(urth) Silk for Calde!

[Son of Witz]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Matthew Groves [mailto:matthewalangroves at gmail.com]

>
>On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Son of Witz <sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org>wrote:
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>> I'd imagined silhouette as well, but since you mentioned Che, I'm tempted
>> to put some facial details in there.
>> I picture Silk to look like that actor Hugh Laurie. I've never seen his
>> show or watched him act, but I've seen his mug.  anyone have an other
>> suggestions?
>
>
>I seem to remember Silk being considerably younger than Hugh Laurie when he
>was first Caldé.  Someone young, slender, and very fair.  Take your image of
>Severian and create a photo-negative out of it.
>
>on that note, maybe we should start a "fantasy casting" thread.
>> I've been casting actors from all ages into the roles of BotNS. Since my
>> motives are for illustrations and not a movie (*shudder*) I've been casting
>> from any era.  I'd be interested in what others would think, though it
>> should be it's own thread I suppose.  As a teaser, I'll say I like a young
>> Sigourney Weaver as Thecla and an OLD Clint Eastwood as Malrubius.
>>
>
>What fun!  A young Keanu Reeves for Severian?



yeah, Silk is 23.
Laurie is now too old.

Keanu does come to mind, but I'd have to reject him on principle :D
and he's already been cast as a messiah.

I don't watch movies or tv enough to be good at this though. I can only think of household name actors.
~witz