Re: Lord of the Rings Casting Call

[Heather Swann <heather@pop.net>]

Poster: Heather Swann <heather@pop.net>

> n Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Michael Ruttle wrote:
>
> > Liam Neilson as Strider?
>
> Liam Neeson?  Hmm.  I think he'd be better as Boromir -- he's got awful
> broad shoulders.  But he'd work fine as Strider too.
>
> Who's the actor who played Sharpe in the Sharpe's Battles series on PBS?
> He also played the IRA villain "Sean" against Harrison Ford in one of the
> Tom Clancy flicks whose name I forget (but I liked the film).  Sean Bean
> maybe?  Anyway, he'd make an excellent Strider -- he can easily look as
> vicious and disreputable as the initial view of him in the Prancing Pony
> in Bree, and as tough as nails through the middle, and still become the
> noble leader revealed at the end.
>
> Dafydd

He would be excellent!  Or perhaps even Sean Pertwee (the first Sheriff in
the Cadfael series) .  I agree, though, Sean Bean has that look about him.

Miri

>



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