Wrong Actors


When I read the books I pictured Langton as fanciable albeit older and ragged but with great energy. Ciaran Hinds is clearly a great actor but not Langton.
Also Anna Travis shouldn't be so quiet and pretty, more kooky, like a young Lynda La Plante. Anyone agree? Also that Manchester accent from Alan Daniels must have had a few Mancs wincing. Sounded like he went via Leeds and Glasgow after listenning to an Oasis CD.

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I did not get to see the movie because I am in the U.S.A.;(can't wait for dvd) I read the books when I found out that Ciaran Hinds was going to be in it.... I do not usually read mystry/crime/thriller books but these were good... and as I read the book(s) I could totally see Ciaran Hinds as Langton...but maybe a little bit more fit. When it was announced who was playin Anne and pics. from movie I was dissapointed... She is not suppose to be beautiful; more like attractive; Her short hair plays a big part of her looks and character; tidy and not the most fashionable. Most of the reviews I have read have basically made the character out as some dumb bimbo kind of woman....she was/is niave but not stupid and most of the case/story relies heavily on her mind always working ; tenaciousness; and hard headness. If they make a second movie based on the second book (which I hope they do) maybe they will learn from mistakes. Sorry I am long winded.

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Bump!

Kelly Reilly is nothing like Anna Travis. Anyone who has read the books must realise this. Anna is supposed to be regular, and someone who can be identified with! I hate it when books are changed! Can't they cast people who resemble the author's description!?

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Who was the actress who played the part of the rather interestingly plain detective with the little fringe? Don't know the characters name.

be happy

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That would be Joan - as played by Amanda Lawrence.

You never get a second chance to make a first impression!

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Detective Travis is way too sexy! Such a mistake... I've worked in an office with a very attractive woman, and found that everything tends to gravitate toward her beauty. This is just not the feeling I get from seeing Travis in the midst of the police working environment.

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I totally agree with those who thought Detective Travis' part was mis-cast. She's WAY too sexy and girly with inappropriate facial expressions (moues). How can anyone take her seriously? She did do a better job in Series 3, however.

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Hinds *might* have been able to pull it off if they hadn't miscast Travis so horribly. I've liked Kelly Reilly in other roles, but she was all wrong for this. And I am SO TIRED of the industry's unwillingness to cast women who are older than 35 and less-than-model pretty. Until about 2000 or so, the UK was relatively free of this particulous Hollywood poison; sadly, it seems to have spread thruout the UK too.

"All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people."

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Until about 2000 or so, the UK was relatively free of this particulous Hollywood poison; sadly, it seems to have spread thruout the UK too.
Brits are too busy trying to copy Americans these days. Up until the 90s they had their own distinctive way of doing things, keeping American clichéd dung to a minimum.

Now they seem to be bucking to become the 51st state of the union. Nowadays, I go to London and they're doing their best to make it look like Chicago or Atlanta. They're even getting as fat as Americans.

Truly sad.

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Couldn't agree more. I enjoyed the program, BUT I thought the actress who played Travis reminded me too much of Rosie Webster in Coronation Street, a shirt that is plainly too tight and a skirt that is just that bit too short. Not tarty, but just too much the other side of working clothes. Now don't get me wrong, before the feminists come bashing in, I don't care what people wear, it's just NOT how I imagined the character. It's not how a detective, THIS detective would dress. It would be like putting Langton in Speedos, just plain wrong. I thought Joan and Barbara were spot on and the chap who played Barolli kept reminding me of Hamish Macbeth for some reason, very young Robert Carlyle.

So Travis, too pretty and pouty and Langton not pretty (or fit) enough.

It lost a point from me for the lead casting issues.

'tler

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