Dreamcasting for Judy Abbott and Jervis Pendleton
by samanthaoehley | created - 25 Oct 2014 | updated - 25 Oct 2014 | PublicFrom Jean Webster's Daddy Long Legs Because the 1919, 1931 and 1955 castings were awful!
1. Tamzin Merchant
Actress | Carnival Row
Tamzin Merchant is a British born actress, writer and director. She grew up in Dubai and was cast in her first professional role as Georgiana Darcy in Joe Wright's Pride & Prejudice (2005). She attended The University of Cambridge to read Education Studies and continued to develop her career as...
Judy Option 1
2. Aisling Loftus
Actress | A Discovery of Witches
Screen International "Star of Tomorrow" Aisling Loftus is best known thus far as 'Sonya Rostova' in the hugely successful BBC historical period drama series War and Peace alongside Lily James, Paul Dano and James Norton.
She plays Zoë Moran in The Midwich Cuckoos, a dark, disturbing modern-day ...
Although I see Judy as a dusty-blonde, Aisling combines naivety and cheer with the classic beauty of an Edwardian girl.
3. Poppy Lee Friar
Actress | My Cousin Rachel
Poppy Lee Friar is a British actress, from London, England. She is known for playing Missy Booth in the Netflix/Channel 4 drama series Ackley Bridge, Mayella in To Kill a Mockingbird (West End), Carol in My Name is Leon, Alys in Life and Death in the Warehouse, Lydia in In My Skin, Jayne Torvill in...
Judy option 3
4. Tom Hiddleston
Actor | The Avengers
Thomas William Hiddleston was born in Westminster, London, to English-born Diana Patricia (Servaes) and Scottish-born James Norman Hiddleston. His mother is a former stage manager, and his father, a scientist, was the managing director of a pharmaceutical company. He started off at the preparatory ...
My first choice as Mr Jervis Pendleton. Characterizes both charm and good humour.
5. Michael Fassbender
Actor | Shame
Michael Fassbender is an Irish actor who was born in Heidelberg, Germany, to a German father, Josef, and an Irish mother, Adele (originally from Larne, County Antrim, in Northern Ireland). Michael was raised in the town of Killarney, Co. Kerry, in south-west Ireland, where his family moved to when ...
Probably a more fitting choice, but doesn't quite have the charm Tom has.
6. Benedict Cumberbatch
Actor | The Imitation Game
Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch was born and raised in London, England. His parents, Wanda Ventham and Timothy Carlton (born Timothy Carlton Congdon Cumberbatch), are both actors. He is a grandson of submarine commander Henry Carlton Cumberbatch, and a great-grandson of diplomat Henry Arnold ...
A bit of a cliched addition, but he is popular amongst others.
7. Matt Bomer
Actor | In Time
Matthew Staton Bomer was born in Webster Groves, Greater St. Louis, Missouri, to Elizabeth Macy (Staton) and John O'Neill Bomer IV, a Dallas Cowboys draft pick. Matt was raised in Spring, Texas, and educated at Klein High School, near Houston. After school, he attended Carnegie Mellon University in...
Far too good looking, but you have to include at least one American .. considering the character is just so.
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