| re: Platt's Evan Hansen vs Bailey's Fiyero age | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 12:33 pm EST 11/22/24 | |
| In reply to: re: Platt's Evan Hansen vs Bailey's Fiyero age - EvFoDr 11:44 am EST 11/22/24 | |
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| I'm only upset when an original star doesn't get to recreate the role *if* the movie is being made while they're still the right casting for it (and, assuming they are as good on camera as on stage). Platt was about 27 when filming DEH. He also doesn't happen to have features that make him look young or younger than he is (like Ariana Grande does, for example). He started playing Evan on stage 6 years earlier, when he was 21. That's a very big difference for aging, and for being believable, especially on film, as a high schooler. I think the lack of support for his casting was a bit like the lack of support for Biden not stepping down at the end of his first term... Platt and his father were putting him above what the movie needed. It seemed like an ego-driven thing, that this movie can't happen without him being able to do the role, rather than the best Evan for the movie. Had Marc gotten it together to make the movie in 2017 or 2018 it might have worked. A similar thing happened with the Rent film. It was made with mostly the original cast 9 years (maybe less, depending when filming began) after the original cast premiered on Broadway. On Broadway, Daphne was already 27, Anthony was 25, Adam was 26, Jesse was 27, Wilson was 25, Idina and Taye were 25. So all of these people were in their mid-30s by the time filming began... playing characters in a story that depends on the audience really believing them to be young people, and being on their side with their youthful energy and naivety. This was a show not only of the 90s but very much for a 90s audience, hitting nerves more available then. When the film was being made in 2005, it wasn't quite the same. So to cast people who would never be cast for those roles in a film of this at that point, because they were the original cast, was a silly and sabotaging move. How I wish a producer had gotten it together to make a film with that cast in 1997... especially so we could get Daphne's performance forever. Hell, I wish they'd done a pro-shot back then rather than 12 years later with a much less exciting and iconic (though very talented, all Broadway stars) cast 12 years removed from the raw energy of that original. Anyway, to me it is ultimately about what's best for the movie being the best adaptation it can be. However I can also say, I'm still surprised that they let Gwen Verdon do Lola for the film of Damn Yankees, rather than replace her with a known film siren or someone more "hollywood pretty", and I'm forever grateful that they did. But that film was made only 3 years after the show opened on Broadway, and it was so associated with Gwen, who was still a huge star... it is also one of those no-brainers if making that movie... but also, it was co-directed by Abbott and all the original main players were recreating their roles except for Joe Hardy. |
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