Damon's has an everyman look to me. I think like Charles Bronson he could conceivably play everything from any of the 4 corners of Europe.
Hathway being a Greek princess works. Many Greek women look like her---dark hair, dark eyes, with light skin. They're not all swarthy wenches. Plus her as Penelope--an ambiguous manipulative women in t…
Damon's has an everyman look to me. I think like Charles Bronson he could conceivably play everything from any of the 4 corners of Europe.
Hathway being a Greek princess works. Many Greek women look like her---dark hair, dark eyes, with light skin. They're not all swarthy wenches. Plus her as Penelope--an ambiguous manipulative women in the story, but ultimately good and loyal to Odysseus --- works for her.
He's also cast tranny girl Elliot (formerly Ellen) Paige in it, so maybe he's been bitten by the same crazy bug as Cameron. Or he could be being loyal (Paige was in Inception for him).
I wouldn't accept her as anything human at this point. At most, I would accept voicing Proteus or Cyclops or some other CGI-genderless being Odysseus encounters.
But in the best-case scenario, she gets locked up in an insane asylum for life before filming.
Disagree. Bronson made a name for himself playing half-breed types such as the Irish-Mexican in The Magnificent Seven or a half-Native American like in Chato's Land. He also played a German-American from the Dakotas in The Dirty Dozen. Nobody ever cried foul; he thus played all types of ethnicity.
Like Yul Brenner (who acted along side him in The Magnificent Seven), Bronson's look was at once both iconic and yet malleable for various racial types. Brenner stretched himself more by ethnicity, but Bronson's look was such that every European-American could imagine him in the family somewhere.
Of course, today it is "highly problematic" if a white actor plays a different ethnicity than they're own. See: Hank Azaria no longer doing the voice of Apu, or Bradley Cooper playing Jewish Leonard Bernstein. lots of controversy over both.
Rumi Malek gets a break because European-Americans don't get upset if someone who looks European plays a white guy. We get upset when its a black playing a white role, but Malek's looks are passing.
Damon's has an everyman look to me. I think like Charles Bronson he could conceivably play everything from any of the 4 corners of Europe.
Hathway being a Greek princess works. Many Greek women look like her---dark hair, dark eyes, with light skin. They're not all swarthy wenches. Plus her as Penelope--an ambiguous manipulative women in the story, but ultimately good and loyal to Odysseus --- works for her.
He's also cast tranny girl Elliot (formerly Ellen) Paige in it, so maybe he's been bitten by the same crazy bug as Cameron. Or he could be being loyal (Paige was in Inception for him).
Page may be playing the gray-eyed gender-bending goddess Athena. Then again, maybe not.
I wouldn't accept her as anything human at this point. At most, I would accept voicing Proteus or Cyclops or some other CGI-genderless being Odysseus encounters.
But in the best-case scenario, she gets locked up in an insane asylum for life before filming.
"I think like Charles Bronson he could conceivably play everything from any of the 4 corners of Europe."
Dunno about that. Bronson had a kind of Tatar cast of features that I don't think really exists in , say, Britain.
Disagree. Bronson made a name for himself playing half-breed types such as the Irish-Mexican in The Magnificent Seven or a half-Native American like in Chato's Land. He also played a German-American from the Dakotas in The Dirty Dozen. Nobody ever cried foul; he thus played all types of ethnicity.
Like Yul Brenner (who acted along side him in The Magnificent Seven), Bronson's look was at once both iconic and yet malleable for various racial types. Brenner stretched himself more by ethnicity, but Bronson's look was such that every European-American could imagine him in the family somewhere.
Hollywood in the 1960s had a few stars who could play lots of different ethnic roles: Brynner, Bronson, Anthony Quinn, and Omar Sharif.
Rumi Malek is the current equivalent.
Of course, today it is "highly problematic" if a white actor plays a different ethnicity than they're own. See: Hank Azaria no longer doing the voice of Apu, or Bradley Cooper playing Jewish Leonard Bernstein. lots of controversy over both.
Rumi Malek gets a break because European-Americans don't get upset if someone who looks European plays a white guy. We get upset when its a black playing a white role, but Malek's looks are passing.