I Wonder who could play the Green Witch??

~Queen~Wylla~ said:
I think Cate Blanchett would be great for the role. If they don't have her hair be the same as Galadreial I don't think she would be associated with LOTR.

I have to say that I'm a little surprised that so many people want the Green Lady to be young. I think she should be middle age looking because she is actually very very old! Remember in SC when Eustace and Jill tell the Knight (prince) that they followed the words "UNDER ME" to get to the underground kingdom he told them that they were the last part of an ancient verse that the Green Lady remembers well. Puuddleglum even says that the Green Lady must be a long liver to remember that verse and the Knight confirms it telling them that "She is of divine race, and knows neither death nor age." That makes me think of middle age since she wouldn't look very old, yet she would still look kind of old. 20's are way too young in my opinion.
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I agree...I always thought of the Lady of the Green Kirtle being as the same age as the White Witch...
 
Well, she was old, but didn't necessarily look old. Remember that the description when the travellers meet her in the northern waste indicates that she was very beautiful. This implies that though she may not have looked like a dewy-eyed maiden, neither did she look like an ageing woman.
 
PrinceOfTheWest said:
Well, she was old, but didn't necessarily look old. Remember that the description when the travellers meet her in the northern waste indicates that she was very beautiful. This implies that though she may not have looked like a dewy-eyed maiden, neither did she look like an ageing woman.
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Right which is why I always imagined her middle age looking. 30's or early 40's. Not a 20 year old or a 60 year old.
 
Why not get an Orion slave girl, like they had on Star Trek? They don't even need makeup! :D
 
~Queen~Wylla~ said:
I think Cate Blanchett would be great for the role. If they don't have her hair be the same as Galadreial I don't think she would be associated with LOTR.

I have to say that I'm a little surprised that so many people want the Green Lady to be young. I think she should be middle age looking because she is actually very very old! Remember in SC when Eustace and Jill tell the Knight (prince) that they followed the words "UNDER ME" to get to the underground kingdom he told them that they were the last part of an ancient verse that the Green Lady remembers well. Puuddleglum even says that the Green Lady must be a long liver to remember that verse and the Knight confirms it telling them that "She is of divine race, and knows neither death nor age." That makes me think of middle age since she wouldn't look very old, yet she would still look kind of old. 20's are way too young in my opinion.
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Yes, but the White Witch was who-knows-how-old. Age doesn't really factor into this, except that a too-young actress would be disastrous, while a too-old actress would end up with the same result, and it would give us an "ew" factor when it comes to Rilian. To me, the Green Witch and Rilian shouldn't be but 10-15 years apart in looks. We know the Witch is much older than Rilian, but she shouldn't look so.
 
I don't. Especially since they made Jadis blond. Unless they decide to make her dark-haired for TMN, a difference in hair color would be helpful in keeping the two characters separate.
 
Aravis Kenobi said:
I don't. Especially since they made Jadis blond. Unless they decide to make her dark-haired for TMN, a difference in hair color would be helpful in keeping the two characters separate.
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Good point! In that light, a difference in hair color would be good.
 
^^ I think they just can't let go of Tilda so they have to make TMN. But remember Eustace is aging and they need to do SC as soon as possible..:D
 
I haven't read through this whole thread so sorry if this has been tossed out.

What about Michele Pfeifer for the Green Witch. She played a convincingly good evil witch in Stardust.
 
Besides Michelle Pfieffer isn't what I'd call gorgeous...no offense to her. One area I believe they failed in with Tilda as Jadis was not making her beautiful enough. I certainly wouldn't have been dumb enough to fall for her "beauty" like Edmund did. That part of the seduction of Rilian needs to be solid, not just have an actress in the role because she's good.
 
QueenLucyTheValient said:
I do not think that Kiera Knightly would quite fit the part.. Plus she is a tad to famous, and I would rather not have people come to see it for her, and not for the movie...
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Casting Alan Rickman, Helena B Carter, etc. in the Harry Potter films did not hurt the movie franchise. *shrugs* But if not Kiera, I still think someone young and beautiful should play the Green Lady.

Remember this is not a Witch that looks like a Witch - either the hag witch type or the powerful White Witch type. She is young, lovely, sweet-looking. Pretty in a way that is both attractive to boys and endearing to girls. Someone who positively oozes goodness and innocence with her very voice. (I think Jill described her voice as as sweet and thrilling as a bird's.) Even when she returns to her Palace and sees the chair broken, she goes white with anger but she never shows an angry face. The only time the perfect mask breaks is when she turns into a serpent.

Besides, the last thing the franchise needs is to cast White Witch redux who will only end up being compared unfavorably to Tilda Swinton. You need a completely different type of foe here.


Slightly off-topic: Another thing that the franchise failed to capitalize from the books: in book 1, the Witch (female, powerful, magical) was the antagonist; in book 2, it was Miraz (male, military/political) and a bunch of stuffy old Telmarines; in book 3, there were a bunch of antagonists (a slaver, a sea serpent, cursed locations like Gold Water and the Island of Dreams); in book 4, the Witch again (female and magical but beautiful and beguiling not intimidating like Jadis); in book 5, Rabadash, his father and the Vizier are a literal triumvirate of evil; in book 6, Jadis again but in a different form (younger, more physical - she loses her powers in England); and in book 7, Swift and the Calormens. The beauty of the Narnia series was that there was no set pattern. It wasn't Harry Potter going against Voldemort at the end of the year (and some have argued that the strongest book in the HP series was the book where Voldemort was not the primary antagonist at all!) - it was a series where the protagonists kept changing and the antagonists were different with different motivations. The appeal wasn't just about a particular hero or a particular villian: it was the appeal of Narnia itself and the constant fight of good vs. evil in many forms. If you couldn't identify with the Pevensies, you could identify with Scrubb; or with Jill Pole; or with Aravis or with Digory.

Of course, why should Hollywood care about that when it's far more profitable to push Narnia into the Harry Potter cookie-cutter mold. :rolleyes: Only... it wasn't more profitable, was it? :p
 
moonspinner said:
Of course, why should Hollywood care about that when it's far more profitable to push Narnia into the Harry Potter cookie-cutter mold. :rolleyes: Only... it wasn't more profitable, was it? :p
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why no. no it wasn't. i would be smug about hollywood failing if they weren't failing with the best book series EVER :mad:

back on subject :) i actually think that Kierra (sp?) Nightly would be a good green witch and she isn't uber famous, not like Johnny Depp so it shouldn't be too bad about people coming just for her.
 
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