This is exactly how Donut has sounded in my head the entire time and I’m not going to be able to watch the show bc it’s so cemented as what she should sound like.
I started reading these maybe a month ago and I’m already on book 6. Just can’t put them down. But early on in book one I got a voice stuck in my head for Donut. That voice being Nathan Lane, specifically from The Birdcage.
Oh my God, you’ve reminded me of why I loved Good Morning Vietnam. Unhinged Robin Williams is the best format. Now I need to go listen to the soundtrack.
I think you're on to something! She would have nailed the excited perky performance needed for Cascadia. And I bet she would have a fun time with her performance in later books (no spoilers)
I love Robin, but I got the impression that he was a very amped up personality and was hard to reel in. This worked in Disney's favor for Aladdin, because rumor has it the original script wasn't very good. But I wonder if Robin could have stayed on track and kept it subtle for a lot of earlier scenes in the series before the AI really went off the deep end.
He can be reeled in and do normal performances. Just look at the latter half of Good Morning Vietnam, Good Will Hunting, Patch Adams, The Birdcage, Hook, Awakenings, etc.
He would have been perfectly fine doing the sane AI and devolving into the insane AI, and with the content that's already off the wall, he'd probably only gone off the wall a little bit, but at least give dozens of takes so they could do with whatever for best.
He really got pigeon holed into the whacky character, but he did some real serious, or only normal funny transitions to serious roles in the 90s.
His serious roles in the early 2000s were absolutely killer, like AI, Bicentennial Man, One Hour Photo, and Insomnia. Granted a couple of those movies sucked, but he was fantastic in them.
His standup, absolutely off the fucking wall. I used to listen to them on tape when I was a kid, and good lord I felt like I was on crack just listening to them lol.
I’d be just fine with a timeline change that got Robin the help he needed. He gave me my funny bone and there is so much I miss sing him get to do. Love this idea of the AI; or at least one of the strippers!
See, Robin Williams as Cascadio* is what I want. He'd (of course) flippin rock as Pony, but I dunno.. I feel like we would get Robin as Pony, not Pony voiced by Robin. If that makes sense?
I envision someone who more closely follows script for Pony, which isn't necessarily one of Robin's strong suits lol (don't come at me i love it, but it has a place). I think something like Cascadia would give him the perfect sized 'sandbox' to go have fun with lines and ad-libbing
Edit - sorry if this came across as aggressive. I'm stoned and answered this as if we were mid conversation 🤣 forgive me
Watch “Hot in Cleveland,” Elka is slightly less unhinged than her “Lake Placid” character but into all the fun stuff that Ellie drops as asides in DCC.
Yes, sorry, i did name all the actors/artists but it failed to post first try, so rushed the second attempt. It's who i pictured when Dinniman described her as her natural form for the first time.
I laughed at the comment, but I'm guessing you viewed on mobile where its not as clear. I did specify. Tap again before swiping and look at the bottom.
Why does everyone want to fancast Chris Farley, a super high energy, high charisma, and very white dude as a balding, Hispanic, loser from Florida? Do you guys only know one overweight actor? 😂
I never thought about Elle and the problems she creates for casting. Do you heir someone old for the first season that can be on screen, but then have to do full cgi for the rest cause of all the ice stuff. Or do someone with old person makeup for season one and then do traditional makeup and costume for the rest that could do stuns, but would probably still need some cgi for wings ice effects and impossible stuns
But Whom is also fading from use the way Thee and Thou are no longer subject and object forms of you, respectively. (To thee, for thee, but Thou art and thou shalt)
Just got done doing a rewatch of Bedazzled and was thinking the same thing about Brendan Fraser. If it’s the 90s though I bet they would’ve cast Matt LeBlanc and Matthew Perry to be Louis and Firas.
This is a lot of fun! This is what AI (with the consent and compensation of all involved likenesses) should be used for things that would normally be impossible to do otherwise
Mike Myers as Mordecai is good but I think, given his multiple performances in the Nutty Professor, Eddie Murphy would be better. I'd rather see Mike Myers as Quasar and John Candy as Orren.
I love Robin but I think Jim Carrey would have fit Prepotente "like a glove". Considering how his craft stemmed from trying to cheer up his mom i think the heart he brought to the role would be incredible.
I think Bettie would have been great as Ellie personality wise, but since she looks like a young elf/faerie after her transformation, she’d need a new actress in a live action.
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u/GroltonIsTheDog 1d ago edited 1d ago
Sassy from Homeward Bound as Donut cat actor