By Pat Gulley
We seem to be talking a lot about actors and the parts they
play in movies made from our favorite books. Not surprising, it seems Hollywood
So, here’s the fun part and a promo op for all authors,
whether it is your novel or short story, to do a little daydreaming about when
Hollywood comes calling and who you’d like to see play the lead roll in your
book. Surprisingly, to some, I don’t see my book as a big screen movie. I’d
prefer to see it as a made for TV drama on a station women love to watch, and may
watch more than once. By the way, most of my characters are in their fifties,
with two in their forties. I used:
to find (and make sure) they were over 50 actresses. They
have other age groups sites too.
So though I’d like to see Meryl Streep or Glen Close in the
roll of Prudence Peters, my protagonist, or one of my antagonists (don’t read
villain) Pru’s westcoast director, Donna Makely, I also like Jessica Lang or
Sela Ward for Pru. OTOH, for attitude, I’m positive Sigourney Weaver or Holly
Hunter could bring the attitude and hard business woman of Donna Makely alive.
Holly and British actress Anna Massey could handle the eyebrow of Harriet
Beecher Merriweather.
So let’s hear it, put on your casting director hat, drag out
a casting couch, and cast your book. Well not the whole list of characters, but
two or three.
