PSH was a great Konstantin, but he'll never be right for Trigorin. Far too much of a nebbish. Trigorin needs to be suave, sexy, alluring, intellectual--in short, everything Hoffman is not. Alan Cumming, who played Trigorin in the Classic Stage Company production, was actually brilliant. I'd love to see him considered.
I'm happy that Carey Mulligan's brilliant Nina--the best I've ever seen, and will probably ever see--is going to be filmed!
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body