Neither Black or Segel would be acceptable choices for this movie.No a single one of the character in Into the Woods is a giant man-child which seems to be about the only character that either of those two are capable of playing.
I agree with others that Lawrence will make a great Baker's Wife at some point in her life. She'd be distracting as Little Red, since as Besty and others mentioned, casting big names in smaller roles turned out to be one of NINE's biggest detriments. Completely agree that casting the manchild type actors as the Baker would be a huge mistake.
"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"
I think Joseph Gordon-Levitt should play one of the Princes. Remember how great he was when he sang "Make em Laugh" on 'Saturday Night Live'. This is also him singing "I Don't Want to Live on the Moon".
If I were directing this film, I wouldn't have the Prince double the Wolf, but I would have one actor play both Princes, in slightly different costume. Really emphasize the fact that this guy is the cookie-cutter Prince Charming, and that fairy tales rarely distinguish him from all the other princes.
Then, in the final minutes of the film, instead of the two princes returning again, we see a third identical prince with Sleeping Beauty.
^ Exactly. The idea of having one actor double as the princes has potential. But it would probably come across too cheesy watching one actor sing a duet to himself.
"See, for me, that's the problem. She's got so many 'stock' characters to 'mix and match' that I fear what we'd get is a hodgepodge of past roles she's played, not an original character."
Wow. Did this really apply to Streep? Of all the actresses in the world, I can't think of another one who is so great at starting from scratch with each character building it from the inside out. Stock characters? Are you kidding? Of course, a few of her roles are exaggerated (as they need to be) but she hardly resorts to pulling out a "stock character" and just replaying it.
I have no doubt that Meryl Streep will put everything she knows as the greatest living film actress into this part -- she is too professional to sleepwalk through this role.
"Well you know Christopher Plummer never really was able to sing. He was dubbed in the SOUND OF MUSIC..."
I know that. But he does have singing experience. On 'The Sound of Music' tour the tour lady said that the producers thought his singing was good, but they realized during filming Julie's voice was much stronger than his when it came to singing "Something Good". I don't know if anyone on here saw him in 'Cyrano de Bergerac' but he did win a Tony for Best Actor in a Musical for that role.
ETA: I'm not a fan of these films, but he also did sing in the animated films, 'Babes in Toyland' and 'Rock-a-Doodle'.
Updated On: 2/7/13 at 07:20 PM
like most, I'm a huge meryl streep fan. that said, I will admit that the only time I've been truly disappointed in one of her performances was during another musical, mamma mia. I mean, do we remember "winner takes it all"? her hand motions were crazy, it looked like she was signaling a passing plane.
I'm sure she'll fare a little better with sondheim music over abba, but let's not forget that daniel day-lewis, another living legend flopped hugely in a rob marshall movie.
Is really unfair that Zac Efron doesn't get the recognition he deserves just because he was a Disney star. The truth of the matter is that he's amazing actor and singer with an amazing charisma who notoriously helped to bring back the love for musicals in the American culture.
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