I am an avid reader, along with being an avid writer. I love stories that jump out and surround you from the very beginning, making you feel what the characters feel, understand why they think and feel as they do. Writing is an arduous undertaking, cutting volumes of text in order to be able to turn on a dime.
Many great movies were great books first. Some movies, such as the Bourne Series, were nothing like the book. But both were great in their own way. Others, such as Shogun and Gone With the Wind, took a highlighted version of the facts, toning it more towards a visual, rather than a cerebral, experience.
Certain movie stars had the ability to assume and consume the main characters until you couldn’t tell the difference. For better or worse, Rhett Butler will always look like Clark Gable, Harry Potter will always look like Daniel Radcliffe.
Now. For all you writers of novels, poems, short stories, and blogs. Have you ever had an actor or in mind to play YOUR main characters?
I have written three novels (unpublished…any one know a publisher? Ha…) Two of them are a set of stories about a middle-age woman who crashes her car and wakes up in 1880, and falls for someone half her age. My wandering mind always tosses this guy or that girl around as to who would be perfect for Anna and Darren. But there’s some blockage in my brain that I have yet to find someone who matches my daydreams.
My third novel is about another kinda middle age woman who travels with a visitor to his planet half way across the galaxy to help him find a murderer (see a pattern here?) Also a zero on those two, although a younger Derek Jacobi might work for the man; one of the King’s Consuls looks like Jafar, and the King could be an Aragorn lookalike. But the woman?
Well, for me, I can’t see my leading lady looking like Angelina Jolie or Kiera Knightley. I just can’t see those women playing women with age issues or body issues or insecurity issues. They don’t seem … vulnerable. Plus they’re way too skinny for my books.
What about you?
Who would you like to see play your leading man or woman?
Humoring the Goddess 
I must say that after reading “Corn and Shadows” Hillary Swank came to mind instantly. I think she would be perfect for Anna. As for Darren, well, that’s a tough one. I like Johnny Depp but he might be too old at this point to be Darrin. Maybe Matt Damon.
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It’s funny because the characters we write appear a certain way in our heads, and it’s difficult to see them any other way. I guess I’d have to leave it to the casting experts. As if my novel is ever going to become a movie…
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