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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2018 14:56:30 GMT
Jane Campion reportedly wrote the character with Sigourney Weaver in mind, but Weaver turned her down as she was taking a break from film at the time.
Among the women Campion considered/spoke with about the role were...
Juliette Binoche
Anjelica Huston
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Madeleine Stowe
Ultimately, the final choice was between Holly Hunter and Isabelle Huppert. It was supposedly Hunter's real-life piano playing abilities that won her the role. Huppert has stated later in interviews that she regrets not fighting for the part in the way that Hunter did, but part of her trepidation in really going for it was Campion's indecisiveness in who she wanted. "Sigourney Weaver and Anjelica Huston look quite different from Holly Hunter and me."
What do you think? Can you see any other actress besides Hunter in the role?
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Post by cherry68 on Feb 27, 2018 15:06:39 GMT
Michelle Pfeiffer, maybe?
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Post by HELENA MARIA on Feb 27, 2018 15:34:37 GMT
Binoche + Stowe + JJL + Huppert + Weaver =  Huston =  That being said , Hunter was born to play that role . |
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Post by HELENA MARIA on Feb 27, 2018 15:35:35 GMT
Michelle Pfeiffer, maybe? Interesting pick but it's a well-known fact that she doesn't do nudity. |
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Post by cherry68 on Feb 27, 2018 15:54:55 GMT
Michelle Pfeiffer, maybe? Interesting pick but it's a well-known fact that she doesn't do nudity. What about a body double? |
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Post by HELENA MARIA on Feb 27, 2018 15:58:39 GMT
Interesting pick but it's a well-known fact that she doesn't do nudity. What about a body double? Yeah maybe . Don't know if Jane Campion would have wanted her to have one,though . I mean are directors allowed to refuse a body double for their actors ? |
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Post by cherry68 on Feb 27, 2018 16:35:14 GMT
What about a body double? Yeah maybe . Don't know if Jane Campion would have wanted her to have one,though . I mean are directors allowed to refuse a body double for their actors ? I don't know. I remember there was a body double for Monica Bellucci in Malena, because her booty wasn't chubby enough for the role, even in clothed scenes. |
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Post by therealcomicman117 on Feb 27, 2018 18:46:23 GMT
Hunter was great in that film, that I couldn't see anyone else in the role really.
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Post by wilcinema on Feb 28, 2018 7:09:20 GMT
This is one of my favorite performances of all time, so I couldn't even contemplate imagining anyone but Holly as Ada.
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Post by scorpio68 on Feb 28, 2018 10:20:28 GMT
The character is Scottish so it would have to be rewritten for Huppert to play it as French, I assume? Hunter was absolutely fantastic in the part, we can all agree
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Post by PromNightCarrie on Mar 2, 2018 0:32:52 GMT
Of all those actresses, Madeleine Stowe is the one I picture most as replacing Holly Hunter in the Ada role.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2018 0:43:37 GMT
The character is Scottish so it would have to be rewritten for Huppert to play it as French, I assume? Hunter was absolutely fantastic in the part, we can all agree Do you think they could have just dubbed her voice-over parts? The character is mute for so much of the film. But I agree that making the character French wouldn't change much, textually. But then Paquin would have to be re-cast, too.  |
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Post by urbanpatrician on Mar 2, 2018 1:23:42 GMT
I wasn't aware Angelica Huston did nudity either. As for the others....I don't see JJL. Could see Stowe the best actually, though it could be argued she's not considered the talent any of those are. Binoche's naked body fits the part though-- if you look at her in The Unbearable Lightness of Being - her body was as pearly white as Hunter's; as is Stowe's for that matter. Huppert.... of course she's versatile in everything. A lot of actresses in that era could play Ada. But I see Stowe the best, actually. It'll be like what she played in The Last of the Mohicans except more innerness. And personally speaking, I like all of those actresses more than Hunter.
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