Instead of reading the stories, I spent all day deciding how I'd cast the episode/movie/fantasy, looking for actors in the right age range.
For Paul, I finally decided on Clive Owen. He looks darkly handsome, smart and moody; someone who can be charismatic one minute, and a complete asshole the next. (Remind you of anyone, perchance?) I picked Maura Tierney for Laura. I know this is not Maura in 1999, but look at the glasses! Plus, she can play smart and self-deprecating and vulnerable and distancing, all in unison. I chose Maria Bello for Robin, who has an important role in the last story, "Moonshine," even though her hair isn't quite right. What's more important is that she can play someone with warmth and goodness and just plain common sense, except for her own love life. She's also dead sexy. (Yes, they both did play doctors on ER.) The cap from "Unruhe" of Mulder and Scully is from season four rather than six, but the mood fits the story like it was made for it. Scully looks preoccupied and tense, first about Paul's upcoming wedding, then afterward about having slept with Mulder, while looking beautiful as always. Mulder looks on edge. He's concerned and worried about Scully, naturally, but also puzzled over what, if anything, he did wrong.
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Dance Card Casting Call
Date: 2012-03-06 07:53 am (UTC)For Paul, I finally decided on Clive Owen. He looks darkly handsome, smart and moody; someone who can be charismatic one minute, and a complete asshole the next. (Remind you of anyone, perchance?) I picked Maura Tierney for Laura. I know this is not Maura in 1999, but look at the glasses! Plus, she can play smart and self-deprecating and vulnerable and distancing, all in unison. I chose Maria Bello for Robin, who has an important role in the last story, "Moonshine," even though her hair isn't quite right. What's more important is that she can play someone with warmth and goodness and just plain common sense, except for her own love life. She's also dead sexy. (Yes, they both did play doctors on ER.) The cap from "Unruhe" of Mulder and Scully is from season four rather than six, but the mood fits the story like it was made for it. Scully looks preoccupied and tense, first about Paul's upcoming wedding, then afterward about having slept with Mulder, while looking beautiful as always. Mulder looks on edge. He's concerned and worried about Scully, naturally, but also puzzled over what, if anything, he did wrong.
I'll try to actually read the stories tomorrow.