Do you cast the movie of your book in your head?
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Do you cast the movie of your book in your head?
And sometimes I'll be watching a movie and see an actor or actress and think, "She/he could play [name of character]."
And if the movie is 20 years old and the actor has since aged out of the role, too bad!
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When I was a kid, it took me a long time to figure out that the actors were not actually the person they played in the movie. Once I had seen them in one movie, they were forever "typecast" in my head.
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Wow, you are very restrained! I wonder what genre you write?jjmainor wrote: ↑24 Sep 2018, 21:56 Sometimes it helps the flow of a story to imagine it as a movie, but I can't say I've every thought about what actors might play the characters. Then, I'm always a fan of the writer/director making the story their own. I'd be more curious to see how a film maker interprets my work rather than expect a strict telling...
The way my characters look is very important to me. Maybe not so much to you?
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And in the unlikely event my stories get made into movies, I won't have fans crying that the actors selected don't look like the characters as described in the book.
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I don't really put real actors/ actresses face for the characters. Mostly because I never really think about it. Now that I do, I'm also afraid of the actors'/ actresses' PR might ruin my impression of the characters, if I ever link them together.
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