No A listers please. Do some talent spotting. This is dream team casting, don't take it so seriously.
Slater: Dane Dehaan
Pickford: Benedict Samuel
Darla: Sarah Hay
O'Bannion: Will Poulter.
Mitch: Jonah Bobo.
Wooderson: Paul Dano
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It's really hard to say because this has to be the most random cast ever assembled. You have a mixture of actors from LA with a few movie/TV credits to their name plus local Texan actors who did hardly anything after the movie was released. If you really looked though, I'd say out of all of them Anthony Rapp and Nicky Katt were the most experienced, as Rapp was a lead actor in Adventures In Babysitting and Katts resume dates all the way back to the 70s as a child actor
shareAgree. But I think there are more rising stars around now than 20 years ago, Actors who have a half a dozen credits and are still on the rise. There's heaps more English and Australian actors in Hollywood who are stars in their own country but barely known in Hollywood. I was thinking Benedict Samuel (Alpha Wolf in The Walking Dead) as Pickford.
shareIt couldn't be made today. Not only do the young acting faces they like now not fit the facial prototypes popular in the 70s, the attitude of the young people today is different.
The cast needed people who knew the time period first hand as all of the original cast did since they were raised during the 70s and 80s.
Disagree. Actors play any period. It's not as if the 70s was 100 years ago anyway.
shareOnly certain actors have faces that fit the period. This is the main job of the casting director.
It remains that faces popular today are light years different than what the culture of the 1970s favored.
I agree the casting director has the skills, but hey, people in the seventies were not evolutionary any different from today. You are talking about 70s style. Remember the original film was made with young people of the 90s.
In the scheme of things human beings have not changed except got more morbidly obese I suspect.
Haha what? No they didn't? All the actors were all born at the time the movie takes place, they didn't 'grow up' during it.
shareAll of the actors are around my age. Which meant they spent the great part of their childhood growing up during the 70s.
I saw all of this and I also saw the wild parties thrown by adults during this time as well. It was very loose then and you had to be there to understand the culture. Such as these actors did in this film.
Young people today don't have the freedom that my generation did. They carry themselves differently. They also have access to information that I never dreamed of getting at that age. Kids act a lot older now for their years. They are a bit more sophisticated. However they don't have a lot experience getting themselves out of scrapes and confrontations since most of their interaction are now only by cell phone not the schoolyard.
What made Dazed and Confused so great was the cast was complete unknowns which made the films feel somewhat more real. I would not use one actor which is "rising" but rather hold auditions of complete unknowns and pick from that talent pool. It has a more profound effect on teen/young adult films when the characters are unknowns.
shareOut of the 47 main cast of D and F, only 13 had no credits. Most of the main cast all had credits apart from young Wiley Wiggins and Shaun Andrews. So not complete unknowns. There are hundreds of actors floating around Hollywood today who may be rising but not household words, or still unknowns even if they have 5-6 credits. There are tons of English and Australians young actors who are well known in their own country, but not known here.
I've found actors I could cast and never heard of them. It's a fun task.
You've called the movie D & F, twice now.
You DO know that "fused" has a "Con" in front of it.
It's D & C
Sorry to an "ick". I mean Dick. Lol
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