they've released a casting call for Sam
So I guess that effectively kills the theory of Dylan and Emma taking over the Sam and Lilah roles. Always felt mixed about that. Could've been cool, could've felt like a waste.
shareIf he were just a little younger, I would say Oz Perkins. Kind of would have been cool to see Tony's son play a role. He resembles him, & actually is an actor. For that matter have Vera Miles as someone in the background. It would pay a little homage to Hitchcock.
shareVera Miles is 86 and retired from acting in 1995. She has been flying low under the radar since her retirement, so it isn't known what her health situation is. But she refused to meet with Jessica Biel in preparation for the Hitchcock movie in 2012.
Yea, I doubt it would happen. But that's why I said just to have a small clip of her in the background would be fun. I think they've done a superb job at not "ruining" anything Hitchcock did, unlike trying to do re-makes of his work.
shareThere are only 14 years between Rihanna and Oz Perkins, and that's real life, before writing and make-up are taken into account. And there are certainly many couples with bigger age differences in real life (my own sister and her husband are 18 years apart). It could work, that'd be cool. But it would also feel like giving it to him "just because."
shareAlthough, are they still going to go with the "they need the money to get married" route? If Sam is that much older than Marion it might not work as well (though, in this day and age, needing money to get married isn't necessarily a tangible plotline as it is). Though in the film (not in the novel IIRC) he has an ex-wife he's paying alimony too, so that fits in with being older.
I'd like to see Aja Naomi King as Lila, though she's actually a few years older than Rihanna. (Somewhat of a holdover from when I wanted Kerry Washington as Marion :D)
He looks younger than 42, to me at least. Too bad him & Freddie don't look similar. They could have had an ending shot of a much older Norman, & it being Oz. And then that sly smile-of which look like Tony's.
Darn, they didn't think ahead :)