ken Jeong several times- besides having the right style and persona for the role, and the chops to be sleazy, pathetic and somewhat likable at the same time, Jeong has an interesting mix of decidedly Euro and decidedly Asian physical traits, more so than Jackie Chan, whose name also gets thrown around a lot.

Kim is pure vietnamese in the story right?

Prior to Jonathan Pryce, I think I saw an interview of Cameron Mackintosh mentioning that they considered Geoffrey Rush (?) to play the engineer but said he was too "white" for the role.

The romance of Chris and Kim loses it's believability and integrity if the actors are well known and don't sing the balls out of the material.

There are plenty of other roles for big names (Engineer, John, etc)

I doubt Justin Timberlake could do the score justice vocally.

I'm not sure Tevit or Jordan would want the role. By the time this is filmed, they will both have done movie musicals. (Tevit in Les Miz and Jordan in Last Five Years). They may not want another part in a movie musical for fear of that restricting what roles they're offered in the future.

I found this rare clip of a young Lea Salonga and Monique Wilson. It really shows how young and innocent a "Kim" should be. It also shows clips of previous romantic Vietnam war movies as an example of how this film should NOT look.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8AQF8u4lKc

' The romance of Chris and Kim loses it's believability and integrity if the actors are well known and don't sing the balls out of the material. '

i disagree and think the opposite. actors just belting out on screen close up wont work and will lose a lot of the emotion as it will seem ott. theatre is about the big emotions, cinema is more about the smaller things

"Except Aaron Tveit, love that idea. He would make a great Engineer."

Please tell me that this was a typo.

I can't believe I just now saw the genius choice of Joel Grey as the Engineer.