I Still Suck At Casting

one of the topics of conversation that came up on saturday while i was hanging out with my friend (aimee) is who would play her signficant other (jim) in the movie about all of us.

jim is a great guy. of course, i have to say that because jim could whup my butt simply using one finger (he takes martial arts). seriously though, he is great and i'm glad he's with aimee. plus, what is there not to like about a guy who loves video games (in paticular... city of heroes)... and dungeons and dragons... all staples of geekdom.

anyway, i still suck at casting. for my choice, however, i decided to go with leonard roberts of heroes fame. i'm sure jim would love the reference to a television superhero as well... it's part of the fraternity of geekdom. (for anyone curious, leonard roberts was also in the movie "drumline". the reason i bring that movie reference up is because karen at one time really wanted to watch drumline... which we did... and like most movies karen wants me to watch with her... they are hardly ever good... like kirk cameron's "fireproof"...)

(pictured below is leonard roberts as jim.)


leonard roberts, by the way, also played a character on the greatest show ever: buffy the vampire slayer. he doesn't appear until season four though. hmm... i wonder if i'm starting to see a trend in my casting choices...

I Suck At Casting

last night when i was watching the greatest show ever: buffy the vampire slayer, i started to think more and more about who i would cast as karen if there were ever a movie about all of us. too bad i suck at casting.

i actually started to think about the casting choice over the weekend when i saw "get smart" with my friends (marc and kelley). the movie "get smart" stars anne hathaway from the princess diaries fame. at one time, it was suggested that anne hathaway be cast as karen. i believe the idea of anne hathaway first came about when a bunch of us were joking around and uploaded a few of our images to a genealogy website that used facial recognition to match the image to a celebrity's image. (apparently, my friends and i are trendsetters in this "who would play you" idea.)

anyway, the uploaded image of karen returned the result of anne hathaway. anne hathaway is not a bad choice. (it definitely beats rosie o'donnell, that's for sure.) for a while, a bunch of us were content with anne hathaway as karen because we could not really think of anyone else.

needless to say, i thought more and more about my casting choice for karen since this weekend. and whether i have been influenced by the greatest show ever: buffy the vampire slayer or not, i am going to cast alyson hannigan as karen. (alyson hannigan played willow in the show... and is also known for her role in the american pie movies.)

(pictured below is alyson hannigan as karen.)


truth be told, one of the reasons i had watched buffy the vampire slayer... in addition to buffy of course... was willow. during the early seasons, willow reminded me a lot of karen. in fact, as marc, kelley, karen and i are watching buffy again, i still see the similarities. and since alyson hannigan played such a great willow, i figured i'd cast her as karen.

I Still Suck At Casting

on wednesday, my bff (kerry) told me that she actually came up with an asian actress to play my friend (aimee) in the movie about all of us. kerry obviously read about my choice from my blog. i am guessing that she thinks i still suck at casting because she offered another actress to play aimee.

kerry's choice to play aimee is keiko agena of gilmore girls fame. since i have never seen gilmore girls, i never knew the actress even existed. keiko agena plays "lane kim" in the show.

(pictured below is keiko agena as aimee... according to kerry.)


anyway, at the the black friday dinner, i mentined to everyone kerry's choice to play aimee. i had mentioned it only because my friend (marc) had told me that he liked my casting choice for aimee. the general consensus is that keiko agena would also be a nice choice in addition to siu ta.

i just thought i would throw that tidbit of information out there. in the span of less than a week, i went from zero asian actresses to two to play aimee in the movie about all of us. that's pretty good. although, now that i am thinking about it... we could have one of the actresses play aimee and the other actress play her sister (angela). i don't know. that's just silly talk.

I Still Suck At Casting

i had a quick conversation with my friend (aimee) yesterday about this whole casting thing about who would play you in the movie. sadly, i still suck at casting... but at least i'm still smart enough to not cast rosie o'donnell as any of my friends.

anyway, one of the problems i have had with casting certain actors or actresses for my friends happens to be the fact that there are just not that many asian actors or actresses in the american movie industry. normally, that would not be a problem... except that i have a number of asian friends. (if you can name a handful of asian actors off the top of your head who are not past their prime then i would be quite impressed.)

i have always tried to think of someone to cast for aimee, who seems to be one of the few commenting contributors to this blog. unfortunately, i could never think of an asian actress that would make a good choice to play her.

a while ago, it was first proposed to me that the actress in the movie, harold and kumar go to white castle, should play aimee. which actress you may ask? well, if you have seen the movie, the character is "cindy kim". in the movie, cindy is the princeton student who tries to get harold to attend asian-american student meetings because she thinks he is a "twinkie". (for the record, harold and kumar... great movie.)

naturally, i thought the original proposition was a result of our silliness. it was not until yesterday, however, that i decided to actually explore the idea. might i add, finding a picture of siu ta... very difficult.

as i started to look over the pictures of siu ta, i started to think... siu ta actually would not be a bad selection for aimee.

(pictured below is siu ta as aimee.)


so, for my casting call, i think i will go with siu ta to play aimee. of course, if siu ta were selected to play aimee, she would have to learn capoeira now too.

I Still Suck At Casting

one of the topics that inadvertently came up in conversation last night was the "who would play you in the movie about you" topic.

while watching heroes at my friends (marc and kelley), the commercial for rosie o'donnell's new variety show came on. personally, i don't know who thought it would be a good idea to give rosie o'donnell a variety show... but someone did. i personally don't find rosie that funny, but that's just me. (i'd probably watch the nick lachey and jessica simpson variety show again over the rosie variety show.)

anyway, the reason why i bring up rosie o'donnell was because at one time, rosie was selected to play kelley in the movie about kelley. for the record, the casting was not by me. i still suck at casting... but i don't suck that badly. my choice to play kelley is rose mcgowan of charmed fame... and the first scream movie... and former girlfriend of that nut, marilyn manson.

