#1
Posted: 6/19/16 at 7:17pm
Ideas? Id love to see Naya Rivera as Anita and Oscar Issac as Bernardo, but Im sure age, celebrity and dance training will all factor in here.
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#2
Posted: 6/19/16 at 7:19pm
By remake, you mean Spielberg/Kushner?
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#4
Posted: 6/19/16 at 8:10pm
Oscar Isaac is 37....
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#5
Posted: 6/19/16 at 8:12pm
"Oscar Isaac is 37...."
Exactly why I mentioned age. I'd love to see it but hes def too old.
#6
Posted: 6/19/16 at 8:13pm
whoops my eyes must have missed that!
as for the two leads, any number of people could play Tony but I can't think of any famous actress who could sing Maria.
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#7
Posted: 6/19/16 at 8:18pm
100% on board with Naya Rivera as Anita. She's far too perfect not to do it. I think Maria would have to be a theatre actress based on the difficulty of the score.
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#8
Posted: 6/19/16 at 9:27pm
I have a feeling if they remake this that Spielberg's approach may be to cast kids the actual age of the characters. If that were the case I suspect we would see largely unknowns. Spielberg after all really is the big-name draw here, of course along with the title.
#9
Posted: 6/19/16 at 11:32pm
I hope they cast a Latino girl who can sing (the role) and act as Maria. No Natalie Wood "white pretending to be Puerto Rican and dubbed because I can't sing soprano" scenario
#10
Posted: 6/19/16 at 11:36pm
Natalie had a vague ethnic look but I agree that they should cast actors who are ethnically accurate to the characters. Natalie was Russian and George Chakiris is of Greek descent. at least Rita was Puerto Rican!
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#11
Posted: 6/19/16 at 11:44pm
Lol I always loved George chakiris as Bernardo. As a kid I thought he was so cute and cried so hard when he died haha. And I would always rewind to his or Anita's scenes I barely cared about Maria or tony. I was weird.
But yeah they should try to get Hispanic to play the Puerto Ricans actors. I don't know if the remake is coming anytime soon and to be honest I love Spielberg but I'm not sure how necessary it is. I feel it would be unknowns though
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