Streep and Seymour Hoffman in Doubt Film
Streep and Seymour Hoffman in Doubt Film
#1Streep and Seymour Hoffman in Doubt Film
Posted: 4/19/07 at 6:14pm
This just in from Playbill.com. I thought that Streep would be doing this...now who will they get for Adriane Lenox's role...Angela Bassett anyone?
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/107473.html
Cheers,
Christopher
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Updated On: 4/19/07 at 06:14 PM
Yankeefan007
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#2re: Streep and Hoffman in Doubt Film
Posted: 4/19/07 at 6:16pmGood casting, though you should make it clear that it's Philip Seymour and not Dustin.
#2re: Streep and Hoffman in Doubt Film
Posted: 4/19/07 at 6:16pm
Ah, this is so exciting! I really feel they will do an amazing job with this movie. It's a beautifully written piece of art.
Now, let's just hope that Ms. Lenox is able to revive her Tony Award winning performance in the movie!
#3re: Streep and Hoffman in Doubt Film
Posted: 4/19/07 at 6:18pmCorrected..I think?
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#4re: Streep and Hoffman in Doubt Film
Posted: 4/19/07 at 6:20pmSorry, but Hoffman is all wrong. You'd know he was guilty from the minute he walked onscreen.
"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
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#5re: Streep and Hoffman in Doubt Film
Posted: 4/19/07 at 6:20pm
Damn, Streep is playing every theatre role turned turned movie role.
Not that I'm complaining!
Yankeefan007
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#6re: Streep and Hoffman in Doubt Film
Posted: 4/19/07 at 6:29pmHoffman could certainly capture the meekness of the character....but you're right....he's too seedy looking.
#7re: Streep and Hoffman in Doubt Film
Posted: 4/19/07 at 6:31pmThey should have cast somebody more physically attractive in the role. The show is intensely more interesting when there is the glimmer of possibility that perhaps the student initiated the sexual advance. Very unlikely to happen with Hoffman.
#8re: Streep and Hoffman in Doubt Film
Posted: 4/19/07 at 6:35pm
*Yawn* Talk about boring. Can Meryl Streep do it? Of course! But there are at least a dozen different actresses that could do it just as well and would be more interesting and less obvious. Streep is probably among my top three favorite actresses but as she said in her speech when she received an Emmy: "sometimes even I think I'm overrated."
Hoffman is all wrong for the part. Again, we had a dozen more different suggestions that would've been more interesting and appropriate, Matt Damon comes to mind.
*Yawn*
"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"
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#9re: Streep and Hoffman in Doubt Film
Posted: 4/19/07 at 6:38pmCherry JOnes should be on the one in the film, not Streep.
#10re: Streep and Hoffman in Doubt Film
Posted: 4/19/07 at 6:40pmI agree, MB. I was actually gonna say that with Hoffman playing the role, the DOUBT would be gone, at least for me.
"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"
#11re: Streep and Hoffman in Doubt Film
Posted: 4/19/07 at 6:46pmWhat a joke.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
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-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#12re: Streep and Hoffman in Doubt Film
Posted: 4/19/07 at 6:47pmI agree with the sentiment that Hoffman is all wrong, for the reasons already stated. Maybe they can change the title to Assurance?
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#13re: Streep and Hoffman in Doubt Film
Posted: 4/19/07 at 6:48pmi think that Hoffman can act it, i just don't think that he's physically right for the part...
#14re: Streep and Hoffman in Doubt Film
Posted: 4/19/07 at 6:49pm
Maybe they can change the title to Assurance?
Or as Brantley suggested in his review of the replacement cast, No Doubt.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#15re: Streep and Hoffman in Doubt Film
Posted: 4/19/07 at 6:55pm
Bad choice with Hoffman. I don't see nearly as much "doubt" as I should with him in this part.
I agree that he's not attractive enough physically to believe the kid MIGHT have instigated a pass. (which we should wonder about) I also think he comes off fairly effeminate on screen... and again, most people aren't going to "doubt" the accusations.