(pictured below is rose mcgowan as kelley.)


in an effort to spark another possible spy vs. spy incident, marc jokingly referred to kelley as rosie. needless to say, kelley was not too happy. but of course, the whole thing got me thinking again about who would play who in the movie.

so, for my choice (and probably for my physical well-being should kelley start inflicting bodily harm on anyone who thinks rosie should play her)... i'm sticking with my original choice of rose mcgowan.

I Suck At Casting

today is election day. happy election day!

regardless of which candidate you support for the presidential election (or any of your other political decisions impacting your state), please perform your civic duty and vote today. and afterwards, go get a free ice cream. i hear ben and jerry's is giving a free scoop of ice cream today from 5pm to 8pm. if only there were a ben and jerry's located near me... (ah, the good ol' days when i worked in town... i could have gotten one then.)

anyway, karen and i went to perform our civic duty this morning. there was a line at the polling place, but it moved very quickly. we were done casting our ballots in no time.

speaking of casting... i suck at casting.

my friends (marc and kelley) brought up the topic of my other friend (carlos) today. one of the silly things that my friends and i do is come up with actors or actresses to play us in the movie about our lives (as if our lives were even that interesting to make a movie out of.)

as we were talking about carlos, here is who i came up with to play carlos in the movie... about carlos: jon favreau.

(pictured below is jon favreau as carlos.)


carlos is so money! (that was a reference to the movie "swingers" to which jon favreau starred in with vince vaughn.)

I Still Suck At Casting

i forgot to mention this in my last post.

it came to my attention today that the intern who works with my friend (hot amy) had recently read my blog about casting. (i apologize to the intern because i do not know this particular intern's name... so i must refer to this intern simply as "intern".) again, i use the term "work" loosely because hot amy works for the commonwealth of massachusetts.... so if this intern actually works with hot amy, the two of them must do a lot of shopping downtown.

anyway, i imagine being a dietitic intern for the commonwealth is quite interesting. i have met up with hot amy many times when i used to work in town. it seemed like every time i met up with hot amy, i would be introduced to a new intern. (in fact, i actually attended the red sox rolling rally parade with one of the many interns. well, hot amy was there too. that was the parade where she got to swoon over jacoby ellsbury.)

the number of interns that go through the commonwealth of massachusetts reminds me of a tv comedy where there is a cast of main characters and then there is this quirky situation where there is always a new minor character... in this case, a new intern. (for any of you who remember "murphy brown", think of the executive admin situation for murphy brown in that show where every week murphy brown would get a new executive admin.) thus, there could be tv comedy called "the commonwealth" or something where every week, there is a new intern.

anyway, the intern who read my post about casting started to wonder who would play her in the movie about her (or perhaps this tv comedy called "the commonwealth"). i heard that no actress was selected. now, i've never met this intern. luckily, i still suck at casting.

based on the picture that i have seen of her (from the rolling rally), here is my choice to play the intern: marisa tomei.



i hope the intern likes my choice. it would be really interesting if the intern liked short bald men (a la seinfeld).

I Still Suck At Casting

it dawned on me today that my bff (kerry) was not the only friend of mine who was recently out of the commonwealth of massachusetts. my other friends (hot amy and andrea) were attending a wedding in the home of the gateway arch (st. louis). aside from the gateway arch and the anheuser-busch brewery (beer), i'm not sure what other attractions are in st. louis. i am sure there are more... i just don't know them.

regardless, i started to think about my casting skills again. yep, i still suck at casting. (apparently, i have too much time on my hands while i wait to begin my new job.) the reason i thought about my casting skills is because i originally thought about kerry... and then julia stiles... naturally, as kerry was out of the state of massachusetts... hot amy and andrea were out of the state of massachusetts... so it then only made sense that i would cast people to star as hot amy and andrea in the movie about their lives. yes, this is how my mind works.

for hot amy, i was originally thinking amanda bynes from all those teeny bopper movies like "she's the man" (the rehashed movie about a girl posing as a boy) and "what a girl wants". then i started to think... amanda bynes is too young... and as much as hot amy likes to hang out with the young crowds these days, i decided that amanda bynes just wouldn't work in the movie about hot amy. plus, amanda bynes is not hot enough to warrant the "hot" moniker. so, i had to resort to someone else who had eyes that could melt mortal men... my choice... kristen bell of "veronica mars" fame... and most recently... "heroes".

(pictured below is kristen bell as hot amy.)


as for andrea... this casting was difficult. you would think that with all the hours i spend in front of the television set, that i would know more actresses who are italian-ish. sadly, that is not the case. so, for lack of thinking of any other italian actress at the moment, i chose drea de matteo of "sopranos" and "joey" fame. drea de matteo was also in the movie "assault on precinct 13".

(pictured below is drea de matteo as andrea.)


with so many actresses, all i need now is a script. that reminds me, i should work on that screenplay from last year... oops, forgot about that.

I Suck At Casting

speaking of my bff (kerry), i started to think about her today. kerry recently came back from her business trip to sunny florida. (it must be tough working for the commonwealth of massachusetts.) upon her return, she asked if we missed her.

naturally, i always miss kerry. when kerry asked, i started to think about the movie "save the last dance", which is a movie that kerry apparently enjoys. from there, my wandering mind led me to think about julia stiles... the actress in the "save the last dance" movie. julia stiles has been in a slew of other movies too. (but, this is how my mind works...)

anyway, i suck at casting. if there were ever a movie about kerry, i would choose to have julia stiles play her.

(pictured below is julia stiles... as kerry.)


kerry is "slammin'".