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#51

Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner to star in revival of A Cat on a Hot T

Posted: 4/23/12 at 8:57pm

Christina Hendricks is the only person who I want to see play Maggie at this moment.

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"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

#52

Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner to star in revival of A Cat on a Hot T

Posted: 4/23/12 at 8:58pm

MICHELLE WILLIAMS!!!

#53

Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner to star in revival of A Cat on a Hot T

Posted: 4/23/12 at 9:00pm

Love her, but, no.

Raven-Symone on the other hand....

#54

Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner to star in revival of A Cat on a Hot T

Posted: 4/23/12 at 9:05pm

Keep Michelle Williams as far away as humanly possible.

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"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

#55

Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner to star in revival of A Cat on a Hot T

Posted: 4/23/12 at 9:06pm

AC, I used to want to meet you and discuss theater but you are now officially dead to me.

DEAD TO ME, I SAY!

#56

Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner to star in revival of A Cat on a Hot T

Posted: 4/23/12 at 9:12pm

Oh, Jordan, we can still meet and talk and drink and love on each other. Just as long as you don't bring up Michelle Williams ever.

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"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

#57

Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner to star in revival of A Cat on a Hot T

Posted: 4/23/12 at 9:20pm

Christina Hendricks' chi-chis are just too damn big- Maggie spends all of act one in just a slip- the audience wouldn't listen to a word.

Michelle Williams doesn't seem to have the right nervy sexuality for Maggie so you two both can go stand in the corner together.

Scarlett is too young but otherwise good casting.

#58

Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner to star in revival of A Cat on a Hot T

Posted: 4/23/12 at 9:25pm

Fine!!

Then if Michele can't do it, can Edie Falco?

#59

Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner to star in revival of A Cat on a Hot T

Posted: 4/23/12 at 9:25pm

Christina Hendricks as Maggie would make me question why I've been sleeping with men all these years.

So, I say BRING IT.

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#60

Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner to star in revival of A Cat on a Hot T

Posted: 4/23/12 at 9:26pm

Christina Hendricks makes me question why I sleep with men every time I see her.

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"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

#61

Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner to star in revival of A Cat on a Hot T

Posted: 4/23/12 at 9:27pm

I have that reaction everytime I see Jennifer Tilly.

#62

Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner to star in revival of A Cat on a Hot T

Posted: 4/23/12 at 9:30pm

Precisely why she is wrong for the role- Brick is supposed to be drunk and a closet case but not clinically insane for not wanting to sleep with her.

#63

Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner to star in revival of A Cat on a Hot T

Posted: 4/23/12 at 9:30pm

Michael, as the first one to suggest Mrs. Hendricks i'll come to bat on that one. Maggie is trying to seduce Brick and by some extension the audience should know that. They should start to wonder why brick isn't sleeping with her, leading to later revelations, so i don't think her chi-chis would prove much of a problem, especially once she started to really tear into the material. The play even says at one point that he used to sleep with Maggie, but due to her knowing the truth about his sexuality and in his view contributing to the death of his partner he will never sleep with her again.

Updated On: 4/23/12 at 09:30 PM

#64

Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner to star in revival of A Cat on a Hot T

Posted: 4/23/12 at 9:32pm

Winslet?

#65

Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner to star in revival of A Cat on a Hot T

Posted: 4/23/12 at 9:39pm

Winslet..maybe.

Laurie Metcalf as Sister Woman.

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#66

Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner to star in revival of A Cat on a Hot T

Posted: 4/23/12 at 9:39pm

Christina Hendricks can play the role only if at the end of the play she pins Brick to the mattress with those dirty pillows.

Winslet doesn't seem right either- she might be a good Hannah Jelkes in IGUANA though.

Nah it's fun to throw around suggestions but in terms of a star draw who is right for the role of Maggie it's hard to improve on ScarJo.

#67

Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner to star in revival of A Cat on a Hot T

Posted: 4/23/12 at 9:44pm

I really don't know why your acting like there that big a deal, Maggie herself knows she has ample advantage in that area, the text even mentions her drawing attention to them around brick. He stopped sleeping with her due to tragedy not just because of being a drunk closet case, she slept with his partner, got the partner to realize he was gay, and in a way in bricks mind contributed to his death. He's not just not sleeping with her because he only likes men, it's trauma he even mentions having slept with her before so...

Updated On: 4/23/12 at 09:44 PM

#68

Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner to star in revival of A Cat on a Hot T

Posted: 4/23/12 at 9:57pm

I'm saying the audience would be distracted to the point of barely paying attention To the play- it happened during COMPANY and she had her top off for two minutes- in CAT those girls are out for what accounts to a 45 minute monologue!

I'm being a little silly here but in truth - mostly for reasons other than her bra size- - I don't think Hendricks would be a great choice for the part. Maggie's sexuality is (in my view) is salt of the earth and primeval- shes a live wire- she is not a soft sensual character gay men would fantasize being oddly aroused by.

Updated On: 4/23/12 at 09:57 PM

#69

Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner to star in revival of A Cat on a Hot T

Posted: 4/23/12 at 10:01pm

Sherie?

#70

Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner to star in revival of A Cat on a Hot T

Posted: 4/23/12 at 10:08pm

Maggie's sexuality is (in my view) is salt of the earth and primeval- shes a live wire- she is not a soft sensual character gay men would fantasize being oddly aroused by.

That's the last way I would describe Hendricks' sexual magnetism.

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"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

#71

Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner to star in revival of A Cat on a Hot T

Posted: 4/23/12 at 10:10pm

What about Fairuza Balk?

#72

Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner to star in revival of A Cat on a Hot T

Posted: 4/23/12 at 10:11pm

The best Maggie according to most was Elizabeth Ashley in the 1974 revival- they actually recorded the production for TOFT- she is totally mesmerizing and perfect - she has the kind of raw sexuality of a surviver- Maggie is basically poor white trash who came from a decent name and made good by marrying into money- her ruthless resolve to win is rooted in that energy- i can see Scarlett pulling that off in a way that might be similar to the way Kathleen Turner approached the role. I just don't see Hendricks having that specific brand of sexuality. To me she is more like Monroe or Jayne Mansfield

Updated On: 4/23/12 at 10:11 PM

#73

Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner to star in revival of A Cat on a Hot T

Posted: 4/23/12 at 10:30pm

I love the Sherie suggestion, She would have been a perfect Maggie for the '03 Revival instead of Judd. Sadly, it seems there looking for a star and a young one at that so i don't see Scott being considered.

Updated On: 4/23/12 at 10:30 PM

#74

Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner to star in revival of A Cat on a Hot T

Posted: 4/23/12 at 10:39pm

John C. Reilly as Brick in the next Roundabout production.

#75

Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner to star in revival of A Cat on a Hot T

Posted: 5/13/12 at 10:03pm

You don't think that Williams displayed nervy sexuality in My Week with Marilyn, Michael? She might be more versatile than you think.

I'm really surprised that a top director hasn't already made another feature film version with the uncut script. It's begging to be done.

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"The gods who nurse this universe think little of mortals' cares. They sit in crowds on exclusive clouds and laugh at our love affairs. I might have had a real romance if they'd given me a chance. I loved him, but he didn't love me. I wanted him, but he didn't want me. Then the gods had a spree and indulged in another whim. Now he loves me, but I don't love him." - Cole Porter