So we're left with "doubting" one's beliefs? Not enough doubt in "Doubt" the movie, for me.
They just lowered the dramatic stakes significantly.
Yawn.
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#16re: Streep and Hoffman in Doubt Film
Posted: 4/19/07 at 6:57pmHoffman doesn't strike me as having Father Flynn's charismatic spark, either.
"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
#17re: Streep and Hoffman in Doubt Film
Posted: 4/19/07 at 7:02pmSo then if the doubt hinges on who is playing the part, than how good can the text really be?
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#18re: Streep and Hoffman in Doubt Film
Posted: 4/19/07 at 7:04pm
"They should have cast somebody more physically attractive in the role. The show is intensely more interesting when there is the glimmer of possibility that perhaps the student initiated the sexual advance. Very unlikely to happen with Hoffman. "
Spot on--I thinkt hat' simportant to the character.
Really does this film NEED a name like Streep? I think it coulda gotten Jones some good attention--and it's a small budget, SMALL little film--I don't think ti will play to much bigger audiences even with Streep in the role nor does it have to--kinda disappointed
"So then if the doubt hinges on who is playing the part, than how good can the text really be? "
Oh that's silly. If you cast an overweight 40 something year old man as Tony in West Side Story it doesn't matter how good the material he's playing its audiences will miss a crucial element. If you cast a white tenor as Joe in South Pacific... You get my drift
Updated On: 4/19/07 at 07:04 PM
#19re: Streep and Hoffman in Doubt Film
Posted: 4/19/07 at 7:05pm
I've seen him have charisma and charm. He can be very winning, but it's usually in an impish, playful way.
Not the charismatic spark you're thinking of AC126748, and not Father Flynn, I agree.
But this guy is a tough priest from the "streets."
It really should have been Matt Damon or Mark Wahlberg. Were they even considered? I'll bet they were both booked solid and couldn't coordinate with Streep's schedule.
I think they should have waited, or gone with another actress instead. As "showy" as her part is, it's the casting of Flynn that will make or break the "doubt," IMO.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#20re: Streep and Hoffman in Doubt Film
Posted: 4/19/07 at 7:08pm
I'd have cast Judi Dench and Matt Damon.
P.S. Streep and Hoffman have worked together before - I bet she requested that he play the part. I doubt others were approached.
Updated On: 4/19/07 at 07:08 PM
#21re: Streep and Hoffman in Doubt Film
Posted: 4/19/07 at 7:19pm
I think you're probably right, MB. I bet the casting of Flynn depended on who Streep wanted to work with (I thought of this as soon as I realized they worked together in THE SEAGULL).
Point is, I wouldn't even have approached Streep to be part of this in the first place. I think with Streep in the role, the power game will not be half as interesting as it could've been.
And seriously, NO DOUBT or ASSURANCE would both be great titles for the film. Hopefully the other two roles will be more interesting.
"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"
#22re: Streep and Hoffman in Doubt Film
Posted: 4/19/07 at 7:37pm
So then if the doubt hinges on who is playing the part, than how good can the text really be?
I've been saying that for two years, D2. The text is only as good as the actors involved, as the Atkins/Eldard pairing proved. The play itself isn't that great or substantial, in my opinion.
Hoffman is one of my favorite actors, but I just can't imagine him in the role.
"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
Updated On: 4/19/07 at 07:37 PM
#23re: Streep and Hoffman in Doubt Film
Posted: 4/19/07 at 7:39pmI knew I loved you AC126748! Thank you. I've been saying the same thing for 2 years also.
Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)
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#24re: Streep and Hoffman in Doubt Film
Posted: 4/19/07 at 7:46pm
"I've been saying that for two years, D2. The text is only as good as the actors involved, as the Atkins/Eldard pairing proved. The play itself isn't that great or substantial, in my opinion. "
Probably right-so then do it with two of the right actors in the role and it'll be a great movie experience--prob solved. I have no real problem with that--I'm not reading the play or nominating it for a pulitzer we're discussing the performers picked to bring it to life.
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