Vocal casting for Swordspoint audiobook?
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ellenkushnerWho would you cast - VOCALLY only, I don't care what they look like - for Richard St Vier, and for the young Alec?
Because my Swordspoint audiobook producer is going the "full-cast audio" route with about 4 scenes from the book: the big set pieces where there are so many characters all talking at once that it seems a shame to make me try to do them all. And of course, getting the right R&A is key.
NYC is full of great young actors! (We already have a couple of older ones cast that I'm not allowed to tell you about, but it will be So Good!) Some pretty big names will come into a studio for a couple of hours to record a handful of [CORRECTED TO:] lines. So don't be shy.
Notes: If you've never heard me read, you should know (and I hope this doesn't break anyone's heart) that the accents are NOT BRITISH! Riversiders sound a bit like Damon Runyon (Guys & Dolls) minus the Brooklyn vowels. Nobles are more like upper class Americans in 30s movies (kind of). Richard, who's from the country and more middle class, is almost Standard American. Of course, a good actor can do any accent, I know - but I don't want specifically Brits, despite the cloaks'n'swords.
I will be reading most of the text myself, including the narration when we bring in the actors for the chosen scenes. And I record first!!! so they'll have to match me - a scary thought! But my control freak author self is most pleased, and I hope you will be, too.
Extra points for suggestions on Lord Ferris & Basil Halliday - I'm afraid the closest I've come so far is that Halliday is "a young(er: he's, what, about 40?) Sam Waterston" and Ferris would be Francis Urquhart (as played by Ian Richardson in the BBC's fine House of Cards) when he grew up, if he hadn't been exposed. (Without the British accent, natch.)
Which isn't exactly helpful for finding live young current actors.
So can you help us, here?
Because my Swordspoint audiobook producer is going the "full-cast audio" route with about 4 scenes from the book: the big set pieces where there are so many characters all talking at once that it seems a shame to make me try to do them all. And of course, getting the right R&A is key.
NYC is full of great young actors! (We already have a couple of older ones cast that I'm not allowed to tell you about, but it will be So Good!) Some pretty big names will come into a studio for a couple of hours to record a handful of [CORRECTED TO:] lines. So don't be shy.
Notes: If you've never heard me read, you should know (and I hope this doesn't break anyone's heart) that the accents are NOT BRITISH! Riversiders sound a bit like Damon Runyon (Guys & Dolls) minus the Brooklyn vowels. Nobles are more like upper class Americans in 30s movies (kind of). Richard, who's from the country and more middle class, is almost Standard American. Of course, a good actor can do any accent, I know - but I don't want specifically Brits, despite the cloaks'n'swords.
I will be reading most of the text myself, including the narration when we bring in the actors for the chosen scenes. And I record first!!! so they'll have to match me - a scary thought! But my control freak author self is most pleased, and I hope you will be, too.
Extra points for suggestions on Lord Ferris & Basil Halliday - I'm afraid the closest I've come so far is that Halliday is "a young(er: he's, what, about 40?) Sam Waterston" and Ferris would be Francis Urquhart (as played by Ian Richardson in the BBC's fine House of Cards) when he grew up, if he hadn't been exposed. (Without the British accent, natch.)
Which isn't exactly helpful for finding live young current actors.
So can you help us, here?
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Date: 2011-09-12 01:09 am (UTC)James Callis for Alec, probably in his natural Brit.
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Date: 2011-09-12 01:53 am (UTC)No James Callis. I would be unable NOT to hear Gaius Baltar, who I'd cheerfully have pushed out an airlock, and while Alec is a BRAT, that ought to be conveyed by delivery, not by picking the voice that I associate with a particularly annoying character. (It did not help at ALL that Baltar's face strongly resembled my boyfriend's, which caused me some MAJOR cognitive dissonance!)
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Date: 2011-09-12 01:19 am (UTC)He read for me at a couple of table reads and is wonderfully versatile. It has been a while since I read Swordspoint, but check him out to see if he would work for any of your characters.
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Date: 2011-09-12 01:47 am (UTC)Has Val Kilmer's voice aged as badly as his face? I'm hearing his younger voice and thinking he might do for an American-accented Richard.
I'm balking on Alec because he's had a seriously snooty RP accent plus drawl in my head since about 1992. Trying to hear an American preppy voice with a suitably young-sounding actor, I don't even. How about Thomas Dekker?
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Date: 2011-09-12 03:23 am (UTC)It doesn't hurt that Dekay's character oozes confidence in a quiet understated way that makes you realize he could really fuck you up, and Bomer's character is a flip, younger man trying to seek approval without actually looking like he is.
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Date: 2011-09-12 04:34 am (UTC)This perfection may not be audible to anyone outside my household, though.
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Date: 2011-09-12 05:22 am (UTC)Benedict Cumberbatch for Alec, deffinitely. For Richard I have to think a bit more.
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Date: 2011-09-12 06:56 am (UTC)No help here, but applause
Date: 2011-09-12 11:47 am (UTC)Re: No help here, but applause
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Date: 2011-09-12 12:05 pm (UTC)To be honest I have no intelligent suggestions as, of course, to me the characters all have British accents, but I felt guilty lurking without you knowing anything about me!
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Date: 2011-09-12 01:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-09-12 12:24 pm (UTC)Christian Kane for Richard (quiet, good at underlying menace), Walton Goggins for Alec? He has the timbre and the drawl.
I'm sure they're British.
Date: 2011-09-12 12:58 pm (UTC)Alec, in particular, is British. I see him as a young Rupert Everett and Richard as a young Cary Elwes.
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Date: 2011-09-12 02:30 pm (UTC)Here is his professional resume, demo and reel:
http://www.voices.com/demos/paul_guyet
As well as an excerpt from the audiobook he is recording in his home studio:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9AgA6RYaJ4
Good luck finding what you are looking for!
Christina Bryant
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Date: 2011-09-12 02:59 pm (UTC)Santino Fontana
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Date: 2011-09-12 06:43 pm (UTC)I think he'd be a terrifc Richard (and maybe Alec).
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Date: 2011-09-15 03:56 pm (UTC)Christopher Plummer, best known for playing Captain Von Trapp in the Sound of Music, but also a wonderful Shakespearean actor.
Lenny Henry did a good job of reading Neil Gaiman's book Anansi Boys.
Pierce Brosnan, known for playing Remington Steele and James Bond, has read a children's book for the BBC.
David Tennant, who has read the How to Train Your Dragon audiobooks, and who can do all sorts of accents.
Maurice LaMarche, who was the voice of Brain on Pinky and the Brain
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Date: 2011-09-18 09:24 pm (UTC)*disappears*
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Date: 2011-09-18 09:23 pm (UTC)Or hey, just have a postscript of him reading the yellow pages. Either one's fine.