Actually after watching Grindhouse (and this is coming from an avid Charmed fan), I realized once again that McGowan has the perfect looks and mystery for Claudia but she's just not an actress, I think. She'd be an interesting choice but still.
Anne Hathaway is probably being considered for Claudia, and in a way I see it though they should get a more seasoned actress like Cruz, someone that has been working with Guido for a long time and is old enough to decide that she's wasting her time with him and that she should move in with a 53 year old man instead. Perhaps I'm wrong and she is not being considered for Claudia at all. And Anne Hathaway can act AND sing circles around Emmy "no stage presence" Rossum.
I insist that Toni Collette would be an ideal Luisa and I'm so excited that Javier Marsdem is even being considered for this, they seem to be on the right track.
"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"