I created a drinking game that I play once in a while (actually just once) with some movie industry friends:
Naturally we all agree that Rosanna Arquette was horribly miscast in Big Blue, and there's nothing we can do about it, like Besson isn't going to reshoot all scenes she was in using another actress or anything... but, imagine that you could.
So who would YOU cast as Johana Baker instead of Ms. Arquette?
bea arthur.
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You are wrong, Rosanna was sensational in this movie. I wouldn't cast anyone else.
Now while I thought Arquette portrayed fitting Johana Baker, and I F I were Luc Besson's position and of the time, I might've gone with a young Isabella Rossellini or perhaps Michelle Pfeiffer, and of which both could've done a commensurate job in terms of portraying certain level of innocence in this not so complex tale of love, and that of the Big Blue.
- DominicD
"Always make the audience suffer as much as possible." -- Alfred Hitchcock
Phoebe Cates.
If you ask me, Phoebe Cates should have been in every damn movie of the 80s anyway...
Those of my generation should understand why.
We're grown men, over the age of 30 who moved in together... we're two tigers away from an act in Vegas.
She was perfect for the role as she was given. I think some people have issues with the type of character she was portraying rather than the actress. I guess as Americans we're used to Love Interests as mere Eye Candy. I can't imagine anyone else doing her character justice and would come off as dullness with big tits.
This Show Was A Lot Funnier Before Kirstie Alley Ate Shelly Long
Terrible casting imo, Beatrice Dalle or someone magnificently edgy of the time perhaps? For sure not *beep* Rosanna Arquette.
shareI had an intense and irrational dislike for Arquette back then and I really hated her in this movie... if her sister Patricia had been a bit older then, she would have been much better in the part. Practically anyone would, she was very annoying.